clearing

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of clearpresent participle and gerund of clear

noun

1. 1

   The act or process of making or becoming clear.

2. 2

   An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.

   Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges[…]: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

3. 3

   An open space in the fog etc.

4. 4

   A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.

5. 5

   A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.

6. 6

   The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.

7. 7

   The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.

Forms

plural

clearings