neat
An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant,…An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
Meaning
3 senses(informal)An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
(archaic)A bull or cow.
(archaic, plural, plural only)Cattle collectively.
Hornvieh, Rindvieh, Hausrind
быкbyk, коро́ваkoróva
вілvil, коро́ваkoróva
Examples
123 sentencesKeep 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
Tom isn't very neat.
Том не дуже охайний. — miketheknight
deTom ist nicht sehr gepflegt. — wolfgangth
Tom is neat, isn't he?
Том охайний, чи не так? — deniko
Tom has very neat handwriting.
У Тома дуже охайний почерк. — deniko
ruУ Тома очень аккуратный почерк. — marafon
deTom hat eine sehr schöne Handschrift. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom is neat.
Том охайний. — deniko
ruТом опрятный. — odexed
Translations
6 languagesOrigin
From Middle English nete, net, nette, from Anglo-Norman neit (“good, desirable, clean”), aFrom 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 / neatSynonyms
1 synonymsWord family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
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