[niːt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- arranged in a tidy way; in good order
(e.g: the books had been stacked up in neat piles)

- done with or demonstrating skill or efficiency
(e.g: a neat bit of deduction)

- (of liquid, especially spirits) not diluted or mixed with anything else
(e.g: he drank neat Scotch)

- very good; excellent
(e.g: it was really neat seeing the city)


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Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘clean, free from impurities’): from French net, from Latin nitidus ‘shining’, from nitere ‘to shine’; related to net. The sense ‘bright’ (now obsolete) was recorded in English in the late 16th century

[niːt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- cattle
(e.g: their dress is composed of neat's hide tanned and stamped like certain species of saddle-leather)


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Origin:
Old English neat, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot, also to the base of dialect nait meaning ‘companion’

[niːt], (Abbreviation)

Definitions:
- non-exercise activity thermogenesis (the energy dissipated as heat by a person during minor physical activity, such as fidgeting or shivering, that does not involve a large expenditure of energy and is not perceived as exercise)


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