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• enPR: nĕt, IPA^(key): /nɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

From Middle English net, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).

Cognate with West Frisian net, Low German Nett, Dutch net, German Netz, Danish net, Swedish nät.

net (plural nets)

1. A mesh of string, cord or rope.

   a hairnet; a mosquito net; a tennis net

2. A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

3. A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 190:

     The nets have to be checked to make sure that they are not tangled up and therefore useless, and the carcasses of the dead sharks are removed.

4. Anything that has the appearance of such a device.

   Petri net

5. (by extension) A trap.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs xxix:5:

     A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

   caught in the prosecuting attorney's net

6. (geometry) Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
7. A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
   1. (electronics) A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
8. (sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
   • 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:

     Wigan had N'Zogbia sent off late on but Squillaci headed into his own net to give the home side a deserved point.

   The striker headed the ball into the net to make it 1-0.

9. (sports, tennis) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
10. (tennis, by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).

• (mesh): mesh, network
• (used for catching or trapping):
• (figurative: a trap): snare, trap
• (anything that has the appearance of a net): reticulation
• (in geometry): development
• (in computing): network

net (third-person singular simple present nets, present participle netting, simple past and past participle netted)

1. (transitive) To catch by means of a net.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     And now I am here, netted and in the toils.

3. To enclose or cover with a net.

   to net a tree

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto II:

     Old Yew, which graspest at the stones
     ⁠That name the under-lying dead,
     ⁠Thy fibres net the dreamless head,
     Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.

4. (transitive, soccer) To score (a goal).

   Evans netted the winner in the 80th minute.

   • 2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves‎^[3]:

     Romeu then scored a penalty, Torres netted a header and Moses added the sixth from substitute Oscar's cross.

5. (tennis) To hit the ball into the net.
   • 2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport‎^[4]:

     Azarenka whipped a sensational forehand around the net post to break for 2-0 in the second set, followed it up with a love hold and moved to 5-1 when Paszek netted a forehand.

6. To form a netting or network; to knit.
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     I was shown into a pretty but rather close drawing-room, and there sat Agnes, netting a purse.

• (catch by means of a net): catch
• (to trap): catch, ensnare, entrap, snare, trap

• benet
• internet, internetted, internetting

From Middle English net, nette, from Old French net, from Latin nitidus. Doublet of neat and nitid.

• nett

net (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Her brest all naked, as net iuory, / Without adorne of gold or siluer bright […]

2. Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.

   net wine

3. Remaining after expenses or deductions.

   net profit; net weight

4. Final; end.

   net result; net conclusion

net (not comparable)

1. After expenses or deductions.

   You'll have $5000 net.

• net net

net (plural nets)

1. The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.

• net net, net-net
• on net

net (third-person singular simple present nets, present participle netting, simple past and past participle netted)

1. (transitive) To receive as profit.

   The company nets $30 on every sale.

2. (transitive) To yield as profit for.

   The scam netted the criminals $30,000.

3. To fully hedge a position.

   Every party is netting their position with a counter-party.

• net out

Borrowed from Middle French nettoyer (“to cleanse”).

net (third-person singular simple present nets, present participle netting, simple past and past participle netted)^[1][2]

1. (dialectal) To clean, wash, rinse.

• netting

• ent, -ent, ENT, Ent, ten, TEN, ent-

From Dutch net.

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net

1. only, just

• ned

From Middle High German nicht, from Old High German niowiht. Cognates include German nicht and Luxembourgish net.

• IPA^(key): /ned̥/, /nɛd̥/
• Hyphenation: net

net

1. not
   • 1938, Josef Weinheber, Wien wörtlich, Sieg der Provinz:

     I waaß net, es gibt so vü' Dichter in Wien,
     und ålle geehrt und berühmt.

     I didn't know there were so many poets in Vienna,
     and all honorable and famous.

• Maria Hornung, Sigmar Grüner (2002) “ned, nęd, net, nęt”, in Wörterbuch der Wiener Mundart, 2nd edition, ÖBV & HPT
• Petr Šubrt (2010) Wiener dialekt (master thesis), Masaryk University, page 62

From Old Catalan net, from Vulgar Latin *nittus, syncopated from Latin nitidus (“bright, clear”). Doublet of nèdol ('pasturage'), from Old Catalan nèdeu (“clean”), from nitidus- but without the early syncope. Compare also French net, Italian netto.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈnɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈnət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈnet]

net (feminine neta, masculine plural nets, feminine plural netes)

1. clean

   Antonyms: brut, sutze

2. net
3. (castells) (of a castell) built without a pinya, or without a folre or manilles when it would normally have these

• netament

• netejar

net

1. cleanly

Derived in masculine from the feminine neta, from Late Latin nepta, from Latin neptis (“granddaughter”). Compare Portuguese neto and Spanish nieto.

• nét (pre-2016 spelling)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈnet]

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net m (plural nets, feminine neta)

1. grandson

   Coordinate term: nebot

• “net” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “net”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “net” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “net” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “nét” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• nit (Kölsch)

From Old High German niowiht.

• IPA^(key): /net/, /nət/

net

1. (most dialects) not

   Dat es jar net wohr!

   That’s not true at all!

• nemmieh (contraction with mieh)

• nüüs, neist, nix

• IPA^(key): /nɛt/, [ˈnɛd̥]

From German nett, from Old French net (“neat”), from Latin nitidus (“shining”).

net (plural and definite singular attributive nette)

1. visually pleasing and proper; well-groomed

Older ned, from Old Norse net, from Proto-Germanic *natją, cognate with Swedish nät, English net, German Netz. The modern Danish form, with -t instead of regular -d, is influenced by Low German Nett.

net n (singular definite nettet, plural indefinite net)

1. net, web
2. Abbreviation of internet.
3. tote bag

• IPA^(key): /nɛt/
• Hyphenation: net
• Rhymes: -ɛt

From Middle Dutch net, nette, from Old Dutch *net, *netti, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).

net n (plural netten, diminutive netje n)

1. net (mesh)
2. net (device for catching and trapping)
3. television channel

   Synonyms: kanaal, zender

4. television network (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
5. omentum, caul
6. a network, especially the Internet

   Synonyms: internet, web

• Negerhollands: net
• → Indonesian: net
• → Lokono: nete
• → Papiamentu: nèt

From Middle Dutch net, which is borrowed from Old French net, from Latin nitidus.^[1]

net (comparative netter, superlative netst)

1. clean, tidy
2. decent, proper

• Negerhollands: net
• → Papiamentu: nèt

net

1. tidily, neatly
2. decently, properly
3. just, nearly, barely
4. just recently

• → Indonesian: necis (“neatly”)
• → Papiamentu: nèchi, netsje, netjes

• ent, ten

From Old Norse net, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”). Cognate to Swedish nät.

net n

1. net

stem=strong ''a''-stem

From Old Norse net, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).

net n (genitive singular nets, plural net)

1. (fowling, sports) mesh, the material to make a "nót" (fishing net)
2. A network (computing)
3. A net for carrying hay

• eiturkoppanet

• tráður
• silkitráður
• lokkanet

From ne (“they”) +‎ -t (nominative plural). Compare Estonian need.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnet/, [ˈne̞t̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Hyphenation^(key): net

net

1. (now dialectal, demonstrative) Alternative form of ne.
2. (dialectal, personal) Alternative form of he.

Same as ne except for the nominative plural form.

• -ten, ent.

From Old French net, inherited from Latin nitidus (“shiny”) through a contracted Vulgar Latin form *nittus. Doublet of nitide, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /nɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Homophones: nets, nette, nettes

net (feminine nette, masculine plural nets, feminine plural nettes)

1. clean, tidy
2. clear
3. net (as opposed to gross)

• nettoyer

• → Romanian: net
• → Spanish: neto
• → Turkish: net

• “net”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Vulgar Latin *nittus, from Latin nitidus.

net

1. clean, neat

• netâ

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

net

1. completely, entirely

• IPA^(key): /nɛt/, /nət/

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net

1. (Austria, Southern Germany, parts of Central Germany, colloquial) Alternative form of nicht (“not”)

   Hab ich’s dir net erzählt?

   Have I not told you?

• ned, (internet slang) nd

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛt]
• Hyphenation: net
• Rhymes: -ɛt

net (plural netek)

1. (informal, computing, Internet) Internet

   Synonym: internet

• nët (Wiesemann spelling system)

From Middle High German nicht, from Old High German niowiht. Cognates include German nicht and Luxembourgish net.

• IPA^(key): /net/

net

1. not

   Die Blum is net rod.

   The flower is not red.

   De Hund laafd net schnell.

   The dog does not run fast.

   De Mann essd de Eppel net.

   The man does not eat the apple.

   • 2018, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Cléo V. Altenhofen, Der Moint om Stricke:

     En Hoohn alleen strickt noch net en Moint

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• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Old Norse net, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).

• IPA^(key): /nɛːt/
• Rhymes: -ɛːt

net n (genitive singular nets, nominative plural net)

1. net
2. (computing) network
3. (computing, usually definite) the Internet

   Synonym: Internet

   Ég þoli þetta ekki, ég kemst ekki á netið.

   I can't stand it, I can't connect to the internet.

From Dutch net, from Middle Dutch net, nette, from Old Dutch *net, *netti, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛt̚]
• Hyphenation: nèt

net (first-person possessive netku, second-person possessive netmu, third-person possessive netnya)

1. (sports) net, a mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.

   Hyponym: jaring

• “net” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Finnish ne, from Proto-Finnic *nek. Cognates include Meänkieli net.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnet/

net

1. these, those

net

1. these, those
2. they

• (they): het

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 278

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /net/, [nɛt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /net/, [nɛt̪]

net

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of nō
2. third-person singular present active indicative of neō

From ne (“no”) + a particle -t of indeterminate origin, perhaps formed similarly to bèt (“but, yet”).^[1][2]

nèt

1. even

   net jis verkė ― even he cried

   jis net verkė ― he even cried

• “net”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “net”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024

From Old High German niowiht, from nio (“never”) + wiht (“thing, being”), from Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”) + *aiw- (“ever”) + *wiht- (“thing”). Compare English not, German nicht, Dutch niet, West Frisian net.

• IPA^(key): /net/, [nət]
  • Rhymes: -ət

net

1. not

From Proto-Finnic *nek +‎ -t (“nominative plural suffix”). Compare Finnish ne, net.

net

1. they

• nett, nette, nete

• IPA^(key): /nɛːt/, /nɛt/

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman neit, a variant of Old French net, nette, from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”).^[1]

net

1. worthy, good, pure, fine, elegant
2. net

• English: neat, net
• Yola: naate, nate, neatt, neeat

Inherited from Old English nett.^[2]

net

1. net (a mesh of string, cord or rope)

• English: net

• naette (Guernsey)

From Old French net, from Vulgar Latin *nittus, from Latin nitidus (“shiny”).

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net m

1. (Jersey) clean

   Synonym: propre

   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[5], page 515:

     Tout neû g'nêt néquie net.

     A new broom sweeps clean.

• netti (“to clean”)

net n (definite singular netet, indefinite plural net, definite plural neta or neti)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of nett

net n

1. Alternative form of nett

From Vulgar Latin *nittus, syncopated from Latin nitidus (“shining, polished”).