neat

1. Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.

   My room is neat because I tidied it this morning. She has very neat hair.

   clean or organized

2. Free from contaminants or impurities, unadulterated.

   1932, Winston Churchill, Painting as a Pastime, New York: Cornerstone Library, 1965, At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used ‘neat.’

3. Unexposed to dilutionary liquids, especially water.

   (especially)At full strength, free from dilution (usually with water), undiluted

   1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 464-465, A cup of neate wine of Orleance, That never came neer the brewers of England.

4. (especially)Neither straight up nor on the rocks

   I like my whisky neat, so you have no need for ice at all.

   pur, unverdünnt, unvermischt

5. Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.

   The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, neat. The molecular beam was neat acetylene.

   rein, lösungsmittelfrei

6. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.

   The front room was neat and carefully arranged for the guests.

   nett, gepflegt, geschmackvoll

7. Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.

   Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly neat touch.

   geschickt, ordentlich, genau

8. Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.

   Courts should not reduce this case to a neat set of legal rules.

9. (Canada, US, colloquial)Good, excellent, desirable; interesting; cool.

   Hey, neat convertible, man.

   sehr gut, klasse, toll

   чепурни́йčepurnýj

   excellent

10. (archaic)With all deductions or allowances made; net.

1. Keep your room as neat as you can.

   Підтримуй свою кімнату у максимальному порядку.

   ruПоддерживай в своей комнате как можно лучший порядок.

   deHaltet euer Zimmer so sauber wie möglich.

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2. Tom isn't very neat.

   Том не дуже охайний.

   deTom ist nicht sehr gepflegt.

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3. Tom is neat, isn't he?

   Том охайний, чи не так?

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4. Tom has very neat handwriting.

   У Тома дуже охайний почерк.

   ruУ Тома очень аккуратный почерк.

   deTom hat eine sehr schöne Handschrift.

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5. Tom is neat.

   Том охайний.

   ruТом опрятный.

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