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{{also|Neat|NEAT}}
==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈniːt/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-neat.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|iːt|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|en|enm|nete}}, {{m|enm|net}}, {{m|enm|nette}}, from {{der|en|xno|neit|t=good, desirable, clean}}, a variant of {{der|en|fro|net}}, {{m|fro|nette|t=clean, clear, pure}}, from {{der|en|la|nitidus|t=gleaming}}, derived from {{m|la|niteo|nitēre|t=to shine}}. {{doublet|en|net#Etymology 2|nitid}}. Cognate with {{cog|de|nett|t=nice, kind}}.

====Adjective====
{{en-adj|er}}

# [[clean|Clean]], [[tidy]]; free from [[dirt]] or impurities.
#: {{ux|en|My room is '''neat''' because I tidied it this morning.&emsp; {{nowrap|She has very '''neat''' hair.}}}}
#* {{RQ:Belloc Lowndes Lodger|II|0091
|passage=Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a '''neat''' hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.}}
#* {{RQ:Allingham China Governess|chapter=Foreword|passage=A very '''neat''' old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,{{nb...}}.}}
# Free from [[contaminant]]s; [[unadulterated]], [[undiluted]]. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
#: {{ux|en|I like my whisky '''neat'''.}}
#* '''1595''', {{w|George Peele}}, ''[[w:The Old Wives' Tale (play)|The Old Wives’ Tale]]'', The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 464-465,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/oldwivestale00peeluoft]</sup>
#*: A cup of '''neate''' wine of ''Orleance'',
#*: That never came neer the brewers of England.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1756|author=w:David Garrick|title=Catharine and Petruchio|location=London|publisher=J. & R. Tonson and S. Draper, Prologue|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004799379.0001.000
|passage=From this same Head, this Fountain-head divine, / For different Palates springs a different Wine! / In which no Tricks, to strengthen, or to thin ’em— / '''Neat''' as imported—no ''French'' Brandy in em’—}}
#* '''1932''', {{w|Winston Churchill}}, ''Painting as a Pastime'', New York: Cornerstone Library, 1965,<sup>[http://fadedpage.com/books/20170480/html.php]</sup>
#*: At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used ‘'''neat'''.’
# {{lb|en|chemistry}} Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
#: {{ux|en|The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, '''neat'''.&emsp; {{nowrap|The molecular beam was '''neat''' acetylene.}}}}
# {{lb|en|archaic}} With all [[deduction]]s or [[allowance]]s made; [[net]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1720|author=William Bond|title=The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell|location=London|publisher=E. Curll|chapter=4|pages=55–56|pageurl=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004843172.0001.000
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1752|author=w:David Hume|title=Political Discourses|location=Edinburgh|publisher=A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson, Discourse 5|page=81|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806369.0001.000
|passage=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 {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1793|author={{w|John Brand (political writer)|John Brand}}|title=The Alteration of the Constitution of the House of Commons, and the Inequality of the Land-Tax, Considered Jointly|location=London|publisher=J. Evans|section=Section III, p. 52|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004863826.0001.000
|passage=It may be said, that the increase of the tax is an uncompensated reduction of the '''neat''' income of the landlord {{...}}}}
# Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, [[tasteful]].
#: {{ux|en|The front room was '''neat''' and carefully arranged for the guests.}}
# Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
#: {{ux|en|Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly '''neat''' touch.}}
# [[facile|Facile]]; missing [[complexity]] or [[detail]]s in the favor of [[convenience]] or [[simplicity]].
#: {{ux|en|Courts should not reduce this case to a '''neat''' set of legal rules.}}
# {{lb|en|North American|colloquial}} [[good|Good]], [[excellent]], [[desirable]]; [[interesting]]; [[cool]].
#: {{ux|en|Hey, '''neat''' convertible, man.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=June 20, 2011|author=Phil Mickelson (being quoted)|work=BBC News
|title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/13835015.stm US Open: Jack Nicklaus tips Rory McIlroy for greatness]
|passage="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."}}
# {{obs form|en|net||remaining after expenses or deductions}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1824|author=Stephen Pike|title=The Teachers' Assistant: Or a System of Practical Arithmetic|page=97
|passage=What is the '''neat''' weight of 4 hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing 10cwt. 3qrs. 10lb. gross; — tare 100lb. per hdd.?}}

=====Usage notes=====
{{wp|Neat (bartending)}}

In bartending, '''neat''' has the formal meaning “a liquor pour straight from the bottle into a glass, at room temperature, without ice or chilling”. This is contrasted with {{m|en|on the rocks||over ice}}, and with drinks that are chilled but strained (stirred over ice to chill, but poured through a strainer so that there is no ice in the glass), which is formally referred to as {{m|en|up}}. However, the terminology is a point of significant confusion, with '''neat''', {{m|en|up}}, {{m|en|straight up}}, and {{m|en|straight}} being used by bar patrons (and some bartenders) variously and ambiguously to mean either “unchilled” or “chilled” (but without ice in the glass), and hence clarification is often required.<ref>“[http://www.jeffreymorgenthaler.com/2008/up-neat-straight-up-or-on-the-rocks/ Up, Neat, Straight Up, or On the Rocks]”, Jeffrey Morgenthaler, Friday, May 9th, 2008</ref><ref>Walkart, C.G. (2002). National Bartending Center Instruction Manual. Oceanside, California: Bartenders America, Inc. page 106</ref>

=====Antonyms=====
* {{antsense|undiluted liquor or cocktail}} {{l|en|on the rocks}}

=====Coordinate terms=====
* {{sense|undiluted liquor or cocktail}} {{l|en|straight up}}, {{l|en|up}}, {{l|en|straight}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col4|en|in neat
|neat and tidy
|neat as a button
|neat as a new pin
|neat as a pin
|neat as ninepence
|neat freak
|neat-freakery
|neat-handed
|neat-house
|neat line
|neatly
|neat weight
}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|tidy, free from dirt}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|نَظِيف}}, {{t|ar|اَنِيق}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|կոկիկ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|чист}}, {{t+|bg|спретнат}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|pulcre}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|整齐|tr=zhěngqí}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|čistý}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|net}}, {{t+|nl|puur}}, {{t+|nl|proper}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|pura}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|siisti}}, {{t+|fi|puhdas}}
* French: {{t+|fr|net}}, {{t+|fr|ordonné}}
* Friulian: {{t|fur|net}}
* German: {{t+|de|sauber}}, {{t+|de|gepflegt}}, {{t+|de|nett}}, {{t+|de|adrett}}
* Greek:
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|κόσμιος}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|tiszta}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|cúirialta}}, {{t|ga|pioctha}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|pulito}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|きちんとした|tr=kichínto shitá}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|단정한}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t|ckb|رێکوپێک}}
* Latin: {{t|la|mundus}}
* Latvian: {{t+|lv|tīrs}}, {{t|lv|tīrīgs}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|kemas}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|ryddig}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|ryddig}}
* Plautdietsch: {{t|pdt|krakjt}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|asseado}}, {{t+|pt|limpado}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|чи́стый|m}}, {{t+|ru|опря́тный}}
* Scots: {{t|sco|dink}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|limpio}}, {{t+|es|pulcro}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|prydlig}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|temiz}}, {{t+|tr|muntazam}} {{qualifier|tidy}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|оха́йний}}, {{t|uk|чи́стий}}, {{t+|uk|акура́тний}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|undiluted, particularly of alcoholic drinks}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|неразреден}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|sol}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|čistý|m}}, {{t|cs|neředěný|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|raaka}}
* German: {{t+|de|pur}}, {{t|de|unverdünnt}}, {{t+|de|unvermischt}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|σκέτος}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ἄκρατος}}, {{t|grc|χαλίκρητος}} {{q|Epic}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|tiszta}}, {{t+|hu|hígítatlan}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|liscio}}
* Latin: {{t|la|merus}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|cowboy}}, {{t+|pt|caubói}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|derecho}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|katkısız}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|chemistry: with no solvent or cosolvent}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|без разтворител}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|pur}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|čistý|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|puhdas}}
* French: {{t+|fr|pur|m}}, {{t+|fr|pure|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|rein}}, {{t|de|lösungsmittelfrei}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|tömény}}, {{t+|hu|hígítatlan}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|puro}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|puro}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|archaic: with all deductions or allowances made}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|net}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|puhdas}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|կոկիկ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|изискан}}, {{t+|bg|изящен}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|úhledný|m}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|netjes}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tyylikäs}}
* French: {{t+|fr|élégant|m}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|curioso|m}}, {{t|gl|curiosa|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|nett}}, {{t+|de|gepflegt}}, {{t+|de|geschmackvoll}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|rendes}}, {{t+|hu|rendezett}}, {{t+|hu|takaros}}, {{t+|hu|szép}}, {{t+|hu|ízléses}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ordinato}}
* Latin: {{t|la|concinnus}}, {{t|la|ēlegāns}}, {{t|la|mundus}}, {{t|la|venustus}}, {{t+|la|urbānus}}, {{t|la|cōmptus}}, {{t|la|nitidus}}, {{t|la|lautus}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|glīts}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|pūhangaiti}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|leve}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|well-executed or delivered; clever, skilful, precise}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|изкусен}}, {{t|bg|добре направен}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|enginyós}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|bezvadný|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|taitava}}, {{t+|fi|etevä}}
* German: {{t+|de|geschickt}}, {{t+|de|ordentlich}}, {{t+|de|genau}}, {{t+|de|akkurat}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ügyes}}, {{t+|hu|hatásos}}, {{t+|hu|találó}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|glīts}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|bien hecho}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|colloquial: good, excellent, desirable}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|отличен}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|fajnový|m}}, {{t|cs|tip-top}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|siisti}}
* German: {{t|de|[[sehr]] [[gut]]}}, {{t+|de|klasse}}, {{t+|de|toll}}, {{t+|de|prima}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|vagány}}, {{t+|hu|menő}}, {{t+|hu|klassz}}, {{t+|hu|szuper}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|glīts}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|fajny|m}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|bien hecho}}, {{t+|es|paja}} {{qualifier|Peru}}
* Tagalog: {{t|tl|havey}} {{q|slang}}, {{t+|tl|mahusay}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|чепурни́й}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Hungarian: {{t+check|hu|elegáns}}
* Mandarin: {{t+check|cmn|平整|tr=píngzhěng}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Interjection====
{{en-interj}}

# {{n-g|Used to signify a job [[well]] [[done]].}}
# {{n-g|Used to signify [[approval]].}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|informal}} An [[artificial intelligence]] [[researcher]] who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare {{m|en|scruffy}}.

===Etymology 2===
{{etymid|en|cattle}}
From {{inh|en|enm|nete}}, {{m|enm|neat}}, from {{inh|en|ang|nēat|t=animal, beast, ox, cow, cattle}}, from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*naut}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*nautą|t=foredeal, profit, property, livestock}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*newd-|t=to acquire, make use of}}. Cognate with {{cog|nl|noot|t=cow, cattle|pos=in compounds}}, dialectal German {{m|bar|Noß|t=livestock}}, Alemannic German {{m|gsw|Nooss|t=young sheep or goat}}, Swedish {{m|sv|nöt#Etymology 2|t=cattle}}, {{cog|is|naut|t=cattle, bull}} and {{cog|fo|neyt|t=cattle}}. More at {{m|en|note}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|+|neat}}

# {{lb|en|archaic}} A [[bull]] or [[cow]].
#* {{RQ:Tusser Good Husbandrie|year=1810|Januarye|stanza=54|passage=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.}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice|I|i|passage=Thanks, i'faith; for silence is only commendable / In a '''neat's''' tongue dried.}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Tempest|II|2|passage={{...}} he’s a present for any emperor that ever trod on '''neat'''’s leather.}}
#* {{RQ:Butler Hudibras|year=1905|part=1|canto=2|page=51|passage=Sturdy he was, and no less able, / Then ''Hercules'' to clense a Stable; / As great: [[drover|Drover]], and as great / A Critick too, in Hog or '''Neat''',}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1756|author={{w|Thomas Amory (author)|Thomas Amory}}|title=The Life of John Buncle, Esq.|location=London|publisher=J. Noon|chapter=28|page=165|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004870786.0001.000
|passage={{...}} I sat down by this water in the shade to dine, on a '''neat'''’s tongue I had got from good Mrs. ''Price'' {{...}}}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun|p}}

# {{lb|en|archaic}} Cattle collectively.
#* {{RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene|book=VI|canto=IX|page=467|passage=From thence into the open fields he fled, / Whereas the Heardes were keeping of their '''neat''' / And shepheards singing to their flockes, that fed,}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale|act=I|scene=ii|passage=And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf / Are all call’d '''neat'''.}}
#* {{RQ:Herrick Hesperides|poem=To his Muse|page=2|passage=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.}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|neatbeast}}
* {{l|en|neatherd}}
* {{l|en|neathouse}}
* {{l|en|neatfoot}}, {{l|en|neatsfoot}}
* {{l|en|neatish}}

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|geneat}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|cow, bovine}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|говедо|n}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|rund|n}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|bovo}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|nauta}}
* French: {{t+|fr|bétail}}
* German: [[Hornvieh]]; [[Rindvieh]], {{t+|de|Hausrind|n}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|שור|m|tr=shor}}, {{t+|he|בקר|m|tr=baqar}}
* Portuguese: {{qualifier|formally}} {{t+|pt|bovino|m}}
* Romanian: {{qualifier|formally}} {{t+|ro|bovină|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|бык|m}}, {{t+|ru|коро́ва|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|bovino}}, {{t+|es|res|f}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|віл}}, {{t+|uk|коро́ва}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|cattle}}

===References===
<references/>

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aent|tane|ante|ta'en|anet|etna|Aten|neta|Etan|ante-|Nate|Etna|Tean|Ante|Tena}}

{{C|en|People|Cattle|Collectives|Personality}}

==Cahuilla==

===Noun===
{{head|chl|noun|head=néat}}

# [[basket]]

{{C|chl|Containers}}

==Latin==

===Verb===
{{head|la|verb form}}

# {{inflection of|la|neō||3|s|pres|actv|subj}}

==Old English==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*naut}}, from {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*nautą}}. Cognate with {{cog|ofs|nāt}}, {{cog|osx|nōt}}, {{cog|nl|noot}}, {{cog|goh|nōz}} (dialectal {{cog|de|Nos}}), {{cog|non|naut}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{ang-IPA|nēat}}

===Noun===
{{ang-noun|n|head=nēat}}

# [[cow]], [[ox]]; [[animal]]
#* '''late 9th century''', [https://books.google.com/books?id=YD9HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA154 translation] of [[w:Bede|Bede's]] ''[[w:Ecclesiastical History of the English People|Ecclesiastical History]]''
#*: {{quote|ang|''Hit is weliġ þis ēalond on wæstmum ⁊ on trēowum misenlīcra cynna; ⁊ hit is ġesċræpe on lǣwe sċēapa ⁊ '''nēata'''; ⁊ on sumum stōwum wīnġeardas grōwaþ.''|This island is rich in fruits and trees of various kinds; and it is suitable for the pasture of sheep and '''cattle'''; and in some places vineyards grow.}}

====Declension====
{{ang-decl-noun-a-n|nēat}}

====Synonyms====
* {{l|ang|deor}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|ang|geneat}}
* {{l|ang|nieten}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|en|neat}}

==West Frisian==

===Etymology===
Negative form of {{m|fy|eat}}. From {{inh|fy|ofs|nāt}}, {{m|ofs|nāut}}, {{m|ofs|nāwet}}. Compare {{cog|en|naught}}.

===Pronoun===
{{head|fy|pronouns}}

# [[nothing]]

====Further reading====
* {{R:WFT|66213}}