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US
/ˈnit/
]
[ UK /nˈiːt/ ]
[ UK /nˈiːt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of an alcoholic drink) without water
took his whiskey neat -
superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
too facile a solution for so complex a problem
it was a neat plan, but bound to fail
a slick advertising campaign -
showing care in execution
neat handwriting
neat homework -
clean or organized
her neat dress
a neat room -
very good
you look simply smashing
we had a grand old time
a neat sports car
had a great time at the party
he did a bully job -
free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek
the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife
a clean throw
How To Use neat In A Sentence
- The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
- In the receding angle below the chin is the hyoid bone, and the finger can be carried along the bone to the tip of the greater cornu, which is on a level with the angle of the mandible: the greater cornu is most readily appreciated by making pressure on one side, when the cornu of the opposite side will be rendered prominent and can be felt distinctly beneath the skin. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 1. Surface Anatomy of the Head and Neck
- For verrucae and warts place a drop of neat Tea Tree Essential Oil in the centre and cover with a plaster once a day, this procedure can take a couple of weeks before you will see the results.
- And when he knelt he found her squatting, in the far corner underneath, and in the slatted dark, saw only her eyes, wide and white. Gabbie Zombie
- There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.
- Many scientists think that hotspots mark locations where diapiric convection cells, called mantle ‘plumes’, rise beneath lithospheric plates.
- Some houses were reduced to neat rectangles of foot-high rubble.
- The braai was an oil drum cut in half lengthways, with cut-down pipes soldered to its underneath as legs. Rainbow’s End
- In 1883 Mr. Leaf wrote: "I take it that the _zoma_ means the waist of the cuirass which is covered by the _zoster_, and has the upper edge of the _mitrê_ or plated apron beneath it fastened round the warrior's body. ... Homer and His Age
- The only constant linking it all is that it qualifies as, for lack of a better term, neat.
