Seatest vs Neatest - What's the difference?
seatest | neatest |
(archaic) (seat)
Something to be sat upon.
# A place in which to sit.
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, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
# The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
# A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
# The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
# The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
# (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
A location or site.
# (figurative) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
# The location of a governing body.
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, title= # (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
# The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated or resides; a site.
#* Bible, (w) ii. 13
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (1800-1859)
The starting point of a fire.
Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
* (George Eliot) (1819-1880)
To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
* Milton
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To provide with places to sit.
* Arbuthnot
* (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
To assign the seats of.
To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(obsolete) To rest; to lie down.
To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
To put a seat or bottom in.
(neat)
(archaic) A bull or cow.
* 1663 ,
* Shakespeare
* Tusser
(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.
As a verb seatest
is archaic second-person singular of seat.As an adjective neatest is
superlative of neat.seatest
English
Verb
(head)seat
English
Noun
(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
- Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
- He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.
- a seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity
- She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.
Derived terms
* bums in seats * seater/-seater * seat of governmentVerb
(en verb)- From their foundations, loosening to and fro, / They plucked the seated hills.
- The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.
- He used to seat you on the piano and then, with vehement gestures and pirouettings, would argue the case. Not one word of the speech did you understand.
- Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.
- Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.
- You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section.
- to seat a church
- Thus high is King Richard seated .
- They had seated themselves in New Guiana.
- (Spenser)
- to seat a country
- to seat a chair
See also
* county seat * seat cushion * seat of learning * seat of wisdom * sedentary * see * sitneatest
English
Adjective
(head)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