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adjective niːtnit 1Arranged in a tidy way; in good order. the books had been stacked up in neat piles Example sentencesExamples - As he began shuffling his papers so they were neat and organized, whispers began to fly around the class.
- The sergeant counted the money onto the kitchen table, note by note, arranging it in neat piles.
- In Mexico, the tops of the wooden posts are cut off at the same level, creating very neat and tidy fences.
- Everything about the room was neat and orderly.
- The village was neat, with tidy little houses, arranged along three roads leading out from this castle.
- She absent-mindedly made a neat pile of the scattered magazines on the coffee table.
- Several long and narrow tables were arranged in neat rows, teachers scouting the premises between them.
- There were three chairs arranged in a neat semi-circle, with a coffee table in the center.
- A key feature of the farm is the farmhouse and farmyard which is well laid out and always maintained in a very neat and tidy fashion.
- We travel down from Newcastle and Durban twice a year in order to keep the graves neat and tidy.
- "Over the years the residents have made a great effort to keep the estate very neat and tidy.
- "Wow, your room is so neat, " Hannah said.
- In fact, salt crystals are formed by the very neat and orderly arrangement of alternating sodium and chloride ions.
- The place is neat and tidy with not a weed in sight.
- Megan laughed, " Ya know, you should thank me for keeping my locker so neat.
- Zack opened the door to his room and Ana looked around, he kept everything so neat.
- Shirt upon shirt, all stacked in neat piles - had they been ironed?
- It was just how I left it, neat and tidy; everything was in perfect order.
- Choosing one, he stepped inside a little room almost militarily neat, and masculine in aura.
- Many thanks to everyone who came out to help keep all areas around the river so neat and tidy.
- And when the City asked them to leave the sidewalk outside, they asked for an extra allotment of time, in order to be able to leave the site as neat and tidy as they found it.
Synonyms tidy, neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, well ordered, in (good) order, well kept, shipshape (and Bristol fashion), in apple-pie order, immaculate, spick and span, uncluttered, straight, trim, spruce archaic tricksy - 1.1 (of a person) habitually tidy, smart, or well organized.
her daughter was always neat and clean Example sentencesExamples - Now, yes, he's neat and clean, but I don't think that's a fault.
- But I know many children of less than neat parents who rebel by aggressively keeping house.
- I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.
- Aberdeen gave the ball away far too often to be able to mount any sustained pressure, whilst the visitors were neat and tidy in their play.
- There were clothes everywhere and that was unusual seeing as she was a very neat person.
- He was extremely neat and tidy around the place and took a gentle pride in maintaining the place so well.
- And doesn't such an organized and neat man deserve to be indicted just for making us all look bad?
- Walking down the aisle, looking impeccably neat in his uniform was Bob.
- Or again, he was an amazingly neat gardener, one might almost say a perfectionist.
- Maybe she was just a neat person, and it was a summer assignment, and she wanted everything to be organized, so she had tucked it away.
- There is nothing wrong with being a slob until you start complaining all the time that you wish you were neat and organized.
- Madge herself is immaculate - a tiny, neat woman whom grief has made two-dimensional.
- She's neat, organised, intelligent, motivated, good natured and talented across all arenas.
- Obsessively neat people should not consider owning companion birds.
- He was neat and dapper when I saw him in 1995 in Kansas City, where he was filming the movie of that name.
- I can get my daughter to clean her room by setting up comparison/competition images with her neat friend, Amanda.
- Not to say that we weren't neat and polite at the table.
- I an a very neat person, and I don't want you to see my place in a state.
- But unless you're particularly neat and tidy, they can soon end up rolling around the floor, or getting sat on by a passenger.
- She's neat, serious and always over-prepared; he's a jokey slob who flies by the seat of his rumpled pants.
Synonyms smart, spruce, dapper, trim, well groomed, well turned out, besuited organized, well organized, tidy, methodical fastidious informal natty dated as if one had just stepped out of a bandbox archaic trig - 1.2 Having a pleasing appearance; well formed.
Alan noted down the orders in his neat, precise script Example sentencesExamples - Look out for a pair of neat black or grey flannel trousers or a pencil or A-line skirt.
- Simple and neat choreography seemed to be Sushmita's motto for the jatis and the dancers executed her vision with clarity.
- Val was a good lawman but not exactly noted for his neat appearance nor his generosity with his money.
- These wooden storage drawers provide a neat appearance and are more functional than an entry table.
- "Real men don't have hair that neat, " one radio journalist said.
- She is in her early twenties, but serious, tiny, and very neat in appearance.
- The words " For Cecil " were written in extremely neat handwriting on it.
- She wore a simple, neat white robe with blue trim and sleeves so broad they looked like wings.
- The center console is neat and simple, stressing a less-is-more minimalism.
- The other two were written in the same neat script.
- Woven garments, such as shirts and trousers, should be folded along their natural creases to maintain a neat appearance.
- This will give the neat, crisp, appearance that the standard combat uniform is expected to have.
- The Virgo style is neat, discreet, simple, conservative and under-stated.
- Ancient runes were patterned in neat, flowing script, words that had not been read in many years.
- The quality of the photography is complemented by a simple, neat site design which does an exemplary job of displaying the collection cleanly and quickly.
- Not only did these materials present a neat appearance, but their flexibility allowed them to be used around curvilinear and geometric beds.
- I picked up my little card. ‘Miss Amber Sutton’ it said in neat, cursive silver letters.
- This autumn the emphasis is on neat, elegant tailoring and waist-cinched silhouettes.
- I recognized my mothers abnormally neat handwriting at once and I began to read.
- It suggested a forger might have selected a relatively smooth area of the back as a place to carve the small, neat characters.
- There, scrawled in Dylan's somehow neat handwriting, is a single word.
- However, for gardeners who prefer rather more order in their garden, this type of cotoneaster is perfect for training into a neat fan shape.
- He has finally, it seems, sorted out his blog format, and everything looks fabulously neat and tidy.
Synonyms well formed, regular, precise, crisp, clean-cut, elegant, well proportioned, simple, unadorned, unornamented
2Done with or demonstrating skill or efficiency. Example sentencesExamples - Now if that seems like a pretty neat trick, be warned.
- Admittedly, it is a rather neat effect to use, but not when it appears on nearly every track.
- But that's a pretty neat trick to pull that off, two different girls.
- It's a neat bit of arithmetic - one beach for each day of the year - but has anyone actually counted them?
- Calderon, an attacking midfielder, displayed some neat touches and demonstrated a willingness to run at defenders.
- The sampling trick is very neat, and does appear magical even after you see the proof.
- The Government came up, through the ministry, with a very neat solution.
- The look was relaxed, and the illusion hemlines, also achieved with stripes and shiny fabrics, were a neat way to make clothes appear longer.
- Some common-sense solutions, and neat statistics, are found within the paper.
- All in all, it was a neat move: In order to teach us to value our imaginations, he always let us know what was imaginary and what was not.
- This was a neat bit of satire, making the impossibility of the situation immediately obvious.
- ‘It is a very neat, environmentally-friendly solution,’ says Dr Reeder.
- I'm sure that I could never have written such a neat bit of syntactical plotting.
- I thought it was a neat bit of conscious self-reference.
- Justin made a neat recovery and with agile steps, he circled the demon, wrapping the silver thread around its throat.
- This one is as neat a demonstration of the Arthurian cycle as any book in the Clarke canon, and as stimulating.
- At the moment we don't have a neat solution to the problem and it really is stretching staff and eroding morale.
- If you're determined to see both of those realities as a problem, you can turn to science to provide you with what you'll probably consider a relatively neat solution to the first.
- The economist who raised the subject has found a neat solution to all these problems.
- So a neat solution is to put an inexpensive hard drive into the printer to receive the print job and keep these large files off the network.
- Folding them together was a pretty neat trick, and it has been done without a wrinkle or seam showing.
- Perhaps there is some neat technical solution, though as yet that doesn't seem to be the case.
Synonyms skilful, deft, dexterous, adroit, adept, expert, practised, accurate, precise, nimble, agile, graceful, stylish informal nifty clever, ingenious, inventive, resourceful, good, apt, efficient slick informal genius - 2.1 Tending to disregard specifics for the sake of convenience; facile.
this neat division does not take into account a host of associated factors Example sentencesExamples - That's a problem, since Kerry does not conveniently fit into any neat political cubbyhole.
- This is a problem that does not lend itself to neat political solutions, for all the righteous indignation inspired by rogue companies like Enron.
- He instilled in me a desire for clarity, but also a suspicion of neat solutions because, he felt, posing problems was more interesting than solving them.
- Perhaps this is a subtle statement on the unglamorous reality of commercialised sex, but the witty script resists such neat categorisations.
- This reveals the fact that the issues that apply to pre-contact cultures cannot be defined into any neat and efficient concept or word.
- Despite a very beautiful closing shot, the ending was rather conventional and perhaps too neat - the family was reunited and harmony restored.
- He measures pain and capacity to suffer in neat units and disregards old-fangled notions such as species or emotion.
- We prefer to live in a neat moral universe, and so we simplify, even to ourselves.
- The authors also note that the public perception of crime appears to have ‘no neat relationship’ with the crime rate.
- You seem to have moved from a neat engineer's view of the world to a view which accepts and celebrates the complexity out there.
- Like most three-part sermons, Delbanco's division is a bit too neat.
- With regard to gender, these associations meant that they appeared to resist neat definitions.
- It's not necessarily all that neat and simple, is it?
- The medieval holy wars in the Middle East could not be solved by rational treatises or neat territorial solutions.
- The book does not offer easy answers or neat endings.
- This historical framework keeps things pretty clear, although its neat divisions, both chronological and thematic are more imagined than real.
- As we can see now, musical evolution doesn't conform conveniently to neat historical divisions of style and chronology; boundaries are regularly blurred.
- No doubt there's some truth to that, but it looks too neat.
- There's no honour and no nice neat solution in pretending otherwise.
- But just because the Jungian interpretation is neat & tidy and easy to swallow, doesn't necessarily mean it's accurate.
3(of liquid, especially spirits) not diluted or mixed with anything else. Example sentencesExamples - The meal is a full Russian spread, and in between the different courses shots of neat vodka are served.
- Drink them neat or drink them with lots of water.
- To relieve the irritation of an insect bite itch, apply neat apple cider vinegar to the itchy spot, or add 500 ml of apple cider vinegar to a warm bath and soak in it.
- It was 7pm and the night was still young, yet the three people sitting next to me were so keen to get their evening started that they were already each drinking from their own litre bottle of neat vodka.
- The young lad behind the bar poured him half a pint of neat whiskey!
- But when it comes to adult conversation and emotional and practical support, emailing two old friends is like drinking lemonade when what you really need is a neat whisky.
- Put five drops of the neat oil on a dry, cold compress and cover the burn.
- The Raki is like Ouzo or Ricard (try it neat as well as with water) and goes well with the food.
- So after you serve a Martini or Scotch, neat, return moments later with a glass of water.
- Put a few drops of neat tea tree oil in a bowl of hot water, stick a towel over your head and breathe deeply for a few minutes.
- And I followed that with a large shot of neat single malt whisky.
- Next week - Tara parachutes into a Siberian bear-trappers get-together, joining them all for a quick drink of three pints of neat vodka.
- We'd still end up drinking neat vodka and dancing on the table at four in the morning, but I couldn't shake off the suspicion that they had moved off towards adulthood without me.
- Sponge the woolly bits with neat washing-up liquid, suggests a reader who says her father used to deal with greenfly on his roses in this way.
- These kids are not just drinking little cans of beer - they are drinking bottles of vodka, neat.
- He also points to a fondness for strong drink taken neat; whisky and vodka rather than English ale or Irish stout.
- For persistent cases, paint with neat lavender oil.
- Try some of these - but drink them neat.
- And you could never drink it neat unless you wanted to burn a hole in the lining of your stomach.
- Lace half a bottle of neat spirits with a powerful horse laxative and leave it in the glove box or a prominent place in your home.
- This is where Dylan Thomas drank 18 neat whiskies, his last.
- Among tequila connoisseurs, the best anejo tequilas rank with the finest cognacs and are often consumed neat from a snifter.
Synonyms undiluted, straight, unmixed, unadulterated, unblended, pure, uncut North American informal straight up 4North American informal Very good; excellent. it was really neat seeing the city Example sentencesExamples - And I know, lots of neat people meet on dating services.
- But it is kind of neat to see how my style had developed over time!
- Then realize that there are lots of other really neat guys out there, and someday you might love one of them instead.
- So, I invited this really neat guy whom I've been dating for the past three months.
- How fortunate we are to be in the center of the exciting geometric growth of this new industry, with such neat people sharing the experience.
- She is a neat lady and I feel lucky to have her as a friend.
- "I know, but I thought it would sound neat, " Moe mumbled.
- My mother and Lindsey have this really neat relationship.
- I thought all the neat people lived inside the internet.
- And you know what is neat, Lou, so far it appears to be working.
- Incidentally, the Donna Summer homepage is really neat, albeit horrendously designed.
- Yet, it's neat to see if I can try to pick up any Japanese.
- Everyone was kind of reeling at the neologism but for me it sounded neat.
- I think Wink is a very cool place and our technology is really neat.
- But don't take that to mean that I'm busy all the time - I'm keen as ever to see as many neat people as possible.
- There are lots of little shops that have really neat stuff in them.
- One of the really neat things about conventional wisdom is that sometimes it's true.
- They're both really neat people - I'm pleased to have made a connection there, and I hope we keep in touch.
- What a great skill to have and what a neat idea that it's been revived!
Synonyms excellent, very good, superb, outstanding, magnificent, of high quality, of the highest quality, of the highest standard, exceptional, marvellous, wonderful, sublime, perfect, eminent, pre-eminent, matchless, peerless, supreme, first-rate, first-class, superior, superlative, splendid, admirable, worthy, sterling, fine
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense 'clean, free from impurities'): from French net, from Latin nitidus 'shining', from nitere 'to shine'; related to net2. The sense 'bright' (now obsolete) was recorded in English in the late 16th century. Neat came into English via French net, from Latin nitere, meaning ‘to shine’. It was first used in a sense quite similar to its main modern meaning, but with a greater emphasis on the handsome appearance of the thing described, as in this quotation from the 16th century, ‘O thou Jerusalem full faire…much like a Citie neat’. The sense ‘undiluted’, as in ‘neat whisky’, derives from the old use ‘free from impurities, clean’, first found in the late 15th century. The slang sense ‘excellent’ was American, from the beginning of the 19th century.
Rhymes accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat noun niːtnit archaic 1A bovine animal. Example sentencesExamples - I had a pretty dinner for them, viz. a brace of stewed carp, six roast chickens and a jowl of hot salmon for the first course; a tanzy and two neats' tongues and cheese second.
- "as proper a man as ever trod upon neat's leather" [Julius Caesar, Scene 1]
- 1.1mass noun Cattle.
Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot, also to the base of dialect nait meaning 'companion'. abbreviationniːtnit Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (the energy dissipated as heat by a person during minor physical activity, such as fidgeting or shivering, that does not involve a large expenditure of energy and is not perceived as exercise). Example sentencesExamples - The new study measured the NEAT levels of 20 self-proclaimed couch potatoes, half of whom were obese.
- The researchers believe the discovery of the strong effects of NEAT on obesity could make a big difference in helping people beat the condition.
- The researchers have termed this type of movement NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) and estimate that it zaps an additional 300 to 800 calories a day.
- "Unlike running a marathon, NEAT is within the reach of everyone."
- Low NEAT, he says, most likely reflects genetic differences, because his study showed that even after obese people lose weight, they are still inclined to sit for the same amount of time.
adjectivenitnēt 1(of a place or thing) arranged in an orderly, tidy way. the books had been stacked up in neat piles Example sentencesExamples - Shirt upon shirt, all stacked in neat piles - had they been ironed?
- Zack opened the door to his room and Ana looked around, he kept everything so neat.
- It was just how I left it, neat and tidy; everything was in perfect order.
- A key feature of the farm is the farmhouse and farmyard which is well laid out and always maintained in a very neat and tidy fashion.
- In Mexico, the tops of the wooden posts are cut off at the same level, creating very neat and tidy fences.
- In fact, salt crystals are formed by the very neat and orderly arrangement of alternating sodium and chloride ions.
- The place is neat and tidy with not a weed in sight.
- The village was neat, with tidy little houses, arranged along three roads leading out from this castle.
- There were three chairs arranged in a neat semi-circle, with a coffee table in the center.
- As he began shuffling his papers so they were neat and organized, whispers began to fly around the class.
- Many thanks to everyone who came out to help keep all areas around the river so neat and tidy.
- We travel down from Newcastle and Durban twice a year in order to keep the graves neat and tidy.
- "Over the years the residents have made a great effort to keep the estate very neat and tidy.
- "Wow, your room is so neat, " Hannah said.
- And when the City asked them to leave the sidewalk outside, they asked for an extra allotment of time, in order to be able to leave the site as neat and tidy as they found it.
- Everything about the room was neat and orderly.
- The sergeant counted the money onto the kitchen table, note by note, arranging it in neat piles.
- Megan laughed, " Ya know, you should thank me for keeping my locker so neat.
- Choosing one, he stepped inside a little room almost militarily neat, and masculine in aura.
- Several long and narrow tables were arranged in neat rows, teachers scouting the premises between them.
- She absent-mindedly made a neat pile of the scattered magazines on the coffee table.
Synonyms tidy, neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, well ordered, in order, in good order, well kept, shipshape, shipshape and bristol fashion, in apple-pie order, immaculate, spick and span, uncluttered, straight, trim, spruce - 1.1 (of a person) habitually tidy, well groomed, or well organized.
her daughter was always neat and clean Example sentencesExamples - Or again, he was an amazingly neat gardener, one might almost say a perfectionist.
- I an a very neat person, and I don't want you to see my place in a state.
- I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.
- Obsessively neat people should not consider owning companion birds.
- But I know many children of less than neat parents who rebel by aggressively keeping house.
- There were clothes everywhere and that was unusual seeing as she was a very neat person.
- She's neat, serious and always over-prepared; he's a jokey slob who flies by the seat of his rumpled pants.
- Maybe she was just a neat person, and it was a summer assignment, and she wanted everything to be organized, so she had tucked it away.
- He was extremely neat and tidy around the place and took a gentle pride in maintaining the place so well.
- Madge herself is immaculate - a tiny, neat woman whom grief has made two-dimensional.
- And doesn't such an organized and neat man deserve to be indicted just for making us all look bad?
- Walking down the aisle, looking impeccably neat in his uniform was Bob.
- She's neat, organised, intelligent, motivated, good natured and talented across all arenas.
- Now, yes, he's neat and clean, but I don't think that's a fault.
- Not to say that we weren't neat and polite at the table.
- He was neat and dapper when I saw him in 1995 in Kansas City, where he was filming the movie of that name.
- Aberdeen gave the ball away far too often to be able to mount any sustained pressure, whilst the visitors were neat and tidy in their play.
- But unless you're particularly neat and tidy, they can soon end up rolling around the floor, or getting sat on by a passenger.
- There is nothing wrong with being a slob until you start complaining all the time that you wish you were neat and organized.
- I can get my daughter to clean her room by setting up comparison/competition images with her neat friend, Amanda.
Synonyms smart, spruce, dapper, trim, well groomed, well turned out, besuited - 1.2 Having a pleasing shape or appearance; well formed or regular.
Alan noted down the orders in his neat, precise script Example sentencesExamples - Ancient runes were patterned in neat, flowing script, words that had not been read in many years.
- I picked up my little card. ‘Miss Amber Sutton’ it said in neat, cursive silver letters.
- Val was a good lawman but not exactly noted for his neat appearance nor his generosity with his money.
- The Virgo style is neat, discreet, simple, conservative and under-stated.
- These wooden storage drawers provide a neat appearance and are more functional than an entry table.
- "Real men don't have hair that neat, " one radio journalist said.
- The quality of the photography is complemented by a simple, neat site design which does an exemplary job of displaying the collection cleanly and quickly.
- There, scrawled in Dylan's somehow neat handwriting, is a single word.
- Woven garments, such as shirts and trousers, should be folded along their natural creases to maintain a neat appearance.
- However, for gardeners who prefer rather more order in their garden, this type of cotoneaster is perfect for training into a neat fan shape.
- This autumn the emphasis is on neat, elegant tailoring and waist-cinched silhouettes.
- This will give the neat, crisp, appearance that the standard combat uniform is expected to have.
- She is in her early twenties, but serious, tiny, and very neat in appearance.
- I recognized my mothers abnormally neat handwriting at once and I began to read.
- Simple and neat choreography seemed to be Sushmita's motto for the jatis and the dancers executed her vision with clarity.
- It suggested a forger might have selected a relatively smooth area of the back as a place to carve the small, neat characters.
- She wore a simple, neat white robe with blue trim and sleeves so broad they looked like wings.
- The center console is neat and simple, stressing a less-is-more minimalism.
- Look out for a pair of neat black or grey flannel trousers or a pencil or A-line skirt.
- Not only did these materials present a neat appearance, but their flexibility allowed them to be used around curvilinear and geometric beds.
- The words " For Cecil " were written in extremely neat handwriting on it.
- He has finally, it seems, sorted out his blog format, and everything looks fabulously neat and tidy.
- The other two were written in the same neat script.
Synonyms well formed, regular, precise, crisp, clean-cut, elegant, well proportioned, simple, unadorned, unornamented
2Done with or demonstrating skill or efficiency. Howard's neat, precise tackling Example sentencesExamples - This one is as neat a demonstration of the Arthurian cycle as any book in the Clarke canon, and as stimulating.
- The look was relaxed, and the illusion hemlines, also achieved with stripes and shiny fabrics, were a neat way to make clothes appear longer.
- I thought it was a neat bit of conscious self-reference.
- This was a neat bit of satire, making the impossibility of the situation immediately obvious.
- Some common-sense solutions, and neat statistics, are found within the paper.
- But that's a pretty neat trick to pull that off, two different girls.
- If you're determined to see both of those realities as a problem, you can turn to science to provide you with what you'll probably consider a relatively neat solution to the first.
- It's a neat bit of arithmetic - one beach for each day of the year - but has anyone actually counted them?
- The economist who raised the subject has found a neat solution to all these problems.
- Admittedly, it is a rather neat effect to use, but not when it appears on nearly every track.
- The Government came up, through the ministry, with a very neat solution.
- Perhaps there is some neat technical solution, though as yet that doesn't seem to be the case.
- Folding them together was a pretty neat trick, and it has been done without a wrinkle or seam showing.
- The sampling trick is very neat, and does appear magical even after you see the proof.
- Justin made a neat recovery and with agile steps, he circled the demon, wrapping the silver thread around its throat.
- ‘It is a very neat, environmentally-friendly solution,’ says Dr Reeder.
- I'm sure that I could never have written such a neat bit of syntactical plotting.
- Calderon, an attacking midfielder, displayed some neat touches and demonstrated a willingness to run at defenders.
- Now if that seems like a pretty neat trick, be warned.
- So a neat solution is to put an inexpensive hard drive into the printer to receive the print job and keep these large files off the network.
- All in all, it was a neat move: In order to teach us to value our imaginations, he always let us know what was imaginary and what was not.
- At the moment we don't have a neat solution to the problem and it really is stretching staff and eroding morale.
Synonyms skilful, deft, dexterous, adroit, adept, expert, practised, accurate, precise, nimble, agile, graceful, stylish clever, ingenious, inventive, resourceful, good, apt, efficient - 2.1 Tending to disregard specifics for the sake of convenience; slick or facile.
this neat division does not take into account a host of associated factors Example sentencesExamples - As we can see now, musical evolution doesn't conform conveniently to neat historical divisions of style and chronology; boundaries are regularly blurred.
- The authors also note that the public perception of crime appears to have ‘no neat relationship’ with the crime rate.
- It's not necessarily all that neat and simple, is it?
- He instilled in me a desire for clarity, but also a suspicion of neat solutions because, he felt, posing problems was more interesting than solving them.
- You seem to have moved from a neat engineer's view of the world to a view which accepts and celebrates the complexity out there.
- The medieval holy wars in the Middle East could not be solved by rational treatises or neat territorial solutions.
- There's no honour and no nice neat solution in pretending otherwise.
- Despite a very beautiful closing shot, the ending was rather conventional and perhaps too neat - the family was reunited and harmony restored.
- We prefer to live in a neat moral universe, and so we simplify, even to ourselves.
- Like most three-part sermons, Delbanco's division is a bit too neat.
- He measures pain and capacity to suffer in neat units and disregards old-fangled notions such as species or emotion.
- The book does not offer easy answers or neat endings.
- This is a problem that does not lend itself to neat political solutions, for all the righteous indignation inspired by rogue companies like Enron.
- Perhaps this is a subtle statement on the unglamorous reality of commercialised sex, but the witty script resists such neat categorisations.
- That's a problem, since Kerry does not conveniently fit into any neat political cubbyhole.
- No doubt there's some truth to that, but it looks too neat.
- But just because the Jungian interpretation is neat & tidy and easy to swallow, doesn't necessarily mean it's accurate.
- With regard to gender, these associations meant that they appeared to resist neat definitions.
- This reveals the fact that the issues that apply to pre-contact cultures cannot be defined into any neat and efficient concept or word.
- This historical framework keeps things pretty clear, although its neat divisions, both chronological and thematic are more imagined than real.
3(of liquid, especially liquor) not diluted or mixed with anything else. Example sentencesExamples - Try some of these - but drink them neat.
- These kids are not just drinking little cans of beer - they are drinking bottles of vodka, neat.
- It was 7pm and the night was still young, yet the three people sitting next to me were so keen to get their evening started that they were already each drinking from their own litre bottle of neat vodka.
- Lace half a bottle of neat spirits with a powerful horse laxative and leave it in the glove box or a prominent place in your home.
- But when it comes to adult conversation and emotional and practical support, emailing two old friends is like drinking lemonade when what you really need is a neat whisky.
- Drink them neat or drink them with lots of water.
- Sponge the woolly bits with neat washing-up liquid, suggests a reader who says her father used to deal with greenfly on his roses in this way.
- He also points to a fondness for strong drink taken neat; whisky and vodka rather than English ale or Irish stout.
- Put five drops of the neat oil on a dry, cold compress and cover the burn.
- And you could never drink it neat unless you wanted to burn a hole in the lining of your stomach.
- The young lad behind the bar poured him half a pint of neat whiskey!
- We'd still end up drinking neat vodka and dancing on the table at four in the morning, but I couldn't shake off the suspicion that they had moved off towards adulthood without me.
- Next week - Tara parachutes into a Siberian bear-trappers get-together, joining them all for a quick drink of three pints of neat vodka.
- The meal is a full Russian spread, and in between the different courses shots of neat vodka are served.
- Among tequila connoisseurs, the best anejo tequilas rank with the finest cognacs and are often consumed neat from a snifter.
- The Raki is like Ouzo or Ricard (try it neat as well as with water) and goes well with the food.
- To relieve the irritation of an insect bite itch, apply neat apple cider vinegar to the itchy spot, or add 500 ml of apple cider vinegar to a warm bath and soak in it.
- And I followed that with a large shot of neat single malt whisky.
- For persistent cases, paint with neat lavender oil.
- Put a few drops of neat tea tree oil in a bowl of hot water, stick a towel over your head and breathe deeply for a few minutes.
- This is where Dylan Thomas drank 18 neat whiskies, his last.
- So after you serve a Martini or Scotch, neat, return moments later with a glass of water.
Synonyms undiluted, straight, unmixed, unadulterated, unblended, pure, uncut 4North American informal Very good or pleasant; excellent. it was really neat seeing the city Example sentencesExamples - And I know, lots of neat people meet on dating services.
- She is a neat lady and I feel lucky to have her as a friend.
- I think Wink is a very cool place and our technology is really neat.
- How fortunate we are to be in the center of the exciting geometric growth of this new industry, with such neat people sharing the experience.
- But it is kind of neat to see how my style had developed over time!
- Everyone was kind of reeling at the neologism but for me it sounded neat.
- There are lots of little shops that have really neat stuff in them.
- And you know what is neat, Lou, so far it appears to be working.
- Yet, it's neat to see if I can try to pick up any Japanese.
- My mother and Lindsey have this really neat relationship.
- They're both really neat people - I'm pleased to have made a connection there, and I hope we keep in touch.
- One of the really neat things about conventional wisdom is that sometimes it's true.
- What a great skill to have and what a neat idea that it's been revived!
- Then realize that there are lots of other really neat guys out there, and someday you might love one of them instead.
- So, I invited this really neat guy whom I've been dating for the past three months.
- "I know, but I thought it would sound neat, " Moe mumbled.
- I thought all the neat people lived inside the internet.
- But don't take that to mean that I'm busy all the time - I'm keen as ever to see as many neat people as possible.
- Incidentally, the Donna Summer homepage is really neat, albeit horrendously designed.
Synonyms excellent, very good, superb, outstanding, magnificent, of high quality, of the highest quality, of the highest standard, exceptional, marvellous, wonderful, sublime, perfect, eminent, pre-eminent, matchless, peerless, supreme, first-rate, first-class, superior, superlative, splendid, admirable, worthy, sterling, fine
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense ‘clean, free from impurities’): from French net, from Latin nitidus ‘shining’, from nitere ‘to shine’; related to net. The sense ‘bright’ (now obsolete) was recorded in English in the late 16th century. nounnitnēt archaic 1A bovine animal. Example sentencesExamples - I had a pretty dinner for them, viz. a brace of stewed carp, six roast chickens and a jowl of hot salmon for the first course; a tanzy and two neats' tongues and cheese second.
- "as proper a man as ever trod upon neat's leather" [Julius Caesar, Scene 1]
- 1.1 Cattle.
Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot, also to the base of dialect nait meaning ‘companion’. abbreviationnētnit Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (the energy dissipated as heat by a person during minor physical activity, such as fidgeting or shivering, that does not involve a large expenditure of energy and is not perceived as exercise). Example sentencesExamples - The new study measured the NEAT levels of 20 self-proclaimed couch potatoes, half of whom were obese.
- Low NEAT, he says, most likely reflects genetic differences, because his study showed that even after obese people lose weight, they are still inclined to sit for the same amount of time.
- "Unlike running a marathon, NEAT is within the reach of everyone."
- The researchers have termed this type of movement NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) and estimate that it zaps an additional 300 to 800 calories a day.
- The researchers believe the discovery of the strong effects of NEAT on obesity could make a big difference in helping people beat the condition.
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