Definitions for NET

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NET net

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IPA: /nɛt/

Net is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in NET (ent).

Definitions for NET

noun

1. a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
2. a piece of meshed fabric designed to serve a specific purpose, as to divide a court in racket games or protect against insects:
3. anything serving to catch or ensnare:
4. a lacelike fabric with a uniform mesh of cotton, silk, rayon, nylon, etc., often forming the foundation of any of various laces.
5. (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball that hits the net.
6. Often, nets. the goal in hockey or lacrosse.
7. any network or reticulated system of filaments, lines, veins, or the like.
8. any network containing computers and telecommunications equipment.
9. the Net, the Internet.
10. Mathematics. the abstraction, in topology, of a sequence; a map from a directed set to a given space.
11. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Reticulum.
12. Informal. a radio or television network.
13. net income, profit, or the like.

adjective

1. remaining after deductions, as for charges or expenses (opposed to gross):
2. sold at a stated price with all parts and charges included and with all deductions having been made.
3. final; totally conclusive:
4. (of weight) after deduction of tare, tret, or both.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover, screen, or enclose with a net or netting:
2. to take with a net:
3. to set or use nets in (a river, stream, etc.), as for catching fish.
4. to catch or ensnare:
5. (in tennis, badminton, etc.) to hit (the ball) into the net.
6. to gain or produce as clear profit.

Origin of NET

before 900; Middle English net (noun), netten (v.), Old English net(t) (noun); cognate with Dutch, Old Norse net, Gothic nati, German Netz

Examples for NET

Affordability (20%): net price of attendance after deducting grants and scholarship aid (NCES).

The jacket and gloves were a precaution in the event the eaglet panicked, but there was little fuss as he tossed the net over her.

“Hence, there might be a net benefit, at least to some females, of breeding within the natal group,” the researchers speculate.

A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment.

In contrast, areas 10 to 20 miles away from city hall gained roughly 15 million net residents.

But I have a net--a big net--like a tent beneath which I sit.

When she woke it was to a blaze of sunlight, but caught in the net of her closed curtains.

Her spell had no effect on the god, who at once cast his net over her.

Mulready's illustrations of 1843 are here referred to, net his pictures.

The outcome of the rum feud is critical for both Bacardi and Pernod Ricard, because the winner could net billions in future sales.