Neat vs Total - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between neat and total

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 total is an amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

As adjectives the difference between neat and total

is that neat is clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities while total is entire; relating to the whole of something.

As a verb total is

to add up; to calculate the sum of.

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.

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total
English

Alternative forms
* totall (obsolete)
Noun
(en noun)
An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.

(informal, mathematics) Sum.

The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

See also
* addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
Synonyms
* (sum) sum
Derived terms
* subtotal
Adjective
(en adjective)
Entire; relating to the whole of something.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
((used as an intensifier)) Complete; absolute.

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Synonyms
* (entire) entire, full, whole * (complete) absolute, complete, utter; see also
Derived terms
* total war
Verb

To add up; to calculate the sum of.

When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.

To equal a total of; to amount to.

That totals seven times so far.

(transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)

Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.

To amount to; to add up to.

It totals nearly a pound.

Synonyms
* (add up) add up, sum * (demolish) demolish, trash, wreck
Anagrams
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