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netn.1

Brit. /nɛt/, U.S. /nɛt/
Forms: early Old English ned (rare), Old English hnett (Northumbrian), Old English–1800s nett, Old English– net, Middle English nat, Middle English natte, Middle English neet, Middle English neett, Middle English nete, Middle English neth, Middle English nette, Middle English–1600s nettes (plural), 1500s nethe; Scottish pre-1700 natt, pre-1700 neit, pre-1700 nete, pre-1700 neth, pre-1700 nette, pre-1700 1700s–1800s nett, pre-1700 1700s– net.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian net (West Frisian net ), Middle Dutch net , nette (Dutch net ), Old Saxon net , netti (Middle Low German nette , (rare) net ), Old High German nezzi (Middle High German netze , German Netz ), Old Icelandic net , Old Swedish, Swedish nät , Danish net (earlier †ned ), Gothic nati , and further (with different ablaut grade) with Old Icelandic nót , Norwegian not , Old Swedish, Swedish not , large net, perhaps < an Indo-European base meaning ‘to bind, twist together’ and thus perhaps related to classical Latin nōdus knot (see node n.), nectere to bind, connect (see nexus n.), nassa fish-trap, Early Irish naidm binding, treaty (Irish naidhm , snaidhm knot, bond), Early Irish, Irish nasc tie, tether, Breton nask cord for tying up animals, and perhaps also to Sanskrit naddha attached, tied, nah- to bind, tie, fasten (although the change in the second consonant makes this connection difficult to substantiate). Compare net n.2A relationship with the Indo-European base of needle n. has been suggested, but is unlikely.
1.
a. A piece of openwork fabric made of twine, synthetic fibres, strong cord, etc., forming meshes of a suitable size, used for catching fish, birds, or other living things. Occasionally also: = netting n.2 2.Frequently also with prefixed defining term, denoting the purpose or form of the net, or the method of using it, as beach-net, rabbit-net, etc.; for more established compounds (as fishing-, trawl-net, etc.; mackerel-, sparrow-net, etc.) see under their first elements.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net
netOE
toil1530
setting-net?c1690
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with open texture > net or mesh
netOE
network1530
netting1587
meshing1615
mesh1725
toiling1805
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. iv. 18 Mittentes rete in mare : gesendon hnett in sæ.
OE Ælfric's Colloquy (1991) 23 Nescis uenare nisi cum retibus? : ne canst þu huntian buton mid nettum?
lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) xxxii. 73 Hwæðer ge nu settan eower nett on þa hehstan dune, þon ge fiscian willað?
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 209 (MED) Hunte driueð deor to grune oðer to nette.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 170 Þer beoð his greahunz, þer beoð his nettes.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 752 (MED) Mani god fish þer-inne he tok, Boþe with neth and with hok.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 2428 (MED) Jadahel..Ferst made Net and fisshes tok.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 354 Nett, to take wythe fysche, Rete.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 14679 Þe Payens wyþowte leide nettes & lynes, & sparewes toke.
a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 7 (MED) A queynt ys vsyd, a quayle pype..Tyll that sche be vndyr a net y-take.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 248/1 Net to catche byrdes with, tonnelle.
1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. iv. sig. F The fisher layes his baite, fowler his net.
1660 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania i. 8 [The fish] swam voluntarily every day into their Nets.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 14 I hold the Nets, while you pursue the Prey.
1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace i. iv. 17 Wallace a fishing for Diversion goes..None with him but a boy to bear his net.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 302 By watching the seasons when our small birds begin to migrate..and by taking them with nets in their passage.
1813 J. Austen Let. 11 Oct. (1995) 234 They are each [busy] about a rabbit net, & sit as deedily to it, side by side, as any two Uncle Franks could do.
1853 C. Reade Christie Johnstone 159 These nets are tied to one another, and paid out at the stern of the boat.
1880 Votes & Proc. (New S. Wales L.A.) III. 1134 Inside the huge ring made by a mile or so of net, a boat from time to time throws off a small seine, which is..drawn to the shore where practicable round as many fish as are required.
1883 F. Day Indian Fish 44 (Internat. Fisheries Exhib.) Fixed engines constructed of non-elastic substances are still more destructive to fish than are such as are made of net.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 254 Two Bag Nets. Casting Net. Beach Net... Pushing Net.
1911 Rep. Comm. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 1908 310 Eels are caught in weirs, nets, traps [etc.].
1953 P. Gallico Foolish Immortals xx. 114 Here the fishermen still cast their nets by hand from their boats.
1982 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 42 166 There was some hook-and-line fishing, but the principal species (sardine and sea bream) were caught with large beach nets.
2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Jan. 11/3 Lately I've seen labels informing me that the fish in the seafood cooler was caught in a sea-turtle-friendly net.
b. figurative. A means of catching or securing a person or thing; esp. a moral or mental snare, trap, or entanglement.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun]
neteOE
angleOE
grinc1000
trapc1175
caltropa1300
lacec1330
girnc1375
espyc1380
webc1400
hook1430
settingc1430
lure1463
stall?a1500
stalea1529
toil1548
intrap1550
hose-net1554
gudgeon1577
mousetrap1577
trapfall1596
ensnarementa1617
decoy1655
cobweba1657
trepan1665
snap1844
deadfall1860
Judas1907
tanglefoot1908
catch-221963
trip-wire1971
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) cxl. 12 (10) Cadent in retiaculo eius peccatores : fallað in nette his synfulle.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13480 He toc to spellenn. To lacchenn himm wiþþ spelless nett.
a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 12 (MED) Hue were laht by þe net so bryd is in snare, wiþ rouncin & wiþ stede.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxl. 11 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 268 (MED) Falle sal in his nette sinful þat are.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 15194 (MED) Yt ys ful hard a man tescape..ffro my nettys off tresoun.
c1480 (a1400) St. Pelagia 183 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 209 I haf bene dissaweful nete, þat þe feynde sere sawlis has gert gete.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 104 I counsall every man that he With lufe nocht in the feindis net [a1586 nek] be tone.
1576 A. Fleming tr. King Darius in Panoplie Epist. 213 Many haue beene so insnared & intangled (as it were) in nettes of doubtfull reasons.
a1628 F. Greville Certaine Wks. (1633) i. 38 Nets of opinion, to entangle spirits.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 162 Skill'd to..draw Hearts after them tangl'd in Amorous Nets . View more context for this quotation
1738 in J. Keill Ess. Animal Oecon. (ed. 4) Pref. p. xxiv Nature..will not suffer herself to be taken by Nets spun out of the Brain.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 313 Caught in a delicate soft silken net By some lewd earl.
1814 Ld. Byron Lara i. xix. 381 Vain was the struggle in that mental net.
1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow iv. vi. 242 Not only was the town..a mere net of peril for their lives.
1959 M. Spark Memento Mori xi. 156 A recent report..indicates that the net is spreading wider.
1974 C. Ryan Bridge too Far iv. vii. 291 The advance ground to a halt as the battalions found themselves in a tight net, trapped on three sides by an enemy who almost seemed to have waited for them to arrive at a pre-planned position.
1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 39/1 There were a couple of other Quebeckers of note caught in Mulroney's 1984 net.
c. A spider's web. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web
webOE
netOE
cobweb1323
lop-webc1400
wevet1499
attercop1530
spider-web1535
caul1548
mouseweb1556
spider coba1571
twail1608
spider's cloth1638
cockweba1642
texturea1774
worm-web1822
OE King Ælfred tr. Psalms (Paris) (2001) xxxviii. 10 He..wyrð swa tedre swa swa gangewifran nett.
OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxxxix. 10 Wæran anlicast ure winter geongewifran, þonne hio geornast bið, þæt heo afære fleogan on nette.
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 325 Ðe spinnere..Nimeð anon to ðe net & nimeð hem [sc. flies] ðere.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 270 Þe ȝonge spiþer arrayeþ anoon nettes [L. retia] þat beþ acordynge to his pray.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 274 b/2 Spyders takyng flyes by the nettes of theyr copwebbes.
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 171 Full byssely Aragne wevand was, To knit hyr nettis.]
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1070 In Autumn amongst small Rose-boughs it extendeth an artificiall Net.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Web Attending nearly to a Spider weaving a Net, he observ'd it suddenly to desist in the mid-work.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Spider The hazel spider..spins very large nets.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 461 It constructs its net with loose and irregular meshes.
1886 E. A. Allen Silver Bridge 31 His net a black-and-golden spider weaves.
a1901 R. W. Buchanan Sweet Nancy (1914) iii. 73 A married flirt..a female spider, who paints her face, and spreads out her net of flirtation—to catch the silly flies!
1996 S. Barker Hand in Well 48 And this is why, my spider's net now spun, Undone by love, by love I am undone.
†d. In proverbs and phrases, esp. to fish before the net and variants: to act upon or take for granted a gain, success, etc., which has not yet been fully established. Obsolete.
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c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Order of Fools (Laud) in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 454 (MED) He is a fool affore þe net that ffissheth.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 104 (MED) Ye fysh before the nett..sich folys neuer I mett.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccxvi. 727 Suche as came after toke all..for all was fysshe that came to net.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. E It is..yll fyshyng before the net.
a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. C2 He that fishes afore the net, lang or he fish get.
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 451 Tha socht the fische rycht far befoir the net.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 148 He that fishes before the Net, long e're he Fish get. Spoken to those who devour with Expectation, what they have not in Possession.
2.
a. A piece of netting (as in sense 1a) used for any of various purposes, as covering, protecting, confining, holding, delimiting, etc. Also figurative.
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eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 164 Conopio, nette, fleogryfte.
OE Exodus 71 Þær halig god wið færbryne folc gescylde, bælce oferbrædde byrnendne heofon, halgan nette hatwendne lyft.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) 3 Kings vii. 17 Seuen litil nettis..in the toon heed couerynge, and seuen lytil nettis in the tothir heed couerynge.
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 11v Canopuem, a gnat net.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 141v The shepheard carrieth with him his Hardelles and his Nettes, and other necessaries.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 836 They lie in Nets or Beddes hanging above the ground..to avoide hurtfull creatures.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. sig. Bbv/1 in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A net of wire (set afore glass windowes), araigne.
1721 C. King Brit. Merchant II. 136 The Unshorn Dozens, the Cabbage-Net Bays, and other sorry Woollen Manufactures of the French Nation.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 263 Weaving nets for bird-alluring fruit.
1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) ii. iv. 425 Protecting by nets is effected by throwing either straw, hay, bass, hempen, or woollen nets over standard trees.
1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft v. 105 You can rig your [mosquito] net..at sundown, when the skeeters get busy.
1998 Your Garden Oct. 114/4 Cover your pond with a net to stop leaves blowing into it.
†b. to dance (also march, walk, etc.) in a net: (a) to act with practically no disguise or concealment, while expecting to escape notice; (b) to do something undetected (in later use archaic). Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > due to imperfect concealment
to dance (also march, walk, etc.) in a net1534
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > be undetected
dare1382
to play at peep-arm1631
to dance (also march, walk, etc.) in a net1680
1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Civ Lyke as a foole myght haue iettyd in a net Beleuyng hymselfe..To be perceyued of no lyuyng body.
1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres i. 490 Of such as have enchayned them selves in the golden fetters of fantasie, and having bewrayed them selves to the whole world, do yet conjecture that they walke unseene in a net.
1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. (1843) vi. 242 Now you haue gotten a fine net to dance naked in, that no ignorant blind buzzard can see you.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iv. sig. K4v Whose reconciled sonne, Marcht in a net, and thought him selfe vnseene.
1621 R. Brathwait Times Curtaine Drawne sig. D3 Fate, sayth the Ethnicke, is a firme decree, Which, though foreseene, may not preuented be Wherby (poore snakes) by pur-blind fate they'r set Like Bedlam fooles, to dance in Errours net.
1622 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 2nd Bk. ix. 156 This old Lecher her husband, thinking that he had danced in a net, from the iealousie and suspition of all the world, in thus affecting his sonnes wife.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper ii. i. 12 I have danc'd in a Net before my Father,..retir'd to my Chamber undiscover'd.
1704 Poems on Affairs of State III. 325 In open Field with open Foes you've met, Take either side it is an equal Bet; But here your Enemies dance in a Net.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. xii. 301 You must not think to dance in a net before old Jack Hildebrod.
c. Cricket. A piece of netting used to divide off practice wickets. Hence (in plural): practice wickets divided off in this way. Also (in singular and plural): a session of practice held there.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > practice equipment
net1845
cradle1934
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > area for play > nets
net1884
stop-net1891
stop-netting1927
1845 N. Wanostrocht Felix on Bat i. i. 7 The way to secure much practice..is to procure a large net, about twenty yards long and six feet in height, [etc.].
1884 E. M. Butler in F. Gale Life R. Grimston (1885) xii. 191 In the evenings he would stand behind the nets when the eleven were practising, and coach them very thoroughly.
1889 Pauline 8 24 Their wickets at the nets were as a rule very poor.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xvii. 67 They practised at nets in the summer.
1955 Times 6 July 3/6 With his left side heavily plastered he batted in the nets before the Yorkshire game resumed.
1955 Cricket (M.C.C.) 55 The pitch must be as good as possible and boys should always be ready to help roll it before a net and between the batsmen's innings.
1958 Times 18 Oct. 3/3 But his 90 minutes in the middle were worth many nets, and he was quite imperturbable in the way he grafted along [at cricket].
1981 G. Boycott In Fast Lane v. 22 For a start, the nets at the compact little ground, bordered by the airstrip on one side and the sea on the other, were hopeless as far as batting practice was concerned.
1995 Sun 26 Apr. 29/6 I rested the foot and then started bowling again on our pre-season tour of South Africa. I've had a lot of nets and practice matches with no problem at all.
d. Sport. A piece of netting used as part of the equipment for a particular game or sport, as to divide the court in tennis, to form a goal in football, etc. Also in extended use (colloquial) with the, or in plural: = goal n. 4a.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > goal
goal1577
hail1843
net1856
stick1876
cage1885
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 502 A low net divides this [tennis] court into two equal spaces.
1899 Captain 2 127/1 The most difficult shot for a goal-keeper to stop is a low one that crosses him into the corner of the net... Beware lest..you shoot outside the net.
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iv. 144 There is no tennis net nor set of croquet hoops.
1937 F. C. Allen Better Basketball ii. 29 (heading) Standardized basketball nomenclature... Baskets—not Buckets,..hoops, nets, or strings.
1947 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 12/2 Although Friends took the ball on several long runs down the field, the Bryn Mawr defense was too effective to be penetrated and Goalie Jo Nelson found little to do in the nets.
1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 295 Net (ice hockey), the goal.
1965 Men's Hockey (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) (rev. ed.) 6 Nets are attached to the goal-posts, cross bar and ground behind the goal. Goal-boards..are placed at the foot of the goal-nets.
1988 Maclean's 6 June 58/3 He..flicked the puck..toward a corner of the net.
†e. Tennis. colloquial. A ball served which hits the net cord but is otherwise good (and thus constitutes a let). Cf. net cord n., net cord stroke at Compounds 3. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > obstruction of ball
let1885
net1904
1904 J. P. Paret Lawn Tennis 344 Net,..also (same as ‘let’), a ball that touches the net and goes into the proper court.
1929 D. G. Mackail How Amusing! 450 Clampson served a let. They actually—yes, in the twentieth century and the Centre Court—they distinctly called it a ‘net’.
f. A safety net used by an acrobat; = safety net n. Frequently figurative, esp. in benefits net, social-welfare net, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > circus performance > [noun] > pieces of equipment
hoop1793
bed of nails1798
garter1854
safety net1888
net1905
rag front1926
1905 A. Bennett Tales of Five Towns ii. 250 We should..flash past each other in mid-flight..and soar to opposite platforms again, amid frenzied applause. There were no nets.
1951 W. S. Churchill in Times 9 Oct. 2/4 The difference between our outlook and the Socialist outlook on life is the difference between the ladder and the queue... ‘What is your answer to what happens if anyone slips off the ladder?.’ Our reply is, ‘we shall have a good net’.
1960 N. Streatfeild Look at Circus iv. 80 In any properly run circus under the trapezes or high tight-rope act a net is stretched.
1967 C. B. Mills Bertram Mills Circus viii. 109 Fritzi Bartoni..did one very difficult trick in which she fell forward from a trapeze and caught herself by her heels on the cross bar and she had been doing this without a net.
1989 Best 14 Apr. 11/4 When money's low, they can fall through the benefits net.
1993 Newsweek 6 Sept. 32/1 The prime beneficiaries are the former communists, who argue they will continue the reforms—but ease the pain with a bigger social-welfare net.
3. Fine meshwork fabric, made by hand or by machine and used for curtains, as a part of dress, as a veil, or as a means of confining the hair (cf. hairnet n. at hair n. Compounds 2); a piece or length of this fabric. Also plural: net curtains.Recorded earliest in fax-net n. at fax n.1 Compounds.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > other
netOE
sheepskinc1175
tail1297
panec1300
slipc1440
cukera1500
peak1509
waist1590
bumbarrel1609
winglet1611
armhole1731
fullness1792
stride1807
bottom1820
patte1835
buckling1861
ventilator1870
tie-back1880
shield1884
organ pleat1886
outer1904
flarea1910
uplift1929
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > veil > material used as a veil
netOE
scarf1587
dupatta1615
orhni1678
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hair-net
tressurea1350
crespine?1533
net1813
hair-net1865
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > machine-made
net1832
plait-net1844
Nottingham lace1848
OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 48 Reticulum, feaxnet.
1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 36 (MED) iij nettes of Silk grene for quirtayns for the same bed.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 311 (MED) Hys [sc. Pluto's] clothyng was made of a smoky net.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 68 Arachne that doth tinsels forme, And nets, and lawnes.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 173 They weare nets and black vailes, covering therewith their faces.
1684 A. Behn Poems Several Occasions 9 The Envious Net, and stinted order hold, The lovely Curls of Jet and shining Gold.
1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 104 A silk net, black, green, or party coloured, tied behind the Ears and hanging in a bag on the Shoulders.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xxxviii. 195 Her dark locks dishevell'd flow From net of pearl.
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xxx. 277 The bobbin-net machine occupies little space.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. vii. 213 In some of these establishments various kinds of net and lace..are made.
1878 Encycl. Brit. VI. 470/2 The hair is usually..inclosed in a net or cowl.
1886 Daily News 14 June 2/7 Window-blinds, vitrage nets, and other goods made upon curtain-machines are only in moderate request.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 3/3 Three deep flounces on a fine net foundation.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 199/1 Nylon Fabric is now available in many different finishes, such as tricot, net, poult.
1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage i. 18 Open net against walls of glass.
1976 A. Nickolds & S. Hey ‘Foul’ Bk. Football i. 15/2 Pressing their flickering faces to the windows (Mrs C has thoughtfully taken the nets down), the crowd hums The Impossible Dream.
1987 Workbox Spring–Summer 44/2 (advt.) Mail order supplies of..threads, nets, hessian.
4.
a. Any object or structure resembling a net; spec. a reticular arrangement of lines, fibres, blood vessels, etc. Cf. net n.2Recorded earliest in ring net n. (cf. also the Old English compounds brēostnet, herenet in the same sense).nerve, stone net, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > structure resembling network
netOE
webworkc1175
network1590
reticulation1663
spider-web1699
mesh1712
reticulum1722
reticle1790
spider-workc1812
meshwork1830
sagene1846
web1851
chainwork1864
ribwork1892
meshing1907
OE Beowulf 1889 Hringnet bæron, locene leaðosyrcan.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vi. f. 284v In the said Net are certaine circles, which are Parallels to the foresaide Finitor.
a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 183/2 The soft inner layers were distinguished by the name of mucous body or Malpighian net.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 433 The nets of laticiferous tubes of the stem.
1892 G. B. Mathews Theory of Numbers I. iv. 124 Let the plane of reference be divided up into a system of equal and similar parallelograms..; such a system will be called a net.
1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. xiv. 269 A net of hairs or setæ. This is the typical filter-feeding method of the Crustacea.
1980 M. Robinson Housekeeping v. 90 I was always reminded of pictures, images, in places where images never were, in marble, in the blue net of veins at my wrists, in the pearled walls of seashells.
1997 Sci. Amer. Sept. 72/3 For practical reasons, manufacturers arrange the components on a PCB into ‘nets’. A net is a collection of components connected by tracks, such that the tracks contain no closed loops.
b. Anatomy and Zoology. More fully †marvellous net, wonderful net. A rete mirabile (see rete n. 2a). Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > bundle or network
rete mirabile?a1425
net?c1425
thrum1615
glomus1839
transverse sinus1840
tuft1848
glomerule1856
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 41 Þe mervaylouse nette [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. rethe; L. rethe] is sytede vnder the pannicles wouen oonly wiþ arteries comynge fro the herte.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 22 (MED) Tweyne neþere emunctorys of þe brayn..is holowȝ & ykeuerid wiþ a wondirful nett the which strecchiþ him sumwhat fro þe Glandula.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 466 That place where the wonderfull Net is made by those soporarie Arteries.
1875 E. L. Sturtevant & J. N. Sturtevant Dairy Cow 207 These acini are surrounded by a network of capillaries, which form a rete or net on their surface.
1932 Ecol. Monogr. 2 444 This rete mirabile, i.e. this wonderful net, was first described [in fishes] by Quekett.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes v. 64/1 Such a bundle of capillaries is called a rete mirabile (wonderful net), or rete for short.
c. Mathematics and Crystallography. A plane figure comprising the faces of a given polyhedron, which may be folded up to give the solid figure.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > [noun] > diagrams or data representation
net1855
crystallogram1924
pole figure1937
1855 D. T. Ansted et al. in Orr's Circle Sci.: Inorg. Nature 297 A drawing of the faces of a solid, arranged so that the model may be folded up from a single piece of pasteboard, is called a net.
1862 J. B. Jordan Const. Models Crystallogr. 1 The term net..has been given to a series of geometrical figures drawn on a plane, representing the faces of a crystal.
1978 K. J. Dallison & J. P. Rigby Math. Bank 1 vii. 71 Draw the net for a cube of side five centimetres.
1989 W. Gellert et al. VNR Conc. Encycl. Math. (ed. 2) viii. 187 The net of the cuboid consists of a connected system of three pairs of congruent rectangles.
d. An organizational or structural network; spec. (a) a rail network; (b) a network of spies; (c) a broadcasting or radio communications network.neural, radar, radio net, etc.: see the first element.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun] > an organization of spies
net1869
ring1901
cloak and dagger1946
spy network1977
society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [noun] > broadcasting network
network1914
web1932
net1959
1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 350 The net of [Danish] State railways may be regarded as settled. The net spreads over North Jutland and Fuen... The execution of this railway net has been entrusted to Sir Morton Peto.
1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast iii. 63 By the middle of 1915 most [enemy spies]..had been gathered in. But there remained loose ends, and..somebody was very busy combining these ends into a net.
1937 Down Beat Feb. 15/1 Several of the commercial programs featuring orchs on the nets are repeated later in the evening for the West Coast and Hawaii.
1952 Brewer's Dict. Phr. & Fable (rev. ed.) 644/2 On the Old Boy net, to arrange something through a friend (originally, someone known at school) instead of through the usual channels.
1959 Listener 22 Oct. 668/2 Television programmes are to be exchanged among the East European countries and the Soviet Union... A coaxial cable is already being laid on the Soviet-Polish section of the net.
1966 ‘H. Talbot’ Catch me Traitor i. 14 D.I. 6 was probably short of yet another carefully built up net in the East German People's Republic.
1966 Electronics 17 Oct. 129 Capt. D. A. Jones..cautioned that ‘our national security could be affected by the dissemination of data by these geodetic nets’.
1969 J. Elliot Duel i. i. 25 I had a regular weekly spot on a national net—thirty-six in a year.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia II. 851/2 East Berlin runs the S-Bahn..elevated railway system started in 1871 as a connecting system to a rail net in and out of the city.
1987 Yachting World Apr. 40/2 Rawhide differed from most regular maritime mobile nets for the controller was afloat and travelling with the fleet.
e. Linguistics. A network of semantic or formal relationships in language.
ΚΠ
1966 S. Ceccato in Automatic Transl. of Lang. (NATO Summer School , Venice, 1962) (NATO Summer School, Venice, 1962) 106 Since there is no other occasion to transform the net as it now stands, the actual output procedure can begin.
1980 Dædalus Spring 26 The structures within the brain that recognize invariant stimuli..cut the associative net into pieces..and can be shown to be organized hierarchically.
1990 Lit. & Linguistics Computing 5 153/2 From a theoretical point of view partitioned nets have the disadvantage that no formal semantics for partitioned nets could be given up till now.
5. Astronomy. With the and capital initial. More fully the Rhomboidal Net. (The English name of) the constellation Reticulum. Cf. reticule n. 3. [Chiefly as a conscious translation.]
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Reticulum
reticulum1811
net1861
reticule1867
Ret1922
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 422/1 Reticulus, or Reticulum Rhomboidale (the rhomboidal network formerly used to divide the field of a telescope), a southern constellation [etc.].]
1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descriptive & Pract. Astron. VII. vi. 312 (table) La Caille, in 1752, added—..Reticulus Rhoimboidalis [sic]. The Rhoimboidal Net.
1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 14/1 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille..introduced the following new constellations:—..Reticulus rhomboidalis (Rhomboidal net).
1964 D. H. Menzel Field Guide Stars & Planets iv. 114 Reticulum (the Net).
1977 P. Moore & P. Collins Astron. Southern Afr. ii. 37 Reticulus [sic] Rhomboidalis (the Rhomboidal Net).
1988 A. Room Dict. Astron. Names 137 Reticulum,..The usual English name for the constellation, however, is The Net. The original full name..was Reticulum Rhomboidalis, ‘the rhomboidal net’, referring to its lozenge shape.
1990 P. S. Harrington Touring Universe through Binoculars vii. 212 Wedged between Hydrus, Horologium, and Dorado in the far southern winter sky is the small constellation Reticulum, the Net.
6. Mathematics. A mapping from an ordered set into a topological space; the sequence of points in the space which is the domain of such a mapping; spec. (in full ε-net) a sequence of points in a topological space such that every point of the space lies within a (usually small) distance ε of a point in the sequence.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > transformation > [noun] > correspondence > into or from a space
path1912
vector field1922
scalar field1932
net1939
1939 M. H. A. Newman Elem. Topol. Plane Sets Points ii. 39 An ε-net in E is a finite set of points, A, such that every point of E is within a distance ε of at least one point of A.
1959 G. James & R. C. James Math. Dict. (ed. 2) 260/1 A net..of a set S is a mapping of a directed set into S.
1968 E. T. Copson Metric Spaces vi. 76 A sequentially compact metric space possesses an ε-net for every positive value of ε.
1968 E. T. Copson Metric Spaces vi. 77 Let An be a set of points in the totally bounded metric space M which forms a 1/n-net.
1993 Internat. Jrnl. Control 58 666 Approximation properties of totally bounded (relatively compact) sets, the n-width and ε-net concepts all have a considerable role to play in the present work.
7.
a. A computer network. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1972 Proc. IEEE 15 1402/2 Sites with mass storage will generally wish it to be accessible from other computers in the net.
1983 Your Business Computer Aug. 18/1 Diskless processor/memory boxes which adapt a standard terminal to work on the net.
1985 Today's Computers Nov. 125/1 The net requires you to have intelligence at the terminals but the PCs don't have to be flash.
b. With the. Originally: any of several major wide-area computer networks, such as BITNET, ARPANET, etc. In later use: the internet.
ΘΚΠ
society > computing and information technology > network > [noun] > local area network
local area network1969
internet1974
net1977
LAN1981
1977 Computerworld 9 May 30/3 The system converts data types to match the convention of each machine in the net.
1990 L. Wall & R. L. Schwartz Programming Perl vi. 274 Scripts that are published on the Net often begin with a #! (a sharp-bang, or shebang) line, which says which interpreter to use.
2001 Computer Weekly 26 Apr. 58/1 One axiom was that the Net abolished geography: anyone, anywhere, could access anything.
2015 P. Bacigalupi Water Knife ii. 24 The story was kicking around the net.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
† net basin n. Obsolete rare
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other nets
Peter netc1280
flue1388
wade1388
stalker1389
shove-net1418
trod-net1523
butt1533
web1533
fagnet1558
seur1558
trimnet1558
trollnet1558
pot-net1584
treat net1584
weir-net1585
hagan1630
henbilt1630
rugnet1630
basket-net1652
landing-net1653
stream-net1662
wolf1725
ram's horn1792
gill net1795
wolf-net1819
trap-net1856
forewheel1861
stow-net1871
lave net1875
kettle-bail1881
beating-net1883
keeve-net1883
net basin1883
wing-neta1884
trap-seine1891
lead-net1910
ghost net1959
1883 in G. B. Goode Fishery Industries U.S. 76 Turning them from their course into net basins which were placed there.
net-fisher n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net
netter1591
net-fisher1677
net-man1847
netsman1867
1677 in Ray's Corr. (1848) 128 If the net-fishers would open any considerable number.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 2/1 The net-fishers did not..make enough to pay for their licences.
1988 J. McPhee Cooling Lava in Control of Nature (1989) 127 In the open ocean about three miles east of where we stood..a net fisher had gone down one night.
net fisherman n.
ΚΠ
1938 E. Pyle in Washington Daily News 2 Feb. 15/4 I did..see a bunch of Japanese fishermen ‘hog the patch’ from two Hawaiian net fishermen who had discovered a school of fish running near the beach.
1992 S. Gandolfi Alistair MacLean's Golden Girl (BNC) 67 Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees.
net fishing n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net
net fishing1791
netting1875
1791 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 261 Nor does daylight deter them, wholly, from net fishing.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII 112 (note) Even net fishing, trawling, &c. are more humane and useful—but angling!
1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 228 As no new licences are being granted, net fishing on the upper stretch of the river will die out.
net-man n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net
netter1591
net-fisher1677
net-man1847
netsman1867
1847 C. Lanman Summer in Wilderness xxvi. 160 A false movement of the net-man will cause the canoe to be swamped.
1915 M. E. McLoughlin Tennis as I play It (1916) xi. 235 The net-man is in line with the angle of almost all cross-court shots.
1934 R. Graves Claudius the God xxx. 518 He was disarmed and a net-man was standing over him with his trident raised.
1988 New Yorker 29 Feb. 75/1 As a netman on the trawler, he was making as much as six thousand dollars a month.
† net-mesh n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Macque A Lozenge, or Net-mash.
† net-pole n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1799 S. T. Coleridge Let. 14 Jan. (1956) I. 462 The Fishermen, the net-poles, & the huge nets made a part of the Glory!
1813 Sporting Mag. 42 4 By this means manage his net-poles with greater ease.
net shot n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > types of stroke
service1611
serving1688
screw1865
cut1874
cutting service1874
boast1878
first serve1878
smash1882
twister1884
cross-shot1889
lob1890
ground stroke1895
lob ball1900
twist service1901
boasting1902
cross-volley1905
get1911
chop1913
forehander1922
kick serve1925
forehand1934
touch shot1936
dink1939
net shot1961
overhead1964
groundie1967
slice1969
moonball1975
moonballing1977
1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 296 In mixed doubles the lady is usually responsible for the net shots.
1974 R. J. Mills & E. Butler Tackle Badminton iii. 30 Even a delicate net shot requires some cocking [of the wrist].
† net trade n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 741/2 Statistical view of the net trade.
net-trap n.
ΚΠ
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. x. 223 When you have found the birds haunts, they may be taken by a Trap-cage, or Net-trap.
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. App. iv. 560 They are caught in a net-trap.
1977 Young's Sporting Appliances (S. Young & Sons Ltd.) 9 Improved Net Trap.
net-twine n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > material for making nets
net-twine1716
1716 Boston News-let. 24 Sept. 2/2 Advertisments... To be Sold by Messieurs Oulton and Waldo at their Warehouse in King-Street, Boston, sundry sorts of European goods, viz. choice Hollands Duck, New Cordage, Gun-powder, Net Twine, &c. at reasonable Rates.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 36 The shepherd should always be provided with net-twine.
1961 J. W. Anderson Fur Trader's Story viii. 64 For family use the Indians would buy their own net-twine and it was the work of the women to make the nets.
b. With the sense ‘made of net’.
† net cap n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1835 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 51 I notice she puts on a certain net cap.
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles i. xii. 61 The peculiar net cap, with its high caul and neat little border.
† net comforter n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1833 T. Hook Snowdon xii, in Love & Pride III. 231 A large-faced child..wore a..green and white net comforter..twisted round its chin and body.
† net-garter n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. K8v From euer hauing leasure to weare net Garters.
net-pocket n.
ΚΠ
1902 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 48/2 The younger man..swung the captive ashore in the net-pocket.
1941 A. Nin Diary 1939–44 (1971) June 129 He carried a Spanish leather hunter's bag, with a net pocket for game.
2003 Fishery Managem. Plan Dolphin & Wahoo Fishery Atlantic (South Atlantic Fishery Management Council) App. j 76 (table) Net Pocket Mesh Size... Net Pocket Twine Size.
† net purse n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1840 J. Gaugain Lady's Assistant 169 Very pretty long Grecian net purse for a lady.
c. Objective.
† net-bearer n. Obsolete rare
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > gladiatorial combat > [noun] > gladiator > armed with a net
net-braider1440
net-caster1587
retiarius1598
retiary1633
net-worker1639
net-bearer1647
retiarian1802
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 31 A retiarius, or net-bearer, so named from a kind of floate net, which he carryed in his hand.
† net-braider n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > gladiatorial combat > [noun] > gladiator > armed with a net
net-braider1440
net-caster1587
retiarius1598
retiary1633
net-worker1639
net-bearer1647
retiarian1802
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > netting > specific processes > one who
net-braider1440
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 354 Neet breydare, Reciarius [read Retiarius].
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 17 Netbrayders, or those that haue no cloathes..but what they earne..by brayding of nets.
net-laying n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > net-laying
net-laying1869
1869 C. H. Spurgeon Evening by Evening 234 Woe unto those who are so clever at net-laying; they who tempt others shall be destroyed themselves.
1923 E. K. Chatterton Auxiliary Patrol xv. 229 One hundred and two ships were secretly assembled, and the actual operation of net-laying was carried out in an hour and a half.
2004 D. P. Martinez Identity & Ritual Japanese Diving Village 137 Once all the boats of a group were gathered, lots were drawn in order to determine the order of net laying for the area the group was to fish.
net-making n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > netting
caul work1577
netting1632
net-making1757
1757 New-York Gaz. 20 June 4/2 (advt.) This is to give Notice to all Gentlemen, That John Beals, intends to carry on the Business of Net making, at the House of Mr. Samuel Foster.
1847 J. H. Ingraham Surf Skiff ii. 12 He held in his hand a bunch of twine and a large wooden needle used in netmaking.
1987 Man New Ser. 22 615 Knots woven at a rate of 7 seconds each (a figure suggested by experiment and by observation of contemporary Aboriginal net-making).
† net-monger n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1630 J. Taylor Jacke-a-Lent in Wks. i. 117/2 Lent might gape for Gudgeons,..were it not for these Netmongers.
net-owner n.
ΚΠ
1858 Irish Metrop. Mag. 3 215 At the very time when the rod-fisher is obliged to cease from his favourite amusement, the net-owner is taking hundreds of fish.
1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 585/1 The estuary limits..have been fixed more in the interests of net-owners than in those of the salmon.
1970 P. Hill & J. Hill Stud. Rural Capitalism W. Afr. iii. 36 A net-owner may or may not himself participate in the day-to-day work of his company.
2002 B. Orlove Lines in Water v. 124 Because they are too big for a lone individual to handle, the net owner must find a helper.
† net-worker n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > gladiatorial combat > [noun] > gladiator > armed with a net
net-braider1440
net-caster1587
retiarius1598
retiary1633
net-worker1639
net-bearer1647
retiarian1802
1639 T. Bancroft Two Bks. Epigrammes & Epit. (title of poem) On Iohn the Warrener, falne in love with Ioane the Net-worker.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1070 Amongst the Net-workers I saw one the greatest of all.
d. Parasynthetic.
net-curtained adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [adjective] > having hangings > having curtains > of specific type
lace-curtained1853
portièred1897
blackout1934
swagged1959
net-curtained1972
1972 J. Mann Mrs. Knox's Profession x. 78 The local style was for picture windows, sometimes net curtained.
1995 Independent 12 May 22/1 Frinton..is Essex's own Stepford, adhering to a chipper air of net-curtained respectability and yesteryear values.
C2. attributive with the sense ‘of, belonging, or relating to a computer network, esp. the internet’ (cf. sense 7b), as net access, net connection, net traffic, net use, etc.See also net surfer at surfer n. 2b, net surfing at surfing n. 3, net user n. (b) at Compounds 3.
ΚΠ
1977 Computerworld 11 Apr. 34/1 A front-end net processor can..reduce communications costs substantially.
1982 Computerworld 27 Dec. 15/4 Another knotty issue..is whether private net operators should pay more or less for use of local-exchange facilities.
1986 Network World (Nexis) 21 Apr. 1 Each net connection [for a personal computer] requires a PC Adapter II board.
1988 InfoWorld (Nexis) 22 Aug. 36 Since the Lantastic is a true peer network..you can even have a securely configured net system.
1995 NetGuide Sept. 10/1 You've got your new computer, you've tinkered until your net connection is humming along nicely.
1996 Internet World June 65/2 Asymmetrical modems have faster incoming rates than outgoing, which is the way most Net use occurs.
1998 Indianapolis Star 19 Oct. d11/2 You can snoop around and maybe even find evidence of a Net abuse problem.
2003 Guardian 31 July (Life section) 19/1 If you work in IT or the net business, then you probably spend your days (and nights) reading web pages.
2006 Independent 11 Oct. (Extra section) 11/1 The benign nature of net browsing.
2012 A. Blum Tubes iii. 93 Occasionally he'll switch modes from jocular salesman to net-geek, offering a soliloquy of technical protocols and operating specifications.
C3.
net bag n. (a) the pocket of a bag-net; (b) a bag made of net or netting.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > of other specific material
net bag1598
hair bag1712
paper bag1723
thread bag1924
plastic bag1941
polybag1964
ziplock1974
buveera1994
kaveera1994
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > bag-net
cod net1280
purse net1388
poke-net1442
poke1579
spirt-net1686
net bag1727
bag-net1777
fyke1832
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Carnero, Carniéro, a net-bag to carie meat in, a hawking bag.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 24 Finding a Fowl in the Net-bag.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xiii. 219 Taking half-a-dozen wild sea-fowls' eggs out of the net-bag that he usually wore his hair in.
1951 C. N. Colyer & C. O. Hammond Flies Brit. Isles 324 This instrument can often be used under conditions where a net-bag is liable to be torn, e.g. on thorn or bramble.
1986 New Yorker 24 Mar. 41/2 She..had a net bag of vegetables slung over her shoulder.
1995 L. A. M. Simpson There you Are 56 There are three littleneck clams and a cherrystone. He puts the ‘necks’ in a red net bag. The cherrystone on the deck, to one side.
net blotch n. a disease affecting barley, caused by the fungus Helminthosporium teres and characterized by the formation of brown, irregular, netlike blotches on the leaves.
ΚΠ
1916 M. A. Carleton Small Grains xix. 533 The latter [sc. Helminthosporium sativum]..is now recognized as the cause of the ‘spot blotch’ disease to distinguish it from H. teres, the cause of the ‘net blotch’ disease.
1953 F. T. Brooks Plant Dis. (ed. 2) xii. 226 Net Blotch, although widespread, affects barley less seriously than does Leaf Stripe.
1995 Farmers Weekly 31 Mar. 64/4 Barleys can suffer from net blotch and rhynchosporium—wheats from mildew and septoria.
net cord n. (a) a cord passing along and supporting the top of a net, esp. a tennis net; (b) Tennis and Badminton (more fully net cord stroke) a shot which hits the net cord but remains in play; cf. sense 2e.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > court > net > cord
net cord1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 72 Stakes to..be 3 inches above the net-cord.
1887 Boy's Own Paper 3 Sept. 778/1 If you are tall enough, take it before it descends to the level of the net-cord.
1904 J. P. Paret Lawn Tennis 345 Net-cord stroke.
1959 Times 1 Sept. 3/3 It was the third game when twice MacKay got away with net cords.
1959 F. Brundle Teach Yourself Badminton vii. 101 The only exception to this rule of taking the shuttle as early as possible is when the shuttle has toppled over the net, which is commonly called a net-cord.
1961 F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 258 Net cord stroke, one that causes the ball to contact the net, the ball afterwards going into the proper court.
1987 Times 6 July 32/3 She had four winners off the net cord, which did her morale no harm at all.
net curtain n. a curtain made of net (sense 3), usually now fixed across windows to ensure privacy.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > hangings > curtain > net or lace curtain
lace curtain1824
net curtain1851
scrim1880
window scrim1913
1851 Southern Literary Messenger 17 762 There was a French rosewood bedstead, over which..hung a canopy covered with an open net curtain.
1859 Househ. Words 8 Jan. 137/1 White dusty-smelling net curtains.
1931 M. Allingham Look to Lady xxii. 224 There was a thin net curtain over the windows, but the light inside rendered it transparent.
1987 Z. Tomin Coast of Bohemia iv. 143 Mrs H..watched from behind her net curtains.
net-cutter n. Navy a device mounted on the bow of a submarine to cut through anti-submarine nets; (also) a similar device on a torpedo.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > torpedo-net cutter
net-cutter1896
1896 G. E. Armstrong Torpedoes & Torpedo-vessels vi. 92 The most successful ‘net cutter’ yet invented is that of Rear-Admiral Wilson. The construction of the Wilson net cutter is very properly kept a profound secret.
1910 Blackwood's Mag. June 894/1 Leaks in the net-cutter glands sometimes drowned the explosives.
1999 J. P. Mallmann Showell German Navy Handbk. 1939–45 156 Before the war the majority of U-boats had their numbers painted on conning towers, and usually there were also bronze number plates on the bows, which can be seen in this picture as a black rectangle below the net cutter.
† net-danced adj. Obsolete rare done secretly or with the intention of secrecy (see sense 2b).
ΚΠ
1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xiii. lxxix. 327 Nor shall be said the Net-danc't fals of diuers wish't more trew.
net-drifter n. now rare = netlayer n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > net-layer
net-drifter1838
netlayer1930
1838 A. J. Dalrymple Let. 24 Mar. in Brit. & Foreign State Papers, 1840–1 (1857) XXIX. 1237 The writer..suggests some regulation..to prevent the French trawl fishers interfering with our net drifters.
1919 R. Bacon Dover Patrol 1915–17 I. vi. 157 In addition to the above, the 10th, 11th, and 12th Divisions of net-drifters anchored parallel to the West Hinder and shot their nets.
1987 P. G. Halpern Naval War in Mediterranean 1914–18 viii. 278 By then the British net drifters based on Brindisi had been continuously at work since September 1915, patrolling the Straits of Otranto and assisting in the evacuation of the Serbian army.
2017 J. Dann Maud Coleno's Daughter xiii. 92 In the summer of August 1917 another Admiralty-requisitioned net drifter the Oceans Gift II was destroyed in an accidental fire off Happisburgh.
† net-fashion adj. Obsolete rare fashioned into the form of a net.
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1522 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 264 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 To make engynes and calteroppes nette fachon for the warre.
net fern n. now rare any of various tropical ferns constituting the genera Gleichenia and Dicranopteris, noted for their tangled growth caused by the repeated dichotomous branching of the fronds; also called umbrella fern.
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1883 W. Guilfoyle Catal. Plants Melbourne Botan. Gardens 73 (table) Gleichenia..Climbing Net Fern..Alpine Net Fern..Pan-leaved Net Fern.
1890 Cent. Dict. Net fern, a name sometimes applied to species of the genus Gleichenia.
1902 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 5) 145 Gleichenia (Umbrella Fern, Net Fern)... Orn. evergreen stove & greenhouse ferns.
1951 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 78 92 (title) The net fern in Florida.
net frame n. now rare the frame of a net, spec. (a) (Horticulture) a protective frame made of netting; (b) a loom on which net (sense 3) is made.
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1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) ii. iv. 425 Placing it over tender flowers..by means of net frames.
1865 F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace xxxvi. 424 To France must be assigned the application of the Jacquard system to the net-frame, and consequently the invention of machinery lace.
1912 E. D. Sanderson & C. F. Jackson Elem. Entomol. xxiii. 332 There are numerous other ways of constructing net frames, but most of them are too complicated for practical use.
1983 Proc. Symp. Coastal Aquaculture Cochin II. 678/2 In order to quantify the extent at which the net frames were colonized by biofoulers, the organisms were divided into 2 groups.
net game n. Tennis (a) a style of play taking place close to the net and in which the ball is generally volleyed; (b) a player's capacity to play in this manner.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > types of play
serving1688
lobbing1889
net-play1899
net game1904
softball1914
tandem formation1967
moonballing1977
1904 J. P. Paret Lawn Tennis iv. vi. 345 Net game, the style of play in which the ball is generally volleyed, with the player close to the net. The reverse of a ‘base-line game’.
1961 F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 259 Net game, that kind of play taking place in the vicinity of the net, and thus the opposite of base line game.
1998 Indianapolis Star 25 Jan. b13/3 It went against all reason: a clay court specialist with an upside-down forehand, hardly any backhand, and no net game, beating a serve-and-volleyer on a hard court in his homeland.
† net lawn n. Obsolete a fine meshwork linen fabric.
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1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei sig. d3v On their Heades they wore Persick Crowns, that were with Scroles of Gold-plate turn'd outward; and wreath'd about with a Carnation and Silver Net-lawne.
1613 G. Chapman Memorable Maske Inns of Court sig. A4 A vaile of net lawne, enbrodered with Oos and Spangl'd.
1802 Caledonian Mercury 21 Jan. 3/4 Imports and exports at Leith..exported to Jamaica..Nails 8 casks,..Hoes and bills 3 casks, Net lawn 360 pieces, Wearing apparel 15 boxes.
1914 New Mag. Apr. 132/1 The blouse portion can be of lace, spotted net lawn or any figured material.
netlayer n. a naval vessel which lays anti-submarine nets.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > net-layer
net-drifter1838
netlayer1930
1930 Economist 8 Mar. 513/1 Five submarines, one submarine depôt ship, two sloops and one netlayer.
1991 Daily Tel. 10 Apr. 21/6 She was met by the net-layer Protector who gave her fuel.
2014 D. A. Bertke et al. World War II Sea War VI. 285 [10 June 1942] IJN auxiliary anti-submarine netlayer and patrol boat Seian Maru (3712grt) arrived at Delhi from Ambon.
† net-masonry n. Architecture Obsolete a form of decorative masonry in which the joints resemble the meshes of a net.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > types of disposition of stones
emplecton1601
isodomon1601
pseudisodomon1601
net-masonry1706
Greek masonry1728
longs and shorts1884
random1886
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Net-Masonry, a particular sort of muring, or walling.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Masonry Net Masonry, call'd Reticulation, from its Resemblance of the Mashes of a Net.
1825 G. A. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. i. iii. 66 Net masonry;..where the stones are squared and placed upon one of the angles, the joints thus forming a kind of net in appearance.
1847 A. C. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. (new ed.) 107 Net masonry... Where the stones are squared and placed upon one of the angles, their joints thus forming a net-like appearance.
netminder n. Ice Hockey = goaltender n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > ice hockey > [noun] > player > type of player
defenceman1877
stick-handler1889
goaler1896
rover1896
netminder1942
policeman1959
penalty-killer1960
enforcer1963
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §662/2 Net minder,..a goalkeeper.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 19/1 Eddie Shack spoiled Montreal net-minder Rogatien Vachon's chance for a shutout when he scored.
1993 Guardian 23 Apr. 16/7 Murrayfield immediately sought permission to use McCrone..under a BIHA by-law that allows a replacement for netminders.
net neutrality n. the fact or principle of internet service providers enabling access to all content and applications regardless of the source or destination, and without favouring or blocking particular formats, products, websites, etc.; cf. network neutrality n. 2.
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2003 Washington Internet Daily (Nexis) 30 May The program will explore requests by Amazon.com, the Consumer Electronics Assn., Microsoft and others that the FCC adopt new rules to enforce ‘net neutrality’... The groups contend regulations are needed to ensure consumers have unfettered access to all online content, can run any application and are allowed to attach any device to an operator's network.
2010 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Dec. 60/2 Many people in rural areas from Utah to Uganda have access to the Internet only via mobile phones; exempting wireless from net neutrality would leave these users open to discrimination of service.
net passing n. Needlework a form of needlework in which horizontal and oblique stitches are interlaced with one another in a manner suggestive of netting.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > types of sewn work
net passing1901
loop-stitching1951
1901 L. F. Day & M. Buckle Art in Needlewk. (ed. 2) ix. 86 Net Passing..is not very differently worked from [lace buttonholing]. It is much more open, and the first row of horizontal stitches is crossed by two opposite rows of oblique stitches, which are made to interlace.
2012 L. Wyszynski Compl. Photo Guide Needlewk. 101 Honeycomb filler... Also known as: net passing.
† net-pin n. Obsolete rare a pin used in net-making.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > netting > pin or needle
netting-needle1632
net-pina1652
netting-pin1808
spool1837
battle-twig1942
a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) iv. i But I have other Arts:..The Wheel, the Frame, the Net-pin..are most familiar with me.
net plankton n. Biology plankton caught in, or large enough to be caught in, a net (often one having a specified mesh size).
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1914 Jrnl. Ecol. 2 124 The seasonal distribution of the minute Coccolothophoridae..was found to correspond in essentials with that of the larger plankton forms (net-plankton).
1952 P. S. Welch Limnology (ed. 2) ix. 254 In most, if not all, natural waters, the nannoplankton greatly exceeds in quantity the net plankton.
1991 M. Allaby Conc. Oxf. Dict. Zool. 304/2 Plankton are sometimes divided into net plankton (more than 25 μm diameter) and nanoplankton, which are too small to be caught in a plankton net.
1998 Jrnl. Great Lakes Res. 24 808 We collected two size classes of Lake Michigan net plankton (63 to 243 μm, 243+ μm) plus macroinvertebrates during a cruise off Grand Haven, Michigan.
net-play n. Tennis and Badminton play undertaken from a position close to the net; = net game n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > types of play
serving1688
lobbing1889
net-play1899
net game1904
softball1914
tandem formation1967
moonballing1977
1899 E. H. Miles Lessons Lawn Tennis Contents 11 Net-play and Back-play.
1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 296 Net play (badminton), the player returning the bird from a position close to the net.
net player n. Tennis and Badminton a player who plays from a position close to the net.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > battledore or badminton > [noun] > type of player
net player1919
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > player > types of
volley1878
volleyer1878
foot-faulter1893
match-player1894
net player1919
double-faulter1921
smasher1921
tennis-professional1938
tennis-pro1942
counterpuncher1944
retriever1974
1919 S. Lenglen Lawn Tennis for Girls 53 The net player..has a free hand at the net.
1974 R. J. Mills & E. Butler Tackle Badminton v. 46 You must..hit this shot so that it passes the net player quickly but not hard enough to be counter-driven by the back player.
net point n. Tennis a point which is won or lost due to play occurring close to the net.
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1930 Washington Post 26 June 15/4 Coming in for quite a few valuable net points.
1990 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 18 Jan. More often than not, he was barely able to set up a net point.
2016 Stratford (Ont.) Beacon-Herald (Nexis) 7 July b2 Raonic..won 35 of his 47 total net points.
net practice n. cricket practice at the nets (see sense 2c).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > practice
net practice1899
workout1963
1899 Captain 1 378/2 Net practice is good in moderation, but nothing is so good as practice games.
1975 Country Life 19 June 1625/3 I waited to greet the Australians for their first net practice.
net-rope n. †(a) a trap, a snare (obsolete); (b) a rope attached to a net.
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OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 233 Plage, netrapas.
1835 D. P. Thompson Adventures Timothy Peacock xiii. 144 He now took the rough and rugged rounds of his dark and perplexing pilgrimage, sometimes hobbling over net-ropes, chairs and benches, sometimes tumbling headlong over heaps of wood and faggots.
2003 www.ean.co.uk 14 Feb. (O.E.D. Archive) Before the net went to the tannery the ossels were put on these joined the meshes of the net to the netrope and held the corks in position.
net-roper n. English regional (East Anglian) rare the man in charge of a net-rope on a fishing boat.
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1892 P. H. Emerson Son of Fens 58 The master, mate, hawse-man, wheelman, net-roper, and me lived aft in the cabin.
1941 Schedule of Reserved Occupations (Brit. Ministry of Labour & National Service) (rev. ed.) 98 (table) Net maker, net roper, net rigger, net fitter.
net sinker n. a weight used to sink a net in fishing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > weight > [noun]
plumbc1450
plummet1577
leada1609
sinker1785
swan-shot1856
sinkstone1857
net sinker1865
net-weight1865
sink1865
bullet1867
block-shot1883
shotting1979
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind viii. 192 The natural net-sinkers, formed of chalk flints.
1957 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) vi. 85 Clay net-sinkers.
2003 G. V. Piercy & G. F. Bass in G. F. Bass et al. Serçe Limani xxii. 402 (caption) Fig. 22–4. Lead net sinker Types D through K.
net-traceried adj. ornamented with net tracery.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > having parts crossing over each other
net-traceried1883
crossover1893
1883 A. Heales Early Hist. Church Kingston-upon-Thames 34 A further alteration was made..by the insertion of a good-sized, three-light, net-traceried window at the west end.
1896 J. F. Hodgson in Durham Archit. Trans. 4 113 The four-light net-traceried east window.
1949 Victoria Hist. County of Warwick V. 87/1 The west window, of the 14th century, is of two narrow trefoiled ogee-headed lights and net-traceried two-centred head with a hood-mould.
net tracery n. Architecture (now rare) a form of tracery (tracery n. 2) resembling the meshes of a net (cf. reticulated adj. 2b).
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1846 F. A. Paley Man. Gothic Archit. iv. 180 Net-tracery is a very common form, and..consists of a series of loops, resembling the meshes of an extended net, each loop being quatrefoiled.
1896 J. F. Hodgson in Durham Archit. Trans. 4 113 The south-window of the..chapel—pointed, and of two lights with net tracery.
1993 C. M. Harris Dict. Archit. & Constr. 553/1 Net tracery, tracery with repetitive motifs or openings.
net user n. (a) a person who uses a net, esp. a fishing net (also figurative); (b) a user of the internet or other computer network.
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1884 Church Worker 3 1 In the Church of Christ there is work for the net-mender as well as for the net-user.
1967 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 10 Sept. iii. 5/6 Some sportsmen..have campaigned for a net ban... Net users blame the lampreys for cutting down the trout population.
1986 Computerworld (Nexis) 14 Apr. 45 IBM net users can receive electronic mail for the first time, but only with Topview running.
1994 Time 25 July 53/1 Programs..which allow users to locate a particular world or program from vast libraries of data available to Net users.
2012 Times (Nexis) 19 Jan. 21 The Bills would..crack down on websites that give net users a platform to share movies and music illegally.
net vault n. Architecture a vault forming a netlike pattern of intersecting ribs.
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1962 P. Frankl Gothic Archit. I. iv. 154 For net-vaults, star-vaults, and fan-vaults neither the term Perpendicular nor the term Rectilinear makes sense.
1991 L. Abel Smith Guide to Prague ii. 46 The conception of space created by Peter Parler with his fine net vault of 1367.
1999 Prague Post (Nexis) 27 Oct. (Culture section) Parler added daring innovations to this tradion—a newly formed architectonic space.., the unheard-of net vaults, the spiritualized flowing tracery and other innovations.
net-veined adj. Botany and Zoology (of a leaf, insect wing, etc.) having a network of interconnecting veins.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > having or not having veins
venose?a1425
venous1626
nervous1668
veiny1681
nervose1753
nerveless1783
veinless1783
nerved1793
nervated1802
trinerved1811
trinervate1813
venulose1821
penninerved1849
penniveined1855
parallelinervate1857
parallelivenous1857
penninervate1857
net-veined1860
basinerved1866
nervate1866
obtectovenose1866
palm-veined1866
parallelinerved1866
parallelivenose1866
parallelinervous1893
pinninervate1893
1860 J. Darby Bot. S. States 600 Dictyogens, monocotyledonous plants, with net-veined leaves, as smilax and trillium.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses vi. 143 Classification of Insects..Wings with many longitudinal veins and cross-veins appearing net-veined (12 or more cross-veins).
1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 199 Rocky ford, an excellent net-veined muskmelon originally grown only around Rocky Ford, Colorado.
† net-weight n. Obsolete rare = net sinker n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > weight > [noun]
plumbc1450
plummet1577
leada1609
sinker1785
swan-shot1856
sinkstone1857
net sinker1865
net-weight1865
sink1865
bullet1867
block-shot1883
shotting1979
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iii. 81 Many of..the stones employed as net-weights, would there be lost.

Derivatives

ˈnetlike adj.
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1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 100 Through these vpper ventricles of the brayne the reticular or net like foldes called Coriformes are caryed.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 81 Which..doe forme a Net-like complication.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 52 Disposed..over the whole surface in a chain-like or net-like manner.
1824 Lancet 20 Nov. 226/1 The veins were large, and had a net-like appearance.
1961 H. Carruth Journey to Known Place 13 I came then To the cave where the monster awaited me, many-armed And dark, a slow netlike uncoiling of tentacles.
1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) vi. 290 (caption) Spectrin dimers associate head-to-head to form tetramers that are linked together into a netlike meshwork.
ˈnetwise adv. in the manner of a net.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adverb] > like a net or network
netwise1577
telarly1658
reticulately1803
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 71 You must place them..eyther Checkerwyse, or Netwyse.
1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Mail Coat of Mail, a piece of defensive armour, made of iron wire interwoven net-wise.
1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iv. 160 Nature connects organic bodies..netwise rather than by separate links.
1925 H. V. Morton Heart of London 29 The little coffee-stall, set netwise at street corners to catch queer fish, is dramatic.
1955 R. Bradbury October Country 33 Marie pushed her way through screams that hung netwise across her path.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† netn.2

Forms: early Old English nectae (transmission error), early Old English nettae, Old English nytte, Old English–1500s nette, Middle English–1500s nett, 1500s–1800s net.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian nette , nitte retina, Old Icelandic netja , Swedish (regional) nätja , early modern Danish næde membrane (in the abdomen) < an n -stem derivative of the same Germanic base as net n.1In most other Germanic languages the sense ‘membrane around the intestinal tissues’ is attested only as an extended use of cognates of net n.1 In English the word was probably perceived as the same word as net n.1 from Middle English onwards.
Obsolete.
A sheet of connective tissue, esp. the omentum or the mesentery (later spec. in a food animal).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > internal organs > cavities occupied by internal organs > [noun] > abdomen > membranes of
neteOE
caul1382
siphac1398
zirbusa1400
womb cloutc1400
mesentery?a1425
omentum?a1425
peritoneum?a1425
paunch clout1440
epiploön?1541
mesenterium?1541
mesaraeum1543
rim1565
kell1578
rind1585
belly-piece1591
coif1597
cell1607
reticulum1615
mesocolon1684
mesogaster1807
mesocaecum1835
ruffle1846
mesogastrium1848
mid-gut1875
mesovarium1882
mesocyst1890
eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 85/2 Oligia, nettae.
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 336 Oligia, nette.
OE Glosses to Lorica of Laidcenn (Harl. 585) in E. Pettit Anglo-Saxon Remedies, Charms, & Prayers (2001) I. 52 Tege trifidum iacor [read iecor] et ilia, marsem, reniculos, fithrem cum obligia: gescyld þa þriofealdan libre [corrected in MS to lifre] rysele sweotan & burse lundlagan snædelþearm mid þære nettan.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 65 Þe þridde partye of fleische beclippiþ þe stomak & þe guttis, And wiþ þis partye is I-melled certeyn nettes [L. reticula] and calles of synowis & of veynes.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xxix. 13 Thou shalt take all the fat that couereth the bowels and the nett vpon the leuer.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 16/1 In such woundes the guttes and the net come to sincke out.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck (at cited word) Net, the Net or the Cawle of the bowels or entrailes.
1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 97 The Hind-Quarter of a sucking Lamb, over which was spread what we call the Net, or Caul.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved ii. 14 The Mesentery or Net (as 'tis called in other Creatures besides Men).
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Net, the omentum, the caul, or film which covers the intestines.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 93 The space between the intestines and lumbar region or loin [is] gradually filled up by the net and kidney fat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

† netn.3

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: net v.2
Etymology: < net v.2
English regional (chiefly northern) Obsolete.
A wash or rinse.
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1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray et al. Philos. Lett. (1718) 333 Net, to wash Cloaths, give them a Net.
1841 R. W. Hamilton Nugæ Lit. 356 Net, or netting, a fresh water in scouring any thing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

netadj.n.4

Brit. /nɛt/, U.S. /nɛt/
Forms: Middle English neȝt (transmission error), Middle English–1500s nette, Middle English– net, Middle English– nett.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French net.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman net, neth and Middle French net clean, morally pure (12th cent. in Old French in senses 1 and 2, a1483 in sense 3; French net ) < classical Latin nitidus nitid adj. Compare Old Occitan, Occitan net (c1240), Italian netto (c1250, 14th cent. in sense 3), Catalan net (c1250), Spanish neto (1385, probably < French or Italian). Compare also Old Occitan nede (14th cent.), Catalan †nèdeu (1266), Spanish nidio (1250, now regional), Portuguese nedio (14th cent.). Compare neat adj.French net has been widely borrowed in the Germanic languages, hence Middle Dutch, Dutch net , German nett ( > Danish net , Swedish nätt ) nice, neat. With sense 3a compare also Dutch netto (c1700), German netto (15th cent.), Swedish netto (17th cent.), Danish netto (c1700), all < Italian netto. Compare also Older Scots netto (one isolated attestation):1670 Boyds of Penkill Family Papers No. 299 2 lb. 10 unce netto leaffe suckir.
1.
a. Of a person: smart, trim, or elegant, esp. in dress. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim
netc1330
pertc1330
cleanc1386
nicec1400
picked?c1425
dapperc1440
feata1471
gim1513
trig1513
well-trimmedc1513
trick1533
smirk1534
tricksy1552
neat1559
netty1573
deft1579
primpc1590
briska1593
smug1598
spruce1598
sprink1602
terse1602
compt1632
nitle1673
sprig1675
snod1691
tight1697
smugged1706
snug1714
pensy1718
fitty1746
jemmy1751
sprucy1774
smartc1778
natty1785
spry1806
perjink1808
soigné1821
nutty1823
toiletted1823
taut1829
spick and span1846
spicy1846
groomed1853
spiffy1853
well-groomed1865
bandboxy1870
perjinkity1880
spick-span1888
bandbox1916
tiddly1925
whip-smart1937
spit and polish1950
spit-and-polished1977
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 4084 Þer miȝt men se þat Gij was wel net.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 29v To suche a mynion feloe as Agatho is, I maye goe trymme nette & wel beseen.
1562 W. Bullein Bk. Use Sicke Men f. lxvii, in Bulwarke of Defence Whiche Heathen are bothe comely, cleane, worldly wise, valiaunte, nette and fine.
1930 Aberdeen Univ. Rev. Mar. 103 I min' o' you a richt net, kibble lass.
†b. Of a thing: fine, elegant; neat, smart. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > of fine or dignified appearance > of things
dapper1579
net1638
dapper-looking1874
1638 J. Mayne in Jonsonus Virbius 32 When thou in company wert met, Thy meate tooke notes, and thy discourse was net.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III ii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 239/1 A thief, who cometh in the night, With whole boots and net pantaloons.
1831 Fife Herald 22 Sept. Whether the man who dresses neatly must don a slouched hat and a pair of nett shoes.
†2.
a. Desirable, good; decent; clean, free from dirt, filth, etc.; bright, clear. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [adjective]
cleanc897
fair?c1225
netc1330
cleanly1340
unspotted1382
blotless?a1400
unwemmeda1400
spotlessc1400
neat1494
unblotted1548
unstained1555
stainlessa1586
exempt1586
unsoiledc1592
undefiled1596
unsullied1598
dirtlessa1618
immaculatea1631
innocent1645
unsmeared1648
unsmutched1809
speckless1827
spandy-clean1838
unblackened1864
soilless1868
smudgeless1924
clinical1932
squeaky clean1975
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 1792 (MED) What þurth þanke and frende gret Þai wonnen þer, þat hem was net.
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 103 (MED) Þou proud erþe of lompet, Ine felþe þou schelt lygge; Þou ert nauȝt elles neȝt.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 26 (MED) Swiche Ich wolde weren out bishett, For certeynlich it were nett.
c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) 2053 (MED) Thei taken a vessel clene and net And vndir the trees thei done hem sette..Than commeth a licour..And renneth into þat same vessele.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. i. 6 Tofore the souerayn creatour whiche is clere net and pure.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. D ij He shulde eate no maner of meates, without his stomake be net, and purged of all yll humours.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 615/2 He is pure and net from all filthinesse, and pollution.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xii. sig. Oo4 Her brest all naked, as nett yuory.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. viii. sig. Gg The Priest with naked armes full net . View more context for this quotation
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Prov. v. 3 The lippes of an harlot are as a hony combe distilling, and her throte netter [L. nitidius] then oyle.
1630 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1936) VII. 87 [A] certain nomber of pompes for the better and more clein and nett service of the leidges.
a1667 P. Mundy Trav. (1925) IV. 3 A handsome, Nett and well governed place and off much traffick.
b. Pure, unadulterated, unmixed. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > unadulterated or undiluted
clean883
purea1393
uncorrumpeda1400
uncorrupted1541
sincere1557
stark naked?1594
undelayed1600
unsophisticated1630
entire1640
inadulterate1648
dephlegmated1651
neat1651
unalloyeda1672
intaminateda1695
undrossy1708
net1713
unadulterate1716
unsophistical1736
uncauponateda1752
undiluted1756
absolute1810
undefecated1812
unadulterated1823
undilute1876
undoctored1882
uncut1967
1713 Guardian 12 Aug. 2/2 (advt.) A Vault..for the Sale of Net Natural French Wine.
1765 Universal Mag. 37 320/2 Refined sugar in the loaf,..being net, that is to say, of one uniform whiteness throughout.
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 107/1 This account he believes to be correct, except that nett cement was used instead of mortar.
3.
a. Of an amount, weight, etc.: free from, or not subject to, any (further) deduction; remaining after all necessary deductions have been made; after the deduction of tax, interest, etc. Also occasionally as n. Cf. gross adj. 6a.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [adjective] > of amount remaining after deductions
net1418
neat1599
netback1962
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > [adjective] > free from deduction or remaining after deduction
clean1381
net1418
clearc1500
subtilec1503
neat1599
1418 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 200 (MED) Þere was abayted For powdyr þe weyȝt Off iiijc lxviij lb. and pris þer uppon Nette at viij d. þe lb.
1486 Cely Papers in Eng. Stud. (1961) 42 145 Sum v sac d. viij cl[oves]. Ter xj cl[oves] Nett v sac xxiij cl[oves].
1520 J. Dorne in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 97 Suma is net 12li. 18s. 6d.
1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Bijv The remaine is the net rest, substance or capitall of the owner.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 21 Jan. (1974) VIII. 23 The net profits of which..will amount to 3000l.
1702 S. Sewall Diary 30 Dec. (1973) I. 479 Weight One Hundred One Half One Quarter wanting 3 pounds, i.e. 193 pounds Net.
1759 in W. Duncombe et al. tr. Horace Wks. II. (Imitation Epist. i. xii) 415 Between what you collect and what you set, An hundred Pounds per Quarter, Profit net!
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 139 The net income of real pleasures they will yield upon the ballance.
1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. iv. 186 It would give its owner the same..net profit.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 89/2 The ‘net effective power’, or available power of an engine.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. viii. 368 A pension proportioned to the nett revenue.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 186 The net result showed a permanent elevation.
1910 Great Central Railway Rep. 11 Feb. 7 Deducting from our receipts..our expenses of £1,488,474, we have a net of £796,956.
1936 J. M. Keynes Gen. Theory Employment ii. vi. 57 In reckoning..the net income and the net profit of the entrepreneur it is usual to deduct the estimated amount of the supplementary cost from his income and gross profit.
1952 Times 1 Aug. 9/2 The accountants' examination has already shown that the company had invested more than £19m. in Spain at book value (net of any withdrawals by way of dividends, service payments, or otherwise) without making any allowance for the depreciation in the value of money and therefore for the real present values of the assets.
1961 H. B. Jacobson Mass Communications Dict. 222 Net, the amount paid to the advertising medium by the advertising agency after deducting the agency commission.
1969 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 2 Jan. 6/4 Its net after taxes..after allowing for sales of assets,..was only $9million.
1984 Which? Jan. 32/3 We've listed these amounts at the bottom of each age group, so that you can work out your net-of-tax income.
1991 Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 16 [Iraq's] tanks and aircraft are all foreign-supplied. Each one lost is therefore a nett debit.
1992 Canad. Forum Dec. 3/1 The federal government has been running an operating surplus, net of interest charges, which has accelerated the downturn.
b. Balanced, final, conclusive; remaining after all necessary considerations have been taken into account; esp. in net result, net effect, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [adjective]
finalc1365
endinga1400
finial?a1400
endly1436
conclusional1471
terminalc1475
parting?1570
supreme1570
terminant1589
desinent1608
terminative1613
conclusive1639
graciousa1701
finishing1705
ultimate1755
concluding1795
closing1796
wind-up1843
net1844
conclusory1846
terminational1874
summative1877
wrap-up1968
1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. ii. 52 The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboschi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. iv. 71 That stiffness about the arm, hip, and knee-joint,..was the net product of the divers sprains and over-exertions that had been required of him..when a young man.
1909 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 40 81 The net result of the study is that by far the greater part of what is called Ligurian is strictly Gallic.
1952 B. Webb Diaries I. 45 My net impression was that the Trade Unionists, in meeting assembled, were more sophisticated but no abler than thirty years ago at Dundee.
1993 Guardian 25 June ii. 18/1 It is the most heavily used cycle track in Britain, the net result being that Avon now spends a large annual budget on building cycle routes in the county as a whole.
2000 Cape Times 19 July ii. 5/2 The net effect will be to lower cut-off grades, an increase in ore reserves and an extended mine life with payback expected in two to three years.

Compounds

net asset n. Finance an asset (of a business, etc.) less all current liabilities; usually in plural.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > assets
family jewels1819
asset1825
net asset1863
fixed asset1898
intangible1914
net current asset1919
hidden reserve1930
tangible assets1930
family silver1976
society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit > assets
discoveries1648
assets1721
resources1825
net asset1863
wasting asset1930
1863 H. B. Bryant et al. Counting House Book-keeping 187 His duties, which are specifically prescribed in the statutes, pertain, first, to the liquidation of outstanding debts..and next, to the proper distribution of net assets among the heirs and legal representatives.
1936 Economist 14 Mar. 594/1 The ‘gearing ratio’ is the proportion borne by the total net assets of the company to the net assets available for the common stock.
2000 CGU plc Ann. Rev. 1999 31 This represents the difference between the total embedded value of the life operations and the net assets included in these accounts.
net asset value n. Finance the total assets (of a business) less all liabilities and capital charges, as debentures, loan stocks, preference shares, etc. (cf. NAV n. at N n. Initialisms 1, asset value n. at asset n. Compounds).
ΚΠ
1941 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 49 501 (table) Percentage Change in Net Asset Value (after Adjustments for Capital Changes and Distributions), 1930–39.
1969 N.Y. Times 4 Sept. 66/5 One doesn't find a single mutual fund with £15 million or more to invest that has gained 1% in net asset value this year.
1999 Finance Week (Johannesburg) 21 May 12/3 The leak has placed Boland PKS, with its net asset value of R600m, in the playing field. Several other institutions, alerted to the opportunity, are sure to approach BOE.
net book value n. Finance the value of an asset, taking into account diminutions, depreciations, and other accounting charges, as recorded in the accounts of its owner.
ΚΠ
1908 Polit. Sci. Q. 23 43 The net book value of the properties and assets of the Standard, subsequently produced in court, was $270,217,922 at the end of 1903 ($359,400,193 at the end of 1906).
1946 Fortune Aug. 178/2 The eagerness with which the public paid more than the asking price of $6 for shares representing a stated net book value of 31 cents—before the new paid-in capital—is an indication either of the lure of frozen foods or of the bull market's readiness to project any expansion rate to infinity.
2000 Ann. Rep. & Accts. (Cable & Wireless) 56 The net book value of the Group's tangible fixed assets includes an amount of £193m..in respect of assets held under finance leases.
net current asset n. Finance (usually in plural) = net asset n.
ΚΠ
1919 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 33 611 There were on hand cash and net current assets tied up as working cash capital, $339,000,000.
1955 Jrnl. Finance 10 121 The net working capital of any corporation is the net current asset position or the excess of current assets over current liabilities.
1976 Economist (Nexis) 9 Oct. 55 The effect of inflation on a bank's net current assets is analogous to the effect of inflation on a company's working capital.
2001 Taunton Times (Electronic ed.) 14 June At the financial year-end there was a surplus of £7,180, bringing total assets to £21,485. Net current assets also increased modestly since last year.
net exporter n. Economics a country that exports more (of a specified product) than it imports; contrasted with net importer n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > importer or exporter > types of
provision importer1885
net exporter1890
dumper1903
Klondiker1926
parallel importer1980
1890 T. A. Coghlan Wealth & Progress New S. Wales 1889–90 737 The excess of exports over imports in the case of Victoria amounted to £207,140,679. The next largest net exporter was New Zealand, whose excess of exports over imports was £41,526,136.
1986 D. Hedley World Energy (ed. 2) 89 In the late seventies there was a great deal of fearful speculation that Soviet oil production would peak in 1980 and that the Communist bloc would soon become a net importer rather than a net exporter of oil.
2015 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Nov. A decisive model that will transform Nigeria from one of the world's highest importers of rice into a net exporter of the commodity in the short- to medium-term.
net importer n. Economics a country that imports more (of a specified product) than it exports; contrasted with net exporter n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun]
merchantc1225
grocer1427
merchantman1449
marketor1474
fleece-feeder1549
mercadore1595
marcantanta1616
man of business1640
correspondent1698
businessman1803
mercantile1813
net importer1925
commercial1962
1925 Rev. Econ. Statistics 7 66/1 Russia, moreover, which in 1923–24 exported 66 million bushels of wheat and rye and some oats and barley, is a net importer in the present crop year.
1973 N.Y. Times 8 June 51/1 The trade figures..show that the Soviet Union, generally portrayed as having a vast gas-export potential, remains a net importer of gas.
1999 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 5 Jan. 8/3 The magnitude and direction of the change would depend on whether Kenya's trading position with the euro area is classified as a net importer or net exporter.
net national product n. an assessment of the national product of a country which allows for the depreciation of capital goods during the period assessed (see quot. 1964 and cf. gross national product at gross adj. 6c).
ΚΠ
1945 S. Kuznets National Product in Wartime i. ii. 13 Net national product consists of (a) flow of goods to consumers, (b) net nonwar Capital formation, (c) net war output, i.e., net additions to the inventory of war goods.
1962 Listener 25 Oct. 679/1 The proportion of the net national product going to property and enterprise..has fallen relative to that going to wages and salaries.
1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 453/2 In defining national product,..one has a choice about whether or not to subtract from the total an allowance for the depreciation of capital goods that occurs during the period... If one does make such a subtraction, the results are called net national product.
net net adj. (of a book or its price) not subject to any discount whatever; also net and net.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [adjective] > net or non-net
non-net1906
net net1952
1952 Bookseller 5 Jan. 27 This list is..published..at quarterly intervals..with Classified List, May 6/–net net.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 275/2 Net net, an indication that a book so marked or described must be sold at the full published price, and that the publisher will not allow any discount to the book trade... Confined almost exclusively to reference works published at the lowest possible sum for the benefit of the trade.
1961 M. C. Turner Bookman's Gloss. (ed. 4) 113 When an English book carries no trade discount, it is sometimes called a ‘net net’ book.
net present value n. Accounting the projected total net income from an asset, including its residual value with the interest discounted at a specified rate, less the initial cost of the asset.
ΚΠ
1915 in Jrnl. Polit. Econ. (1916) 24 328 It is the..net present value of the future goods that is compared with the value of the present goods.
1969 D. C. Hague Managerial Econ. ii. vi. 128 If we..add together the sums of money in Column C, including the minus £1,000 for Year 0, we are left with a net amount of £10. This is known as the net present value (NPV) of the project.
1978 Economist (Nexis) 2 Sept. 102 A discounted view of crude in 20 years' time makes its net present value negligible. The only offsetting gain is the value of the gases but that is not much.
1990 R. Izhar Accounting, Costing, & Managem. iii. xxiv. 366 Several techniques are available to help in the decision-making process. They vary in complexity from simple crude methods such as payback and accounting rate of return to more sophisticated techniques using discounted cash flow principles such as net present value and internal rate of return.
2000 N.Y. Times 13 Dec. a35/2 The contract itself isn't quite as high as it sounds: it includes long-term deferred money that reduces its net present value to $180 million.
net-priced adj. (esp. of a book) sold at a net price.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [adjective] > sold at or based on net price
net-priced1909
1909 Daily Chron. 16 July 3/2 In his new net-priced series.
1973 Writers' & Artists' Year Bk. 218 They agree to sell their net-priced books to booksellers.
net reproduction rate n. a reproduction rate representing the average number of girls born to each woman of a population who can be expected to reach their mothers' age at the time of birth, calculated from the average fertility rates and death rates of each age group during the period considered.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > reproduction rate
gross reproduction rate1928
net reproduction rate1928
1928 R. R. Kuczynski Balance Births & Deaths I. iii. 46 The net reproduction rate, as we may call it, was 1·435.
1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After viii. 170 Gross and net reproduction rates have been published for France since 1806.
1973 Sci. Amer. Apr. 19/1 Under conditions of high mortality the difference between the net reproduction rate and the gross reproduction rate is large.
net system n. the system laid down in the United Kingdom in the Net Book Agreement for the sale of net books; any system resembling this.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > books > practices or systems
subscribing1751
subscription1836
net system1890
remaindering1907
bestsellerism1913
denetting1992
1890 Bookseller 6 Mar. 244/2 With the hearty co-operation of the retail trade, the net system could easily be introduced.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 631/2 In 1901 the net system, as adopted in Great Britain, was partially introduced into America.
1922 Publisher's Weekly 28 Oct. 1515/2 Even the net system did not make booksellers' calling as remunerative a one as many others.
1992 J. A. H. Dempster T. & T. Clark Story viii. 184 Macmillan's firm..began to issue a limited number of books under the net system with the full consent of the authors.
net weight n. the weight (of merchandise) exclusive of packaging, etc.; cf. tare n.2
ΚΠ
1760 G. G. Beekman Let. 14 July in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 361 I have also debeted your account for one chest of tea sent you by this conveyance marked [blank] Net weight 358 lbs. at 5/9 per amounting to £103 which I think is very good.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxviii. 341 Reckoning ten barrels to the ton, you have ten tons for the net weight of only three quarters of the stuff of the whale's skin.
1993 Sci. Amer. Apr. 5/3 Net mass is required for fair trade; ‘net weight’ is a government lie!
net worth n. the value (of a business, etc.) after all liabilities have been deducted from the true market value, as opposed to the book value, of the assets; (now frequently) the total wealth of an individual, taking account of all financial assets and liabilities (esp. debts).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > held
holding1573
interest1674
equity1889
net worth1930
to have a stake in1955
1930 Economist 17 May 1108/2 ‘Net worth’ (that is, the stockholders' equity, made up of preferred and common stock outstanding, surplus account and undivided profits, taken at the beginning of the fiscal year).
1955 Times 13 July 13/1 Some estimates..have now been made..of the net worth of consumers.
1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 465/2 The expression net worth is becoming obsolete. The British now frequently use the expression total equity.
1980 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 6 May 2 Mr. Evans said the new bank will offer banking services to high net worth individuals with special sensitivity to the needs of foreign executives and investors.
1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power p. xi And the Journal's readership is the cream of American society, with an average household income of $107,800 a year in 1985 and an average net worth of $767,800.
1994 Accountancy Sept. 38/1 The islands are trying to attract sophisticated, high net worth individuals and offer them one-stop banking, stockbroking and investment advice.
net zero n. (in the management of greenhouse gas emissions) an overall balance between the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere; a target of achieving this in order to mitigate the effects of global warming.
ΚΠ
1989 Session to Establish National Energy Policy to Reduce Global Warming (Hearings before U.S. Senate Comm. on Energy & Natural Resources) 23 On a fuel cycle basis, an integrated biofuels energy system is probably the closest to being net zero for CO2 effects of all combustion based energy systems, due to the CO2 absorption of the growing feedstocks.
2005 Campaign 22 July 20/4 What this really means is you've assessed, reduced and then offset your CO2 emissions to net-zero.
2021 Daily Tel. (Australia) (Nexis) 12 May 89 Last year the National Farmers Federation set a net zero goal for 2050, while the Meat and Livestock Association went further, pledging to reach net zero by 2030.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

netv.1

Brit. /nɛt/, U.S. /nɛt/
Forms: Old English nettian, late Middle English nette, 1500s– net.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: net n.1
Etymology: < net n.1 Compare Old Icelandic netja, Old Swedish nätia to catch in a net (Swedish (regional) nättja to catch in a net, cover in cobwebs), Danish †næde (1550 or earlier) to catch in a net, nette to net a goal, Old High German -nezzon (in binezzon to catch in a net, German †netzen to lace, do netting (in needlework), to catch in a net).
1.
a. transitive. To take, catch, or capture (fish, birds, etc.) with a net or nets; (Angling) to land (a fish) in a net.In quot. 1773 in figurative context.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > catch in net
netOE
mesha1547
toil1592
innetc1595
trammel1846
field-net1889
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > catch fish with net
netOE
dredge1508
drag1698
tuck1785
gillnet1837
amphibolize1854
gill1868
trawl1883
seine1887
poke1899
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 436 [Tenacissimis vinculis] inretita: genettad, geræpad [OE Digby 146 geræped, genetted].
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 56 Recio, to netten or snare.
1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 77 But fly not with so quick a pace, To leave 'em distant in the race, But dodge and double like a hare, Till they are netted in the snare.
1860 G. A. Sala in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 239 (note) A ‘dare for larks’ or circular board with pieces of looking-glass inserted, used, on sunshiny days, for the purpose of ‘daring’ or ‘dazing’ larks from their high soaring flight to within a distance convenient for shooting or netting them.
1868 Daily News 15 July The fishermen..were netting large takes of mackerel.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 58 Shrimps are netted on most shallow shores.
1883 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 69/2 Netting the ruffs and reeves in the summer time.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 11/3 Netting the in-spawn dace.
1958 Times 18 Sept. 5/4 Legal difficulties under Scottish Law prevent general action from being taken on suggestions that a solution to the problem might be found by netting salmon in the estuaries and transferring them by tank to freshwater lochs.
1988 S. Afr. Panorama Apr. 38/1 In India and Israel grey mullet..are netted in mangrove swamps.
1990 Match Fishing Feb. 22/3 It can't be very often that the bloke at the next peg hooks, plays and nets a 3lb chub within six seconds.
b. transitive. To take, catch, capture, or to gather in as with a net.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > catch or capture [verb (transitive)]
i-lecchec1000
fang1016
hentOE
takeOE
alatchlOE
catchc1275
wina1300
to take ina1387
attain1393
geta1400
overhent?a1400
restay?a1400
seizea1400
tachec1400
arrest1481
carrya1500
collara1535
snap1568
overgo1581
surprise1592
nibble1608
incaptivate1611
nicka1640
cop1704
chop1726
nail1735
to give a person the foot1767
capture1796
hooka1800
sniba1801
net1803
nib1819
prehend1831
corral1860
rope1877
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)]
shrenchc897
beswike971
betrapa1000
bewindOE
undernimc1175
undertakec1175
bisayc1200
beguile?c1225
catchc1225
beginc1250
biwilea1275
tele?a1300
enginec1300
lime13..
umwrithea1340
engrin1340
oblige1340
belimec1350
enlacec1374
girnc1375
encumber138.
gnarec1380
enwrap1382
briguea1387
snarl1387
upbroid1387
trap1390
entrikea1393
englue1393
gildera1400
aguilec1400
betraisec1400
embrygec1400
snare1401
lacea1425
maska1425
begluec1430
marl1440
supprise?c1450
to prey ona1500
attrap1524
circumvene1526
entangle1526
tangle1526
entrap1531
mesh1532
embrake1542
crawl1548
illaqueate1548
intricate1548
inveigle1551
circumvent1553
felter1567
besnare1571
in trick1572
ensnare1576
overcatch1577
underfong1579
salt1580
entoil1581
comprehend1584
windlassa1586
folda1592
solicit1592
toil1592
bait1600
beset1600
engage1603
benet1604
imbrier1605
ambush1611
inknot1611
enmesha1616
trammela1616
fool1620
pinion1621
aucupate1630
fang1637
surprise1642
underreacha1652
trepan1656
ensnarl1658
stalk1659
irretiate1660
coil1748
nail1766
net1803
to rope in1840
mousetrap1870
spider1891
1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 166 Losing the chance of netting you at Oswestry, I have been in hopes of hearing from you.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 307 When Jeremy Taylor escapes from the Mononomian Romaism, which netted him in his too eager recoil from the Antinomian boar.
1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 177 French navy seamen, netted in as they are from stagnant and unknown fishing hamlets.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. ii. 26 One or two of Plutarch's touches..had netted her fancy.
1912 J. Galsworthy Inn of Tranquility 126 The dusk is falling... Some stars are already netted in the branches of the pines.
1958 Daily Mail 15 Aug. 2/1 More than 100 hardcore EOKA terrorists have been netted in the anti-terrorist operation.
1992 Economist 15 Feb. 41/1 The defence has rammed home its point by citing cases where Mr Noriega did indeed provide vital assistance in drug busts that netted big criminal fish both in Panama and America.
c. transitive. To fish (a river, etc.) with a net or nets; to set or use nets in.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > catch fish with net > set net in
net1843
1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. vii. 134 There is somebody netting the stream.
1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water iii The body had been discovered by some salmon fishers when netting the river.
1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 584/2 Thirty or forty years ago they or their agents got a rent, say, of two hundred and fifty pounds a year from a tacksman for the right of netting a certain stretch of seashore.
1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 52/2 This vehement person..spoke of himself as a moral scavenger, netting the very sewers.
1986 Farmers Weekly 3 Jan. (Farmlife Suppl.) 8/2 ‘We can recommend a firm which will clear out trees and rubbish so the water can be netted.’ If an existing pond is relatively clear of debris, Martin will net it to see what fish are there.
2.
a. transitive. To cover with, or as with, a net. Frequently with over. Also (rare): to fasten down with a net.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with or as with a net or network
net1512
quilt?1611
benet1614
spider-web1823
overnet1837
1512 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 348 Ane coup callit the coup of fere nettit with gold of florising utewcht.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 169v The windowes..hauing a hole of sufficient wydenesse ouer agaynst them, well netted and tunnelled [L. retibus munitam].
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 79v Your morne-like christall countenaunces, shall be netted ouer..with crawling venomous wormes.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 263 The inside of the ballon begins to be netted over with a volatile salt of a singular nature.
1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xxi. 315 To leave his favourite tree..after..netting it to keep off the birds.
1833 F. B. Head Bubbles from Brunnen 310 The graves were netted over with brambles.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam ii. 2 Thy fibres net the dreamless head. View more context for this quotation
1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 196 The level sea, like a pale blue disc netted in silver lace.
1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 83 How did North America get netted with iron rails?
1895 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 425 The snow, barred and netted by shadows.
1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) iii. iii. 363 Practically I contracted my sausage gas-bag by netting it down.
1931 V. Woolf Waves 207 I have netted over strawberry beds.
1931 V. Woolf Waves 207 My sons and daughters, once netted over like fruit in their cots.
1958 P. Pearce Tom's Midnight Garden xvi. 129 He was working in the garden, netting the strawberry beds.
1985 G. Naylor Linden Hills 292 The gold paper cone was netted with silver threads.
b. transitive. To hem in or close round with, or as with, a net.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)] > as with specific means
net1607
encrusta1711
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 199 They..with their tailes, net in and intangle his legs and feet.
1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 143 He is netted round with chains.
1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold ii. ii. 38 How dense a fold of danger nets him round.
1900 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Apr. 22/2 Please wire £140 for netting round selection.
1938 J. F. W. Schulz Destined to Perish 22 Though the station was netted in, the rabbits gradually broke through.
c. transitive. To enclose, pen in, or confine with or by means of a net or nets.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > fatten > on turnips
turnip1799
net1847
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > down > in specific manner
net1847
plank1895
1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 431 Where larger breadths of turnips are sown, the wedder lambs are netted upon them in October.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 95 A break, in size suitable to the number of sheep, should be netted or hurdled off.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 95 After that they may be netted on where the turnips grow.
1917 W. S. Churchill in R. S. Churchill & M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1977) IV. i. 93 A sheltered anchorage with refuelling facilities, the whole properly netted and surrounded by an extensive system of mines, will have been created.
1967 E. B. Nickerson Kayaks to Arctic x. 92 I had been wearing my hair in a long braid but tonight I coiled and netted it in a pug.
1980 S. Hazzard Transit of Venus i. iii. 24 Dora's hair was netted in a veiling cap, like thatch under wire.
3.
a. intransitive. To make nets or network; to occupy oneself with netting.In the late 18th, and 19th centuries, esp. to make netting (cf. netting n.2 2) for purses, garments, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > manufacture textile fabric [verb (intransitive)] > other
net1674
hook1854
crochet-
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 152 The Spider drives on the great business of catching flies, by netting in corners within doors.
1789 A. Seward Lett. (1811) II. 314 I often..see you..sitting netting in your parlour.
a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. xxii. 222 She was netting away as if nothing unusual had occurred.
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. xxii. 290 They sat in adjoining windows of the same room in Lucetta's great stone mansion, netting, and looking out upon the market.
1947 A. Ransome Great Northern? xv. 183 ‘Don't stop netting, Dick’... Peggy..set to work to make Dick's bit of netting catch up with the other two.
1955 E. Bishop At Fishhouses in Compl. Poems (1983) 64 Down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting.
b. transitive. To make (a thing) by the process of netting or producing network; to form (items) into a net; to interlace and secure (threads, etc.) in order to make network.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > net
knitc1290
net1681
reticulate1822
mesh1882
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis (1694) i. iv. 80 The nest of a little bird of China..within, consisting of parts loosely netted together, as those in the middle of harts-horn.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis (1694) iv. iii. 371 It consisteth of twisted thread, as thick as small packthred... Not netted; nor woven with warp and woofe; but after the manner of bobbin-work.
1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain II. xliv. 99 I have seen..a Lady's white bosom shewn through mashes [sic] netted by the man who made the snare.
1781 J. Woodforde Diary 24 July (1924) I. 317 I read a good deal of the History of England today to Nancy whilst she was netting her apron.
1789 in A. C. Bower's Diaries & Corr. (1903) 58 The purse..was very pretty and monstrously well net.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. vi. 70 She is netting herself the sweetest cloak you can conceive. View more context for this quotation
1839 T. Hood I'm not Single Man iv, in Hood's Own 123/1 I had more purses netted then Than I could hope to fill.
1883 in N. Okoshi Fisheries Japan 33 There will remain 384 meshes, which, being netted again [etc.].
1897 Dict. National Biogr. 32/1 She also received a purse netted by the hands of Marie-Antoinette, who..addressed it to ‘La Belle Anglaise’.
1985 G. T. Nurse et al. Peoples of Southern Afr. iv. 91 This string could also be netted into bags or used for sewing mats together.
c. transitive (reflexive). To form as if into a net, or into something functioning like a net. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > manufacture textile fabric [verb (reflexive)] > net
net1889
1889 Mrs. Randolph New Eve I. vii. 251 Circumstances had netted themselves round him with meshes of steel.
4.
a. transitive. In Association Football, hockey, etc.: to send (the ball, etc.) into the goal net; to score (a goal). In tennis, etc.: to mishit (the ball, etc.) into the net.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [verb (transitive)] > put ball out or into net
out1865
net1906
1906 Peel City Guardian 10 Mar. 8/3 It seemed as if they meant to force the custodian into the net, not net the ball.
1927 Daily Express 22 June 2/2 Raymond, striving for extra speed, netted and outed a succession of returns.
1970 Times 1 Oct. 10/4 Reading gained ground at the expense of Bradford City, Williams netting the only goal.
1972 D. Delman Sudden Death (1973) vi. 169 A shocking bounce on a shoddy return, and I net what I should have put away.
1988 Hindu 25 Feb. 14/4 The scorer himself paved the way for Ravi Navalgi netting the fourth.
b. intransitive. In Association Football, hockey, etc.: to score a goal.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > score
get1634
make1680
score1742
notch1836
steal1836
to put up1860
rattle1860
to put on1865
tally1875
net1907
to rack up1921
slam1959
1907 Peel City Guardian 26 Oct. 5/2 A rush in the goal resulted in Cain netting.
1927 Daily Express 20 Apr. 13/2 Scriven netted for Birmingham in the first five minutes.
1951 Sport 27 Jan. 4/1 There followed a wholesale home protest before Don Revie netted from the 12-yard mark.
1988 Football Today Nov. 13/1 He played in three Wembley Finals..netting with a header..versus Manchester City..to register the fastest ever Cup Final goal at Wembley.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

netv.2

Brit. /nɛt/, U.S. /nɛt/
Forms: see net n.1
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French netter, neter.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman netter, nettir, niteer and Old French neter, netir (13th cent.) to clean, purify, absolve < net net adj. Compare Old French nettoiier , nettier to purify morally, absolve (c1170), to clean, cleanse (13th cent.; French nettoyer ). Compare earlier netting n.1
English regional. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.
transitive. To clean, wash, or rinse (clothes); also in extended use. Also (occasionally): to cleanse, clear, or rid (a place, etc.) of something.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (transitive)]
yclense971
cleansea1000
farmOE
fayc1220
fowc1350
absterse?a1425
mundify?a1425
muck1429
to cast clean1522
absterge1526
sprinkle1526
reconcile1535
net1536
clengec1540
neat?1575
snuff?1575
rinse1595
deterge1623
scavengea1644
scavenger1645
decrott1653
reform1675
clean1681
deterse1684
fluxa1763
to clean away, offa1839
to clean down1839
scavage1851
untaint1855
to sand and canvas1912
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (transitive)]
washc900
scour1467
neta1661
laundry1880
maid1882
1536 R. Morison Remedy for Sedition sig. 12v Even so, neyther the bodye [can be cleansed], without the mynde be firste netted.
1536 R. Morison Remedy for Sedition 23 He hath netted his realme of ydle vacabundes.
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 106 They..trample it with their feet (never vouchsafing a hand to nett or wash it withal).
1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray et al. Philos. Lett. (1718) 333 Net, to wash Cloaths, give them a Net.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 373 After linen has been washed it generally has to undergo the ‘netting-out’ process.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

netv.3

Brit. /nɛt/, U.S. /nɛt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: net adj.
Etymology: < net adj.
1. transitive. Of a person, organization, etc.: to gain (an amount of money) as a net sum or as clear profit; to succeed in achieving (a specified sum) as profit. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > bring in (a revenue)
raise1389
levy1469
to pull in?1529
to fetch again1535
to bring in?1548
yield1573
produce1585
answer1596
in1609
render1687
net1758
rent1775
realize1777
earn1847
recoup1868
1758 J. Adams Diary 19 Oct. (1961) I. 52 He retails Sugar [etc.]..to save these Articles in his family, and neat a few Shillings Profit.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 201 I..could never yet find that two pounds per cow could be netted per annum.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 141 The spells, whereby publishers sweated For profit, first paying those hundreds Ann netted.
1862 L. Weedon Syst. Husb. 7 If by the new plan..he can net a full profit of £4 per acre.
1920 A. Carnegie Autobiogr. xix. 255 Our successors, the United States Steel Corporation, soon after the purchase, netted sixty millions in one year.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 590 The idea.., was to do good and net a profit.
1938 R. K. Narayan Dark Room ix. 144 He..worked himself up to his best canvassing technique—a gift which made him net a lakh's worth of policies a year.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 6/5 The United States Tennis Association..reports that Australia's Rod Laver, then the top money winner, netted $100,200 in 1972.
1995 Private Eye 20 Oct. 6/1 He netted £2.45 million on the deal.
2.
a. transitive. Of a business, product, enterprise, etc.: to bring in or yield (an amount of money) as a profit or net sum. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)]
wieldeOE
haveeOE
ofgoOE
oweOE
addlec1175
winc1175
avela1200
to come by ——a1225
covera1250
oughtc1275
reachc1275
hentc1300
purchasec1300
to come to ——c1330
getc1330
pickc1330
chevise1340
fang1340
umbracec1350
chacche1362
perceivea1382
accroacha1393
achievea1393
to come at ——a1393
areach1393
recovera1398
encroach?a1400
chevec1400
enquilec1400
obtainc1422
recurec1425
to take upc1425
acquirea1450
encheve1470
sortise1474
conques?a1500
tain1501
report1508
conquest1513
possess1526
compare1532
cough1550
coff1559
fall1568
reap1581
acquist1592
accrue1594
appurchasec1600
recoil1632
to get at ——1666
to come into ——1672
rise1754
net1765
to fall in for1788
to scare up1846
access1953
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make in profit
winc1175
gain1530
advantage1557
lucre1570
superlucrate1652
cleara1719
realize1720
net1765
to clean up1831
mop1861
gross1884
to cash in1904
1765 G. G. Beekman Let. 19 Jan. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 479 Net Proceeds £776.12.5 Of which Remains outstanding 371.2.9. If you had not sent Box No. 2 with the fine Linen they would have Netted a Pretty Proffit.
1786 H. Mackenzie Lounger No. 78. ⁋4 The estate indeed..was considerably increased in its rent; ‘but..it nets nothing’.
1833 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1866) III. 58 We had a benefit here,..which netted nearly four thousand dollars.
1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 131 These berries..netted an average of about eight cents per pound.
1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 178 The Management of the Bazaar was pleased to learn that the Sixty-Cent Vase had Netted over Seven Hundred Dollars.
1939 P. Barry Philadelphia Story ii. i. 51 It netted Connor something under six hundred dollars.
1975 Publishers Weekly 10 Feb. 52/3 Miss Read begins her summer holiday with a mishap, a fall that nets her a broken arm and an injured ankle.
1984 E. Pawel Nightmare of Reason (1988) i. 5 All his back-breaking labor never netted him more than the barest subsistence.
1990 2000 AD 31 Mar. 4/2 The two deals net my syndicate three hundred thou.
†b. transitive. To amount to (a certain sum). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > amount to
amount1399
draw1425
return1624
net1772
to run up1830
total1880
to tot up1882
1772 R. Cumberland Fashionable Lover iv. 42 Let me see; altogether 'tis a thumping sum: it netted forty thousand.
1800 Hull Advertiser 16 Aug. 3/1 His share of prize-money has netted..ten thousand pounds currency per month.
3. transitive. Finance. To exclude (a non-net amount, such as tax) when making a calculation, in order to reduce the amount left to a net sum. With down, off, out.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures
control1422
avouch1539
allocate1551
respond1588
score1592
carry1652
post1707
to carry forward1721
off-reckon1721
O. Ni.a1726
to carry over1745
rule1845
to write down1876
to close off188.
qualify1884
accrue1915
net1947
gross1954
strip1980
1947 Economica 14 74 There is a mysterious item of ‘other receipts’ in the Government account which has been assumed to be re-sales of goods and accordingly netted-off Government expenditure on goods and services.
1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. 287 In practice..it might be difficult to prevent colleges from netting-off certain items of income against certain items of expenditure.
1973 Daily Tel. 9 Mar. 21 If, say, banks were to be told to count in the whole amount of other banks' C Ds held as part of their asset base instead of netting out their own C Ds held elsewhere..this would effectively raise the required liquidity ratio.
1984 C. Hitching & D. Stone Understanding Accounting! vi. 75 There is the estimated scrap or salvage value that should be netted off against the original purchase price in order to arrive at the net usage cost of the asset.
1985 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Sept. 118/3 If that is netted down to $2.5 million it represents earnings per share of a little over 6c a share.
1992 Economist 31 Oct. 100/3 Securities firms should have capital equivalent to 5% of their gross holdings..plus 8% of their net holdings—after netting out long against short positions.
1995 Accountancy Nov. 87/2 An acquaintance has been self-employed for around three years with an income of around £11,000 a year netting down to a taxable profit of around £4,000.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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