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clearing
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The clearing of woods and forests is the process by which vegetation, such as trees and bushes , together with their roots are permanently removed. The main aim of this process is to clear areas of forest, woodland or scrub in order to use the soil for ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a clearing bank (= one of the banks in Britain that uses a clearing house when dealing with other banks ) ▪ large commercial customers of the clearing banks clearing bank clearing house COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clearing \Clear"ing\, n. The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. --South. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation. A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake. --J. Burroughs. A method adopted by banks and bankers ...
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It is absolutely not an experience not an experience of momentary states, not an experience of self, not an experience of no-self, not an experience of relaxing, not an experience of surrendering: it is the Empty opening or clearing in which all of those experiences come and go, an opening or clearing that, were it not always already perfectly Present, no experiences could arise in the first place.
The RTAF Hueys and the Marine helos on loan to the Thai airmobile forces lifted from the jungle clearing at almost the same moment that the American Hornets were hitting SAM sites at U Feng and along the Taeng River Valley.
A clearing appeared around me, and Alder stood beside me with a big grin on his face.
As the aeroplane tore higher into the thin atmosphere, out of the window Mandelstim could see the many, many camps, each a white clearing in the forest, like patches of nervous alopecia in a dark green beard.
In the clearing around the Twins many of the Amar were already asleep, rolled tight into their sleeping leathers, their heads covered, their toes naked to the darkening night.
The Amar knelt beside him in their circle lying hidden outside a broad clearing.
Et Avian close behind, burst into the clearing between the she-bears and cubs.
Jensens were talking as they walked across the clearing from their bivouac tent.
The overcaptain bolted upright at the table, his blade clearing the sheath, his face twisted in anger.
On the west coast British, American, and French forces were continually in action, bombarding and harassing the enemy, driving off persistent attacks by light craft and midget submarines, and clearing mines in the liberated ports.
The Gopher borer sat hunched down on the surface outside the dome, and the dozers were still clearing the huge masses of pulverized rock the Gopher had heaved back toward the surface.
After a time, he left Cissy to stay with her, and walked about the clearing.
Then Coom took a small wood wand from her pouch and drew a circle in the dirt around the clearing.
The self-system, in other words, is the regime or codon of the human holon, and like all regimes, it is the opening or clearing in which correlative holons can manifest: it is Emptiness looking out through a separate self until that self simply reverts to Emptiness per se.
In the morning my coughing and clearing of my throat would almost strangle me.