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UK
/nˈɛt/
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[ US /ˈnɛt/ ]
[ US /ˈnɛt/ ]
NOUN
- a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects
- a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey)
- a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton
- an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals
VERB
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catch with a net
net a fish -
make as a net profit
The company cleared $1 million -
yield as a net profit
This sale netted me $1 million - construct or form a web, as if by weaving
ADJECTIVE
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conclusive in a process or progression
a last resort
the net result
the final answer -
remaining after all deductions
net profit
How To Use net In A Sentence
- They are essential atmospheric cladding which prevents the earth from becoming a frozen planet.
- The net result of all these changes is that schools should be able to deliver a better service to pupils.
- So, did it take a row over a ban on journalists to enable him to penetrate the secret that the regime is not a model of benignity?
- Such football titbits always float to the surface on third-round day which remains the best, most hectic, interesting and fun day of the season - and this one was even more frenetic than usual.
- Nonetheless, today's pic made me do a little bit of a double-take. Ryan Seacrest, Don Johnson And Larry King Are Three Amigos In Today’s Daily TwitPic » MTV Movies Blog
- The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
- Firm words , air shower and broadband are three major key products of the firm net operator.
- Since then neither the printer nor wireless internet router appeared to be working. Times, Sunday Times
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- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.