Clean : adj. The adjective "proper" has many meanings:
I) Propreté :
A. Who is not dirty, does not dirty.
1. Sens vieilli : Qui a l’aspect convenable, NET.
A clean (decent) outfit.
Sens moderne : Une copie propre (soigné).
Substantive: To put, to recopy to the clean, to the neat (opposed to to the draft).
By extension: Done properly.
This is clean (correct) work.
Pianist who has his own playing.
2. Sens courant : Qui n’a aucune trace de saleté, de crasse, de poussière, de souillure.
House, clean apartment.
Un Hotel modest but clean. Everything was clean and NET.
Dishes, glasses clean.
Some plates made clean.
Very clean sheets (impeccable).
Have clean hands.
In the figurative sense: Operation clean hands, aiming to put order in a corrupt environment.
Familiar noun. It smells clean.
By ext. (of an action, of an occupation). Do not eat with your fingers, it is not clean.
(People) Who washes often; whose body and clothing are free of all impurity.
Clean as a new penny.
Be clean on yourself; iron. suitable, as it should.
Familiar ironic phrase: A neat little old man.
Figured: By antiphrasis. In a bad situation.
We are clean, here we are! fresh (cf. In beautiful sheets).
Who is in control of their natural functions. This child was clean at two years old.
Which does not pollute or which pollutes little. Clean cars. Clean factory.
Clean war.
B. Morally compliant
1. Figured: Who does not fail in the honor for reasons of interest, whose reputation is spotless. He is a clean person who can be trusted.
Who is honest, moral; honestly earned.
Clean money and laundered money. A not very clean business.
Male name: By antiphrase: It's clean !, is said of a dirty thing, and fig. indecent, immoral behavior.
2. Especially: Who does not do drugs, does not dope (colloquial: clean).
A clean cyclist.
A clean and healthy sport.
II) Appartenance, propriété
A. After the name or as an attribute
1. Which belongs in an exclusive or particular way to a person, a thing, a group (distinctive, exclusive, personal).
Have specific qualities. Hand deliver papers to their recipient.
Astronomy: Own movement of a star, of a star, its angular displacement independently of the movements of the Earth and astronomical aberration.
Natural frequency of an oscillating system: frequency at which this system oscillates when it is left to itself.
Proper name (opposed to common name, as well as to other words of the language): name that applies to an individual, a unique object, an individual reality that it designates (whereas the common name corresponds to a class, a general idea, a meaning).
Jean, Napoleon, Paris, UN, France, Louvre are proper names.
proper names take a capital letter.
Dictionary of proper names.
Proper meaning: meaning of a word considered to be prior to others (logically or historically; literal).
Word used in the proper sense. In the literal sense of the word. Literal and figurative sense.
Dr. Who is fully owned (opposed to common). Own property, in the community regime.
Own (financial) funds.
2. Specific to: particular to. (specific).
Attribute, character specific to a thing, a person, a whole. Traits specific to certain individuals.
3. Old: self-esteem that we have for ourselves (self-esteem).
4. Which is particularly suitable.
Things: appropriate, suitable.
The proper word (correct, just).
Specific to (with a name): made for. A darkness peculiar to meditation (auspicious).
Make something specific: make it serve a purpose.
Avec l’infinitif : Un ouvrage propre à former les esprits (de nature à).
5. Personnes propre à : (sens vieilli) apte, capable par sa personnalité, ses capacités, ses connaissances.
Modern: Be fit to fill a job.
Noun: Aged fit for nothing: nobody who knows how to do nothing or does not want to do anything, who cannot make himself useful (incapable, no one).
A clean for nothing. Clean for nothing.
B. Avant le nom (Sens affaibli, employé avec un possessif).
With his own hands. Of his own money. On its own. For their own sake.
On his own initiative, on his own initiative.
Of his own. Through his own fault. He looked after her like his own mother.
Expressing belonging and placed before the name presented as being, the thing in question; same). These are his own (real) words.
III) Male name
1. own: owned to the exclusion of any other. To have a good in one's own, to oneself (property).
2. Right. Property of the wife or husband which remains the exclusive property of each, in the matrimonial regime of the community.
Annex of own.
3. Liturgy: Element of celebration which is specific to a saint, a time, a place, and is neither part of the ordinary nor of the common.
4. Current: the characteristic of: distinctive quality which belongs to a thing, to a person (appanage, particularity).
5. Au propre : au sens propre, littéral. Se dit au propre et au figuré.
Opposites : collectif, common ; unsuitable, incapable, malpropre ; filthy, négligé, sale, I left, soiled, task ; polluting ; dishonest ; immoral, indecent.