Meaning of Neat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Middle English.
2. An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
   informal
3. A bull or cow.
   archaic
4. Cattle collectively.
   archaic, plural, plural-only
5. Acronym of neuroevolution of augmenting topologies, a genetic algorithm for the generation of evolving artificial neural networks.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
6. Acronym of non-exercise activity thermogenesis.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Who both by his calfe, & his lambe wil be known, / may well kill a neate and a shepe of his owne. / And he that wil reare up a pyg in his house, / hath cheaper his bacon, and sweter his souse.”

“Thanks, i'faith; for silence is only commendable / In a neat's tongue dried.”

“[…] he’s a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat’s leather.”

“Sturdy he was, and no less able, / Then Hercules to clense a Stable; / As great: Drover, and as great / A Critick too, in Hog or Neat,”

“[…] I sat down by this water in the shade to dine, on a neat’s tongue I had got from good Mrs. Price […]”

“Five were proper slender youths, the eldest of whom had not yet beard full grown, black-browed and great of jaw; the sixth, huge as a neat, topped them by half a head.”

“From thence into the open fields he fled, / Whereas the Heardes were keeping of their neat / And shepheards singing to their flockes, that fed,”

“And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf / Are all call’d neat.”

“There on a Hillock thou mayſt ſing / Unto a handſome Shepardling; / Or to a Girle (that keeps the Neat) / VVith breath more ſvveet then Violet.”

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