Clearing may refer to:
- Glade (geography), a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
- Deforestation, the clearing away of trees to make farmland
- Clearing (finance), the process of settling a transaction after committing to it
- Market clearing, the matching of supply and demand via price movement
- Clearing, Chicago, a community area in Chicago, US
- Clearing (telecommunications), the disconnecting of a call
- Clearing (UCAS), used by some applicants applying for higher education courses in the UK – helps applicants without places to find institutions with courses that still have places available
- Clearing (album), an album by Fred Frith
- Yarn clearing, in textile industry
Famous quotes containing the word clearing:
“Usually the scenery about them is drear and savage enough; and the logger’s camp is as completely in the woods as a fungus at the foot of a pine in a swamp; no outlook but to the sky overhead; no more clearing than is made by cutting down the trees of which it is built, and those which are necessary for fuel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He had a whole heaven and horizon to himself, and the sun seemed to be journeying over his clearing only the livelong day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)