Чем отличается pure от clean

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Английский (американский вариант)

Clear = transparent, which means you can see through it. It can also mean «easy to understand.»
«The glass is clear.» — you can see through the glass
«John’s speech was clear.» — it was easy to understand what John was saying

Clean = tidy; sanitary; not dirty
«The dishes are clean.» — there is no dirt on the dishes

Pure means something like «not mixed.»
«That necklace is made of pure gold.» — the necklace is made of ONLY gold, and no other material

Difference between Clean and Pure

Definition: Not dirty. In a condition of having been cleaned. In an unmarked condition. Pure, especially morally or religiously. Drug- and alcohol-free. Smooth, exact, and performed well. Said of (criminal, driving..) records without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record. Cool or neat. Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear. Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.

Part of speech: noun

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

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To Remove dirt from a place or object. To Tidy up, make a place neat. To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed. To make things clean in general. 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.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Fully and completely.

Example sentence: The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied free of foreign material or pollutants free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean of a branch of science, done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.

Example sentence: I think the universe is pure geometry — basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

We hope you now know whether to use Clean or Pure in your sentence.

pure vs. clean vs. clear

В чем главное смысловое отличие (= диф. сема) pure = чистый, clean = чистый и clear = чистый?

Задание:

Заполните пропуски pure/clean/clear.

1. Let me get this … : is she married or not? — объясните мне /я хочу точно знать/, она замужем или нет?
2. A lot of ideas are feeding back from the applied sciences into the … science — многие идеи из прикладных наук снова переходят в чистую науку
3. He licked the spoon … — он дочиста облизал ложку
4. Let's … up the ambiguities in this paragraph — давайте уточним некоторые неясные места /выражения/ в этом абзаце
5. It is a … formality — это чистая проформа, это пустая формальность
6. I will lend you the book as long as you keep it … — я дам вам (почитать) эту книгу при условии, что вы будете аккуратно обращаться с ней
7. This is … Hollywood — чистейший Голливуд (о нехудожественном, коммерческом или сенсационном фильме)

Discussion

Slava Kazakov , 2014/07/16 13:40 , 2014/07/16 13:43

pure = чистый, без примесей
clean = чистый, без пятен/загрязнений на поверхности
clear = чистый, ясный, понятный

1. Let me get this clear: is she married or not? — объясните мне /я хочу точно знать/, она замужем или нет?
2. A lot of ideas are feeding back from the applied sciences into the pure science — многие идеи из прикладных наук снова переходят в чистую науку
3. He licked the spoon clean — он дочиста облизал ложку
4. Let's clear up the ambiguities in this paragraph — давайте уточним некоторые неясные места /выражения/ в этом абзаце
5. It is a pure formality — это чистая проформа, это пустая формальность
6. I will lend you the book as long as you keep it clean — я дам вам (почитать) эту книгу при условии, что вы будете аккуратно обращаться с ней
7. This is pure Hollywood — чистейший Голливуд (о нехудожественном, коммерческом или сенсационном фильме)

Yuri Scherbakov , 2014/07/16 23:37

Доп. Вопрос:

На схеме очистное сооружение: cleaning, clearing, purification?

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Slava Kazakov , 2014/07/17 06:59

Clean vs Pure

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

Mere; that and that only.

‘That idea is pure madness!’;

‘The cargo hold is clean.’; ‘Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there’ll be no dessert for you.’;

(of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.

(of metal) Having relatively few impurities.

(phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Free of immorality or criminality.

(of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.

Pure, especially morally or religiously.

‘Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.’;

(Liverpool) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

‘You’re pure busy.’;

Not having used drugs or alcohol.

‘I’ve been clean this time for eight months.’;

Feces, especially dog feces gathered in pre-20th-century England for use in the tanning of leather.

(of criminal, driving, etc. records) Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.

‘Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean!’;

alternative form of puer

(informal) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.

‘I’m clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.’;

(golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately

‘Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.’;

(informal) Devoid of profanity.

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.

‘The pure fetters on his shins great.’; ‘A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.’;

Smooth, exact, and performed well.

‘I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.’; ‘a clean leap over a fence’;

Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; – applied to persons.

‘Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience.’;

(obsolete) Total; utter.

Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; – applied to things and actions.

‘Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.’;

(informal) Cool or neat.

‘Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!’;

Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.

‘Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.’;

(health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

‘I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.’;

Of a single, simple sound or tone; – said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

That does not damage the environment.

‘clean energy;’; ‘clean coal’;

free of extraneous elements of any kind;

‘pure air and water’; ‘pure gold’; ‘pure primary colors’; ‘the violin’s pure and lovely song’; ‘pure tones’;

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

‘clean land;’; ‘clean timber’;

without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

‘an arrant fool’; ‘a complete coward’; ‘a consummate fool’; ‘a double-dyed villain’; ‘gross negligence’; ‘a perfect idiot’; ‘pure folly’; ‘what a sodding mess’; ‘stark staring mad’; ‘a thoroughgoing villain’; ‘utter nonsense’;

Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied;

(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black

Ascended without falling.

free from discordant qualities

Removal of dirt.

‘This place needs a clean.’;

used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless;

‘I felt pure and sweet as a new baby’; ‘pure as the driven snow’;

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

in a state of sexual virginity;

‘pure and vestal modesty’; ‘a spinster or virgin lady’; ‘men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal’;

(transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.

‘Can you clean the windows today?’;

(transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.

‘Clean your room right now!’;

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

(intransitive) To make things clean in general.

‘She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.’;

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

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

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

Fully and completely.

‘He was stabbed clean through.’; ‘You must be clean mad.’;

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.

Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, a clean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.

Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

‘When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.’;

Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.

‘Create in me a clean heart, O God.’; ‘That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven’;

Free from ceremonial defilement.

Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.

Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.

‘All the people were passed clean over Jordan.’;

Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.

To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead

make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from;

‘Clean the stove!’; ‘The dentist cleaned my teeth’;

remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits;

‘Clean the turkey’;

clean and tidy up the house;

‘She housecleans every week’;

clean one’s body or parts thereof, as by washing;

‘clean up before you see your grandparents’; ‘clean your fingernails before dinner’;

‘This stove cleans easily’;

deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.;

‘The other players cleaned him completely’;

remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;

‘The boys cleaned the sandwich platters’; ‘The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm’;

remove while making clean;

‘Clean the spots off the rug’;

remove unwanted substances from

remove shells or husks from;

‘clean grain before milling it’;

free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits;

‘children with clean shining faces’; ‘clean white shirts’; ‘clean dishes’; ‘a spotlessly clean house’; ‘cats are clean animals’;

free of restrictions or qualifications;

‘a clean bill of health’; ‘a clear winner’;

(of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims;

‘efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings’; ‘clear laughter like a waterfall’; ‘clear reds and blues’; ‘a light lilting voice like a silver bell’;

free from impurities;

‘clean water’; ‘fresh air’;

without difficulties or problems;

‘a clean test flight’;

ritually clean or pure

not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination;

‘a clean fuel’; ‘cleaner and more efficient engines’; ‘the tactical bomb is reasonably clean’;

(of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers;

‘good clean fun’; ‘a clean joke’;

free from sepsis or infection;

‘a clean (or uninfected) wound’;

‘led a clean life’;

(of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections;

‘fair copy’; ‘a clean manuscript’;

of a surface; not written or printed on;

‘blank pages’; ‘fill in the blank spaces’; ‘a clean page’; ‘wide white margins’;

marked by or calling for sportsmanship or fair play;

‘a clean fight’; ‘a sporting solution of the disagreement’; ‘sportsmanlike conduct’;

thorough and without qualification;

‘a clean getaway’; ‘a clean sweep’; ‘a clean break’;

(of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense;

‘a clean voting recor’; ‘a clean driver’s license’;

not carrying concealed weapons

free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed;

‘he landed a clean left on his opponent’s cheek’; ‘a clean throw’; ‘the neat exactness of the surgeon’s knife’;

‘after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years’;

completely; used as intensifiers;

‘clean forgot the appointment’; ‘I’m plumb (or plum) tuckered out’;

in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating;

‘they played fairly’;

free from dirt, marks, or stains

‘keep the wound clean’; ‘the room was spotlessly clean’;

having been washed since last worn or used

(of paper) not yet marked by writing or drawing

‘he copied the advert on to a clean sheet of paper’;

(of a person) attentive to personal hygiene

‘by nature he was clean and neat’;

free from pollutants or unpleasant substances

‘we will create a cleaner, safer environment’;

relating to a diet consisting of unprocessed, unrefined, and nutrient-rich food, typically eaten as small meals throughout the day

‘I’m amazed at how much energy clean eating gives me’; ‘you have to eat clean foods to change your physique’;

free from or producing relatively little radioactive contamination.

(of timber) free from knots

‘the forester and the sawyer reject timber that is not straight and clean’;

morally uncontaminated; pure; innocent

not sexually offensive or obscene

‘it’s all good clean fun’;

showing or having no record of offences or crimes

‘a clean driving licence is essential for the job’;

played or done according to the rules

‘we are not completely sure that the elections will be clean and fair’;

not possessing or containing anything illegal, especially drugs or stolen goods

‘I searched him and his luggage, and he was clean’;

(of a person) not taking or having taken drugs or alcohol

‘I had been here for only a fortnight and clean for three weeks’;

free from ceremonial defilement, according to Mosaic Law or other religious codes.

free from irregularities; having a smooth edge or surface

‘a clean fracture of the leg’;

having a simple, well-defined, and pleasing shape

‘the clean lines and pared-down planes of modernism’;

(of an action) smoothly and skilfully done

‘he took a clean catch’;

(of a taste, sound, or smell) giving a clear and distinctive impression to the senses; sharp and fresh

‘clean, fresh, natural flavours’;

so as to be free from dirt, marks, or unwanted matter

‘the room had been washed clean’;

in a way that involves the consumption of unprocessed, unrefined, and nutrient-rich food

‘plain oatmeal is a staple for anyone who’s eating clean’;

used to emphasize the completeness of a reported action, condition, or experience

‘he was knocked clean off his feet’; ‘I clean forgot her birthday’;

make clean; remove dirt, marks, or stains from

‘clean your teeth properly after meals’; ‘I cleaned up my room’;

remove the innards of (fish or poultry) prior to cooking

‘there are a variety of ways to cook the herring, but it must first be gutted and cleaned’;

Чем отличается pure от clean