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Definitions: Neaten |
NeatenVerb1. 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: NeatenSynonyms: clean up (v), groom (v), square away (v), straighten (v), straighten out (v), tidy (v), tidy up (v). (additional references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 60% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "neaten": neatened, neatening, neatens. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "neaten": uneaten. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 61 74 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . .- - . -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e a t e n |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487167867180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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