"cleaning" meaning in English

See cleaning in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkliːnɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cleaning.wav [Southern-England] Forms: cleanings [plural]
Rhymes: -iːnɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cleaning (countable and uncountable, plural cleanings)
  1. (gerund of clean) The process of making something clean. Tags: countable, gerund, uncountable Translations (action in which something is cleaned): تَنْظِيف (tanẓīf) [masculine] (Arabic), մաքրում (makʿrum) (Armenian), puhdistaminen (Finnish), puhdistus (Finnish), siivoaminen (Finnish), siivous (Finnish), 정화 (jeonghwa) (Korean), rengjøring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), reingjering [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), sprzątanie [neuter] (Polish), czyszczenie [neuter] (Polish), очи́стка (očístka) [feminine] (Russian), usafishaji (Swahili), rengöring [common-gender] (Swedish), arıklaşma (Turkish), temizleme (Turkish), temizlik (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-cleaning-en-noun-IMLccL09 Disambiguation of 'action in which something is cleaned': 70 30
  2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cleaning-en-noun-DHo74P0A
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bond cleaning, cleaning agent, cleaning fluid, cleaning lady, cleaning rod, cleaning shoe, deep cleaning, dry cleaning, spring cleaning

Verb

IPA: /ˈkliːnɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cleaning.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -iːnɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} cleaning
  1. present participle and gerund of clean Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: clean Categories (topical): Hygiene
    Sense id: en-cleaning-en-verb-LjHC3cp9 Disambiguation of Hygiene: 0 20 80 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 27 71 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 21 76

Inflected forms

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