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Pure vs Neat - What's the difference?

pure | neat |

Neat is a synonym of pure.



As adjectives the difference between pure and neat

is that pure is free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied while neat is clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.

As an adverb pure

is to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

As a noun neat is

a bull or cow.

pure

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
  • * (1800-1859)
    • Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
  • (senseid)Free of foreign material or pollutants.
  • * (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
    • A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
  • Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
  • * Bible, v. 22
    • Keep thyself pure .
  • (label) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
  • (label) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
  • (label) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.

    • Synonyms

    * perfect * innocent * See also

    Antonyms

    * impure, contaminated * (done for its own sake) applied

    Derived terms

    * pure finder * as pure as the driven snow

    Related terms

    * purification * purify * purity * puritan * puritanism * purist * purism

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (Liverpool) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
    • You’re pure busy.

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    neat

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) nete, neat, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (archaic) A bull or cow.
  • * 1663 ,
    • 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 .
  • * Shakespeare
    • The steer, the heifer, and the calf / Are all called neat .
  • * Tusser
    • a neat and a sheep of his own.
  • (archaic) Cattle collectively.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.9:
    • From thence into the open fields he fled, / Whereas the Heardes were keeping of their neat
    Derived terms
    * neatherd * neatfoot, neatsfoot

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . See (l).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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 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,
  • Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
  • :
  • (lb) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
  • :
  • (lb) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
  • Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
  • :
  • 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= 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, straight
    Antonyms
    * (undiluted liquor or cocktail) on the rocks
    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 , 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)
  • An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.

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