cleaning

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkliːnɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːnɪŋ

Verb

cleaning

1. present participle and gerund of clean

Derived terms

• self-cleaning

Noun

cleaning (countable and uncountable, plural cleanings)

1. (gerund of clean) The process of making something clean.
   • 2009 January 13, Jane E. Brody, “New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart”, in New York Times‎:

     So good dental hygiene, with regular periodontal cleanings, can help protect your heart as well as your teeth.

   • 2021, David F. Lambert, Free to a Good Home:

     Like me, it's old, slow, loud, unsophisticated, underpowered, and in bad need of a good cleaning .

2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
   • 1844, Henry Stephens, The Book of Farm:

     The risk which the cow runs, after slinking, is in not getting quit of the cleaning, or afterbirth, or placenta […]

Derived terms

• autocleaning
• bond cleaning
• cleaning agent
• cleaning fluid
• cleaning lady
• cleaning rod
• cleaning shoe
• cleaningware
• cleaning woman
• deep cleaning
• dry cleaning
• housecleaning
• precleaning
• spring cleaning

Translations

action in which something is cleaned

Arabic: تَنْظِيف m (tanẓīf) Armenian: մաքրում (hy) (makʻrum) Finnish: puhdistaminen (fi), puhdistus (fi), siivoaminen (fi), siivous (fi) Korean: 정화 (ko) (jeonghwa) Norwegian: Bokmål: rengjøring m or f Nynorsk: reingjering f Polish: sprzątanie (pl) n, czyszczenie (pl) n Portuguese: limpeza (pt) f Russian: очи́стка (ru) f (očístka) Spanish: limpieza (es) f Swahili: usafishaji (sw) Swedish: rengöring (sv) c Telugu: ప్రక్షాళనము (te) (prakṣāḷanamu) Turkish: arıklaşma (tr), temizleme (tr), temizlik (tr)

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