(superl.) Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather.
(superl.) Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy.
(n.) A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.
(n.) A child's pinafore.
(v. t.) To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.
(v. i.) To make things tidy.
Example Sentences:
(1) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(2) Yet when it comes to awarding marks for effort, spotless Singapore really should score high on any list given the way it enforces cleanliness and tidiness.
(3) After hours of grilling in senate estimates, assistant health minister Fiona Nash insists there was no conflict of interest or breach of standards in her office because her former chief of staff, Alister Furnival, did not act like a man who had a conflict of interest, did everything required of him to avoid conflicts, and he can’t help it if his accountant forgot to tidy up his paperwork.
(4) While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification.
(5) He described the allegation as "totally false" and said that he only tidied up quotes.
(6) A public who once knew, saw or heard little about learning disabled people and assumed that it was still the NHS and local authorities providing for them now seems to have woken up to the fact that much of our social care system is now run at a very tidy profit by executives who think more of feeding a racehorse than meeting the needs of a young woman with autism.
(7) His guests have all left his property clean and tidy – and the money has come in handy.
(8) GSK is selling its oncology products for up to $16bn (£9.5bn), a tidy sum for cancer-treatment business ranked 14th in the industry.
(9) No 10 insists Cameron was kept in close contact with the talks from his offices a quarter of a mile away in Downing Street, but it was not necessary for him to be personally present since the substantive talks had already occurred, and the purpose of the Letwin meeting was purely to tidy up aspects of exemplary damages.
(10) This was a relatively tidy Sunderland performance and for a while they even looked like marking their new manager’s debut with their first clean sheet of the campaign, but then that costly hapless streak resurfaced and they found themselves in the familiar position of ending a match with no points.
(11) The early status showed tidy results, but some weeks later marginal ulceration occurred again.
(12) Neat and tidy orchards, well-stocked farms lined the wayside, and the British soldier did not fail to admire the place and its inhabitants.
(13) Keiron Reeves, 29, who treating severe epilepsy with cannabis oil, said: "I feel much healthier and more confident in addressing everyday tasks like washing, shopping, tidying, all those things most people take for granted.
(14) Alas, the Spaniard no longer has the pace that he used to and was nudged off the ball by Marc Wilson before Asmir Begovic tidied up.
(15) This year at least some of the people who think going to the police is a tidy solution may have learned that the police can be incredulous, unresponsive, abusive, or ineffective.
(16) The staff in the back office started to put their coats on and tidy their desks.
(17) Shortly after her arrival, Scardino tidied up Pearson's conglomerate structure, for example selling off its historic stakes in investment bank Lazard, and focused the business on education and publishing.
(18) But Keep Britain Tidy said the number of Quality Coast Awards (QCAs) – recognition for the best-managed beaches which may not reach blue flag standards for water quality – had increased since last year.
(19) Southampton have strengthened an already tidy squad by spending £34m on their spine, with Dejan Lovren, Victor Wanyama and Pablo Osvaldo coming in.
(20) Toys are neatly tidied away, and outside the kitchen window, baby clothes are drying on the line.
Tody
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.
Example Sentences:
(1) He left England for Barcelona in 1979; when the bars and boys became too much for him, he moved to Italy, where he now maintains homes in Rome and in the Umbrian hill town of Todi.
(2) In this situation spinal section reduced Todi, which became close to the values obtained in intact or spinal cats under SPB anesthesia.
(3) The mean force of cardiac contraction (IJ amplitude) was consistently lower in the group destined todie early than in the other two groups during the first 18 months.
(4) Most post-transfusion hepatitis tody is neither viral hepatitis type B nor type A, and its severity and transmission are reduced by pre-transfusion gamma-globulin.
(5) In addition, Tdi measured during tracheal occlusion (Todi) was markedly prolonged under ECC anesthesia.
(6) Everybody is tody in agreement to admit that 35 to 45 minutes are the security limit of the cardiogenous circulatory stop.
(7) A new type of enzyme hydrolyzing the elastase substrate succinyl-L-alanyl-L-alanine-4-nitroanilide has been found in cell-free rheuma todi synovial fluid.