Neat vs Rough - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between neat and rough

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 rough is the unmowed part of a golf course.

As adjectives the difference between neat and rough

is that neat is clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities while rough is having a texture that has much friction not smooth; uneven.

As a verb rough is

to create in an approximate form.

As an adverb rough is

in a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

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.

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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 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.

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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= 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.

References

Anagrams

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rough
English

Alternative forms
* (colloquial) ruff
Adjective
(er)
Having a texture that has much friction. Not smooth; uneven.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

The rock was one of those tremendously solid brown, or rather black, rocks which emerge from the sand like something primitive. Rough with crinkled limpet shells and sparsely strewn with locks of dry seaweed, a small boy has to stretch his legs far apart, and indeed to feel rather heroic, before he gets to the top.

Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.

a rough''' estimate; a '''rough sketch of a building

Turbulent.

The sea was rough .

Difficult; trying.

Being a teenager nowadays can be rough .

Crude; unrefined

His manners are a bit rough , but he means well.

Violent; not careful or subtle

This box has been through some rough handling.

Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.

a rough''' tone; a '''rough voice

(Alexander Pope)

Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.

a rough diamond

Harsh-tasting.

rough wine

Antonyms
* smooth
Noun
(en noun)
The unmowed part of a golf course.

A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

(cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.

The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.

A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail, but larger and more detailed. Meant for artistic brainstorming and a vital step in the design process.

(obsolete) Boisterous weather.

(Fletcher)

Verb
(en verb)
To create in an approximate form.

Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.

To physically assault someone in retribution.

The gangsters roughed him up a little.

(ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.

To render rough; to roughen.

To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.

(Crabb)

Adverb
(en adverb)
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

* Sir Walter Scott

Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats.

Derived terms
* bit of rough * diamond in the rough * rough and ready * roughhouse * rough in * roughness * rough out * rough up