What's the difference between allowance and neat?

Allowance


Definition:

  • (n.) Approval; approbation.
  • (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
  • (n.) Acknowledgment.
  • (n.) License; indulgence.
  • (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
  • (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
  • (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
  • (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
  • (2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (3) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (4) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (5) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
  • (6) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
  • (7) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (8) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.
  • (9) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
  • (10) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
  • (11) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
  • (12) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
  • (13) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (14) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (15) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
  • (16) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
  • (17) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (18) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
  • (19) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
  • (20) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.

Neat


Definition:

  • (n. sing. & pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
  • (n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
  • (a.) Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
  • (a.) Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
  • (a.) Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy.
  • (a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
  • (a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (2) Ms neatly sidesteps the question of whether or not you are married.
  • (3) This instrument, a modification of a corneal trephine, provides a neat, smooth groove of adjustable depth.
  • (4) But it's still a neat model to watch – and admire.
  • (5) Pitched as a "smart" calendar, it's easy to create appointments and events, and ties in neatly with the developer's separate Any.do to-do lists app.
  • (6) Whether your greatest need is to have a neatly typed letter or an accurately aged accounts receivable report, or it's critical that you create an electronic medical record for decision support, the computer in the medical workplace should: 1.
  • (7) That would neatly end the “fellow traveller” veto, by putting both of the EU’s rogue states in special measures.
  • (8) His neat nails were polished like pebbles and his voice had a soothing, almost balsamic, tone.
  • (9) Toure then lofts a very neat ball over the defence and, though two City players are offside, Aguero is on.
  • (10) Addition of albumin to the serum inhibited the reactivity with both neat and drug-treated serum.
  • (11) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
  • (12) On one side of the road stands an orderly row of RDP houses, their gable ends neatly rendered in pastel shades of peach and tangerine.
  • (13) If his life unspools in the arch, neat fashion of one of his movies then the director Wes Anderson , who'll turn 45 this spring, is halfway through.
  • (14) It is related to physical and physiological factors that derive from the volume of tissue transplanted, the neatness of its fit into the wound, its supportive facilities, its functional activity, its relation to gravity, and the effect of its perimeter scar tissue bed and venous drainage system.
  • (15) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
  • (16) Photograph: Alan Richardson for the Guardian Watt’s wife, Johanna Basford, whose rise has neatly paralleled his (she is the author and illustrator of a phenomenally successful series of adult colouring books that have so far sold 15m copies) also told me at the launch: “They work harder than anyone I know.
  • (17) President Obama's speech on Thursday seemed to put a neat bow on the past four years.
  • (18) When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Midan Giza, a traffic-snarled interchange on the west bank of the Nile, for Friday prayers, he saw a graphic illustration of Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak: neat rows of police and plainclothes security officers lining the streets to maintain calm.
  • (19) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
  • (20) Apart from an early chance for Nicklas Bendtner, who had one-twoed neatly with Cesc Fábregas, there was not a moment when Arsenal were properly in the game.