Nifty
adjective
Very good, clever, or useful.
She has some nifty moves on the basketball court.
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Informal
Colloquial
adjective
Stylish, attractive, or fashionable.
That's a nifty dress you're wearing.
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Informal
Colloquial
adjective
Capable of doing something quickly and skillfully.
He's nifty at tying complex knots.
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
adjective
Very good, clever, or useful.
She has some nifty moves on the basketball court.
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
adjective
Stylish, attractive, or fashionable.
That's a nifty dress you're wearing.
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
adjective
Capable of doing something quickly and skillfully.
He's nifty at tying complex knots.
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Creativity Praised
Use 'nifty' to show admiration for someone's cleverness or originality.
Your method for organizing tools is pretty nifty!
Pro Tip 2/3Not for Formality
'Nifty' is casual, avoid it in formal writing or speeches.
In emails to friends, you can say 'I found a nifty app!'
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Vibes
'Nifty' has a positive connotation, indicating approval or satisfaction.
That's a nifty solution to the problem!
Pro Tip 1/3Creativity Praised
Use 'nifty' to show admiration for someone's cleverness or originality.
Your method for organizing tools is pretty nifty!
Pro Tip 2/3Not for Formality
'Nifty' is casual, avoid it in formal writing or speeches.
In emails to friends, you can say 'I found a nifty app!'
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Vibes
'Nifty' has a positive connotation, indicating approval or satisfaction.
That's a nifty solution to the problem!
Pro Tip 1/3Creativity Praised
Use 'nifty' to show admiration for someone's cleverness or originality.
Your method for organizing tools is pretty nifty!
Pro Tip 2/3Not for Formality
'Nifty' is casual, avoid it in formal writing or speeches.
In emails to friends, you can say 'I found a nifty app!'
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Vibes
'Nifty' has a positive connotation, indicating approval or satisfaction.
That's a nifty solution to the problem!
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ET is (probably) out...
Scott all these guys it's really nifty exploration they're just doing it because they want to explore it and you might say oh that's kind of a frivolous opportunity but that's not frivolous that's not a frivolous activity because let me think of ants you know most ants are programmed to follow one another along enough in a long line but
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Thomas Goetz: It's time...
They last for about five miles, in which case we put our foot back on the pedal. But it works, and it even has some health repercussions. Your blood pressure might drop a little bit. Maybe there's fewer accidents, so there's public health benefits. But by and large, this is a feedback loop that's so nifty and too rare.
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What happens when our...
Or it could output the blueprint to a really nifty technology, and when we implement it, it has some surreptitious side effect that the A.I. had planned. The point here is that we should not be confident in our ability to keep a superintelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever. Sooner or later, it will out.
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Feats of memory anyone...
And while there are a whole host of ways of remembering stuff in these competitions, everything, all of the techniques that are being used, ultimately come down to a concept that psychologists refer to as "elaborative encoding." And it's well-illustrated by a nifty paradox
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A different way to...
So it turns out that the wheel method is more than just a nifty way of visualizing complex rhythms. By freeing us from the tyranny of the bar line, we can visualize rhythm in terms of time, and a simple turn of the wheel can take us on a musical journey around the world.
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Luca Turin: The science...
Because I got a phone call from our chief chemist and he said, look, I’ve just found this such a beautiful reaction, that even if this compound doesn’t smell of coumarin, I want to do it, it’s just such a nifty, one step -- I mean, chemists have weird minds --
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Discovering Wildlife in...
particularly at night, because obviously it's dark and bats being nocturnal, you know, that's when they like to come out, which is pretty inconsiderate of them. But luckily, we've got this nifty piece of kit that can detect bats not by sight, but by sound.
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I'm not your inspiration,...
I'm learning that nifty trick where you can charge your mobile phone battery from your chair battery. Genius. We are learning from each others' strength and endurance, not against our bodies and our diagnoses, but against a world that exceptionalizes
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Who's Your Daddy? PIPE...
the beetle attacks and grabs the lake the tussle turns into a tug of war neither giving an inch and then the daddy longlegs reveals a nifty life-saving mechanism a quick-release
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The Unsinkable Lizard PIPE...
he is so light and so waterproof he can float a nifty way to survive the daily downpour
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ET is (probably) out...
Scott all these guys it's really nifty exploration they're just doing it because they want to explore it and you might say oh that's kind of a frivolous opportunity but that's not frivolous that's not a frivolous activity because let me think of ants you know most ants are programmed to follow one another along enough in a long line but
Video examples
Thomas Goetz: It's time...
They last for about five miles, in which case we put our foot back on the pedal. But it works, and it even has some health repercussions. Your blood pressure might drop a little bit. Maybe there's fewer accidents, so there's public health benefits. But by and large, this is a feedback loop that's so nifty and too rare.
Video examples
What happens when our...
Or it could output the blueprint to a really nifty technology, and when we implement it, it has some surreptitious side effect that the A.I. had planned. The point here is that we should not be confident in our ability to keep a superintelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever. Sooner or later, it will out.
Video examples
Feats of memory anyone...
And while there are a whole host of ways of remembering stuff in these competitions, everything, all of the techniques that are being used, ultimately come down to a concept that psychologists refer to as "elaborative encoding." And it's well-illustrated by a nifty paradox
Video examples
A different way to...
So it turns out that the wheel method is more than just a nifty way of visualizing complex rhythms. By freeing us from the tyranny of the bar line, we can visualize rhythm in terms of time, and a simple turn of the wheel can take us on a musical journey around the world.
Video examples
Luca Turin: The science...
Because I got a phone call from our chief chemist and he said, look, I’ve just found this such a beautiful reaction, that even if this compound doesn’t smell of coumarin, I want to do it, it’s just such a nifty, one step -- I mean, chemists have weird minds --
Video examples
Discovering Wildlife in...
particularly at night, because obviously it's dark and bats being nocturnal, you know, that's when they like to come out, which is pretty inconsiderate of them. But luckily, we've got this nifty piece of kit that can detect bats not by sight, but by sound.
Video examples
I'm not your inspiration,...
I'm learning that nifty trick where you can charge your mobile phone battery from your chair battery. Genius. We are learning from each others' strength and endurance, not against our bodies and our diagnoses, but against a world that exceptionalizes
Video examples
Who's Your Daddy? PIPE...
the beetle attacks and grabs the lake the tussle turns into a tug of war neither giving an inch and then the daddy longlegs reveals a nifty life-saving mechanism a quick-release
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The Unsinkable Lizard PIPE...
he is so light and so waterproof he can float a nifty way to survive the daily downpour
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Cecily von Ziegesar
American Author
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.
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Jamais Cascio
American Writer
I understand that most iPhone users want a phone that can do other nifty things, not a general purpose computer that happens to make phone calls. Strict control over apps minimizes the chances that someone will find their phone hacked or virus-laden.
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David Rakoff
Canadian Writer
At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it's pretty nifty: I don't mine coal; I get paid to write.
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Jeremy Wade
The arapaima, found in South America, has an elongated body and a head so bony that the male fish will sometimes kill each other with a nifty headbutt. It's believed to be the biggest freshwater fish in the world.
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Jamie Parker
English Actor
If you want to do good material and you're lucky enough to get a chance to do it, then chances are probably somebody pretty nifty will have been there before you.
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Cecily von Ziegesar
American Author
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.
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Jamais Cascio
American Writer
I understand that most iPhone users want a phone that can do other nifty things, not a general purpose computer that happens to make phone calls. Strict control over apps minimizes the chances that someone will find their phone hacked or virus-laden.
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David Rakoff
Canadian Writer
At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it's pretty nifty: I don't mine coal; I get paid to write.
Quote examples
Jeremy Wade
The arapaima, found in South America, has an elongated body and a head so bony that the male fish will sometimes kill each other with a nifty headbutt. It's believed to be the biggest freshwater fish in the world.
Quote examples
Jamie Parker
English Actor
If you want to do good material and you're lucky enough to get a chance to do it, then chances are probably somebody pretty nifty will have been there before you.
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