neat
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
Old English nēat. Cognate with Dutch noot, dialectal German Noß, Swiss German Nooss, Swedish nöt.
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Old French net (Modern French net), from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”), from niteō (“I shine”).
[edit] Adjective
neat (comparative neater, superlative neatest)
- Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
- My room is neat because I tidied it this morning.
- She has very neat hair.
- Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
- I like my whisky neat.
- (chemistry) 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.
- (archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
- Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
- The front room was neat and carefully arranged for the guests.
- Well-executed or delivered; clever, skilful, precise.
- Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly neat touch.
- (colloquial) Good, excellent, desirable.
- Hey, neat convertible, man.
- 2011 June 20, Phil Mickelson (being quoted), “US Open: Jack Nicklaus tips Rory McIlroy for greatness”, BBc News:
- "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."
[edit] Coordinate terms
- (undiluted liquor or cocktail): straight up, up, straight
[edit] Antonyms
- (undiluted liquor or cocktail): on the rocks
[edit] Usage notes
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 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 up. However, the terminology is a point of significant confusion, with neat, up, straight up, and 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.[1][2]
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[edit] References
- ^ “Up, Neat, Straight Up, or On the Rocks”, Jeffrey Morgenthaler, Friday, May 9th, 2008
- ^ Walkart, C.G. (2002). National Bartending Center Instruction Manual. Oceanside, California: Bartenders America, Inc. p. 106
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[edit] Verb
neat
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of neō
[edit] Old English
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *nautan. Cognate with Old Frisian nāt, Old Saxon nōt (Dutch noot), Old High German nōz (dialectal German Nos), Old Norse naut.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /næːɑt/
[edit] Noun
nēat n.
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[edit] Descendants
- English: neat
[edit] West Frisian
[edit] Etymology
Negative form of eat
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neat
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