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Net   /nɛt/   Listen
adjective
Net  adj.  
1.
Without spot; pure; shining. (Obs.) "Her breast all naked as net ivory."
2.
Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc. (R.)
3.
Not including superfluous, incidental, or foreign matter, as boxes, coverings, wraps, etc.; free from charges, deductions, etc; as, net profit; net income; net weight, etc. (Less properly written nett)
Net tonnage (Naut.), the tonnage of a vessel after a deduction from the gross tonnage has been made, to allow space for crew, machinery, etc.


noun
Net  n.  
1.
A fabric of twine, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc.
2.
Anything designed or fitted to entrap or catch; a snare; any device for catching and holding. "A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet." "In the church's net there are fishes good or bad."
3.
Anything wrought or woven in meshes; as, a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net.
4.
(Geom.) A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law.
5.
A network. (informal)
6.
Specifically: The internet; usually the net; as, I found it on the net. (slang)


verb
Net  v. t.  (past & past part. netted; pres. part. netting)  
1.
To make into a net; to make in the style of network; as, to net silk.
2.
To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile. "And now I am here, netted and in the toils."
3.
To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.


Net  v. t.  (past & past part. netted; pres. part. netting)  To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.


Net  v. i.  To form network or netting; to knit.





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"Net" Quotes from Famous Books



... Select what tribunal you please, sir, and I will demonstrate before it that I and my companions, in spite of appearances, are no seamen. You are to understand that by this disclaimer I cast no reflection upon even the humblest toiler of the deep. Nay, while myself inept either to trim the sail or net the finny tribes, I respect those hardy callings—no man more so. Only I claim that my own profession exempts me from this respectable but un-congenial service; and that in short, sir, by forcibly trepanning me, ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... ancient fisherman and a rock are fashioned, a rugged rock, whereon with might and main the old man drags a great net for his cast, as one that labours stoutly. Thou wouldst say that he is fishing with all the might of his limbs, so big the sinews swell all about his neck, grey-haired though he be, but his strength is as the ...
— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang
... mother without any help, it certainly was not THE reason that I might have found if I had been older. No such thing came into my mind, or near it. I could observe, in little pieces, as it were; but as to making a net of a number of these pieces, and catching anybody in it, that ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens
... halted us and detached a man. The business of the latter was then to ride directly back to camp, driving all cattle before him. Each was in sight of his right- and left-hand neighbour. Thus was constructed a drag-net whose meshes contracted ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White
... usedest* the beauty *enjoyed Of faire young Venus, fresh and free, And haddest her in armes at thy will: And though thee ones on a time misfill*, *were unlucky When Vulcanus had caught thee in his las*, *net And found thee ligging* by his wife, alas! *lying For thilke sorrow that was in thine heart, Have ruth* as well upon my paine's smart. *pity I am young and unconning*, as thou know'st, *ignorant, simple And, as I trow*, with love offended most *believe That e'er ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer


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