net
/nɛt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.76 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
noun
A trap.
noun
Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
noun
A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
noun
A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
Example Sentences
- "a hairnet; a mosquito net; a tennis net"
- "Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season."
- "The nets have to be checked to make sure that they are not tangled up and therefore useless, and the carcasses of the dead sharks are removed."
- "Petri net"
- "A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet."
- "caught in the prosecuting attorney's net"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *natją Proto-West Germanic *nati Old English nett Middle English net English net From Middle English net, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją (“net”), from Proto-Indo-European *neHd- (“to knot, turn, twist”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian näät (“net”), Saterland Frisian Nät (“net”), West Frisian and Dutch net (“net”), German and Luxembourgish Netz (“net”), Yiddish נעץ (nets, “net”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, and Icelandic net (“net”), Norwegian Bokmål nett (“net”), Norwegian Nynorsk net, nett (“net”), Swedish nät (“net”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌹 (nati, “net”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: net, *nati, *natją, *neHd-, nitidus