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net
  1. A mesh of string, cord or rope.
  2. A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
  3. A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
  4. Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
  5. (by extension) A trap.
  6. (geometry) Of a polyhedron, any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form the polyhedron.
  7. A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
    1. (electronics) A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
  8. (sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
  9. (sports, tennis) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
  10. (tennis, by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “A lie begets a lie, and before the child knows it, he is caught in a net of lies that can overwhelm him.”
      “Another variation to try is to place a thin voile net over the window.”
      “In 1993, the economic regions were creating a net of private farms.”
netty
netter
  1. One who nets (in any sense), or who uses a net.
  2. An Internet user.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Some other boys and I had a lot of wild birds that we bought alive from a netter.”
      “Ireland would score an empty netter in the dying seconds of the game for insurance.”
      “He was called the netter, from the expertness and success with which he caught and mastered his antagonists in argument.”
netting
  1. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
  2. (Britain, dialect, dated) urine
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The onion netting was still in place, but there was a large hen dropping right in the middle which indicated that all was not quite right.”
net
  1. The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A lie begets a lie, and before the child knows it, he is caught in a net of lies that can overwhelm him.”
      “Another variation to try is to place a thin voile net over the window.”
      “In 1993, the economic regions were creating a net of private farms.”
netmaker
  1. One who manufactures nets.
netmaking
  1. The manufacture of nets.
netload
  1. The amount that fills a net.
netful
  1. As much as a net will hold.
  2. Examples:
    1. “To process a netful of bugs and materials, invert the materials from the net into a bucket or similar container of water.”
      “But the individual who grazes one too many cows or the fisherman who catches one too many netfuls still gets the whole of the reward of that cow or netful.”
netput
  1. (economics) net output
nett
  1. Obsolete form of net.
netties
netmakers
  1. plural of netmaker
netloads
  1. plural of netload
nettings
  1. plural of netting
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “All of the embroidered nettings featured here are cotton embroidery on cotton bobbinet unless otherwise noted.”
      “Up the rigging and down the stays, alow and aloft, out on the flying jib-boom and along the hammock nettings.”
      “A hammock with so little bedding as to be unfit for stowing in the nettings.”
netfuls
  1. plural of netful
  2. Examples:
    1. “Pole tactics can build up nice netfuls of bream, perch and rudd.”
      “But the individual who grazes one too many cows or the fisherman who catches one too many netfuls still gets the whole of the reward of that cow or netful.”
      “Guys were getting big netfuls at the base of the dam with little effort.”
netputs
  1. plural of netput
netsful
  1. plural of netful
netters
  1. plural of netter
netts
  1. plural of nett
nets
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