net

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   remaining after all deductions

   net profit

2. 2
   verb

   catch with a net

   net a fish

3. 3
   verb

   yield as a net profit

   This sale netted me $1 million

4. 4
   noun

   A mesh of string, cord or rope.

   a hairnet; a mosquito net; a tennis net

5. 5
   noun

   A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   Anything that has the appearance of such a device.

   Petri net

8. 8
   noun

   A trap.

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

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *neHd- Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *natją Proto-West Germanic *nati Old English nett Middle English net English net From Middle English net, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją (“net”), from Proto-Indo-European *neHd- (“to knot, turn, twist”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian näät (“net”), Saterland Frisian Nät (“net”), West Frisian and Dutch net (“net”), German and Luxembourgish Netz (“net”), Yiddish נעץ (nets, “net”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, and Icelandic net (“net”), Norwegian Bokmål ne…