neat
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Is neat a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.Examples: "The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, neat. The molecular beam was neat acetylene."
2. (archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.Examples: "Why without telling the least title of Falshood, within the space of the last Week’s Play, the Gains of Count Cog, really amounted to no less than Twenty Thousand Pounds Sterling neat Money."; "Dr. Swift […] says, in his short view of the state of Ireland, that the whole cash of that kingdom amounted to 500,000 l. that out of this they remitted every year a neat million to England, and had scarce any other source to compensate themselves from […]"; "It may be said, that the increase of the tax is an uncompensated reduction of the neat income of the landlord […]"archaic
3. (Canada, US, colloquial) Good, excellent, desirable; interesting; cool.Examples: "Hey, neat convertible, man."; ""You can tell that Rory has had this type of talent in him for some time now, and to see him putting it together is pretty neat to see.""CanadaUScolloquial
noun (English)
1. (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.informal
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A bull or cow.Examples: "Who both by his calfe, & his lambe wil be known, / may well kill a neate and a shepe of his owne. / And he that wil reare up a pyg in his house, / hath cheaper his bacon, and sweter his souse."; "Thanks, i'faith; for silence is only commendable / In a neat's tongue dried."; "[…] he’s a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat’s leather."archaic
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Cattle collectively.Examples: "From thence into the open fields he fled, / Whereas the Heardes were keeping of their neat / And shepheards singing to their flockes, that fed,"; "And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf / Are all call’d neat."; "There on a Hillock thou mayſt ſing / Unto a handſome Shepardling; / Or to a Girle (that keeps the Neat) / VVith breath more ſvveet then Violet."Synonyms: noltarchaicpluralplural-only
noun (English)
1. (computing theory) Acronym of neuroevolution of augmenting topologies, a genetic algorithm for the generation of evolving artificial neural networks.abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable
noun (English)
1. (exercise) Acronym of non-exercise activity thermogenesis.abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary