(superl.) Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.
(superl.) Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful.
(adv.) In a clean manner; neatly.
(adv.) Innocently; without stain.
(adv.) Adroitly; dexterously.
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.
Tidily
Definition:
(adv.) In a tidy manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 31-year-old who materialised last week was smartly, if anonymously, dressed in black trousers and grey jacket, his hair tidily cut.
(2) It was the numbers and sheer youth of these peaceful demonstrators, umbrellas held aloft to ward off teargas and pepper spray, as they confronted – peacefully, tidily and very, very politely – the wrath of Beijing.
(3) The midfielder tidily trapped Jonas Olsson’s clearance before letting rip with a shot of such velocity that not even Ben Foster’s fingertips could prevent it from finding the top-right corner.
(4) But it is naive to suggest that the broad divisions within the party will tidily melt away if the remain camp prevails on 23 June.
(5) But when his big chance came, as Arsenal suffered a few mad moments before the interval, he tucked a first goal of the season tidily past Petr Cech.
(6) It is naive to suggest that the broad divisions within the party will tidily melt away if the remain camp prevails Naturally, this intervention has been dismissed by leavers as just another chapter of Project Fear.
(7) One wild cross, though, and might have scored with a header Jonny Evans 7 Distribution was a couple of notches below the quality of his defending, notably in the first half, but a reliable presence Nemanja Vidic 7 Decent, no-frills defending, doing well in the air against Giroud, but forced off at half-time with a head injury Patrice Evra 6 The left-back was troubled by Sagna in the second half, with several crosses coming into United's box from his flank Phil Jones 8 Fantastic first half in midfield, defending well and breaking at times, and good when pushed into central defence after that Michael Carrick 6 Could not stem as much of the passing as he would have liked but calm, used the ball tidily and broke up play on occasion Antonio Valencia 6 Involved only in little bursts but his pace occasionally stretched Arsenal and the winger provided a handful of dangerous crosses Wayne Rooney 8 Muscular, non-stop effort.
(8) Kyle Beckerman sat in front of the defense tidily enough, and provided the occasional first time ball to show his vision is one of his most underrated qualities, while fellow deep midfielder Mix Diskerud, was probably a net negative for not doing much wrong, but not doing much to seize control of the game either, as this particular audition might have demanded of him.
(9) He had felt very odd, got a neighbour to ring for the doctor and stepped tidily into the ambulance and out of the world.
(10) But then Selby spots a plant to nothing and tidily pulls it off.
(11) We still have five minutes, I said, and you know it, so come, leave your gun tidily under your chair.