noun
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An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
adjective
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Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
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My room is neat because I tidied it this morning. She has very neat hair.
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Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
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I like my whisky neat.
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Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
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The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, neat. The molecular beam was neat acetylene.
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With all deductions or allowances made; net.
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Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
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The front room was neat and carefully arranged for the guests.
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Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
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Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly neat touch.
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Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.
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Courts should not reduce this case to a neat set of legal rules.
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Good, excellent, desirable.
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Hey, neat convertible, man.
Examples of neat in a Sentence
The handwriting on the letter was neat and feminine.
You always look neat and clean - even if you are a little out of style.
Neat writer, ain't he?
He smiled, revealing fangs among the neat row of white teeth.
It's kinda neat to know we're helping save the world from bad guys.
In 1910 there were 495,000 neat cattle (285,000 milch cows), 94,000 horses (average value, $106), 229,000 sheep and 95,000 swine.
The streets are broad and neat, though generally unpaved,.
Neat and comfortable, their station acted as their home as well as their hub for coordinating operations in LA.
All signs of the palace were swept away, replaced by neat lines of apple trees that ran all the way to the beach beyond.
The trio sat around the office desk, looking over one another's shoulders at the neat handwriting in the old notebook.
Rourk had highlighted several portions of Sean's tiny, neat writing.
With two teens in the house, no part of her apartment was neat or orderly.
The nest is a neat structure of coarse grass and moss, mixed with earth, and plastered internally with mud, and here the female lays from four to six eggs of a blue colour speckled with brown.
Before the half hour was ended he had written a very neat composition on his slate.
Besides, I'm not just doing this to be a real neat buddy, you know.
She was glowing and refreshed, her clothes neat and her scent that of one who had recently bathed.
The marble urn containing the body of the poet still rests at Ravenna, where what Byron calls "a little cupola more neat than solemn" has been erected over it.
In the same year, according to the same authority, there were in the state 196,000 milch cows, 92,000 other neat cattle, 45, 000 sheep and 70,000 swine.
In 1906 the farm area was almost equally divided between " dry " farming and farming under irrigation, three-fourths of the wheat produced was grown without irrigation, and the dry farming was very successful with the comparatively new and valuable crops of durum, or macaroni wheat, and Russian barley, which is used in straw for winter feed to sheep and neat cattle.
Those goats having a short, neat head, long, thin, ears, a delicate skin, small bones, and a long heavy coat, are for this purpose deemed the best.
When Vancouver visited the islands in 1792, he left sheep and neat cattle, 3 protected by a ten years' taboo, and laid down the keel of a European ship for Kamehameha.
The city is a manufacturing and railway centre, and ships grain, pork and neat cattle.
If a smooth and neat face is wanted other precautions must be taken.
Hannah peeked from the bathroom door, her normally neat hair mussed and her eyes red from crying.
He finished and laid out his clothing and weapons in neat piles for the next day then stood at the bed.
What happened soon became apparent; there was a neat hole in the top story of the building where Xander's condo used to be.
The city is situated in a rich agricultural region, and is a market for grain, neat cattle, horses and swine.
It was a kind of blind-alley, the end of which widened into a small, neat courtyard.
It is nearly always a neat structure composed of fine twigs, roots or bents, and lined with wool or hair.
It has been authoritatively estimated, for example, that from 90 to 95% of all horses, neat cattle and hogs in the entire island were lost in the war years of 1895-1898.
Kitchens should be neat, clean and smell wonderful.
They form, moreover, neat enclosures for the vegetable quarters, and, provided excess of growth from the centre is successfully grappled with, they are productive in soils and situations which are suitable.
Trees must be fixed to the walls and buildings against which they are trained by means of nails and shreds (neat medicated strips are now sold for this purpose), or in cases where it is desired to preserve the wall surface intact, by permanent nails or studs driven in in regular order.
Keep your bedroom clean - Yes, sometimes it's very difficult to keep a bedroom neat and tidy, especially with the very busy lives we all seem to lead, but keeping a clean room is very important to positive chi flow.
Shaves must be redone every few days to keep a neat, clean style.
Clooney's own hair is naturally wavy, so a shorter cut keeps it straight and neat.
A week or two before the big night, make sure your style will be neat by trimming away split ends and other damage.
Although braids are a neat beautiful style for African American hair, tight braids can cause hair loss.
They try to pick up each individual strand of hair while braiding so that the style is extremely neat and long lasting.
This style is feminine yet spunky and can be worn in a variety of styles, from messy and bed head to sleek and neat.
Braids are particularly popular in the summer because they can be easier to maintain and stay neat while you are on a summer vacation.
This is a universally flattering look that is at once neat yet pretty.
Twist the ponytail tightly around itself forming a neat bun.
When you are approaching a business to ask about work opportunities, it's important to be neat and well-groomed.
If you are interviewing with a company that has an informal dress code as the norm, you may wish to choose neat, conservative pressed slacks and a button down shirt or sweater to complete the look.
Triangle shaped boxes are a neat project to complete, and look great in a collection of other origami boxes.
It's simple to do, offers a neat appearance, and creates a comfortable balance for the shoe's pull on the foot.
For straight seams the machines are excellent, making as neat a seam as is found in glove work, unless, of course, the pelts are especially heavy, such as bears and sheep rugs.
Being of a bold disposition, and the trees favouring its mode of life often growing near houses, it will become on slight encouragement familiar with men; and its neat attire of ash-grey and warm buff, together with its sprightly gestures, render it an attractive visitor.
Buffaloes of an uncouth appearance and of a dark slaty color, strikingly contrasting with the neat cattle, abound in Egypt.