clearing
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈklɪɹ.ɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈklɪə.ɹɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
- Hyphenation: clear‧ing
Verb edit
clearing
- present participle and gerund of clear
Noun edit
clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)
- The act or process of making or becoming clear.
- An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges […] : or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
- An open space in the fog etc.
- (banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
- (telecommunications) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
- (British, education) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
- (soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.
- Synonym: clearance
Synonyms edit
- (area devoid of trees): glade
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
act or process of making or becoming clear
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area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees
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open space in the fog etc
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process of completing and settling transactions centrally
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sequence of events used to disconnect a call
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soccer: act of removing the ball from one's own goal area — see clearance
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
clearing
Declension edit
Inflection of clearing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | clearing | clearingit | ||
genitive | clearingin | clearingien | ||
partitive | clearingiä | clearingejä | ||
illative | clearingiin | clearingeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | clearing | clearingit | ||
accusative | nom. | clearing | clearingit | |
gen. | clearingin | |||
genitive | clearingin | clearingien | ||
partitive | clearingiä | clearingejä | ||
inessive | clearingissä | clearingeissä | ||
elative | clearingistä | clearingeistä | ||
illative | clearingiin | clearingeihin | ||
adessive | clearingillä | clearingeillä | ||
ablative | clearingiltä | clearingeiltä | ||
allative | clearingille | clearingeille | ||
essive | clearinginä | clearingeinä | ||
translative | clearingiksi | clearingeiksi | ||
abessive | clearingittä | clearingeittä | ||
instructive | — | clearingein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “clearing”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English clearing.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
clearing m inan
Declension edit
Declension of clearing
singular | |
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nominative | clearing |
genitive | clearingu |
dative | clearingowi |
accusative | clearing |
instrumental | clearingiem |
locative | clearingu |
vocative | clearingu |
Derived terms edit
adjective
Further reading edit
- clearing in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English clearing.
Noun edit
clearing n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of clearing (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) clearing | clearingul |
genitive/dative | (unui) clearing | clearingului |
vocative | clearingule |
Spanish edit
Noun edit
clearing m (plural clearings)