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# clearing

«clearing» in Mova's school dictionary: **an open space in a wood or forest where there are no trees** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a clearing, clearings); verb form of clear (clearing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A clearing is an open space in a wood or forest where there are no trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#m1)

2) Clearing is the -ing form of the verb «clear»: taking things away so a place is empty, tidy or open (clearing the table, clearing snow). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#m2)

3) Clearing also describes weather getting brighter as clouds go away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, characters walk through a dark forest and come out into a sunny clearing, often where something important happens. In everyday life children help with clearing the table or clearing up. In weather reports «clearing» means the rain is stopping. Phrases: a forest clearing, clearing up, clearing the table, clearing away.

### examples

- The deer stood in a clearing in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#x1)
- We put up our tent in a small clearing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#x2)
- Sunlight shone into the clearing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#x3)
- I am clearing the table after dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#x4)
- The workers are clearing snow from the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#x5)
- The sky is clearing, so we can go outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#x6)
- The children were clearing away the paints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#x7)
- Now they reached a clearing in the forest and there stood a statue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clearing/#x8)

### note

As a noun it is countable (a clearing, two clearings). As a verb form: clear, clears, cleared, clearing. «Clear up» = tidy, or stop raining. In a clearing (not «on a clearing»).

### In the corpora

- [Clearing the name of the person you blamed, in front of the same people, is part of putting it right.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/18/)
- [Clearing his drawer, Kieran finds a photo of him and Tom in Year 2, gap-toothed, holding a frog.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/32/)
- [Clearing forests and ploughing can make soil erode many times faster than natural rates.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/52-weathering-and-erosion/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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