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nounPlural nets nɛtnɛt 1A piece of open-meshed material made of twine, cord, or something similar, used typically for catching fish or other animals. fishermen mending their nets Example sentencesExamples - It was using a big chunk of this material as a net.
- A good fisherman weaves his own nets with twine and a needle made of whalebone.
- He fished with a golden net drawn by cords woven of purple and scarlet threads.
- Plenty of deep-sea animals other than giant squid have shown up in fishing nets without having been captured on film in their natural environment.
- The guides had the students assist with the gathering of the mud samples, water samples, and catching fish and other sea animals with a net.
- And, looking at the paltry haul in their nets and at their discarded small fish, they know it is a way of life their sons will not share with them.
- I pictured fishermen in boats hauling in their nets as fast as they were able with their thoughts of the darkness enveloping them.
- It was considered bad luck to have a female at sea, just as it was bad luck for the men to haul the first net of fish ashore in my particular branch of the family.
- The wreckers hauling in salvage nets look like fishermen at first glance, but closer inspection reveals the traces of a shipwreck.
- But he struggled instinctively like an animal under a net, and this blind struggle threw him out into a field.
- The market opens out into a harbour where people swarm everywhere, mending nets and building brightly coloured boats.
- The day's take is hauled in, the fish caught in their nets like words ‘in any order’ caught in a sentence.
- Small craft set out before sunrise, often through rough surf, to lift the nets, remove captured animals and repair damage to the mesh.
- Fishermen haul in their nets as they prepare to head back out to sea from the harbor located in the city of Suao located along Taiwan's east coast.
- Some outfits feature fishing nets or papier mâché animals, while others sport massive wings or robotic parts.
- Although I've lived in the Selby area for most of my life, I've never seen crowds of fisherman hauling nets of clams, mussels and tuna from the murky waters of the River Ouse.
- Once those animals rot the fishing net might float back up to the surface again and start ghost fishing once again.
- The fishermen stand and haul the net with fish hanging from it.
- The materials used were bamboo, fish nets, garden nets, glue, canvas, rope washing line and spray paint.
- Many of the animals die when they chase fish into nets and become tangled in the mesh.
- 1.1 A piece of net supported by a frame at the end of a handle, used for catching fish or insects.
Example sentencesExamples - Insects were transferred from sweep nets to labeled plastic bags, frozen, and sorted to morphospecies.
- Using sweep nets and aspirators the researchers collect insects and take them to a lab in Buenos Aires.
- If necessary, use an insect net to guard against the adults flying away.
- In the margins of the lake, I taught little Felix to hunt with an insect net.
- Sampling was conducted with a standard insect sweep net; each sample consisted of 100 sweeps made in a 180° arc.
- Other items, such as insect nets, were in short supply in the theater.
- We placed an insect sweep net over each aggregation, and because of the extreme inactivity of the gathered wasps, escapes were uncommon.
- First, there is a series of computer composite images that depict different aspects of field research, such as catching insects with nets.
- 1.2 The total amount of fish caught in one session or expedition.
good nets of roach, chub, and perch Example sentencesExamples - Good sport was to be had at Carpvale on Sunday where the club match on the front pond was won with a fine 75 lb net of carp from peg 70.
- Frank Atkinson led with a fine 27 lb 10 oz net of skimmers, rudd and small carp taken alternating worm, meat and pellet.
- Mike Dall won with a creditable net of perch scaling 4lb 4oz to restore some male pride.
- A recent club match was won with a fine 25 lb net of bream, skimmers and tench.
2A structure consisting of a net supported on a frame, forming the goal in games such as soccer and hockey. he turned Wilson's cross into the net Wales did find the net in the 32nd minute Example sentencesExamples - In their 48 fixtures so far, the Blues have failed to find the net on just five occasions.
- They conceded four goals, but were unable to find the net.
- They have never failed to find the net at Boundary Park with Wadsworth in charge and have taken 14 points from a possible 18.
- Football nets were used in goals for the first time, for a match in Bolton.
- Storm's failure to find the net on a consistent basis is all the more surprising considering the proven track records of their offensive players.
- This resulted in the ‘Goal of the Match’, their young forward beating three defenders before firing a perfect cross goal shot into the net.
- Another Kelly free extended the lead before Joe Higgins shot to the net for the game's only goal.
- However, they had to wait till late in the game to find the net.
- In the second half BCA came more into the game, but could only find the net once.
- He's seen him picking footballs out of the net in Highfield Road with alarming frequency.
- Also, any powerplay unit can fall out of the habit of doing some basics, such as putting the puck on goal and crashing the net.
- Try as they might neither side could find the net and the game eventually went into the dreaded penalty shoot out.
- The Soviet Union basketball team displayed tremendous nerve to find the net in the disputed last seconds of the 1972 Olympic final.
- He has the burst of pace of a scalded cat and the occasions in a summer when he sends the ball scudding low to the opposition net late in the game are a reliable index of his wellbeing.
- Unable to find the net in either game, goals remain a problem.
- I feel we deserved to go in at half-time at least goal up, but we didn't find the net.
- He proceeded to turn his man and find the net for a great goal to level up the scoring after twelve minutes.
- Following a run of six successive wins, Paul Simpson's men have taken just one point from their last two matches and failed to find the net in both games.
- Although she could not find the net in the match against Zambia, in which she came on as a a substitute in the second half, Nonoh says she is hungry for goals.
- In a much better second half performance Oaks piled on the pressure and had the majority of the play but could not find the net.
- 2.1 A net supported on a cord between two posts to divide the playing area in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
Example sentencesExamples - For entertainment, we set up a volleyball net, put up a set of makeshift soccer goals, and had a wide variety of board games.
- Surely one of those volleyball nets at Jeanne-Mance Park could be lowered for the kickers out there.
- Finally, Mike, James, and Violet gave me a net for the volleyball.
- But even here, on the Island, the makeshift homes of the country's dispossessed fill every space unoccupied by sunbeds and volleyball nets.
- He nodded and, with one last grin at her, jogged over to the volleyball net.
- A high-pitched voice yelled as a tiny blonde hit the volleyball over the net.
- We had put up the volleyball net and played pool volleyball.
- Our lead vehicle became stuck in a volleyball net.
- Before they took it away I suggested putting up two basketball posts and nets with goal posts underneath them like most other areas have but my pleas have fallen on deaf ears.
- When her kids were growing up, Dale Kephart always had volleyball and badminton nets set up in the backyard.
- There were volleyball nets set up across the large room, and our teacher, Mr. Stetgon, quickly pulled us into four groups and assigned us to a court.
- You could also try rigging up a net to play volleyball, a hoop for basketball or invite some of your children's friends round for a game of rounders.
- Gone will be the trampolines, table tennis tables and badminton nets that occupy the main auditorium on weekday nights when there is no concert.
- Sure enough, come noon on the day of the event, there were volleyball nets set up at the base of the hill, with teams aplenty ready to play some ball.
- We were all in agreement and began to set up the volleyball net.
- If it got too hot inside, there was a volleyball net set up in a courtyard.
- Rachel hit the volleyball back over the net, and glanced up only to see Jade leaning against the post, a silver knife in her hand.
- The collectors look like oversized volleyball nets.
- Once at the flashlight tag meeting spot, between two poles ground into the sand on the lake where a volleyball net should have hung, we picked teams.
- At the Baghdad correction center, about 200 delinquents share four dormitories built around a square courtyard cut by a volleyball net.
- 2.2Cricket A strip of ground enclosed by a net, for batting and bowling practice.
as modifier a full net practice Example sentencesExamples - Following his slow start to the season, Strauss was then given the opportunity of extra practice, ahead of the Bangladesh series, when he went to the school nets to face some bowling from the pupils.
- He had observed me bowling well during the nets and so thought that I could try my hand this time in a regular game.
- He was initially put up in a room whose windows faced the building that housed the indoor net practice facilities.
- The wet weather prevented the curator from producing proper practice nets and batting practice has been limited to a few minutes on the eve of the match.
- You can do only so much bowling in the nets, and I just have to see if they are willing to take the risk for the third Test.
- 2.3 A safety net.
he felt like a tightrope-walker without a net
3mass noun A fine fabric with a very open weave. Example sentencesExamples - Cut the front stay from a firmly woven cotton blend for light control or from mediumweight, girdle-like power net fabric for firm control.
- It tries to take us beyond the yellowing net curtains of their cramped tower-block flats, and into their living-rooms and bedrooms.
- The British Red Cross won the charity shop section with its festoon of red net, hearts and open book displaying information about Valentine's Day.
- Another variation to try is to place a thin voile net over the window, or draw any transparent curtains.
- Fabrics are given the technological touch with the use of rubberised velvet and wool, mirrored wool crepe, stretch net, organza and spider beaded georgette.
- For the light source, use a sunlit window with a thin voile net to soften the brightness of the sun.
- The lower part of the window had been painted white and net curtains shielded the upper part.
- Every surface was covered with satin, velvet, crinoline and net.
- In the hotel room there are no venetian blinds, but the white net curtains belly and fold in the breeze of the open window.
- Selecting a modern look, Deepika has chosen mostly chiffons, gossamer net, silk and georgettes for her debut at LIFW.
- Pressing is used on tailored and lined suits, especially on men's, on wool, on silk and some rayon, on net, and on pile fabrics.
- I parted the light net curtains of my bed and sank down beside Lucy.
- An eclectic mix of feminine flounce and frill, with models in georgettes, net and chiffons was the highlight.
- Several pieces also feature attractive patterns, such as wide or fine vertical stripes, as well as net, square and doughnut designs.
- We had no net curtains then, the neighbours always looked in when she turned on the lights.
- All I can say about the Skinners was that they had no net curtains and a pornographic oil-painting above the fire-place until the police made them stop.
- Others may have swished into the hall wearing beaded evening dresses of chiffon and netting, while others may have been swathed in silk and satin with plump sleeves of net and lace.
- Layers of stiff net petticoats went under taffeta strapless dresses that made waists look tiny.
- Is this why you've been investing in some net curtains for your kitchen?
- It was only then that blue flashing lights were seen through the white net curtains of the lounge.
Synonyms netting, meshwork, mesh, webbing, tulle, fishnet, openwork, lace, lacework, latticework, lattice - 3.1netsBritish informal Net curtains.
Example sentencesExamples - The culmination of two years' work is a plastic hook which can be used, according to Mrs Clegg, with valances, curtains and nets.
4A means of catching someone; a trap. the search was delayed, allowing the murderers to escape the net Example sentencesExamples - In addition, 242 people with incomes between €100,000 and €1m in 2001 also escaped the tax net.
- Up to 7,500 civil servants have such an arrangement in Dublin and elsewhere in the country, but the car spaces have escaped the Ministers' net.
- Finally, many criminals escape the judicial net, even though in the public eye they are criminals.
- That they may escape the banking net is not necessarily a bad thing - it depends on whether this thwarts the legislative aims.
- Even now the Kiwis are presumably wondering how, with all the islanders that they do sign, this flyer escaped their net.
- Only one girl had escaped the powerful net of her authority in her fifty year career, and that had been well nigh twenty years ago.
- It's easy to speculate that he might have been allowed to escape the net because he knows too much about wrong-doing by others in the UN.
- You have so much trapped yourself in a net of words, of speculations that the feeling itself, which is the only thing that is deep and vital in us, is lost.
Synonyms trap, booby trap, snare literary toils - 4.1 A means of selecting or securing someone or something.
he spread his net far and wide in his long search for success Example sentencesExamples - The festival will spread its net wide across the six major cities of Scotland - Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
- ‘Organisations are therefore spreading the recruitment net as wide as possible in order to find the best people’.
- A wisp of a reasoned argument escaped the net that I cast far and wide.
- The question remains: why should whatever gave rise to the threat define the class of permissible victims when it is within our power to spread a wider net?
- Ironically, the further the government's statisticians spread their net in the Yorkshire region, the slower was the increase.
- The co-operative intend to spread their net of membership as wide as possible among individuals and groups interested in the rural economy and rural development.
- Instead, he has chosen to spread the tax net wide across the booming services sector.
- People said spreading the net wide across the town was the best way of tracking down the hoodie attacker.
- And once legal personhood is secured for chimpanzees, Wise hopes to cast the net of legal rights wider.
- Homeloans began as a broadly based financial services brokerage, but after six months Curry and Gavin realised they were spreading their net too wide.
- But Gilmore says he has every intention of spreading the artistic net.
- In fact, Graham Harvey, whose own academic location is in religious studies, has spread his net fairly wide.
- That's very admirable, but he's spread his net far too wide.
- And from what I know of his father, they'd not have wanted to spread their net too wide, lest he realize they were about.
- And now he will take in two, lower level La Liga games as he spreads the net far and wide in search of new talent.
- Yesterday, for instance, it emerged that Lord Levy has now spread his net to the euro referendum and has begun fundraising for the ‘yes’ campaign.
- Recruiting has already begun for this chief executive - with the net being spread wider than members of the Shepherd family.
- But what previous generations would have considered tangible personal prosperity spreads its net ever wider.
- We decided to spread our net as wide as possible and try three starters.
- Here are some sops which might help politicians in spreading their net for votes.
5A communications or broadcasting network, especially of maritime radio. the radio net was brought to life with a mayday Example sentencesExamples - Sean hit a small button on the screen in front of him, tying him in to the radio net.
- Even then the skipper has to be alert for out-of-season storm warnings, currently broadcast on a ham radio net.
- Linked with each other and supporting batteries via radio net, every observer could fire any or all available support batteries at once.
- Unit formations, command vehicles, radio nets and unit morale have no effect on the game play.
- The contact report surged through the platoon internal radio net like a bolt of lightning.
- After someone gives the warning of an enemy in the area, the enemy's location and disposition is then broadcasted over the radio net.
- What types of radios and nets are we going to communicate with?
- The Guderian designed HF radio nets provided a level of command and control never before achieved on the battlefield.
- In the third period of the Great Patriotic War, the number of air army radio nets doubled by comparison with the first period.
- We can say that we haven't covered foreign affairs and even the broadcast, the antenna nets don't do it very well either.
- Anyway, we managed on the same day to notify the local Coast Guard station, our insurance company and the French radio net.
- And I guess the hardest question I ever asked anyone over a military radio net was the lieutenant, one of the wounded or killed?
- Radio nets only extended down to company level in armoured units, so that company commanders had to communicate with their tanks by hand signal or motorcycle.
- As he descended, he called his fellow PJs over their tactical radio net to tell them he was OK.
- After a few moments the snipers commence their commentary via the team's radio net - ensuring all callsigns have situational awareness.
- And because the call was placed into a patch unit, it allowed us to link that net into other radio nets or telephone lines.
- There are the nationwide nets: Concert FM on two frequencies; National Radio for Dunedin City and for Mosgiel.
- Approval even came over the radio net to shoot dogs to prevent them from being rigged with explosives.
- 5.1 A network of interconnected computers.
Example sentencesExamples - Although WEP is one of the most talked-about means of protection for a wireless net, it will not by itself make your network secure.
- With those two pieces of data, an attacker can impersonate a legitimate device on that wireless net.
- The same could happen with the net - we'll have national nets with firewalls and exorbitant charges.
- In Europe, prosecutors have brought cases against the alleged online attackers suspected of creating networks of compromised computers, known as bot nets.
- Although it may be too technical for some, the book offers plenty of information for those looking to lock down their wireless nets.
- File swap nets will win, DRM and lawyers lose, say MS researchers
- Security experts applauded the successful investigations but remained pragmatic about the impact the arrests will have on the increasing use of bot nets as a means to facilitate online crime.
- Every time I turned the channel, it seemed like there was another story about the computer intern net.
- As it is, some smaller nets are anticipating bandwidth charges considerably higher than they're prepared to deal with.
- Put the server on both nets: This option is a good one, since wireless and wired clients will each access the server via their respective pipes.
- It should support interaction between territorially dispersed segments of the local computer net of mobile formations.
- The EMC checking software in Cadstar 4.5 first identifies critical nets then analyses whether those nets will cause problems once they have been routed.
- Maybe H. Zuckerman, presumably a tough cop, was refusing to give her name so they could look up her vital statistics on various computer nets.
- 5.2 The Internet.
ensuring privacy on the Net is an increasingly difficult job Example sentencesExamples - Around three per cent of companies had been involved in litigation from misuse of the Net.
- The research outfit found that the more people use the Net, the more they are likely to shop online.
- The more years people have spent online, the more hours they spend on the Net.
- Now with the Net, we can get identity theft and stolen Internet access into the bargain.
- The journal is on the Net, but unfortunately you need a subscription to get access to the full text.
- Nearly two thirds of Americans have access to the Net either at home or work.
- Employees don't give a stuff about using their computers at work to access the Net.
- Of those Net users quizzed, eight out of ten said they used the Net to search for information and for email.
- Nearly a third of business users steal software or digital content, by grabbing it from the Net.
- People accessing the Net outside these hours will be charged on a pay-as-you-go basis.
- The Chinese Government is concerned the Net can corrupt the minds of youngsters.
- Instead, these people have opted to use phone books or the Net to look-up numbers.
- Almost half of those who accessed the Net used it for some type of e-commerce transaction.
- It's a big task, given that only ten per cent of humans have access to the Net today.
- All users need is a computer hooked up to the Net, microphone, speakers and sound card.
- The government claimed today that virtually all British schools were now hooked up to the Net.
- One group will use a whole range of devices to access the Net, the other group will have just one.
- A worm capable of using webcams to spy on users is circulating across the Net.
- Officials in Kingston upon Hull want to give everyone in the city access to the Net.
- It will also examine whether technology can be used to hit reduce the amount of spam clogging up the Net.
verbnets, netting, netted nɛtnɛt [with object]1Catch (a fish or other animal) with a net. damage caused when netting the fish rabbits can be netted all the year round Example sentencesExamples - Only butterflies, grasshoppers, mosquitoes and flies are netted there.
- With the cod coming near the boat, walk backwards towards the cabin to allow the skipper to get right to the back of the stern of the boat and he'll net the fish.
- Near such centres of population the fish are netted for local consumption, so the remaining fish are fewer and smaller.
- West hasn't netted a whale or dolphin since he spent $1,700 outfitting his mile-long net with 41 of the alarms.
- After a good scrap, a short but extremely fat fish was netted.
- It is not easy in the dark but I prefer to net weeded fish myself so I have control of when to lift, then if it all goes wrong I can only blame myself.
- Eventually I netted the fish which was a nice fully finned rainbow of about five pounds.
- I netted a beast, all 11 lb 10 oz of it, from the York water at Beningbrough Park last Friday.
- A few minutes later I netted his fish for him, and he was right, we needed the big net and the camera, he had landed a common of fifteen pounds and fourteen ounces!
- We netted the chicks using a large landing net, placed them in a holding container, and transported them to shore.
- I grabbed the net moved downstream hoping to net the fish before it reached the snaggy zone and was in luck, quickly netting the fish.
- I managed to calm down the old ticker and successfully netted the fish, a marvellous Rudd of one pound twelve ounces, nearly three times bigger than any that I had ever caught previously!
- As we were quite high up from the water we used a landing net with a twelve foot long telescopic handle so that we could safely net any fish that we caught.
- They show in the puffy, jowly contours of his face and the seen-it-all weariness in the eyes but those eyes still light up at the prospect of pulling off an art heist that will net him millions.
- The latest catch was a large mature male crab netted by Bridlington fisherman Andrew Sanderson last week.
- After a nice fight the fish was netted, carefully weighed at 1lb 4oz, quickly photographed and returned.
- In May this year he returned with colleagues to the sanctuary, where they were able to net two specimens.
- This was accomplished by photographing and netting both species as they foraged at the Palmer agave flowers.
- Trapping or netting the fish can be dated back to the 12 th century, and though it was clear that over-fishing could lead to a decline in stocks, no one really knew why numbers went up or down.
- As I netted this second salmon, I realised that it was again over twenty pounds.
- They might catch the fish or net the bird but not consume it.
- 1.1 Fish with nets in (a river)
they were netting the River Naver Example sentencesExamples - How often I heard the stories of the poachers, pronounced poochers, who netted the river for salmon to the disgust of the rod-men and the local boatmen.
- In the past I have reported about the illegal netting of lakes and rivers across Ireland.
- If you see any one netting the river or killing Pike over 3 kilo then report it.
- 1.2 Acquire or obtain in a skilful way.
customs officials have netted large caches of drugs Example sentencesExamples - Acting on a tip, Pattaya police were quickly in and out of the Night Market in South Pattaya and their big bust smothered a small time dealer, netting a cache of pornographic video CDs.
- Liu is the fourth top official of China's second largest lender to have been netted in Beijing's anti-graft campaign.
- A corruption crackdown has netted officials with ties to top leaders such as Li Peng, but no one close to Jiang has been implicated.
- In the ensuing days, a number of people were netted after stringent customs regulations and tightened security were put into effect.
- The sweep was successful in netting a large cache or weapons, explosives, ammunition, and other equipment.
- It plans to launch a fresh range of notebooks in mid August concentrating on areas such as audio, and aims to net customers who are looking to replace their desktop with a notebook.
Synonyms catch, capture, take captive, trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, bag, hook, land informal nab, collar
2(in sport) hit (a ball) into the net; score (a goal) Example sentencesExamples - Gilbert Mushangazhike, the visitors' leading goal scorer, netted twice in the first half, but missed a penalty in the second half.
- Shanahan already has scored 20 goals after netting only 31 goals and 58 points last season.
- Witness reports also claimed that on-loan Charlton teenager Randolph later incited City fans by signalling the score after Accrington had netted their second goal.
- Gerry netted three goals during the tournament and his impressive form certainly caught the attention of the host nation and a year later he was on his way back to Spain to join Real Mallorca.
- Whilst they are hardly prolific scorers netting only six goals, their defence has done well in only conceding eight goals the least number of goals conceded, a sorry sight when your team cannot find goals.
- Farrelly played a leading role when Bolton were promoted to the Premiership in 2001, netting the first goal in their play-off final win over Preston.
- Aiming for the fourth title of the season the local favourite netted a goal in each session, outplaying its bemused opponent.
- McCourt rounded three defenders before firing home and then went on another mazy run that ended with fellow substitute Townson netting his 17th goal of the season.
- The Dutch international has netted a club-record 22 goals in 23 Champions League appearances for United.
- Earlier in the day, Naboye hammered Mungwi 3-0 with Ackim Tembo netting his fourth goal making him the tournament's top scorer.
- Simon Parke netted his sixth goal in six games in the win over Blyth Spartans and Mark Stuart grabbed his eighth of the season.
- But the 26-year-old Spartak Moscow midfielder deserved his stroke of luck as he netted his fifth international goal.
- When the opportunity arose in the 27th minute Andre Emmanuel pounced on a loose ball and netted the first goal.
- Midway through the second half, former Bantams skipper Lee Duxbury netted his first goal for the Throstle Nest outfit, again from a Stamer assist.
- The home side had a lot of possession but rarely threatened the visitors in the final third and slumped to a defeat as the Liverpudlians netted a goal in each half.
- The Blackburn fans were jubilant but to general surprise Wanderers came away to net the ball twice in as many minutes.
- Fowler may have only netted six goals this season, but he has a handful of assists to his mane as well, and has also curbed his aggression, only picking up a single yellow card.
- Widely reviled bad boy Craig Bellamy nets both goals thanks to some generosity from Crystal Palace goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly.
- Ryan Robinson netted a consolation goal for the Huddersfield side from the penalty spot but it was too late to prevent Crag from taking all three points.
- Andy Beckwith scored a hat-trick for Wyke, while Mohammed Jahangir netted his first goal for Heaton.
3Cover with a net. we fenced off a rabbit-proof area for vegetables and netted the top
Phrases slip (or fall) through the net Escape from or be missed by something intended to catch or deal with one. the girl slipped through the net of all the care agencies Example sentencesExamples - He would attempt to make sure no promising Scot, regardless of age, could slip through the net and elude the SFA's coaching infrastructure.
- There are, of course, implications of having a more flexible education system - some people might simply just slip through the net and evade education entirely, which isn't good.
- He added that if they were not fully implemented ‘we will continue to have sub-standard systems, while people will slip through the net and avoid detection’.
- And obviously, a great deal did slip through the net.
- But he added that it was important to try and catch those who were falling through the net.
- But a small minority of traders, who attempt to sell their cars privately to avoid paying tax, slip through the net.
- The move means that troublemakers who are known to the police but have slipped through the net so far because they have avoided arrest can now be banned.
- ‘We always use employment agencies which carry out checks on supply staff, and I would urge all heads to make sure they are doing the same to avoid staff slipping through the net as it could happen,’ he said.
- That is the only way for us to see exactly where our reforms are working, and where they are not working, to make sure that no pupil slips through the net.
- I don't think anybody has the answer but people do need to be caught before they slip through the net.
Origin Old English net, nett, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch net and German Netz. Rhymes abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette adjective nɛtnɛt 1(of an amount, value, or price) remaining after the deduction of tax or other contributions. net earnings per share rose Often contrasted with gross (sense 2 of the adjective) the camera will cost you, net of VAT, about £300 Example sentencesExamples - Open interest is the net value of all open positions in one market or contract and portrays the depth of volume that is possible in that market.
- Canary Wharf said its net value per share increased from £5.18 to £6.78 in the year to June.
- Reduce this by the costs and you will find the net value, while it can maintain some livelihoods, will not impact much on our GDP.
- And it's a big boost to the bottomline with net value addition per person being 10-15 times the amount it is for BPOs.
- With netting, gross obligations are discharged by the transfer of the net amount of value due from each obligor.
- You simply put in any adjustments such as overtime or commission, then push a couple of buttons, and a payslip with the correct net amount is produced.
- Homeowners will see their residences' net value grow instead of cashing out some equity when refinancing.
- It has a 100 per cent capital protection of the net amount invested for a period of six years.
- For example, the net balance, which represents the net amount owed, shifts back and forth between parties as goods and services are exchanged.
- They are only worried about whether he thought the tax had been paid and whether the amount he received was a net amount.
- The net amount that will be spent is estimated at about R5,8bn this year.
- Where 15% UK tax was deducted, the net amount received is liable to Irish tax.
- The South African Act provides for a further abatement of R 1,5 million, to be deducted from the net value of the estate.
- May I suggest contributions per net earnings or even contributions per employee?
- The major difference between regular income tax and the AMT system is the specifics used in calculating the net amount of taxable income.
- Once all the deductions have been made, the net amount is called your taxable estate.
- Company B would record the net amount retained (the 5 percent service fee) as revenue.
- By terminating the contracts at market prices, a net amount might well be payable to the debtor, rather than to the other party.
- Non-French tax residents are subject to wealth tax only if the net value of their French-sourced assets are worth more than €720,000.
- However, the company's net worth is still valued at well over €17 million.
Synonyms after taxes, after deductions, take-home, clear, final British nett informal bottom line - 1.1 (of a weight) excluding that of the packaging.
Example sentencesExamples - Additionally, tags will have the manufacturer's name and address, as well as the guarantee on the net weight of the feed contained in the bag.
- The net weight gain over the retired Range Rover is approximately 500 pounds.
- The maximum added weight of approximately 3 percent solution before processing is included in the net weight on the label.
- After stacking, each palette contains 40 sacks in 8 layers into a net weight of one ton.
- The outer leaves were trimmed and then they were reweighed to obtain net weight, which was a lettuce ready for packing for sale.
- The goods sold under the terms of this licence will be sold by reference to number or by net weight.
- The owner's orange plastic tag, containing catch site and net weight, is clearly displayed, by law, on top.
- The enhanced net weight is partly created by the lack of fungal disease in the plants, since less fungal disease means that the plants need less trimming.
- Under the experimental conditions, the increase in ELF volume is greater than the apparent net weight gain of the lung.
- The net mass stayed the same, of course, the orbit didn't alter, of course we didn't notice.
- The net weight loss at the end of two years was modest: 3.5 kg in the intervention group and 0.8 kg in the control group.
- The false floor of the box was equipped with a preweighed paper towel so that defecation mass could be svibtracted from preflight mass to obtain net flight mass.
- Under the Bill consumers must only be charged on a net weight basis - that is, without any packaging included in the stated weight or price.
- Calculation of net mass gain requires assumptions about the nature, degree, and uniformity of overnight mass loss.
- To estimate the net mass of the meal, we added the values of expected mass loss before the meal was delivered to the observed mass gain.
- 1.2 (of a score in golf) adjusted to take account of a player's handicap.
Example sentencesExamples - Darwen then took the President's Trophy with the best aggregate nett score from their four players.
- In a handicap competition, the competitor with the lowest net score for the stipulated round or rounds is the winner.
- There was an interesting scenario last Saturday with a great prize for the best nett score of three nights and two days and golf at Noosaville with the winner to be present.
- Stockley also lifted the Founders Cup for the best nett score when he shot a gross 83 off a handicap of 19.
- The boys team from Scoil Muire agus Padraig took home the prize for best nett score at the Connacht Schools Golf Championships played at the Ballina Course.
2Remaining after all factors have been taken into account; overall. the net result is the same Example sentencesExamples - These were net effects not attributable to common factors underlying parental monitoring and runaway risk.
- This provision will actually have the net effect of making employees sicker.
- The net effect of these factors is the accumulation of a large foreign debt by the Middle Eastern countries.
- The net effect of the first three design factors is generally to depress computed Hispanic relative incarceration rates.
- The process of restoration proved to be difficult and somewhat complicated but the net result is a remarkable restoration of the banner to its former glory.
- Analysis of chimeras showed that the net effect of these factors is intrinsic to the liver and may be cell autonomous.
- The net effect is to restore my overall elan and joie-de-vivre, two quantities which are sorely waning at times like these.
- The net result of all these factors is discomfort.
- But these numbers for job increase do not take into account job losses, and so do not give the net effect.
- They are the net result of several factors of various signs and amplitudes discussed in Nadelhoffer and Fry and Hogberg.
- If the profit of one division increases with a corresponding decrease to another division the net overall effect is the same for the single entity and hence, the shareholders.
- The net effect is difficult to estimate, read more here.
- The net result is an effective form of currency control as part of Patriot Act II.
- Overall, I think the net effect is a positive one.
- ‘The net result of all of these factors is that blanket manufacturing in South Africa is uncompetitive,’ he said.
- These improvements might be the net effect of two factors: starting treatment at earlier stages of disease, or better treatment for a given stage.
- So, the net effect of keeping exit-poll results off the air for hours is to make election coverage less accurate on average, not more so.
- The net effect of this political arrangement has been the close dependence of the economic interests of the citizens upon those of the state.
- When inflation was taken into account, he said, the net effect would be less council services for customers.
- Notice that three of those factors all have the net effect of lowering the density of the air.
Synonyms final, end, ultimate, concluding, closing overall, actual, effective
verbnets, netting, netted nɛtnɛt [with object]1Acquire (a sum of money) as clear profit. he netted £2.45 million on the deal Example sentencesExamples - A starting Lufthansa pilot now nets a base salary of about $50,000 a year, while a veteran can earn up to $140,000.
- The flotation will also net millions for Mr Pratt, chairman Tony O'Brien and other members of the management team who are selling part of their stake.
- Several radio stations have changed hands in recent years, netting tens of millions for their shareholders but nothing for the Government.
- He then sold the home in Uniondale for $240,000, netting a $24,000 profit.
- Another example is if a bank, after netting payments due to other banks against those due to itself, still owes the other banks.
- In recent years, food service, some maintenance and school bus service jobs have been outsourced, netting millions in profits for the giant Aramak and Service Master corporations.
- Part of the site of the Battle of the Boyne near Drogheda has been bought by the government for £7.75 million, netting a £5 million profit for its owners.
- It is not yet known how much funds were netted on the night, but they Aontas Ogra would like to thank sincerely all who sponsored the members.
- He predicted that the project, which upgrades the jets' avionics, could net huge profits for Aerospace Industrial, provided the aircraft can be sold.
- Comper just netted a $6 million profit selling a whack of stock options but he's still sitting on almost two million of them.
- The CA president netted the sum less than a fortnight after the US software company issued a profit warning which sent its share price plummeting.
- In 1861, the two women had staged a fundraiser that netted the paltry sum of $675.
- Projects under Geisinger's infrastructure renewal plan have netted an energy savings of $2.2 million annually.
- He also netted pension contributions and other perks of €68,000.
- The pair, who would net tens of millions profit from the sale of their stake at 300p a share, have not yet said whether they would accept an offer.
- A string of visits by Endeavour to Whitby netted millions of pounds for the tourist trade.
- He'd then sell it in a few years and net a cool million for himself.
- Judge Heppel said the defendants were greedy and dishonest, and had netted millions of pounds during the fraud, committed between 1993 and 1996.
- The University of Bradford has netted millions of pounds' extra cash to recruit more students on new ‘vocational’ degree courses.
- Income tax receipts also include money netted by the Revenue Commissioners from its special investigations into tax evasion.
Synonyms earn, make, get, gain, obtain, acquire, accumulate, take home, bring in, pull in, clear, pocket, realize, make a profit of, be paid fetch, yield, raise informal rake in - 1.1with two objects Return (profit or income) for (someone)
the land netted its owner a turnover of $800,000 Example sentencesExamples - VIS says the deal struck for State of Emergency film rights with New Line Cinema could net them ‘several million pounds’.
- These qualities paid off in April 2000 when O'Brien sold his stake in Esat Telecom to BT, netting himself £175 million.
- It is not known whether the Irishmen would sell at 300p, though this would net them a profit of 125 million on their investment.
- Council chiefs have confirmed the 105-year-old club has approached them to discuss the potential relocation that would net them millions of pounds.
- Corporations and private schools sell their facilities to the public, just as corporations have peddled tests that have netted them millions of dollars.
- Georgine also profited in a separate Ullico stock deal that netted him $6 million.
- Winning each event nets you prize money or, if you do extremely well, new cars that come as ‘special prizes.’
- His huge stake in Coca-Cola netted him an 800% return.
- They sold a five-storey house in central London overlooking St James's Park for £5.7m in 2004, netting them £3.7m profit.
- Komarnitski earned third place in the annual Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award, netting him prize money of $3000.
- Working at the local pizza place didn't net him much money so he had to compensate with long hours.
- Last year's salary and bonus netted him $12.6 million, and he cashed stock options worth $115 million.
- Each one you pick up nets you some money, but there is a much better reason to collect them.
- Three men who masterminded a sophisticated credit card fraud which could have netted them millions were yesterday locked up for a total of 16 years.
- 1.2net something down/off/out Exclude a non-net amount, such as tax, when making a calculation, in order to reduce the amount left to a net sum.
the scrap value should be netted off against the original purchase price Example sentencesExamples - Newsagents say their gross bills have jumped by 30% this month, and that's money that stays with the and Network until the returns are netted off.
- The flows are netted out for each year, and discounted by the going interest rate.
- Competitive tendering as an alternative to negotiated contracts has been shown in a number of contexts to yield cost savings (for a given level of service) before administrative charges are netted out of 20% on average.
- If you try to net them down they tell us two things.
- The Respondents concluded that such liabilities had not been netted off.
Origin Middle English (in the senses 'clean' and 'smart'): from French net 'neat'; see neat1. The sense 'free from deductions' is first recorded in late Middle English. nounnɛtnet 1A length of open-meshed material made of twine, cord, rope, or something similar, used typically for catching fish or other animals. Example sentencesExamples - Fishermen haul in their nets as they prepare to head back out to sea from the harbor located in the city of Suao located along Taiwan's east coast.
- And, looking at the paltry haul in their nets and at their discarded small fish, they know it is a way of life their sons will not share with them.
- The wreckers hauling in salvage nets look like fishermen at first glance, but closer inspection reveals the traces of a shipwreck.
- The day's take is hauled in, the fish caught in their nets like words ‘in any order’ caught in a sentence.
- Once those animals rot the fishing net might float back up to the surface again and start ghost fishing once again.
- It was considered bad luck to have a female at sea, just as it was bad luck for the men to haul the first net of fish ashore in my particular branch of the family.
- The fishermen stand and haul the net with fish hanging from it.
- The materials used were bamboo, fish nets, garden nets, glue, canvas, rope washing line and spray paint.
- I pictured fishermen in boats hauling in their nets as fast as they were able with their thoughts of the darkness enveloping them.
- Many of the animals die when they chase fish into nets and become tangled in the mesh.
- But he struggled instinctively like an animal under a net, and this blind struggle threw him out into a field.
- A good fisherman weaves his own nets with twine and a needle made of whalebone.
- The market opens out into a harbour where people swarm everywhere, mending nets and building brightly coloured boats.
- Some outfits feature fishing nets or papier mâché animals, while others sport massive wings or robotic parts.
- The guides had the students assist with the gathering of the mud samples, water samples, and catching fish and other sea animals with a net.
- Plenty of deep-sea animals other than giant squid have shown up in fishing nets without having been captured on film in their natural environment.
- It was using a big chunk of this material as a net.
- Small craft set out before sunrise, often through rough surf, to lift the nets, remove captured animals and repair damage to the mesh.
- He fished with a golden net drawn by cords woven of purple and scarlet threads.
- Although I've lived in the Selby area for most of my life, I've never seen crowds of fisherman hauling nets of clams, mussels and tuna from the murky waters of the River Ouse.
- 1.1 A piece of open-meshed material supported by a frame at the end of a handle, used typically for catching fish or other aquatic animals or insects.
Example sentencesExamples - First, there is a series of computer composite images that depict different aspects of field research, such as catching insects with nets.
- Using sweep nets and aspirators the researchers collect insects and take them to a lab in Buenos Aires.
- We placed an insect sweep net over each aggregation, and because of the extreme inactivity of the gathered wasps, escapes were uncommon.
- If necessary, use an insect net to guard against the adults flying away.
- In the margins of the lake, I taught little Felix to hunt with an insect net.
- Sampling was conducted with a standard insect sweep net; each sample consisted of 100 sweeps made in a 180° arc.
- Other items, such as insect nets, were in short supply in the theater.
- Insects were transferred from sweep nets to labeled plastic bags, frozen, and sorted to morphospecies.
2A structure consisting of a net supported on a frame, forming the goal in games such as soccer and hockey. he turned Wilson's cross into the net Example sentencesExamples - Unable to find the net in either game, goals remain a problem.
- Although she could not find the net in the match against Zambia, in which she came on as a a substitute in the second half, Nonoh says she is hungry for goals.
- Following a run of six successive wins, Paul Simpson's men have taken just one point from their last two matches and failed to find the net in both games.
- In their 48 fixtures so far, the Blues have failed to find the net on just five occasions.
- I feel we deserved to go in at half-time at least goal up, but we didn't find the net.
- Try as they might neither side could find the net and the game eventually went into the dreaded penalty shoot out.
- In a much better second half performance Oaks piled on the pressure and had the majority of the play but could not find the net.
- The Soviet Union basketball team displayed tremendous nerve to find the net in the disputed last seconds of the 1972 Olympic final.
- Also, any powerplay unit can fall out of the habit of doing some basics, such as putting the puck on goal and crashing the net.
- He's seen him picking footballs out of the net in Highfield Road with alarming frequency.
- They conceded four goals, but were unable to find the net.
- Storm's failure to find the net on a consistent basis is all the more surprising considering the proven track records of their offensive players.
- However, they had to wait till late in the game to find the net.
- This resulted in the ‘Goal of the Match’, their young forward beating three defenders before firing a perfect cross goal shot into the net.
- He has the burst of pace of a scalded cat and the occasions in a summer when he sends the ball scudding low to the opposition net late in the game are a reliable index of his wellbeing.
- Another Kelly free extended the lead before Joe Higgins shot to the net for the game's only goal.
- He proceeded to turn his man and find the net for a great goal to level up the scoring after twelve minutes.
- In the second half BCA came more into the game, but could only find the net once.
- They have never failed to find the net at Boundary Park with Wadsworth in charge and have taken 14 points from a possible 18.
- Football nets were used in goals for the first time, for a match in Bolton.
- 2.1 A length of open-meshed material supported on a cord between two posts to divide the playing area in various games such as tennis, badminton, and volleyball.
Example sentencesExamples - Before they took it away I suggested putting up two basketball posts and nets with goal posts underneath them like most other areas have but my pleas have fallen on deaf ears.
- Once at the flashlight tag meeting spot, between two poles ground into the sand on the lake where a volleyball net should have hung, we picked teams.
- Sure enough, come noon on the day of the event, there were volleyball nets set up at the base of the hill, with teams aplenty ready to play some ball.
- Rachel hit the volleyball back over the net, and glanced up only to see Jade leaning against the post, a silver knife in her hand.
- When her kids were growing up, Dale Kephart always had volleyball and badminton nets set up in the backyard.
- The collectors look like oversized volleyball nets.
- You could also try rigging up a net to play volleyball, a hoop for basketball or invite some of your children's friends round for a game of rounders.
- Finally, Mike, James, and Violet gave me a net for the volleyball.
- Surely one of those volleyball nets at Jeanne-Mance Park could be lowered for the kickers out there.
- At the Baghdad correction center, about 200 delinquents share four dormitories built around a square courtyard cut by a volleyball net.
- Our lead vehicle became stuck in a volleyball net.
- For entertainment, we set up a volleyball net, put up a set of makeshift soccer goals, and had a wide variety of board games.
- We were all in agreement and began to set up the volleyball net.
- But even here, on the Island, the makeshift homes of the country's dispossessed fill every space unoccupied by sunbeds and volleyball nets.
- A high-pitched voice yelled as a tiny blonde hit the volleyball over the net.
- Gone will be the trampolines, table tennis tables and badminton nets that occupy the main auditorium on weekday nights when there is no concert.
- We had put up the volleyball net and played pool volleyball.
- He nodded and, with one last grin at her, jogged over to the volleyball net.
- If it got too hot inside, there was a volleyball net set up in a courtyard.
- There were volleyball nets set up across the large room, and our teacher, Mr. Stetgon, quickly pulled us into four groups and assigned us to a court.
- 2.2 A safety net.
he felt like a tightrope-walker without a net
3A fine fabric with a very open weave. Example sentencesExamples - It was only then that blue flashing lights were seen through the white net curtains of the lounge.
- Cut the front stay from a firmly woven cotton blend for light control or from mediumweight, girdle-like power net fabric for firm control.
- It tries to take us beyond the yellowing net curtains of their cramped tower-block flats, and into their living-rooms and bedrooms.
- Fabrics are given the technological touch with the use of rubberised velvet and wool, mirrored wool crepe, stretch net, organza and spider beaded georgette.
- Is this why you've been investing in some net curtains for your kitchen?
- Pressing is used on tailored and lined suits, especially on men's, on wool, on silk and some rayon, on net, and on pile fabrics.
- An eclectic mix of feminine flounce and frill, with models in georgettes, net and chiffons was the highlight.
- Several pieces also feature attractive patterns, such as wide or fine vertical stripes, as well as net, square and doughnut designs.
- All I can say about the Skinners was that they had no net curtains and a pornographic oil-painting above the fire-place until the police made them stop.
- Every surface was covered with satin, velvet, crinoline and net.
- The lower part of the window had been painted white and net curtains shielded the upper part.
- We had no net curtains then, the neighbours always looked in when she turned on the lights.
- I parted the light net curtains of my bed and sank down beside Lucy.
- In the hotel room there are no venetian blinds, but the white net curtains belly and fold in the breeze of the open window.
- Selecting a modern look, Deepika has chosen mostly chiffons, gossamer net, silk and georgettes for her debut at LIFW.
- Another variation to try is to place a thin voile net over the window, or draw any transparent curtains.
- For the light source, use a sunlit window with a thin voile net to soften the brightness of the sun.
- The British Red Cross won the charity shop section with its festoon of red net, hearts and open book displaying information about Valentine's Day.
- Others may have swished into the hall wearing beaded evening dresses of chiffon and netting, while others may have been swathed in silk and satin with plump sleeves of net and lace.
- Layers of stiff net petticoats went under taffeta strapless dresses that made waists look tiny.
Synonyms netting, meshwork, mesh, webbing, tulle, fishnet, openwork, lace, lacework, latticework, lattice 4A means of catching someone; a trap. the search was delayed, allowing the murderers to escape the net Example sentencesExamples - Only one girl had escaped the powerful net of her authority in her fifty year career, and that had been well nigh twenty years ago.
- Up to 7,500 civil servants have such an arrangement in Dublin and elsewhere in the country, but the car spaces have escaped the Ministers' net.
- Finally, many criminals escape the judicial net, even though in the public eye they are criminals.
- Even now the Kiwis are presumably wondering how, with all the islanders that they do sign, this flyer escaped their net.
- That they may escape the banking net is not necessarily a bad thing - it depends on whether this thwarts the legislative aims.
- In addition, 242 people with incomes between €100,000 and €1m in 2001 also escaped the tax net.
- It's easy to speculate that he might have been allowed to escape the net because he knows too much about wrong-doing by others in the UN.
- You have so much trapped yourself in a net of words, of speculations that the feeling itself, which is the only thing that is deep and vital in us, is lost.
- 4.1 A system or procedure for selecting or recruiting someone.
he spread his net far and wide in his search for success Example sentencesExamples - And from what I know of his father, they'd not have wanted to spread their net too wide, lest he realize they were about.
- The festival will spread its net wide across the six major cities of Scotland - Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
- Here are some sops which might help politicians in spreading their net for votes.
- That's very admirable, but he's spread his net far too wide.
- Homeloans began as a broadly based financial services brokerage, but after six months Curry and Gavin realised they were spreading their net too wide.
- But Gilmore says he has every intention of spreading the artistic net.
- But what previous generations would have considered tangible personal prosperity spreads its net ever wider.
- The question remains: why should whatever gave rise to the threat define the class of permissible victims when it is within our power to spread a wider net?
- In fact, Graham Harvey, whose own academic location is in religious studies, has spread his net fairly wide.
- ‘Organisations are therefore spreading the recruitment net as wide as possible in order to find the best people’.
- And now he will take in two, lower level La Liga games as he spreads the net far and wide in search of new talent.
- And once legal personhood is secured for chimpanzees, Wise hopes to cast the net of legal rights wider.
- Instead, he has chosen to spread the tax net wide across the booming services sector.
- The co-operative intend to spread their net of membership as wide as possible among individuals and groups interested in the rural economy and rural development.
- People said spreading the net wide across the town was the best way of tracking down the hoodie attacker.
- Recruiting has already begun for this chief executive - with the net being spread wider than members of the Shepherd family.
- We decided to spread our net as wide as possible and try three starters.
- Yesterday, for instance, it emerged that Lord Levy has now spread his net to the euro referendum and has begun fundraising for the ‘yes’ campaign.
- A wisp of a reasoned argument escaped the net that I cast far and wide.
- Ironically, the further the government's statisticians spread their net in the Yorkshire region, the slower was the increase.
5A communications or broadcasting network. the radio net was brought to life with a mayday Example sentencesExamples - After someone gives the warning of an enemy in the area, the enemy's location and disposition is then broadcasted over the radio net.
- After a few moments the snipers commence their commentary via the team's radio net - ensuring all callsigns have situational awareness.
- Sean hit a small button on the screen in front of him, tying him in to the radio net.
- What types of radios and nets are we going to communicate with?
- Unit formations, command vehicles, radio nets and unit morale have no effect on the game play.
- In the third period of the Great Patriotic War, the number of air army radio nets doubled by comparison with the first period.
- The contact report surged through the platoon internal radio net like a bolt of lightning.
- Anyway, we managed on the same day to notify the local Coast Guard station, our insurance company and the French radio net.
- We can say that we haven't covered foreign affairs and even the broadcast, the antenna nets don't do it very well either.
- There are the nationwide nets: Concert FM on two frequencies; National Radio for Dunedin City and for Mosgiel.
- As he descended, he called his fellow PJs over their tactical radio net to tell them he was OK.
- The Guderian designed HF radio nets provided a level of command and control never before achieved on the battlefield.
- Approval even came over the radio net to shoot dogs to prevent them from being rigged with explosives.
- And because the call was placed into a patch unit, it allowed us to link that net into other radio nets or telephone lines.
- And I guess the hardest question I ever asked anyone over a military radio net was the lieutenant, one of the wounded or killed?
- Linked with each other and supporting batteries via radio net, every observer could fire any or all available support batteries at once.
- Even then the skipper has to be alert for out-of-season storm warnings, currently broadcast on a ham radio net.
- Radio nets only extended down to company level in armoured units, so that company commanders had to communicate with their tanks by hand signal or motorcycle.
- 5.1 A network of interconnected computers.
Example sentencesExamples - In Europe, prosecutors have brought cases against the alleged online attackers suspected of creating networks of compromised computers, known as bot nets.
- The same could happen with the net - we'll have national nets with firewalls and exorbitant charges.
- Put the server on both nets: This option is a good one, since wireless and wired clients will each access the server via their respective pipes.
- Security experts applauded the successful investigations but remained pragmatic about the impact the arrests will have on the increasing use of bot nets as a means to facilitate online crime.
- With those two pieces of data, an attacker can impersonate a legitimate device on that wireless net.
- The EMC checking software in Cadstar 4.5 first identifies critical nets then analyses whether those nets will cause problems once they have been routed.
- It should support interaction between territorially dispersed segments of the local computer net of mobile formations.
- Although WEP is one of the most talked-about means of protection for a wireless net, it will not by itself make your network secure.
- Every time I turned the channel, it seemed like there was another story about the computer intern net.
- File swap nets will win, DRM and lawyers lose, say MS researchers
- Although it may be too technical for some, the book offers plenty of information for those looking to lock down their wireless nets.
- As it is, some smaller nets are anticipating bandwidth charges considerably higher than they're prepared to deal with.
- Maybe H. Zuckerman, presumably a tough cop, was refusing to give her name so they could look up her vital statistics on various computer nets.
- 5.2the Net The Internet.
ensuring privacy on the Net is an increasingly difficult job Example sentencesExamples - All users need is a computer hooked up to the Net, microphone, speakers and sound card.
- Of those Net users quizzed, eight out of ten said they used the Net to search for information and for email.
- The government claimed today that virtually all British schools were now hooked up to the Net.
- The Chinese Government is concerned the Net can corrupt the minds of youngsters.
- Almost half of those who accessed the Net used it for some type of e-commerce transaction.
- It will also examine whether technology can be used to hit reduce the amount of spam clogging up the Net.
- The more years people have spent online, the more hours they spend on the Net.
- A worm capable of using webcams to spy on users is circulating across the Net.
- Nearly a third of business users steal software or digital content, by grabbing it from the Net.
- Employees don't give a stuff about using their computers at work to access the Net.
- Nearly two thirds of Americans have access to the Net either at home or work.
- Around three per cent of companies had been involved in litigation from misuse of the Net.
- Now with the Net, we can get identity theft and stolen Internet access into the bargain.
- One group will use a whole range of devices to access the Net, the other group will have just one.
- The journal is on the Net, but unfortunately you need a subscription to get access to the full text.
- It's a big task, given that only ten per cent of humans have access to the Net today.
- The research outfit found that the more people use the Net, the more they are likely to shop online.
- Officials in Kingston upon Hull want to give everyone in the city access to the Net.
- Instead, these people have opted to use phone books or the Net to look-up numbers.
- People accessing the Net outside these hours will be charged on a pay-as-you-go basis.
verbnɛtnet [with object]1Catch or land (a fish or other animal) with a net. Example sentencesExamples - As we were quite high up from the water we used a landing net with a twelve foot long telescopic handle so that we could safely net any fish that we caught.
- Trapping or netting the fish can be dated back to the 12 th century, and though it was clear that over-fishing could lead to a decline in stocks, no one really knew why numbers went up or down.
- I managed to calm down the old ticker and successfully netted the fish, a marvellous Rudd of one pound twelve ounces, nearly three times bigger than any that I had ever caught previously!
- A few minutes later I netted his fish for him, and he was right, we needed the big net and the camera, he had landed a common of fifteen pounds and fourteen ounces!
- I grabbed the net moved downstream hoping to net the fish before it reached the snaggy zone and was in luck, quickly netting the fish.
- Eventually I netted the fish which was a nice fully finned rainbow of about five pounds.
- They show in the puffy, jowly contours of his face and the seen-it-all weariness in the eyes but those eyes still light up at the prospect of pulling off an art heist that will net him millions.
- I netted a beast, all 11 lb 10 oz of it, from the York water at Beningbrough Park last Friday.
- As I netted this second salmon, I realised that it was again over twenty pounds.
- Only butterflies, grasshoppers, mosquitoes and flies are netted there.
- It is not easy in the dark but I prefer to net weeded fish myself so I have control of when to lift, then if it all goes wrong I can only blame myself.
- After a nice fight the fish was netted, carefully weighed at 1lb 4oz, quickly photographed and returned.
- West hasn't netted a whale or dolphin since he spent $1,700 outfitting his mile-long net with 41 of the alarms.
- The latest catch was a large mature male crab netted by Bridlington fisherman Andrew Sanderson last week.
- In May this year he returned with colleagues to the sanctuary, where they were able to net two specimens.
- After a good scrap, a short but extremely fat fish was netted.
- With the cod coming near the boat, walk backwards towards the cabin to allow the skipper to get right to the back of the stern of the boat and he'll net the fish.
- We netted the chicks using a large landing net, placed them in a holding container, and transported them to shore.
- This was accomplished by photographing and netting both species as they foraged at the Palmer agave flowers.
- Near such centres of population the fish are netted for local consumption, so the remaining fish are fewer and smaller.
- They might catch the fish or net the bird but not consume it.
- 1.1 Fish with nets in (a river)
he has netted the creeks and found them clogged with fish Example sentencesExamples - If you see any one netting the river or killing Pike over 3 kilo then report it.
- How often I heard the stories of the poachers, pronounced poochers, who netted the river for salmon to the disgust of the rod-men and the local boatmen.
- In the past I have reported about the illegal netting of lakes and rivers across Ireland.
- 1.2 Acquire or obtain as if with a net.
customs officials have netted large caches of drugs Example sentencesExamples - Acting on a tip, Pattaya police were quickly in and out of the Night Market in South Pattaya and their big bust smothered a small time dealer, netting a cache of pornographic video CDs.
- Liu is the fourth top official of China's second largest lender to have been netted in Beijing's anti-graft campaign.
- The sweep was successful in netting a large cache or weapons, explosives, ammunition, and other equipment.
- It plans to launch a fresh range of notebooks in mid August concentrating on areas such as audio, and aims to net customers who are looking to replace their desktop with a notebook.
- In the ensuing days, a number of people were netted after stringent customs regulations and tightened security were put into effect.
- A corruption crackdown has netted officials with ties to top leaders such as Li Peng, but no one close to Jiang has been implicated.
Synonyms catch, capture, take captive, trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, bag, hook, land
2(in sports) hit or kick (a ball or puck) into the net; score (a goal) in six years Wright has netted 177 goals no object Aldridge netted twice Example sentencesExamples - The Blackburn fans were jubilant but to general surprise Wanderers came away to net the ball twice in as many minutes.
- Farrelly played a leading role when Bolton were promoted to the Premiership in 2001, netting the first goal in their play-off final win over Preston.
- Gilbert Mushangazhike, the visitors' leading goal scorer, netted twice in the first half, but missed a penalty in the second half.
- Ryan Robinson netted a consolation goal for the Huddersfield side from the penalty spot but it was too late to prevent Crag from taking all three points.
- McCourt rounded three defenders before firing home and then went on another mazy run that ended with fellow substitute Townson netting his 17th goal of the season.
- Widely reviled bad boy Craig Bellamy nets both goals thanks to some generosity from Crystal Palace goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly.
- Simon Parke netted his sixth goal in six games in the win over Blyth Spartans and Mark Stuart grabbed his eighth of the season.
- Andy Beckwith scored a hat-trick for Wyke, while Mohammed Jahangir netted his first goal for Heaton.
- When the opportunity arose in the 27th minute Andre Emmanuel pounced on a loose ball and netted the first goal.
- The Dutch international has netted a club-record 22 goals in 23 Champions League appearances for United.
- Midway through the second half, former Bantams skipper Lee Duxbury netted his first goal for the Throstle Nest outfit, again from a Stamer assist.
- Whilst they are hardly prolific scorers netting only six goals, their defence has done well in only conceding eight goals the least number of goals conceded, a sorry sight when your team cannot find goals.
- The home side had a lot of possession but rarely threatened the visitors in the final third and slumped to a defeat as the Liverpudlians netted a goal in each half.
- But the 26-year-old Spartak Moscow midfielder deserved his stroke of luck as he netted his fifth international goal.
- Gerry netted three goals during the tournament and his impressive form certainly caught the attention of the host nation and a year later he was on his way back to Spain to join Real Mallorca.
- Earlier in the day, Naboye hammered Mungwi 3-0 with Ackim Tembo netting his fourth goal making him the tournament's top scorer.
- Aiming for the fourth title of the season the local favourite netted a goal in each session, outplaying its bemused opponent.
- Fowler may have only netted six goals this season, but he has a handful of assists to his mane as well, and has also curbed his aggression, only picking up a single yellow card.
- Shanahan already has scored 20 goals after netting only 31 goals and 58 points last season.
- Witness reports also claimed that on-loan Charlton teenager Randolph later incited City fans by signalling the score after Accrington had netted their second goal.
3Cover with a net. we fenced off a rabbit-proof area for vegetables and netted the top
Origin Old English net, nett, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch net and German Netz. adjectivenetnɛt 1(of an amount, value, or price) remaining after a deduction, such as tax or a discount, has been made. net earnings per share rose Often contrasted with gross (sense 2 of the adjective) the net worth of the business Example sentencesExamples - And it's a big boost to the bottomline with net value addition per person being 10-15 times the amount it is for BPOs.
- Homeowners will see their residences' net value grow instead of cashing out some equity when refinancing.
- Open interest is the net value of all open positions in one market or contract and portrays the depth of volume that is possible in that market.
- Canary Wharf said its net value per share increased from £5.18 to £6.78 in the year to June.
- Once all the deductions have been made, the net amount is called your taxable estate.
- By terminating the contracts at market prices, a net amount might well be payable to the debtor, rather than to the other party.
- It has a 100 per cent capital protection of the net amount invested for a period of six years.
- The net amount that will be spent is estimated at about R5,8bn this year.
- Non-French tax residents are subject to wealth tax only if the net value of their French-sourced assets are worth more than €720,000.
- Company B would record the net amount retained (the 5 percent service fee) as revenue.
- You simply put in any adjustments such as overtime or commission, then push a couple of buttons, and a payslip with the correct net amount is produced.
- With netting, gross obligations are discharged by the transfer of the net amount of value due from each obligor.
- May I suggest contributions per net earnings or even contributions per employee?
- However, the company's net worth is still valued at well over €17 million.
- For example, the net balance, which represents the net amount owed, shifts back and forth between parties as goods and services are exchanged.
- Reduce this by the costs and you will find the net value, while it can maintain some livelihoods, will not impact much on our GDP.
- The major difference between regular income tax and the AMT system is the specifics used in calculating the net amount of taxable income.
- Where 15% UK tax was deducted, the net amount received is liable to Irish tax.
- The South African Act provides for a further abatement of R 1,5 million, to be deducted from the net value of the estate.
- They are only worried about whether he thought the tax had been paid and whether the amount he received was a net amount.
Synonyms after taxes, after deductions, take-home, clear, final - 1.1 (of a weight) excluding that of the packaging or container.
Example sentencesExamples - The net weight gain over the retired Range Rover is approximately 500 pounds.
- The enhanced net weight is partly created by the lack of fungal disease in the plants, since less fungal disease means that the plants need less trimming.
- After stacking, each palette contains 40 sacks in 8 layers into a net weight of one ton.
- The net weight loss at the end of two years was modest: 3.5 kg in the intervention group and 0.8 kg in the control group.
- The owner's orange plastic tag, containing catch site and net weight, is clearly displayed, by law, on top.
- The outer leaves were trimmed and then they were reweighed to obtain net weight, which was a lettuce ready for packing for sale.
- Calculation of net mass gain requires assumptions about the nature, degree, and uniformity of overnight mass loss.
- The net mass stayed the same, of course, the orbit didn't alter, of course we didn't notice.
- The false floor of the box was equipped with a preweighed paper towel so that defecation mass could be svibtracted from preflight mass to obtain net flight mass.
- Under the Bill consumers must only be charged on a net weight basis - that is, without any packaging included in the stated weight or price.
- Under the experimental conditions, the increase in ELF volume is greater than the apparent net weight gain of the lung.
- To estimate the net mass of the meal, we added the values of expected mass loss before the meal was delivered to the observed mass gain.
- The goods sold under the terms of this licence will be sold by reference to number or by net weight.
- The maximum added weight of approximately 3 percent solution before processing is included in the net weight on the label.
- Additionally, tags will have the manufacturer's name and address, as well as the guarantee on the net weight of the feed contained in the bag.
- 1.2 (of a score in golf) adjusted to take account of a player's handicap.
Example sentencesExamples - There was an interesting scenario last Saturday with a great prize for the best nett score of three nights and two days and golf at Noosaville with the winner to be present.
- In a handicap competition, the competitor with the lowest net score for the stipulated round or rounds is the winner.
- Stockley also lifted the Founders Cup for the best nett score when he shot a gross 83 off a handicap of 19.
- The boys team from Scoil Muire agus Padraig took home the prize for best nett score at the Connacht Schools Golf Championships played at the Ballina Course.
- Darwen then took the President's Trophy with the best aggregate nett score from their four players.
2(of an effect or result) final or overall. the net result is the same Example sentencesExamples - If the profit of one division increases with a corresponding decrease to another division the net overall effect is the same for the single entity and hence, the shareholders.
- The net effect of these factors is the accumulation of a large foreign debt by the Middle Eastern countries.
- Analysis of chimeras showed that the net effect of these factors is intrinsic to the liver and may be cell autonomous.
- When inflation was taken into account, he said, the net effect would be less council services for customers.
- They are the net result of several factors of various signs and amplitudes discussed in Nadelhoffer and Fry and Hogberg.
- Notice that three of those factors all have the net effect of lowering the density of the air.
- The net effect is difficult to estimate, read more here.
- The net effect of this political arrangement has been the close dependence of the economic interests of the citizens upon those of the state.
- This provision will actually have the net effect of making employees sicker.
- ‘The net result of all of these factors is that blanket manufacturing in South Africa is uncompetitive,’ he said.
- The net result of all these factors is discomfort.
- The process of restoration proved to be difficult and somewhat complicated but the net result is a remarkable restoration of the banner to its former glory.
- Overall, I think the net effect is a positive one.
- These were net effects not attributable to common factors underlying parental monitoring and runaway risk.
- The net effect of the first three design factors is generally to depress computed Hispanic relative incarceration rates.
- The net effect is to restore my overall elan and joie-de-vivre, two quantities which are sorely waning at times like these.
- These improvements might be the net effect of two factors: starting treatment at earlier stages of disease, or better treatment for a given stage.
- But these numbers for job increase do not take into account job losses, and so do not give the net effect.
- So, the net effect of keeping exit-poll results off the air for hours is to make election coverage less accurate on average, not more so.
- The net result is an effective form of currency control as part of Patriot Act II.
Synonyms final, end, ultimate, concluding, closing
verbnetnɛt [with object]1Acquire or obtain (a sum of money) as clear profit. they sold their 20% stake, netting a huge profit in the process Example sentencesExamples - Part of the site of the Battle of the Boyne near Drogheda has been bought by the government for £7.75 million, netting a £5 million profit for its owners.
- Several radio stations have changed hands in recent years, netting tens of millions for their shareholders but nothing for the Government.
- It is not yet known how much funds were netted on the night, but they Aontas Ogra would like to thank sincerely all who sponsored the members.
- Comper just netted a $6 million profit selling a whack of stock options but he's still sitting on almost two million of them.
- The flotation will also net millions for Mr Pratt, chairman Tony O'Brien and other members of the management team who are selling part of their stake.
- He then sold the home in Uniondale for $240,000, netting a $24,000 profit.
- The pair, who would net tens of millions profit from the sale of their stake at 300p a share, have not yet said whether they would accept an offer.
- Another example is if a bank, after netting payments due to other banks against those due to itself, still owes the other banks.
- He also netted pension contributions and other perks of €68,000.
- He'd then sell it in a few years and net a cool million for himself.
- The University of Bradford has netted millions of pounds' extra cash to recruit more students on new ‘vocational’ degree courses.
- A string of visits by Endeavour to Whitby netted millions of pounds for the tourist trade.
- Income tax receipts also include money netted by the Revenue Commissioners from its special investigations into tax evasion.
- In recent years, food service, some maintenance and school bus service jobs have been outsourced, netting millions in profits for the giant Aramak and Service Master corporations.
- Projects under Geisinger's infrastructure renewal plan have netted an energy savings of $2.2 million annually.
- In 1861, the two women had staged a fundraiser that netted the paltry sum of $675.
- The CA president netted the sum less than a fortnight after the US software company issued a profit warning which sent its share price plummeting.
- A starting Lufthansa pilot now nets a base salary of about $50,000 a year, while a veteran can earn up to $140,000.
- He predicted that the project, which upgrades the jets' avionics, could net huge profits for Aerospace Industrial, provided the aircraft can be sold.
- Judge Heppel said the defendants were greedy and dishonest, and had netted millions of pounds during the fraud, committed between 1993 and 1996.
Synonyms earn, make, get, gain, obtain, acquire, accumulate, take home, bring in, pull in, clear, pocket, realize, make a profit of, be paid - 1.1with two objects Return (profit or income) for (someone)
the land netted its owner a turnover of $800,000 Example sentencesExamples - Three men who masterminded a sophisticated credit card fraud which could have netted them millions were yesterday locked up for a total of 16 years.
- These qualities paid off in April 2000 when O'Brien sold his stake in Esat Telecom to BT, netting himself £175 million.
- It is not known whether the Irishmen would sell at 300p, though this would net them a profit of 125 million on their investment.
- Working at the local pizza place didn't net him much money so he had to compensate with long hours.
- Corporations and private schools sell their facilities to the public, just as corporations have peddled tests that have netted them millions of dollars.
- Winning each event nets you prize money or, if you do extremely well, new cars that come as ‘special prizes.’
- Georgine also profited in a separate Ullico stock deal that netted him $6 million.
- His huge stake in Coca-Cola netted him an 800% return.
- Each one you pick up nets you some money, but there is a much better reason to collect them.
- Council chiefs have confirmed the 105-year-old club has approached them to discuss the potential relocation that would net them millions of pounds.
- Komarnitski earned third place in the annual Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award, netting him prize money of $3000.
- They sold a five-storey house in central London overlooking St James's Park for £5.7m in 2004, netting them £3.7m profit.
- Last year's salary and bonus netted him $12.6 million, and he cashed stock options worth $115 million.
- VIS says the deal struck for State of Emergency film rights with New Line Cinema could net them ‘several million pounds’.
- 1.2net something down/off/out Exclude a non-net amount, such as tax, when making a calculation, in order to reduce the amount left to a net sum.
the scrap or salvage value should be netted off against the original purchase price Example sentencesExamples - Newsagents say their gross bills have jumped by 30% this month, and that's money that stays with the and Network until the returns are netted off.
- If you try to net them down they tell us two things.
- The flows are netted out for each year, and discounted by the going interest rate.
- Competitive tendering as an alternative to negotiated contracts has been shown in a number of contexts to yield cost savings (for a given level of service) before administrative charges are netted out of 20% on average.
- The Respondents concluded that such liabilities had not been netted off.
Origin Middle English (in the senses ‘clean’ and ‘smart’): from French net ‘neat’; see neat. The sense ‘free from deductions’ is first recorded in late Middle English. |