Definition of Clear

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Definition of Clear

Clear

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.

Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.

Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.

Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.

Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.

Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.

Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.

Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.

Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.

Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.

Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.

In a clear manner; plainly.

Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.

To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.

To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.

To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.

To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.

To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.

To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.

To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.

To gain without deduction; to net.

To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.

To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.

To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.

To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.

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Clear Quotations

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mohandas Gandhi

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Ogden Nash

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
Edward Kennedy

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato

Clear Translations

clear in Afrikaans is helder, opklaar
clear in Danish is tydelig, lys, klar
clear in Dutch is licht, klaar, hel
clear in French is net, ramoner, clair
clear in German is klar, reinigen
clear in Italian is forbire, sereno, esente, distinto
clear in Latin is lucidus, evidens, clarus, perspicuus
clear in Norwegian is klar
clear in Portuguese is cancele, claro
clear in Spanish is franco, dilucido, claro, aligerarse

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