Neat
adjective
Clean, well arranged, orderly.
He keeps his room neat and tidy.
Often appears as...
- neat and tidy
- neat as a pin
adjective
Done with or demonstrating skill or efficiency.
That's a neat solution to the problem.
Often appears as...
- neat trick
- neat solution
adjective
(of a drink, especially an alcoholic one) undiluted.
He prefers his whiskey neat.
Often appears as...
- neat whiskey
- neat rum
adjective
Specifically of cattle: not mixed with any other breed.
The farmer keeps a herd of neat cattle.
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Technical
noun
A cow or bull.
The pasture was full of neat.
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Archival
adjective
Clean, well arranged, orderly.
He keeps his room neat and tidy.
Often appears as...
- neat and tidy
- neat as a pin
adjective
Done with or demonstrating skill or efficiency.
That's a neat solution to the problem.
Often appears as...
- neat trick
- neat solution
adjective
(of a drink, especially an alcoholic one) undiluted.
He prefers his whiskey neat.
Often appears as...
- neat whiskey
- neat rum
adjective
Specifically of cattle: not mixed with any other breed.
The farmer keeps a herd of neat cattle.
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A cow or bull.
The pasture was full of neat.
Usage tips
Archival
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Positive Impression
Using 'neat' suggests you approve of the tidiness and organization; it's a compliment.
Your desk is so neat, I'm impressed!
Pro Tip 2/2Emphasis with 'and'
Pair 'neat' with 'and' to stress tidiness, as in 'neat and tidy' or 'neat and clean'.
She arranged her books in a neat and orderly fashion.
Pro Tip 1/2Positive Impression
Using 'neat' suggests you approve of the tidiness and organization; it's a compliment.
Your desk is so neat, I'm impressed!
Pro Tip 2/2Emphasis with 'and'
Pair 'neat' with 'and' to stress tidiness, as in 'neat and tidy' or 'neat and clean'.
She arranged her books in a neat and orderly fashion.
Pro Tip 1/2Positive Impression
Using 'neat' suggests you approve of the tidiness and organization; it's a compliment.
Your desk is so neat, I'm impressed!
Pro Tip 2/2Emphasis with 'and'
Pair 'neat' with 'and' to stress tidiness, as in 'neat and tidy' or 'neat and clean'.
She arranged her books in a neat and orderly fashion.
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Mentalism, mind reading...
to tell yourself a certain story about what I'm doing, and this only works because we are story-forming creatures, which means we do this every day. We go out into this complex and subtle world full of a complex and subtle people like you and me, Allan, and we reduce them to these neat characters that fit whatever story we're telling ourselves,
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Are Mites Having Sex on...
by looking at those mites we can figure out stories about ourselves and that would be the really neat thing because they evolved super rapidly so one of the main goals of this study is that we are trying to get a lot of mites from different populations of people around the world because we're really
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What makes a language......
Each has its own unique history and characteristic pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical structures. But the dividing line between varieties is murky. Human language, in all its cross-pollinating, ever-evolving glory, naturally resists the impulse to sort it into neat buckets.
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The mathematics of love...
that love doesn't really work like that. Human emotion isn't neatly ordered and rational and easily predictable. But I also know that that doesn't mean that mathematics hasn't got something that it can offer us, because, love, as with most of life, is full of patterns
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What triggers a chemical...
Entropy also increases and helps the reaction along because the neat, organized log of wood is now converted into randomly moving water vapor and carbon dioxide. The energy shed by this exothermic reaction powers the endothermic reaction of cooking your dinner.
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The difference between...
Later on I said certain things -- the players, if we were leaving for somewhere, had to be neat and clean. There was a time when I made them wear jackets and shirts and ties. Then I saw our chancellor coming to school in denims and turtlenecks,
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How to rebuild the world...
small community when civilization is no longer providing for you well I think a very neat example of the problems it would face here are given in an essay by Leonard read could I pencil now the eye pencil isn't some gadget coming out from
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Why are Ferrets So...
dr angela horner is the world's leading expert in ferret locomotion ferrets are really neat it's almost as though you have an animal in liquid form they have a really well adapted body design to move rapidly through a tunnel
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Sebastian Junger: Why...
to a place in society where they belong, and I think it'll also be impossible to stop war, if we don't understand how that mechanism works. The problem is that war does not have a simple, neat truth, one simple, neat truth.
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How One Penguin Started...
Normally when you go to a wildlife place, you expect to see you know wildlife, everything cleared neat and tidy, but there were lots of plastics and broken bottles and pieces of cars and filters of the engines of the cars.
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Mentalism, mind reading...
to tell yourself a certain story about what I'm doing, and this only works because we are story-forming creatures, which means we do this every day. We go out into this complex and subtle world full of a complex and subtle people like you and me, Allan, and we reduce them to these neat characters that fit whatever story we're telling ourselves,
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Are Mites Having Sex on...
by looking at those mites we can figure out stories about ourselves and that would be the really neat thing because they evolved super rapidly so one of the main goals of this study is that we are trying to get a lot of mites from different populations of people around the world because we're really
Video examples
What makes a language......
Each has its own unique history and characteristic pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical structures. But the dividing line between varieties is murky. Human language, in all its cross-pollinating, ever-evolving glory, naturally resists the impulse to sort it into neat buckets.
Video examples
The mathematics of love...
that love doesn't really work like that. Human emotion isn't neatly ordered and rational and easily predictable. But I also know that that doesn't mean that mathematics hasn't got something that it can offer us, because, love, as with most of life, is full of patterns
Video examples
What triggers a chemical...
Entropy also increases and helps the reaction along because the neat, organized log of wood is now converted into randomly moving water vapor and carbon dioxide. The energy shed by this exothermic reaction powers the endothermic reaction of cooking your dinner.
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The difference between...
Later on I said certain things -- the players, if we were leaving for somewhere, had to be neat and clean. There was a time when I made them wear jackets and shirts and ties. Then I saw our chancellor coming to school in denims and turtlenecks,
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How to rebuild the world...
small community when civilization is no longer providing for you well I think a very neat example of the problems it would face here are given in an essay by Leonard read could I pencil now the eye pencil isn't some gadget coming out from
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Why are Ferrets So...
dr angela horner is the world's leading expert in ferret locomotion ferrets are really neat it's almost as though you have an animal in liquid form they have a really well adapted body design to move rapidly through a tunnel
Video examples
Sebastian Junger: Why...
to a place in society where they belong, and I think it'll also be impossible to stop war, if we don't understand how that mechanism works. The problem is that war does not have a simple, neat truth, one simple, neat truth.
Video examples
How One Penguin Started...
Normally when you go to a wildlife place, you expect to see you know wildlife, everything cleared neat and tidy, but there were lots of plastics and broken bottles and pieces of cars and filters of the engines of the cars.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.
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John Pomfret
American Journalist
Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.
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Nick Kroll
American Actor
Meeting someone you admire, and then that person's like, 'I'm a fan of your work' - it's a really neat feeling.
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Stephen King
Author
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
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Kate Garraway
English Journalist
Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.
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Oliver North
American Soldier
I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
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Joshua Jackson
American Actor
I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.
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J. J. Watt
American Athlete
It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.
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Zoe Lister-Jones
American Actress
Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.
Quote examples
John Pomfret
American Journalist
Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.
Quote examples
Nick Kroll
American Actor
Meeting someone you admire, and then that person's like, 'I'm a fan of your work' - it's a really neat feeling.
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Stephen King
Author
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
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Kate Garraway
English Journalist
Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.
Quote examples
Oliver North
American Soldier
I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
Quote examples
Joshua Jackson
American Actor
I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.
Quote examples
J. J. Watt
American Athlete
It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
Quote examples
Drew Barrymore
American Actress
Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.
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Zoe Lister-Jones
American Actress
Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
Example 1 of 10
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