Clearing

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)

    [Panurge] spent everything in a thousand little banquets and joyous feasts open to all comers, particularly jolly companions, young lasses, and delightful wenches, and in clearing his lands, burning the big logs to sell the ashes, taking money in advance, buying dear, selling cheap, and eating his wheat in the blade.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)