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- [self klee-ning]
- /sɛlf ˈkli nɪŋ/
- /self ˈkliː.nɪŋ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [self klee-ning]
- /sɛlf ˈkli nɪŋ/
Definitions of self-cleaning word
- noun self-cleaning an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning. 1
- noun self-cleaning Slang. an overwhelming or complete defeat, financial loss, or failure: Our team took a cleaning in yesterday's game. 1
- noun self-cleaning Informal. killing (def 3). 1
- adjective self-cleaning (of an oven, filter, etc) having a mechanism to clean itself 0
- adjective self-cleaning designating or of an oven for cooking, whose interior is designed to be cleaned automatically as by a special high-temperature setting rather than by hand 0
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Origin of self-cleaning
First appearance:
before 1655 One of the 46% oldest English words
First recorded in 1655-75; clean + -ing1
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Parts of speech for Self-cleaning
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
self-cleaning popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 84% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
Top questions with self-cleaning
- how does self-cleaning oven work?
- how to clean oven racks in self-cleaning oven?
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