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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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... payment of these notes he by no means relied, as the world foolishly imagined, on the seeming opulence and secret funds of Welbeck. These were illusions too gross to have any influence on him. He was too old a bird to be decoyed into the net by such chaff. No; his nephew, the supercargo, would of course receive the produce of the voyage, and so much of this produce as would pay his debt he had procured the owner's authority to intercept its passage from the ...
— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown
... She maintained her silence with regard to Braithwaite, refusing to take her parents into her confidence. They naturally attributed the hanging fire of the engagement to Tabs, supposing that on the eve of his proposal he had been ensnared in the net of Maisie. In their eyes ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... be,' said Lord Hartfield, sorrowfully, pitying her in her helplessness, as he might have pitied a young bird in the fowler's net. 'I am assured upon undeniable authority that Senor Montesma has a wife living at Cuba; and even were this not so—were he free to marry you—his character and antecedents would for ever ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... of soldiers was immediately upon him, and demanded what signals he had been making, and to whom; when one of them, looking over the edge of the cliff, exclaimed, "See, see! Humphrey, We have caught the whole tabernacle of the Lord in a net at last. There they are, praising God among the stones of the river Mouse. These are the Cartland Craigs. A noble cathedral!" "Fling the lying sentinel over the cliffs. Here is a canting Covenanter for you, deceiving honest soldiers ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... certain extent of country in order to make sure of finding the game. This appears to have been done generally by elephants, which entered the marshes or the woodlands, and, spreading themselves wide, drove the animals before them towards an enclosed space, surrounded by a net or a fence, where the king was stationed with his friends and attendants. If the tract was a marsh, the monarch occupied a boat, from which he quietly took aim at the beasts that came within shot. Otherwise ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7. (of 7): The Sassanian or New Persian Empire • George Rawlinson


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