What's the difference between clean and untidy?

Clean


Definition:

  • (superl.) Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
  • (superl.) Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
  • (superl.) Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
  • (superl.) Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
  • (superl.) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
  • (superl.) Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
  • (superl.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
  • (superl.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
  • (superl.) Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
  • (adv.) Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
  • (adv.) Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.
  • (a.) To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (2) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
  • (3) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (4) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (5) From the treatment group 23 patients could be assessed: 2 had discontinued clean intermittent self-catheterization due to urethral hemorrhage, 2 died during the observation period and 1 was lost to followup.
  • (6) The corresponding hydrides, mono-n-butyltin hydride, di-n-butyltin hydride, tri-n-butyltin hydride, monophenyltin hydride, diphenyltin hydride triphenyltin hydride, are detected by electron-capture gas chromatography after clean-up by silica gel column chromatography.
  • (7) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
  • (8) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
  • (9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (10) Several studies have found that pollution and climate change disproportionately affect the poor , which means boosting clean energy generation and cutting pollution could also simultaneously reduce global inequality .
  • (11) The Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 was signed into law by President Bush on November 15, 1990.
  • (12) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
  • (13) Data support the use of clean intermittent catheterization under the conditions used in this study, including the use of a sterile catheter each day and careful monitoring of infection and technique.
  • (14) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
  • (15) Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts.
  • (16) Although a clean step response or the ensemble average of several responses contaminated with noise is needed for the generation of the filter, random noise of magnitude less than or equal to 0.5% added to the response to be corrected does not impair the correction severely.
  • (17) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
  • (18) And that is why we have taken bold action at home – by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.
  • (19) A government-commissioned review into the RET, headed by the businessman and climate change sceptic Dick Warburton, concluded that while it has largely achieved its aims and helped create jobs in clean energy, it should be either wound back or cut off entirely.
  • (20) The studies allow the interpretation that retention of food in the diverticula is not the reason for the bacterial miscolonization of the duodenum and the biliary tract, but in patients with diverticula a disturbed self-cleaning mechanism is present.

Untidy


Definition:

  • (a.) Unseasonable; untimely.
  • (a.) Not tidy or neat; slovenly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nomboniso Gasa, an academic who introduced Ramphele to the media at an Agang SA launch event nearly a year ago, expressed disappointment at her U-turn: "I do think Mamphela has been extremely untidy in the way she's dealt with this.
  • (2) So the second about-turn means Delph may have has questions to answer regarding his thought process throughout an saga that has become untidy.
  • (3) The three of us agreed it was quiet, non-threatening, not particularly untidy, just a bit rundown – and obviously a very low-income area.
  • (4) There will be many Lib Dems – not just those close to Nick Clegg – who will be happy at his untidy end, leaving not just the party, but also politics.
  • (5) That thing of people rolling over and going, "Oh, it looks like I'm making things a bit untidy.
  • (6) So there's more untidy law waiting to be reformed or reconciled.
  • (7) Rollings was bright, charming, slightly untidy; he became Foxtons’ fixer, its good cop.
  • (8) I did once butterfly a leg of lamb while watching a YouTube video of someone demonstrating the procedure, but the result was pretty untidy.
  • (9) He lacks a bit of control in his frame so it all feels a bit untidy, but a very good start.
  • (10) Brook took his chance in a tight and at times untidy clash, with the judges handing him the contest 114-114, 117-111, 116-112.
  • (11) This campaign has unravelled and, while they could justifiably depart here bemoaning the non-award of a second-half penalty and even disputing the validity of Crystal Palace’s opening goal, this was all too frenzied and untidy for comfort.
  • (12) He told media that he used the word to refer to "untidy" women, not in a derogatory way.
  • (13) Surgeons should realize that their major involvements in research will lie in the relatively untidy field of clinical science, and it is hoped that this view will continue to influence the activities of the SRS.
  • (14) Three problems the authors think important in replantation of untidy amputations are discussed based on our 99 replantations with the success rate of 92.6% over a 4-year period.
  • (15) The momentum should have been theirs after Azpilicueta’s untidy lunge, studs up, into Mile Jedinak, but hope proved horribly short-lived.
  • (16) In an untidy start Sebastián Coates, perhaps momentarily forgetting he was no longer an Anfield defender, gifted possession to Philippe Coutinho.
  • (17) The ruling clears the way for the publication of the “black spider” memos, so called because of the prince’s notoriously untidy handwriting.
  • (18) He will need to get his hands dirty in the untidy and ruthless business that is Indian politics," one said in a cable entitled The son also rises: Rahul Gandhi takes another step towards top job.
  • (19) Littlewood was born out of wedlock in Stockwell, south London, to a mother who frowned on books, and she wrote later of feeling ugly, untidy and alien.
  • (20) He also caused controversy in 1999 in Edinburgh when he saw an untidy fuse box during a tour of a factory.