net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: nets
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
From Middle English net, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *neHd- (“to turn, twist, knot”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Nät (“net”), West Frisian, Dutch net (“net”), German, Luxembourgish Netz (“net”), Yiddish נעץ (nets, “net”) Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, Icelandic net (“net”), Norwegian Bokmål nett (“net”), Norwegian Nynorsk net, nett (“net”), Swedish nät (“net”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌹 (nati, “net”).
Senses: examples: text: a hairnet; a mosquito net; a tennis net
glosses: A mesh of string, cord or rope.
examples: text: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
examples: text: The nets have to be checked to make sure that they are not tangled up and therefore useless, and the carcasses of the dead sharks are removed.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
examples: text: Petri net
glosses: Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
examples: text: A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs xxix:5:
text: caught in the prosecuting attorney's net
glosses: A trap.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
glosses: A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
examples: text: Wigan had N'Zogbia sent off late on but Squillaci headed into his own net to give the home side a deserved point.
ref: 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
text: The striker headed the ball into the net to make it 1-0.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
Synonyms: sense: mesh
word: mesh
sense: mesh
word: network
sense: figurative: a trap
word: snare
word: trap
sense: anything that has the appearance of a net
word: reticulation
sense: in geometry
word: development
sense: in computing
word: network
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: all is fish that comes to the net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: all's fish that comes to the net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: Apollonian net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: back of the net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: balloon net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: beard net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: bednet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: bobbinet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: bodynet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: botnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: bow net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: bramble net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: Brussels net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: butterfly net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: camouflage net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: cargo net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: casting net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: casting-net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: cast net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: cast one's net far and wide
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: cast one's net wide
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: cast one's net wider
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: cheapernet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: clap net
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word: cricket net
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word: darknet
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word: day-net
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word: dilly net
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word: dip net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: doubles net
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word: drag-net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: dragnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: draught net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: drawnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: drift net
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word: dropnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: empty net goal
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: empty-net goal
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: Ethernet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: extranet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: find the net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: fishing net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: fishnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: flynet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: fold net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: Freenet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: fyke net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: fyke-net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: garden net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: geonet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: ghost net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: gillnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: hairnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: hand net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: hay net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: haynet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: hit the net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: hockey net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: honeynet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: hypernet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: innernet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: intranet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: keepnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: landing net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: lave net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: life net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: lift net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: malaria net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: matternet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: micronet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: midge net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: mist net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: mosquito net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: multinet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: nanonet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: nerf net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: nerve net
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word: netaholic
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: net art
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word: netback
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word: netbag
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word: net ball
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word: net-ball
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word: netball
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word: netbank
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word: netblock
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word: net blotch
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word: netbook
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word: netboot
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word: NetBSD
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word: netburp
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word: net call sign
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netcam
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word: netcast
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word: netcentric
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word: netcode
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word: netcop
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netcronym
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: net curtain
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word: netdead
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word: net deck
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word: net-deck
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word: netdeck
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word: netfic
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netful
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netgame
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netgamer
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netgoth
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: net gun
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: nethead
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netkeeper
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word: netlabel
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word: netlag
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word: net layer
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word: netleaf
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word: net-leaved poison
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word: netless
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word: net-like
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word: netlike
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: Netlish
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word: netlist
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word: netload
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word: netlore
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word: netmail
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word: netmaker
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netmaking
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netman
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word: netmask
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word: net minder
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word: netminder
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word: netname
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word: net-neutral
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: net neutrality
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word: netnews
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word: netnography
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word: netphone
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word: netpicker
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word: netpicking
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word: netplay
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word: netpost
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word: netprov
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word: net-raising
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word: netroots
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word: net run rate
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word: netsex
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word: netslang
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word: netsman
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word: netspace
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netspeak
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netsplit
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netster
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netsurf
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netsurfer
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netsurfing
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word: nettable
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: nettie
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netting
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: nettop
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word: netwar
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word: netwide
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: net-winged beetle
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netwise
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: network
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: netzine
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: neural net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: newsnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: nothing but net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: overnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: Petri net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: piconet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: pocket net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: point net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: purse net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: push net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: safety net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: scap-net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: scoop net
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word: scramble net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: semantic net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: set net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: set-net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: shark net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: shopping net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: shrimp net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: singles net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: slip through the net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: sneakernet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: social safety net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: spread one's net wide
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: spring net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: stakenet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: stereonet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: string-net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: subnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: suicide net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: supernet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: supranet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: sweep net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: thicknet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: thinnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: torpedo net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: townet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: trail net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: trawlnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: tunnel net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: turtle-net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: undernet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: water net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: wolf net
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: wordnet
sense: Terms derived from net (noun)
word: Wulff net