NEAT

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neat¹ adjectiv

1. (despre băuturi spirtoase) curat, fără apă;

to take / to drink one's whisky neat a bea whisky fără apă.

2. (despre haine etc.) simplu şi de bun gust; (despre cameră etc.) bine aranjat, în ordine; bine păstrat, îngrijit; (despre grădină) bine amenajat, cochet, curăţel;

neat handwriting scris îngrijit;

neat leg picior frumos.

3. (despre stil) elegant, ales; (despre o frază, un răspuns etc.) bine găsit, îndemânatic, meşteşugit;

neat little speech discurs bine ticluit;

neat piece of work lucru bine executat.

4. (despre persoane) ordonat, îngrijit, curat.

neat² substantiv

1. (rar) animal bovin.

2. (colectiv) vite mari.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It was a very trim and neat little craft.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The room was as neat as Janet or my aunt.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I had also made myself neat, and had now the afternoon before me to spend as I would.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

A neat one, is not it?

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Jo thanked him and gladly went, wishing she had two neat gloves when she saw the nice, pearl-colored ones her partner wore.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Under laboratory conditions mimicking those on pre-life Earth, a small selection of amino acids linked up spontaneously into neat segments in a way that surprised researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and their colleagues.

(Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experiment, National Science Foundation)

Long before he reappeared, attending the short, neat, brisk-moving aunt, and her elegant niece,—Mrs. Weston, like a sweet-tempered woman and a good wife, had examined the passage again, and found the evils of it much less than she had supposed before—indeed very trifling; and here ended the difficulties of decision.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“Not quite,” he laughed. “It was a neater job. Look again.”

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

It was in the front of the house, and extremely neat, though sparely furnished.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The parlour was rather a small room, very plainly furnished, yet comfortable, because clean and neat.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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