How do you pronounce netting?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈnɛtɪŋ/.

Where does netting come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

netting

/ˈnɛtɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English

Syllables: net-ting
IPA: /ˈnɛtɪŋ/

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Meaning

noun

Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Urine.

British usage; Obsolete; Uncountable

verb

present participle and gerund of net

Example Sentences

"Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]"
"The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. … Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar."
"Any undecente or noysome thinge as[…]Nettinge or Fylthe."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *natją Proto-West Germanic *nati Old English nett Middle English net English net Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English netting From net + -ing.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: netting, nattinge, nette, *nettian, *nattjan, *nettan

Usage

Inflected Forms

nettings (plural)

Phrases

hammock netting mosquito netting netting-needle set-netting set netting side netting side-netting wire netting

Synonyms

mesh gauze veiling

Rhymes With

getting setting letting betting forgetting sweating upsetting vetting petting regretting wetting offsetting