cleaner
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkliː.nə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkli.nɚ/
- Rhymes: -iːnə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
editInherited from Middle English clener, clenere, equivalent to clean + -er (agent noun suffix).
Noun
editcleaner (plural cleaners)
- A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
- Hyponyms: housecleaner, window cleaner
- 1952 February, J. Pelham Maitland, “Locomotive Working on Sussex Branches Fifty Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 84:
- The cleaner worked, of course, at nights. He had to coal and light up the engine, as well as clean it, for the next day's work, which commenced with a light run to Barnham to "bring in the goods" from that station at about 6.30 a.m.
- A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
- A substance used for cleaning; especially, one retailed for that purpose and meant for use on things other than one's own body.
- Synonym: cleaning agent (sometimes hypernymous)
- Hyponyms: all-purpose cleaner, glass cleaner, scouring powder, window cleaner
- Coordinate terms: soap, detergent
- Near-synonym: cleaning fluid
- (in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business). (This form is now interpreted as plural and usually spelled without an apostrophe, even in official usage, to justify the removal of the apostrophe. It was traditionally spelled cleaner's with an apostrophe because this is grammatically correct, as can be seen with forms such as go to the doctor's, which cannot be reinterpreted as plural.)
- I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.
- A fixer; a person who disposes of bodies and evidence.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
edit- (sense 3) cleanser
- take to the cleaners
Translations
editperson who cleans
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device that cleans
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substance used for cleaning
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professional laundry
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Etymology 2
editInherited from Middle English clener, clenner, clanner, clannere, from Old English clǣnra, clǣnre (“cleaner, purer, clearer”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainiʀō (“daintier, more delicate”), from Proto-Germanic *klainizô (“shinier, finer, more splendid”), equivalent to clean + -er.
Adjective
editcleaner
- comparative form of clean: more clean
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editcleaner
Conjugation
editConjugation of cleaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | cleaner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | cleanant /kli.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | cleané /kli.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | cleane /klin/ |
cleanes /klin/ |
cleane /klin/ |
cleanons /kli.nɔ̃/ |
cleanez /kli.ne/ |
cleanent /klin/ |
imperfect | cleanais /kli.nɛ/ |
cleanais /kli.nɛ/ |
cleanait /kli.nɛ/ |
cleanions /kli.njɔ̃/ |
cleaniez /kli.nje/ |
cleanaient /kli.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | cleanai /kli.ne/ |
cleanas /kli.na/ |
cleana /kli.na/ |
cleanâmes /kli.nam/ |
cleanâtes /kli.nat/ |
cleanèrent /kli.nɛʁ/ | |
future | cleanerai /klin.ʁe/ |
cleaneras /klin.ʁa/ |
cleanera /klin.ʁa/ |
cleanerons /klin.ʁɔ̃/ |
cleanerez /klin.ʁe/ |
cleaneront /klin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | cleanerais /klin.ʁɛ/ |
cleanerais /klin.ʁɛ/ |
cleanerait /klin.ʁɛ/ |
cleanerions /kli.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cleaneriez /kli.nə.ʁje/ |
cleaneraient /klin.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | cleane /klin/ |
cleanes /klin/ |
cleane /klin/ |
cleanions /kli.njɔ̃/ |
cleaniez /kli.nje/ |
cleanent /klin/ |
imperfect2 | cleanasse /kli.nas/ |
cleanasses /kli.nas/ |
cleanât /kli.na/ |
cleanassions /kli.na.sjɔ̃/ |
cleanassiez /kli.na.sje/ |
cleanassent /kli.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | cleane /klin/ |
— | cleanons /kli.nɔ̃/ |
cleanez /kli.ne/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
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