clearing
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈklɪɹ.ɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈklɪə.ɹɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
- Hyphenation: clear‧ing
Verb
clearing
- present participle and gerund of clear
Noun
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
- (area devoid of trees): glade
Derived terms
Translations
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
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
clearing
Declension
| Inflection of clearing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
compounds
Further reading
- “clearing”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (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
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English clearing.
Pronunciation
Noun
clearing m inan
Declension
Declension of clearing
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | clearing |
| genitive | clearingu |
| dative | clearingowi |
| accusative | clearing |
| instrumental | clearingiem |
| locative | clearingu |
| vocative | clearingu |
Derived terms
adjective
Further reading
- clearing in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English clearing.
Noun
clearing n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of clearing (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) clearing | clearingul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) clearing | clearingului |
| vocative | clearingule | |
Spanish
Noun
clearing m (plural clearings)