Cleaning Türkçesi

These words are all used to describe removing dirt from a place, and especially a house.

The most common word with the broadest meaning is clean. Clean is used mostly of places and the fixtures in those places, such as baths and taps. Clean can also be used of items that are very difficult to clean and so must be cleaned by a professional.

Wash refers to cleaning things with lots of water, either by putting them in soapy water, or by rinsing them with soap and water. Wash is used to describe making your body, or a part of your body, clean.

For more words related to washing, see the article at wash.

If you clean up a place, you clean it or get rid of mess to make it neat or tidy.

If you clean out a place, you take everything out of it and then clean inside it.

There are many verbs to refer to particular types of cleaning using different tools. If you wipe something, you pass a cloth over its surface to remove dirt from it. If you wipe something down, you clean it with a cloth and a little water. If you wipe something up, you remove it by using a cloth. Wipe up is usually used of liquids.

When you use your hands or a brush to remove dirt from something, and especially something you wear, you can use the phrasal verb brush off.

When you sweep, you clean something by using a brush to move the dirt into one place, where it can be removed.

When you clean a floor using a vacuum cleaner, you can use the verb vacuum or also, in UK English, hoover.

When you mop a floor, you clean it using water and a special stick with a soft material attached at one end that is called a mop.

The phrasal verb mop up is used to describe using a cloth or mop to remove liquid from a surface. Mop up doesn't always mean that the spill is on the floor.

If you rub something down with a sponge or a wet cloth to remove dirt, you can use the verb sponge or sponge down.

The verb scrub is used when you rub something hard, especially using a special pad or a stiff brush, soap, and water, to remove dirt.

If you steam-clean something, you clean it using a special machine that pushes hot steam into the thing you are cleaning and then sucks the steam and dirt back up. Steam-clean is used mostly of carpets, or furniture with cloth coverings that cannot be removed.