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# cleanly

«cleanly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a neat, smooth way, with one quick even cut or break…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (cleanly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cleanly means in a neat, smooth way, with one quick even cut or break and no mess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#m1)

2) Cleanly means in a clean way, without making things dirty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#m2)

3) In sport, cleanly means fairly and well, without a foul or a fumble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In craft lessons a sharp knife or scissors cut cleanly; in science a bone or stick can break cleanly. In sport a goalkeeper catches the ball cleanly, and a fair tackle is made cleanly. Phrases: cut cleanly, break cleanly, burn cleanly, catch cleanly.

### examples

- The sharp scissors cut the paper cleanly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#x1)
- The branch snapped cleanly in two. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#x2)
- The keeper caught the ball cleanly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#x3)
- Gas burns more cleanly than coal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#x4)
- He won the race cleanly, without pushing anyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#x5)
- The vet said the bone had broken cleanly and would heal well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#x6)
- Wipe the knife so it slices the cake cleanly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#x7)
- Karen herself was dressed very neatly and cleanly; she was taught to read and to sew, and people said that she was pretty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/#x8)

### note

An adverb: it tells how something is done (cut cleanly). The adjective is «clean». Pronounced KLEEN-lee. Do not confuse with the rare adjective «cleanly» (KLEN-lee), which means keeping oneself clean.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cleanly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleanly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.