From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:53:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7aa4b23974d89a5b1d4b0be826f9ad41@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060523170757.GB31198@sigint.cs.purdue.edu>
> Would be neat if someone cloned NeWS using Ghostscript as the engine, but
i can't see combining two gargantuan peculiar characters as fitting under any of these definitions
(having excluded the cattle):
Neat, a. [Compar. /Neater/ (?); superl. /Neatest/.] [OE. nett,
F. nett, fr. L. nitidus, fr. nitere to shine. Cf. /Nitid/, /Net/,
a., /Natty/.]
1. Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean;
cleanly; tidy.
If you were to see her, you would wonder what poor body it
was that was so surprisingly neat and clean. Law.
2. Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry;
simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste;
as, a neat style; a neat dress.
3. Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as,
neat brandy. "Our old wine neat." Chapman.
4. Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice;
finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
5. With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense
usually written net. See /Net/, a., 3.]
neat line (Civil Engin.), a line to which work is to be built
or formed. --
Neat work, work built or formed to neat lines.
Syn. -- Nice; pure; cleanly; tidy; trim; spruce.
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-23 10:07 erik quanstrom
2006-05-23 14:24 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-05-23 17:07 ` plan9
2006-05-23 17:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-05-23 18:53 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2006-05-23 20:09 ` Harri Haataja
2006-05-25 0:31 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-25 2:34 ` Andy Newman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-22 22:55 erik quanstrom
2006-05-23 4:58 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-19 14:36 rog
2006-05-19 15:11 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 16:16 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 21:03 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-19 21:26 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-19 21:21 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 21:45 ` jmk
2006-05-19 21:57 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-05-19 21:51 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:04 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-05-19 22:16 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:34 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-19 22:35 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 23:40 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-19 23:43 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 0:12 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 0:13 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 0:43 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 0:44 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 4:13 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-21 18:10 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-21 18:12 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-25 0:23 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-27 19:41 ` Dan Cross
2006-05-27 20:15 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-05-28 1:49 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-05-20 0:59 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-20 0:51 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 1:43 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 1:38 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 1:59 ` Federico Benavento
2006-05-25 0:24 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 3:59 ` geoff
2006-05-20 10:56 ` Lucio De Re
2006-05-20 11:04 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-20 0:18 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-21 18:11 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-19 22:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-19 22:36 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 23:28 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-19 22:54 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-19 22:50 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 1:05 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-05-21 17:52 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-22 4:04 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-19 22:29 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-19 22:22 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:45 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
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