meaning of clear
1. Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
2. Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
3. Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
4. Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
5. Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
6. Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
7. Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
8. Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
9. Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
10. Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
11. Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
12. 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.
13. In a clear manner; plainly.
14. Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.
15. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
16. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
17. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
18. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
19. 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 ones self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.
20. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
21. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
22. To gain without deduction; to net.
23. To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.
24. To disengage ones self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
25. To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
26. To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.
27. CLEAR A specification language based on initial algebras. ["An Informal Introduction to Specification Using CLEAR", R. M. Burstall in The Correctness Problem in Computer Science, R. S. Boyer et al eds, Academic Press 1981, pp. 185-213].
28. a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water; "finally broke out of the forest into the
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