Neat vs Beef - What's the difference?
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(archaic) A bull or cow.
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(archaic) Cattle collectively.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.9:
Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
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*: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.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
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(lb) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
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(lb) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
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Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
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(lb) Good, excellent, desirable.
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*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=June 20, author=Phil Mickelson (being quoted), work=BBC News
, title= An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
# The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
(uncountable) Bovine animals.
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A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
a grudge (+ with )
(slang, uncountable) muscle, size, strength
(slang, uncountable) essence, content
To complain.
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To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
(slang) To fart.
(slang) To feud.
(intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire) To cry
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
Producing]] or known for raising lots of [[#Noun, beef.
Consisting]] of or containing [[#Noun, beef as an ingredient.
As nouns the difference between neat and beef
is that neat is (archaic) a bull or cow or neat can be an artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct compare scruffy while beef is (uncountable) the meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.As adjectives the difference between neat and beef
is that neat is clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities while beef is being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.As a verb beef is
to complain.neat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nete, neat, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en-noun)- Sturdy he was, and no less able / Than Hercules to cleanse a stable; / As great a drover, and as great / A critic too, in hog or neat .
- The steer, the heifer, and the calf / Are all called neat .
- a neat and a sheep of his own.
- From thence into the open fields he fled, / Whereas the Heardes were keeping of their neat
Derived terms
* neatherd * neatfoot, neatsfootEtymology 2
From (etyl) . See (l).Adjective
(er)citation, 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,
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."}}
Coordinate terms
* (undiluted liquor or cocktail) straight up, up, straightAntonyms
* (undiluted liquor or cocktail) on the rocksUsage 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 , 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.“Up, Neat, Straight Up, or On the Rocks”, Jeffrey Morgenthaler, Friday, May 9th, 2008Walkart, C.G. (2002). National Bartending Center Instruction Manual. Oceanside, California: Bartenders America, Inc. p. 106
Noun
(en noun)References
Anagrams
* * * ----beef
English
(wikipedia beef)Noun
- I love eating beef .
- lean finely textured beef
- boneless lean beef trimmings
- Do you want to raise beeves ?
- He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
- We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
- The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
Synonyms
* (meat of a cow)Hyponyms
* (meat of a cow) vealDerived terms
* beefcake * beef jerky * beef on weck * beefsteak * beef stew * lean finely textured beef * boneless lean beef trimmings * beefy * bully beef * corned beef * where's the beef?See also
* beefwoodVerb
(en verb)- Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.
- Ugh, who just beefed in here?
- Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.
- David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off
Derived terms
* beef up * beef outAdjective
(-)- We bought three beef calves this morning.
- beef farms
- beef country
- beef stew