cleaning
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkliːnɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Verb
[edit]cleaning
- present participle and gerund of clean
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cleaning (countable and uncountable, plural cleanings)
- (gerund of clean) The process of making something clean.
- 2009 January 13, Jane E. Brody, “New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart”, in New York Times[1]:
- So good dental hygiene, with regular periodontal cleanings, can help protect your heart as well as your teeth.
- The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
- 1844, Henry Stephens, The Book of Farm:
- The risk which the cow runs, after slinking, is in not getting quit of the cleaning, or afterbirth, or placenta […]
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[edit]Translations
[edit]action in which something is cleaned
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