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UK
/klˈiːnɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈkɫinɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫinɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
-
the act of making something clean
he gave his shoes a good cleaning
How To Use cleaning In A Sentence
- Hence, personal hygiene and cleaning our handswill bethe most effective ways of combating this disease.
- Directly opposite Damocles, two men were making a very thorough job of cleaning the window of a newsagent's. THE LAST TEMPTATION
- She damped her cloth before cleaning the windows.
- I use the brush first rapped with a cleaning patch soaked in carburetor cleaner. Live from the SHOT Show: New Gun Reviews
- Does household cleaning give you headaches, nausea, dizzy spells or sign irritations?
- Ultima will clean the inside of the glass panels, because the outside is coated with a self-cleaning laminate, which doesn't allow dust or dirt to settle.
- In the event, Gabriel got work with a road crew, digging up the streets of north London for cable companies; Andrea, again unable to persuade a bank to give her an interview, took up house- cleaning.
- The teacher is cleaning the blackboard with a board rubber.
- A classic example of cleaning fan losses can be found at headlands where combine speeds suddenly drop.
- One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services - that is cleaning, catering and laundry.