clean vs taint

clean

verb
  • To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal. 

  • To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.). 

  • Synonym of clean up 

  • To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed. 

  • To remove dirt from a place or object. 

  • To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep. 

  • To make things clean in general. 

  • To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast. 

  • To tidy up, make a place neat. 

noun
  • Removal of dirt. 

  • The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders. 

adj
  • Pure, especially morally or religiously. 

  • Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear. 

  • Empty. 

  • Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position. 

  • Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). 

  • In an unmarked condition. 

  • Not having used drugs or alcohol. 

  • Cool or neat. 

  • Smooth, exact, and performed well. 

  • That does not damage the environment. 

  • Having relatively few impurities. 

  • Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire. 

  • Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs. 

  • Not dirty. 

  • Devoid of profanity. 

  • Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record. 

  • Well-proportioned; shapely. 

  • Ascended without falling. 

  • Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects. 

adv
  • Fully and completely. 

taint

verb
  • To spoil (food) by contamination. 

  • To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally. 

  • To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. 

  • To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting. 

  • To thrust ineffectually with a lance. 

  • To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it. 

  • To be affected with incipient putrefaction. 

  • To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks. 

noun
  • A tinge, trace or touch. 

  • A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish. 

  • A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks. 

  • A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food. 

  • A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. 

  • An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner. 

  • The perineum. 

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