Neat vs Original - What's the difference?
neat | original | Synonyms |
(archaic) A bull or cow.
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* Shakespeare
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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.
(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
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, title= (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (label) Newly created.
(label) Fresh, different.
(label) Pioneering.
(label) Having as its origin.
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
(archaic) An eccentric
Neat is a synonym of original.
As nouns the difference between neat and original
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 original is original.As an adjective neat
is clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.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
* * * ----original
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Synonyms
* (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * derivative * reproduction * simileDerived terms
* originally * original sinNoun
(en noun)- This manuscript is the original
- You’re an original