The difference between Beautiful and Clear
When used as adjectives, beautiful means attractive and possessing beauty, whereas clear means transparent in colour.
Clear is also noun with the meaning: full extent.
Clear is also adverb with the meaning: all the way.
Clear is also verb with the meaning: to remove obstructions or impediments from.
check bellow for the other definitions of Beautiful and Clear
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Beautiful as an adjective:
Attractive and possessing beauty.
Examples:
"Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful."
"There's a beautiful lake by the town."
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Beautiful as an adjective (of the weather):
Pleasant; clear.
Examples:
"It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk."
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Beautiful as an adjective:
Well executed.
Examples:
"The skater performed a beautiful [[axel]]."
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Clear as an adjective:
Transparent in colour.
Examples:
"as clear as crystal"
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Clear as an adjective:
Bright, not dark or obscured.
Examples:
"The windshield was clear and clean."
"Congress passed the President’s Clear Skies legislation."
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Clear as an adjective:
Free of obstacles.
Examples:
"The driver had mistakenly thought the intersection was clear."
"The coast is clear."
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Clear as an adjective:
Without clouds.
Examples:
"'clear weather;  a clear day"
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Clear as an adjective (meteorology):
Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
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Clear as an adjective:
Free of ambiguity or doubt.
Examples:
"He gave clear instructions not to bother him at work."
"Do I make myself clear? Crystal clear."
"I'm still not quite clear on what some of these words mean."
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Clear as an adjective:
Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
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Clear as an adjective (figuratively):
Free of guilt, or suspicion.
Examples:
"a clear conscience"
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Clear as an adjective (of a [[soup]]):
Without a thickening ingredient.
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Clear as an adjective:
Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
Examples:
"'clear of texture; clear of odor"
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Clear as an adjective (Scientology):
Free from the influence of engrams; see .
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Clear as an adjective:
Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
Examples:
"a clear intellect;  a clear head"
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Clear as an adjective:
Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
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Clear as an adjective:
Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
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Clear as an adjective:
Unmixed; entirely pure.
Examples:
"'clear sand"
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Clear as an adjective:
Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
Examples:
"a clear complexion;  clear lumber"
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Clear as an adjective:
Without diminution; in full; net.
Examples:
"a clear profit"
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Clear as an adverb:
All the way; entirely.
Examples:
"I threw it clear across the river to the other side."
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Clear as an adverb:
Not near something or touching it.
Examples:
"Stand clear of the rails, a train is coming."
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Clear as an adverb:
free (or separate) from others
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Clear as an adverb (obsolete):
In a clear manner; plainly.
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Clear as a verb (transitive):
To remove obstructions or impediments from.
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Clear as a verb (ergative):
To become freed from obstructions.
Examples:
"When the road cleared we continued our journey."
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Clear as a verb (transitive):
To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from a matter; to clarify; especially, to clear up.
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Clear as a verb (transitive):
To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
Examples:
"The court cleared the man of murder."
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Clear as a verb (transitive):
To pass without interference; to miss.
Examples:
"The door just barely clears the table as it closes.  nowrap The leaping horse easily cleared the hurdles."
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Clear as a verb (intransitive):
To become clear.
Examples:
"After a heavy rain, the sky cleared nicely for the evening."
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Clear as a verb (intransitive):
Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
Examples:
"The check might not clear for a couple of days."
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Clear as a verb (transitive, business):
To earn a profit of; to net.
Examples:
"He's been clearing seven thousand a week."
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Clear as a verb (transitive):
To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
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Clear as a verb:
To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
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Clear as a verb:
To obtain a clearance.
Examples:
"The steamer cleared for Liverpool today."
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Clear as a verb (sports):
To defend by hitting (or kicking, throwing, heading etc.) the ball (or puck) from the defending goal.
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Clear as a verb:
To fell all trees of a forest.
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Clear as a verb (transitive, computing):
To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
Examples:
"to clear an array;  nowrap to clear a single bit (binary digit) in a value"
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Clear as a verb (computing, transitive):
To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
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Clear as a noun (carpentry):
Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
Examples:
"a room ten feet square in the clear"
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Clear as a noun (cryptology):
State of being unenciphered. (In the clear: Not enciphered.)
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