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Net

adjective

1.

Remaining after all deductions. Synonym: nett. Antonym: gross.

2.

Conclusive in a process or progression. Synonyms: final, last. "A last resort" , "The net result"

noun

1.

A computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange. Synonyms: cyberspace, internet.

2.

A trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects.

3.

The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses). Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net income, net profit, profit, profits.

4.

A goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey).

5.

Game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton.

6.

An open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals. Synonyms: mesh, meshing, meshwork, network.

verb

(past & past part. netted; pres. part. netting)

1.

Make as a net profit. Synonyms: clear, sack, sack up.

2.

Yield as a net profit. Synonym: clear.

3.

Construct or form a web, as if by weaving. Synonym: web.

4.

Catch with a net. Synonym: nett.

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"Net" Quotes from Famous Books

... poor fellow making frantic signals to the shore. There was no boat out there, and a big bank intervening, there seemed no way to get to him. Watching through our glasses, we saw him drive the long handle of his net deep into the sand, and cling to it, while the tide rose speedily around him. Meanwhile a whole bevy of his mates had rowed out to the bank, and were literally carrying over its treacherous surface one of their clumsy and heavy fishing ...

— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

... design into it from the wrong side. Then he riveted the two ends together where the handle was to go, and lined the cup with a smooth gold plate. One cup shows some hunters trying to catch wild bulls with a net. One great bull is caught in the net. One is leaping clear over it. And a third bull is tossing a hunter on his horns. On the other cup the artist shows some bulls quietly grazing in the forest, while another one is being led ...

— Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae • Jennie Hall

... took his own web of bobinet and made a protecting cage for her head and hands. Never before had she been shielded from the pests of outdoor life. She laughed as she heard the baffled buzzing outside her net, and, pointing her finger, addressed them mockingly. Wetherell took the same joy in this that a child takes in the action of a kitten dressed as a doll. ...

— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland

... The net about Gregorio del Pilar was being drawn in and tightened. The closing week in November saw him driven to the last extremity. The tragedy of Tilad Pass was near ...

— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon

... appeared the figure of a small woman dressed in plain and poor black garments. She silently lifted her black net veil and disclosed a dull, pale, worn, weary face. The forehead was low and broad; the eyes were unusually far apart; the lower features were remarkably small and delicate. In health (as the consul at Mannheim had remarked) this woman must ...

— The New Magdalen • Wilkie Collins

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