neat

IPA: nˈit

noun

  • (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
  • (archaic) A bull or cow.
  • (archaic) Cattle collectively.
  • A surname from Middle English.
  • (computing theory) Acronym of neuroevolution of augmenting topologies: a genetic algorithm for the generation of evolving artificial neural networks.
  • (exercise) Acronym of non-exercise activity thermogenesis.

adjective

  • Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
  • Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
  • (chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
  • (archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
  • Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
  • Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
  • Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.
  • (Canada, US, colloquial) Good, excellent, desirable.
  • Obsolete form of net (“remaining after expenses or deductions”). [(obsolete) Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.]
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Examples of "neat" in Sentences

  • Her room is neat and tidy.
  • The writing is neat and regular.
  • Even his mom is cloying at his neatness.
  • His hobby is to rumple anything that is neat.
  • The workings above consolidate into the neat formula.
  • It was neat to see the production from the other side.
  • Newer: « Matrix Trilogy comes in neat toy Nebuchadnezzar
  • The crest is neat and the upperparts are barred in black.
  • The overall feel of the article is neat and professional.
  • The reason for the link is to keep the infobox clean and neat.
  • The School endeavours to inculcate habits of cleanliness and neatness.
  • Damn, was I imagining things, or did Gilberto really use the word neat?
  • It's pretty neat from the old cars, to the old suits, the write-ups, the videos.
  • He did it as a riff off the term "hi fi", which was what you called your neat-o, keen-o stereo system in the 1950s?
  • I had to pay five dollars for hittin 'the chap (they said it was salt and buttery), an' that's what I call a neat, genteel luxury.
  • What's kind of neat is that Torquere Press always has one of their established authors review the book, so I have my first review already, technically.
  • I. ii.123 (266,6) [We must be neat] Leontes, seeing his son's nose smutched, cries, _We must be neat_, then recollecting that _neat_ is the term for _horned_ cattle, he says, _not neat, but cleanly_.

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