cleaning

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkliːnɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːnɪŋ

Verb

cleaning

1. present participle and gerund of clean

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^[1]:

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

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

• bond cleaning
• cleaning fluid
• cleaning lady
• cleaning shoe
• dry cleaning
• spring cleaning

 

Translations

action in which something is cleaned

• Arabic: تَنْظِيف‎ m (tanẓīf)
• Armenian: մաքրում (hy) (makʿrum)
• Korean: 정화 (ko) (jeonghwa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rengjøring m or f

  Nynorsk: reingjering f

• Polish: sprzątanie (pl) n, czyszczenie (pl) n
• Russian: очи́стка (ru) f (očístka)
• Swedish: rengöring (sv) c
• Turkish: temizleme (tr), temizlik (tr)

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