net

• enPR: nĕt, IPA^(key): /nɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

From Middle English nett, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”). Cognate with West Frisian net, Low German Nett, Dutch net, German Netz, Danish net, Swedish nät.

net (plural nets)

1. A mesh of string, cord or rope.

   a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net

2. A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

3. A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 190:

     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.

4. Anything that has the appearance of such a device.

   Petri net

5. (by extension) A trap.
   • Bible, Proverbs xxix. 5

     A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

   caught in the prosecuting attorney's net

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.

   a computer network; a road network; an electricity distribution network

   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.
   • 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:

     Wigan had N'Zogbia sent off late on but Squillaci headed into his own net to give the home side a deserved point.

   The striker headed the ball into the net to make it 1-0.

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).

• (mesh): mesh, network
• (used for catching or trapping):
• (figurative: a trap): snare, trap
• (anything that has the appearance of a net): reticulation
• (in geometry): development
• (in computing): network

net (third-person singular simple present nets, present participle netting, simple past and past participle netted)

1. (transitive) To catch by means of a net.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     And now I am here, netted and in the toils.

3. To enclose or cover with a net.

   to net a tree

4. (transitive, soccer) To score (a goal).

   Evans netted the winner in the 80th minute.

   • 2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves

     Romeu then scored a penalty, Torres netted a header and Moses added the sixth from substitute Oscar's cross.

5. (tennis) To hit the ball into the net.
   • 2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Azarenka whipped a sensational forehand around the net post to break for 2-0 in the second set, followed it up with a love hold and moved to 5-1 when Paszek netted a forehand.

6. To form network or netting; to knit.

• (catch by means of a net): catch
• (to trap): catch, ensnare, entrap, snare, trap

• benet

From Middle English net, nette, borrowed from Old French net, from Latin nitidus. Compare nitid, neat.

• nett

net (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xii:

     Her brest all naked, as net iuory, / Without adorne of gold or siluer bright […]

2. Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.

   net wine

3. Remaining after expenses or deductions.

   net profit; net weight

4. Final; end.

   net result; net conclusion

net (not comparable)

1. After expenses or deductions.

   You'll have $5000 net.

net (plural nets)

1. The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.

net (third-person singular simple present nets, present participle netting, simple past and past participle netted)

1. (transitive) To receive as profit.

   The company nets $30 on every sale.

2. (transitive) To yield as profit for.

   The scam netted the criminals $30,000.

3. To fully hedge a position.

   Every party is netting their position with a counter-party

• -ent, ENT, TEN, ent, ten

From Dutch net.

net

1. only, just

From Old Catalan, from Old Occitan, from Latin nitidus, contracted to a Vulgar Latin *nittus. Doublet of nèdol, which came through a different Old Catalan form nèdeu. Compare also French net, Italian netto.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈnət/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛt/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈnet/

net (feminine neta, masculine plural nets, feminine plural netes)

1. clean
2. net

net

1. cleanly

• netejar

• nit (Kölsch)

From Old High German niowiht.

• IPA^(key): /net/, /nət/

net

1. (most dialects) not

   Dat es jar net wohr!

   That’s not true at all!

• nemmieh (contraction with mieh)

• nüüs, neist, nix

• IPA^(key): /nɛt/
• Hyphenation: net
• Rhymes: -ɛt

From Middle Dutch net, nette, from Old Dutch *net, *netti, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”). Compare West Frisian net, Low German Nett, English net, German Netz, Danish net, Swedish nät.

net n (plural netten, diminutive netje n)

1. net (mesh)
2. net (device for catching and trapping)
3. television channel

   Synonyms: kanaal, zender

4. omentum, caul

• grote net
• netvlies

From Middle Dutch net, which is borrowed from Old French net, from Latin nitidus.[1]

net (comparative netter, superlative netst)

1. clean, tidy
2. decent, proper

• netheid
• netjes

net

1. tidily, neatly
2. decently, properly
3. just, nearly, barely
4. just recently

• net als

• ent, ten

net n

1. net

From Old Norse net, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).

net n (genitive singular nets, plural net)

1. (fowling, sports) mesh, the material to make a "nót" (fishing net)
2. A network (computing)
3. A net for carrying hay

• eiturkoppanet

• tráður
• silkitráður
• lokkanet

net

1. (Kven, personal) they

• het (Kven)

• -ten

From Old French net, inherited from Latin nitidus (“shiny”) through a contracted Vulgar Latin form *nittus. Doublet of nitide, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /nɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Homophones: nets, nette, nettes

net (feminine singular nette, masculine plural nets, feminine plural nettes)

1. clean, tidy
2. clear
3. neat
4. net (as opposed to gross).

• nettement
• netteté

• nettoyer

• → Romanian: net
• → Spanish: neto

• “net” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Vulgar Latin *nittus, from Latin nitidus.

net

1. clean, neat

• netâ

net

1. completely, entirely

• IPA^(key): /nɛt/, /nət/

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net

1. (colloquial, regional, Austria, southern Germany, parts of central Germany) Alternative form of nicht (“not”)

   Hab ich’s dir net erzählt?

   Have I not told you?

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛt]
• Hyphenation: net

net (plural netek)

1. (computing) Internet

• IPA^(key): /net/

net

1. not

   Die Blum is net rod.

   The flower is not red.

   De Hund laafd net schnell.

   The dog does not run fast.

   De Mann essd de Eppel net.

   The man does not eat the apple.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Old Norse net, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).

• IPA^(key): /nɛːt/
• Rhymes: -ɛːt

net n (genitive singular nets, nominative plural net)

1. net
2. (computing) network
3. (computing, usually definite) the Internet
   • Ég þoli þetta ekki, ég kemst ekki á netið.

     I can't stand it, I can't connect to the internet.

• (Internet): Internet

net

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of nō

• net in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• net in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Old High German niowiht, from nio (“never”) + wiht (“thing, being”), from Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”) + *aiw- (“ever”) + *wiht- (“thing”). Compare English not, German nicht, Dutch niet, West Frisian net.

• IPA^(key): /net/, [nət]
  • Rhymes: -ət

net

1. not

net

1. they

• naette (Guernsey)

From Old French net, from Vulgar Latin *nittus, from Latin nitidus (“shiny”).

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net m

1. (Jersey) clean

• propre

• netti (“to clean”)

• nettisseux m (“cleaner”)
• nettithie f (“cleaning”)

• nett

From Proto-Germanic *natją, whence also Old Frisian nette, nitte, Old Saxon net, nett, netti, Old High German nezzi, Old Norse net, Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌹 (nati). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”). Perhaps related to Albanian neth (“sprout, bud”) and Russian нить (nitʹ, “thread”).

• IPA^(key): /net/

net n

1. net

• Middle English: nett
  • English: net
  • Scots: net

From Proto-Celtic *nisdos, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós.

net m (genitive nit, nominative plural nit)

1. nest

• Irish: nead
• Scottish Gaelic: nead

• “net” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Proto-Germanic *natją, whence also Old English net, nett, Old Frisian nette, nitte, Old Saxon net, nett, netti, Old High German nezzi, Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌹 (nati). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).

net n

1. net

• net in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• net in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Compare German nicht, Dutch niet, English not.

net

1. not

Borrowed from English net.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.t(ʃ)(i)/
• Rhymes: -ɛt(ʃ)i

net f (uncountable)

1. Net; the Internet

• rede, Internet, web

Borrowed from French net, itself from Latin nitidus. Doublet of the inherited neted.

net m or n (feminine singular netă, masculine plural neți, feminine and neuter plural nete)

1. net
2. clear, clear-cut, plain

• (clear): clar

net

1. clearly, distinctly
2. plainly, flatly
3. directly, bluntly, point blank, crisply
4. avowedly

net (comparative daha net, superlative en net)

1. clear
2. manifest

net (definite accusative neti, plural netler)

1. (sports) The net used in ping-pong or tennis.

• IPA^(key): /nɛt/

net

1. not

• “net (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From Old Frisian nette, nitte, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).

net n (plural netten, diminutive netsje)

1. net

• “net (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011