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Neat
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- 1 Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
"My room is neat because I tidied it this morning. She has very neat hair."
- 2 Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
"I like my whisky neat."
- 3 Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
"The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, neat. The molecular beam was neat acetylene."
- 4 With all deductions or allowances made; net. archaic
"Why without telling the least title of Falshood, within the space of the last Week’s Play, the Gains of Count Cog, really amounted to no less than Twenty Thousand Pounds Sterling neat Money."
- 5 Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
"The front room was neat and carefully arranged for the guests."
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- 6 Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
"Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly neat touch."
- 7 Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.
"Courts should not reduce this case to a neat set of legal rules."
- 8 Good, excellent, desirable; interesting; cool. Canada, US, colloquial
"Hey, neat convertible, man."
- 9 Obsolete form of net (“remaining after expenses or deductions”). alt-of, obsolete
"What is the neat weight of 4 hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing 10cwt. 3qrs. 10lb. gross; — tare 100lb. per hdd.?"
- 1 free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed wordnet
- 2 (of an alcoholic drink) without water wordnet
- 3 excellent wordnet
- 4 superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject wordnet
- 5 clean or organized wordnet
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- 6 showing care in execution wordnet
- 1 Used to signify a job well done.
- 2 Used to signify approval.
- 1 A surname from Middle English.
- 1 An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy. informal
- 2 A bull or cow. archaic
"Who both by his calfe, & his lambe wil be known, / may well kill a neate and a shepe of his owne. / And he that wil reare up a pyg in his house, / hath cheaper his bacon, and sweter his souse."
- 3 Cattle collectively. archaic, plural, plural-only
"From thence into the open fields he fled, / Whereas the Heardes were keeping of their neat / And shepheards singing to their flockes, that fed,"
- 4 Acronym of neuroevolution of augmenting topologies, a genetic algorithm for the generation of evolving artificial neural networks. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
- 5 Acronym of non-exercise activity thermogenesis. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Etymology
From Middle English nete, net, nette, from Anglo-Norman neit (“good, desirable, clean”), a variant of Old French net, nette (“clean, clear, pure”), from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”), derived from nitēre (“to shine”). Doublet of net and nitid. Cognate with German nett (“nice, kind”). Compare also nait.
From Middle English nete, net, nette, from Anglo-Norman neit (“good, desirable, clean”), a variant of Old French net, nette (“clean, clear, pure”), from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”), derived from nitēre (“to shine”). Doublet of net and nitid. Cognate with German nett (“nice, kind”). Compare also nait.
From Middle English nete, net, nette, from Anglo-Norman neit (“good, desirable, clean”), a variant of Old French net, nette (“clean, clear, pure”), from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”), derived from nitēre (“to shine”). Doublet of net and nitid. Cognate with German nett (“nice, kind”). Compare also nait.
From Middle English nete, neat, from Old English nēat (“animal, beast, ox, cow, cattle”), from Proto-West Germanic *naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą (“foredeal, profit, property, livestock”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with Dutch noot (“cow, cattle”, in compounds), dialectal German Noß (“livestock”), Alemannic German Nooss (“young sheep or goat”), Swedish nöt (“cattle”), Icelandic naut (“cattle, bull”) and Faroese neyt (“cattle”). More at note.
From Middle English nete, neat, from Old English nēat (“animal, beast, ox, cow, cattle”), from Proto-West Germanic *naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą (“foredeal, profit, property, livestock”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with Dutch noot (“cow, cattle”, in compounds), dialectal German Noß (“livestock”), Alemannic German Nooss (“young sheep or goat”), Swedish nöt (“cattle”), Icelandic naut (“cattle, bull”) and Faroese neyt (“cattle”). More at note.
English metonymic occupational surname for a herdsman or a nickname for someone thought to resemble an ox or a cow, from Middle English neat (“ox, cow”), from Old English neat.
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