Meaning

3 senses
  1. (informal)An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.

  2. (archaic)A bull or cow.

  3. (archaic, plural, plural only)Cattle collectively.

    Hornvieh, Rindvieh, Hausrind

    быкbyk, коро́ваkoróva

    вілvil, коро́ваkoróva

Examples

123 sentences
  1. Keep your room as neat as you can.

    Підтримуй свою кімнату у максимальному порядку. — deniko

    ruПоддерживай в своей комнате как можно лучший порядок. — Hellerick

    deHaltet euer Zimmer so sauber wie möglich. — Zaghawa

  2. Tom isn't very neat.

    Том не дуже охайний. — miketheknight

    deTom ist nicht sehr gepflegt. — wolfgangth

  3. Tom is neat, isn't he?

    Том охайний, чи не так? — deniko

  4. Tom has very neat handwriting.

    У Тома дуже охайний почерк. — deniko

    ruУ Тома очень аккуратный почерк. — marafon

    deTom hat eine sehr schöne Handschrift. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Tom is neat.

    Том охайний. — deniko

    ruТом опрятный. — odexed

Translations

6 languages
Українська
cow, bovine:
Русский
cow, bovine:
Deutsch
cow, bovine:

Origin

From Middle English nete, net, nette, from Anglo-Norman neit (“good, desirable, clean”), a

From Middle English nete, net, nette, from Anglo-Norman neit (“good, desirable, clean”), a variant of Old French net, nette (“clean, clear, pure”), from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”), derived from nitēre (“to shine”). Doublet of net and nitid. Cognate with German nett (“nice, kind”). Compare also nait.

From Middle English net, neet, from Old English nēat (“animal, beast, ox, cow, cattle”), from Proto-West Germanic *naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą (“foredeal, profit, property, livestock”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with Dutch noot (“cow, cattle”, in compounds), dialectal German Noß (“livestock”), Alemannic German Nooss (“young sheep or goat”), Swedish nöt (“cattle”), Icelandic naut (“cattle, bull”) and Faroese neyt (“cattle”). More at note.

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Forms

plural: neats / neat
Singularneat
Pluralneats / neat

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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