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Neaten

Definitions: Neaten

Neaten

Verb

1. Put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!".

2. Care for the external appearance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Neaten

Synonyms: clean up (v), groom (v), square away (v), straighten (v), straighten out (v), tidy (v), tidy up (v). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Neaten

"Neaten" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Neaten" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)60%6143,867
Adjective (general or positive)40%4175,879
                    Total100.00%10N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Neaten

Language Translations for "neaten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

ajuster. (various references)

   

German

  

vernähen (sew, sew up, stitch, stitch up, suture, to sew up), in ordnung bringen (clear up, fix, fix up, put in order, sort out, to fix upUS, to put in order), glätten (calender, equalize, even, face, flatten, flatter, glaze, glazing, iron, make smooth, plane, planish, polish, polish up, pressing, sleek, sleeking, slick, slicking, smooth, smooth away, smooth out, smoothing, straight out, to regulate, to smooth). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eatennay.(various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำให้เรียบร้อย (tidy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Neaten

Derivations

Words beginning with "neaten": neatened, neatening, neatens. (additional references)

Words ending with "neaten": uneaten. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Neaten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nabataean, nabataen, nabatean, naha-te, Naren, natan, natin, nawthen, neata, neate, neatena, Neathey, neato, Necati, Neete, Neogen, neptun, neston, neten, netin, neuen, Neunten, Neuyen, niten, noate, noten, Nuytten, Nyantren, weaten, Zeiten. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Neaten

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-n-t"

-1 letter: anent, eaten, enate.

-2 letters: ante, etna, neat, nene, teen.

-3 letters: ane, ant, ate, eat, eta, nae, nan, nee, net, tae, tan, tea, tee, ten.

-4 letters: ae, an, at, en, et, na, ne, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-n-t"
 

+1 letter: canteen, neatens, neonate, pennate, pentane, uneaten.

 

+2 letters: antennae, antigene, banneret, canteens, entangle, entrance, lanneret, neatened, neatness, neonates, pennated, pentanes, remanent, revenant, setenant, tangence, tenanted, tendance, unbeaten, venenate, venetian, xanthene.

 

+3 letters: alinement, amendment, ancienter, antennule, antigenes, antisense, argentine, ascendent, atonement, bannerets, canescent, centenary, defendant, dependant, eglantine, enactment, enchanted, enchanter, entangled, entangler, entangles, entertain, entrained, entrainer, entranced, entrances, enunciate, gentleman, inelegant, innervate, insensate, lannerets, lineament, nanometer, naphthene, neatening, nectarine, nemertean, newsagent, panettone, penetrant, pentangle, perennate, permanent, reentrant, renascent, repentant, revenants, sententia, setenants, tangences, tangerine, tanneries, tenancies, tendances, trepanned, untenable, valentine, venenated, venenates, venetians, xanthenes.

 

+4 letters: abstinence, alinements, amendments, ancientest, antecedent, anteceding, antennules, antependia, antepenult, anthracene, argentines, ascendents, atonements, attendance, attunement, aventurine, bannerette, barkentine, candescent, centennial, condensate, contravene, covenanted, covenantee, covenanter, creatinine, defendants, denegation, denominate, dependants, descendant, detainment, eglantines, embankment, emendating, emendation, enactments, enantiomer, encampment, encasement, encashment, enchanters, endearment, enervating, enervation, engagement, enjambment, enlacement, entailment, entanglers, entertains, entrainers, entrapment, entreating, enunciated, enunciates, evanescent, fontanelle, generating, generation, greatening, heartening, incinerate, innateness, innervated, innervates, innumerate, inseminate, intendance, intenerate, interocean, interregna, interrenal, lentamente, lieutenant, lineaments, management, mangosteen, naltrexone, nanometers, naphthenes, nativeness, neatnesses, nectarines, nemerteans, nepenthean, newsagents, nonathlete, nonseptate, nonveteran, ornamented, ornateness, panettones, pangenetic, penetrance, penetrants, pentangles, perennated, perennates, permanents, phenacetin, purtenance, reanointed, reenacting, reentrance, reentrants, renominate, renunciate, repentance, sententiae, sentential, septennial, sustenance, tangencies, tangerines, tanglement, tenantable, tenantless, tenantries, tiemannite, transience, unaccented, unattended, uncleanest, undecadent, undereaten, underneath, undertaken, unfastened, unlamented, unparented, untalented, untenanted, valentines, venenating, venerating, veneration.

 

+5 letters: abstinences, advancement, ancientness, ancientries, animateness, antecedence, antecedents, antependium, antepenults, anteverting, anthracenes, antiheroine, antiscience, archenteron, arrangement, attendances, attunements, aventurines, bannerettes, barkentines, barquentine, benefaction, bicentenary, cementation, centenarian, centenaries, centennials, clandestine, codefendant, concatenate, concealment, concentrate, condensates, congealment, connectable, consternate, contravened, contravener, contravenes, contredanse, countenance, counterpane, covenantees, covenanters, creatinines, crenelation, definientia, delineating, delineation, denegations, denervating, denervation, denominated, denominates, derangement, descendants, detainments, determinant, detrainment, disentangle, earnestness, edutainment, elephantine, embankments, emendations, enantiomers, encampments, encasements, encashments, enchainment, enchantment, enchantress, endearments, enervations, enframement, engagements, engraftment, enhancement, enjambement, enjambments, enlacements, enlargement, ensheathing, enslavement, entailments, entertained, entertainer, entrainment, entranceway, entrapments, entreatment, enucleating, enucleation, enumerating, enumeration, enwreathing, eternalness, eventuating, exonerating, exoneration, exponential, extensional, extenuating, extenuation, faintnesses, flannelette, fontanelles, gauntnesses, geanticline, generations, gentlemanly, gentlewoman, gratineeing, impermanent, inadvertent, inappetence, inaptnesses, inattentive, incalescent, incinerated, incinerates, incremental, inelegantly, inessential, inexactness, inferential, inheritance, innumerates, inseminated, inseminates, insensately, intendances, intenerated, intenerates, interagency, intercensal, interchange, interdental, interlinear, internalise, internalize, intolerance, langbeinite, lieutenancy, lieutenants, lineamental, maintenance, managements, mangosteens, megatonnage, menservants, mentionable, merchantmen, methenamine, mountaineer, naltrexones, naphthalene, nastinesses, nattinesses, neanderthal, neuropteran, neutralness, nitrogenase, nonathletes, nonattender, noncreative, nondelegate, nonliterate, nonnegative, nonreactive, nonrelative, nonrelevant, nonskeletal, nonveterans, notableness, penetrances, penetrating, penetration, penitential, pentahedron, pentamidine, pentavalent, pentazocine, pentlandite, perennating, perennation, permanently, phenacetins, preenacting, prenominate, purtenances, reaccenting, realignment, reenactment, reentrances, refastening, refrainment, reincarnate, reinnervate, renominated, renominates, renunciates, repentances, repentantly, scantnesses, sentimental, snakebitten, stenohaline, strangeness, sustenances, tanglements, tawninesses, tenableness, threatening, tiemannites, tragedienne, transcended, transgender, transiences, trencherman, tunableness, unalienated, unaptnesses, undereating, undertenant, unenchanted, unessential, uninucleate, unrepentant, venerations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Neaten


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 61 74 65 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0061 0074 0065 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

487167867180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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