ALL CLEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all clear mean? 

• ALL CLEAR (noun)
  The noun ALL CLEAR has 2 senses:

1. a signal (usually a siren) that danger is over

2. permission to proceed because obstacles have been removed

  Familiarity information: ALL CLEAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALL CLEAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A signal (usually a siren) that danger is over

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("all clear" is a kind of...):

sign; signal; signaling (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Permission to proceed because obstacles have been removed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("all clear" is a kind of...):

permission (approval to do something)

 Context examples 

That is all clear enough, but there was much that was still obscure.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That is all clear, and, I dare say, true enough,” replied Dr. Livesey.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“If you will follow me, I will endeavour to make it all clear to you.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It’s all clear,” he whispered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We’ve got it all clear as if we had seen it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, what a pity! It would have made all clear.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He remembered the Hudson Bay Company chart he had seen long ago, and it was all clear and reasonable to him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

That he was a sensible man, an agreeable man, that he talked well, professed good opinions, seemed to judge properly and as a man of principle, this was all clear enough.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The highway had lain through the swelling vineyard country, which stretched away to the north and east in gentle curves, with many a peeping spire and feudal tower, and cluster of village houses, all clear cut and hard in the bright wintry air.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For all his pragmatic certitude, it seemed as if he watched the play and movement of life in the hope of discovering something more about it, of discerning in its maddest writhings a something which had hitherto escaped him,—the key to its mystery, as it were, which would make all clear and plain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)