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adjective

in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition: a neat room.

habitually orderly and clean in appearance or habits: a neat person.

of a simple, pleasing appearance, style, design, etc.: a neat cottage.

cleverly effective in character or execution: a neat scheme; a neat solution.

Slang. great; wonderful; fine: What a neat car!

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clever, dexterous, or apt: She gave a neat characterization of the old woman.

straight (def. 33).

Building Trades.

(of cement) without sand or other aggregate.

(of plaster) without any admixture except hair or fiber.

net: neat profits.

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adverb

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Informal. neatly.

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Neat is always a great word to know.

So is schmuck. Does it mean:

an obnoxious or contemptible person

raucous or querulous speech; a noisy, foolish utterance

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English net spruce, trim, clean < Middle French < Latin nitidus shining, polished, handsome, spruce, equivalent to nit(ēre) to shine + -idus -id⁴

Related forms

neat·ly, adverb

neat·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. spruce, smart. 4. finished, well-planned. 6. adroit. 7. unmixed, pure.

Antonyms
1. sloppy. 6. maladroit. 7. mixed.

Example Sentences

The hospital, a neat white building along a lane of avocado trees, is buried deep within.

The thin, the focused and the neat are freaks-but they are cut out for success.

Photosynthesis is a neat trick: take light, carbon dioxide and water, and make sugar as well as oxygen as waste.

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The hospital, a neat white building along a lane of avocado trees, is buried deep within.

The thin, the focused and the neat are freaks-but they are cut out for success.

Photosynthesis is a neat trick: take light, carbon dioxide and water, and make sugar as well as oxygen as waste.

It's neat to hear that they display recent discoveries.

Ostrich meat that is cut into neat slices or re-formed into steaks called medallions or mignons cooks quite evenly.

Swivl is a neat little camera stand which will follow you around the room.

But it's neat as a model for students trying to understand how all the critical approaches interrelate around a particular work.

Yet, these days, children in neat school uniforms throng the road.

The holographic division consequently gives us a rather neat way of writing down the following symmetry balance equation.

Traditionally, dinosaur diets seemed to break down along neat evolutionary lines.

Remove faded bloom stalks and oldest stems to keep it neat.

Read on to find out how, with some street scavenging and five minutes of easy work you can have a neat and tidy workspace.

In terms of scientific inquiry, the separation of proof from disproof is not so neat and clean.

Quantum computers provide a neat shortcut to solving such problems.

Here is a neat blog about high-end expensive stuff for rich people only.

Neat animals nonetheless, certainly a fascinating departure from the giant herbivores.

After bloom, shear off spent flower spikes to keep the planting neat and prevent seed formation.

But the earbuds that the company makes are actually pretty neat.

Secondary buy-outs are a neat solution to two of the industry's big headaches.

The neat thing about algae production is you don't need a farm or even acres of land.

It is neat to see the old photos of soldiers marching in the downtown area.

In the kitchen, citrus walls and white cabinetry add a nostalgic feel to neat groupings of colorful useful items.

Apen is a neat and simple take on getting paper notes into your computer, phone or tablet.

Every element of this seemingly neat arrangement, however, is uncertain.

And here's a neat twist: the researchers had movie goers eat both fresh and stale popcorn using their non-dominant hand.

It's neat to see there's veracity to the rail-splitting legend.

Five-foot lengths of ribbon, tied with a neat bow, secure the fabric at the back of each seat and at the top of the front legs.

It's a neat trick, but using the buttons is faster and easier.

It all looks neat and simple-and extremely plausible.

It must be so neat to live in a place where you feel the ability to make up your own facts.

So many neat ideas, it really can get your mind ticking.

It's neat as a pin and loaded with things that should probably be in your garden.

Loyalty programs for music fans is a neat idea, and we're surprised we're not hearing about more bands doing similar stuff.

It is beautiful country and the farms are so neat and well kept you can't believe it.

Here is a neat shot that compares their roots as small plants.

Out slide two neat rows of chipmunks, impeccably preserved.

The white meat comes out in two neat pieces once you have a little practice.

Physical playing cards are neat because they're portable and you can play practically anywhere.

Rangy growth needs pruning to keep it neat and within bounds add to my plant list.

What's neat about this toy is that it's using actual physics, instead of the slightly tweaked physics of the app.

Applying a fresh top-dressing is an easy way to give the garden a neat appearance without a complete makeover.

There are no edible cup mushrooms that they know of, but they sure look neat.

Teachers reward them for turning in neat papers and getting every answer right on a quiz.

They thought it was neat and started bugging me for more grammar questions.

The dino species also has two neat rows of seven holes along its snout.

It is pretty neat to watch them use their snout-an elongated appendage best compared to an elephant's trunk.

Fold the fabric at one corner into a neat finish by tucking the excess underneath and smoothing the top down.

Most of the works were more notable for their neat construction than for their flights of fancy.

There are some neat shops and a couple of really good restaurants in a downtown that they are trying to restore.

For less grand hostelries, it is a neat way to fill a formerly dead zone in midafternoon.

Then the city built thousands of neat little green cottages.

Look closer, though, and all sorts of neat details appear.

The complex is neat and the grounds are kept clean.

Have to miss a lot of neat conferences though, oh well.

It would also be neat to see the bathrooms that are made from made from local herbs.

Pennsylvania politics doesn't separate pro-growth politicians from their environmental opponents with neat lines of demarcation.

To announce its arrival, the restaurant launched this neat ad campaign showing a baby about to rock.

Few artists' careers follow as neat a trajectory as historians and critics might like.

Being put together, clean, and neat is a lot more important than how much your clothes cost.

Roam the suburbs, and the neat brick housing estates are haunted by mock-Tudor ghosts.

Its guides are true, its lodges neat and tidy, and its outdoor haunts bursting.

Allamandola had made a neat conjecture, but the interstellar dust clouds are not exactly hospitable places.

His long black hair was tied back in a neat ponytail.

We can do it again to compete for one of those neat professorships".

But any look at a seismic map shows that faults don't follow neat and orderly lines across the landscape.

Now a neat concrete sluice directs the stream's waters.

It's a neat example of evolutionary exploitation and a.

He had glossy brochures depicting neat two-family houses.

One neat thing about that place is that you meet interesting people.

Metals are composed of crystals that have their atoms lined up in neat rows.

Its guides are true, its lodges neat and tidy, and its outdoor haunts bursting with legend.

It is really neat how he travels all around showing off this wonderful piece of artwork.

Here's a neat twist on the glut of beautiful-but-impossible-to-read watches filling online stores these days.

They are hanging by the hundreds in neat rows high above him.

I've gotten some really neat results from my conference blogging, in particular.

But there is one big problem with such seemingly neat arrangements:.

The exposed land is crisscrossed by long stone walls divvying the rock and thorn scrub into neat geographic parcels.

Nevertheless, the urge to compress the complexities of life into neat and tidy stages is irresistible.

The smudge-proof stainless steel body is great for neat freaks and those of us concerned about leaving our prints around.

Interdisciplinary study is one of those neat ideas that people in academia talk about, but which has never quite succeeded.

It's neat because the story is told in each month of the year so that means that there are twelve chapters.

Samuel devised a neat method of avoiding this difficulty.

What we're interested in is the neat gadgets packed inside.

Now there is this huge database with all kinds of neat information on it that people can use for different type studies.

But larger sensors allow another neat trick that serious picture-takers appreciate.

It was located high on the mountain, where simple piles of dirt had been arranged in neat rows.

Really neat concept as they collect and repurpose hair and recycle aluminum foils and colour tubes.

The pen even has a few neat physical design features.

In practice, they are a politically neat method of protecting a particular industry.

Miki invites me into his house on the top of the hill-it is surprisingly neat and cozy inside.

My neck loop allows me to enjoy all the neat stuff in mp3 and iPod format.

In a neat confluence of human history, stomach bacteria and food, researchers have found that.

Religion is too diverse to fit tightly into a neat package.

The firm is still working at bundling a selection of them into a neat package that is easily accessible from its handsets.

Tiny farms with gray terracotta roofs sat between neat square rows of rice and organized gardens.

It'd be neat to see such chaos unfold in zero gravity.

It has a few neat features, but has a long way to go.

Ugliness and vaporware status aside, these seem pretty neat.

The pace and patterns of asteroid discovery give a neat visual illustration of the history of solar system exploration.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural neat.

an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English neet, Old English nēat, cognate with Old Norse naut, Middle Dutch noot; akin to Old English nēotan to use, possess

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World English Dictionary

neat¹ (niːt)

—*adj*
1.	clean, tidy, and orderly
2.	liking or insisting on order and cleanliness; fastidious
3.	smoothly or competently done; efficient: a neat job
4.	pat or slick: his excuse was suspiciously neat
5.	(of alcoholic drinks) without added water, lemonade, etc; undiluted
6.	a less common word for net : neat profits
7.	slang chiefly (US), (Canadian) good; pleasing; admirable

[C16: from Old French net, from Latin nitidus clean, shining, from nitēre to shine; related to Middle Irish niam beauty, brightness, Old Persian naiba- beautiful]

'neatly¹

—*adv*

'neatness¹

—n

neat² (niːt)

—n , pl neat
	archaic, dialect or a domestic bovine animal

[Old English neat]

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Word Origin & History

neat

1542, "clean, free from dirt," from Anglo-Fr. neit, from O.Fr. net "clear, pure," from L. nitidus "well-favored, elegant, trim," lit. "gleaming," from nitere "to shine," from PIE base *nei-/*ni- "to shine" (cf. M.Ir. niam "gleam, splendor," niamda "shining;" O.Ir. noib "holy," niab "strength;" Welsh

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nwyfiant "gleam, splendor"). Meaning "inclined to be tidy" is from 1577. Sense of "straight liquor" is c.1800, from meaning "unadulterated" (of wine), first attested 1579. Informal sense of "very good" first recorded 1934 in Amer.Eng.; variant neato is teenager slang, first recorded 1968. Neatnik "excessively tidy person" is from 1959 (see -nik).

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Slang Dictionary

neat definition

mod.
great; cool; fine. : That was not a very neat thing to do.
exclam.
Wow! (Usually Neat!) : Neat! I'm glad you came.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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"In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter."

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