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net English

Meaning net meaning

What does net mean?
Definitions in simple English

net Noun

— A net is a thing made of ropes or string that lets small things through but keeps big things in. I forgot my fishing net. What will we use to catch fish now? The tennis player hit the ball into the net.

net Verb

— To net something is to catch it in a net. He netted a big fish.

net

— adjective remaining after all deductions net profit — noun (= internet) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange — noun a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects — verb (= clear) make as a net profit The company cleared $1 million — adjective (= final, last) conclusive in a process or progression the final answer a last resort the net result — verb yield as a net profit This sale netted me $1 million — verb catch with a net net a fish — noun game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton — noun a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey) — noun an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals — noun (= net income) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) — verb (= web) construct or form a web, as if by weaving

Synonyms net synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as net?

net English » English

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National Educational Television

Topics net topics

What do people use net to talk about?
Work and occupation Hunt and fish Fishing

Fish with net
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Football, soccer

  • What equipment is used in the game?
    net ball
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Fishing
Work and occupation Hunt and fish Fishing

Fishing equipment
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals
Work and occupation Occupation Crafts

Weaving baskets and mats
Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Earn

  • What words refer to earning a certain amount of money after taxes have been taken out?
    take home net clear
Daily life Household equipment Furniture

Bed
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt
States Big

Weigh

Conjugation net conjugation

How do you conjugate net?

net · verb

Examples net examples

How do I use net in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I captured butterflies with a net.
The hunters captured the wild animal with a strong rope net.
This net here is to keep off mosquitoes.
The net weight of this jam is 200 grams.
He fixed the net.
She dared to walk the tightrope without a net.
Net-profit comes to 10 million dollars every year.
The net got entangled in the propeller.
It seems that I often see mean and disparaging behavior towards individuals on the net.
Since most speakers of Esperanto have learned the language through self study, the Internet in general, and websites such as www.lernu.net in particular, have been a great boon to the language.
I can't find the hand net.
I have never seen this picture on the net.
I sprayed insecticide on the outside of the mosquito net.
We captured cicadas with a net.
Net profit for the period is estimated at 5 billion yen, largely unchanged from the previous one.
The net is huge.
Tom didn't want to walk the tightrope without a net.
What was your net profit last year?
The net weight is three kilograms.
It's dangerous to perform this acrobatic act without a safety net.
We need a safety net.
The player put an easy smash into the net.
Tom hit the net.

Movie subtitles

Let's upload the data to the Net.
And the Tooth Fairy steps right in, nothing changes, and I get a net gain of zero.
She had a safety net.
You said Nora Ephron had a safety net and that you don't, and that's just not true.
Yeah, because. we're your safety net.
Drag that net clear across the room.
The Lion squirms in the net.
And Simon, he throw his net on the right side. and he catch so many fish, his net, it almost break in two.
If we should catch the big fish then the smaller would dart right and left out of the net.
I might net myself a lot of trouble.
Hold the net down!
Boy, let this net down.
Get around that net!
Well, we got all the fish we need in one net.
Don't net him.
But I'm ashamed of you, spoiling his sport with a net.
Help me with the net.
Yank out those net poles!
I'm positive I've got some figures on their net circulation in my files.
They could have gotten the net circulation figures from the post office, and they checked up on the advertising space exactly as we did.
It is, but what about the net?
Do you suppose I don't know how you wove a net about Suzanne to steal her father's fortune?
Net.No I still check up.
There was a tennis court, or rather the ghost of a tennis court, with faded markings and a sagging net.
We can't rig any kind of a net without him seeing it.
They got the net down there.
We need about 10 minutes to get the net up and, bingo, we got him.
Pull the net!
He's on the net!

News and current affairs

If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events.
They are affordable, and in each case would ultimately deliver large net benefits.
Shimon Peres announced that Labor will offer Sharon a parliamentary safety net; there is even talk about Labor joining a national unity government.
That is why it is important to maintain some flexibility, to allow currently unregulated institutions like hedge funds and private-equity funds to be swept into the regulatory net if they become large and systemically important.
Moreover, any investment growth is vital for Germany, which, according to the latest OECD statistics, currently suffers from the world's lowest share of net investment in national income.
Financial history is littered with untested safety-net devices that failed in a crisis.
Even as America has stripped away its safety net for people, it has strengthened the safety net for firms, evidenced so clearly in the Great Recession with the bailouts of AIG, Goldman Sachs, and other banks.
The housing bubble induced Americans to live beyond their means - net savings has been negative for the past couple of years.
The net saving rate fell to near zero.
The annual capital inflow is equal each year to the US current-account deficit - the sum of the trade deficit plus the net interest and dividends that America's government and businesses owe to the rest of the world.
Without a fall in the dollar and the resulting rise in net exports, a higher saving rate and reduced consumer spending could push the US economy into a deep recession.
Yet, despite all this, employment remained stagnant: net job creation in the United States continues to stall.
But, unlike banks, they do not have the safety net implied by central banks' role as lender of last resort.
Such attacks on immigration might offer some instant political gratification, but their net result is to cleave societies whose cohesion is already seriously challenged by the economic crisis.
With the lull in net immigration, we now have a window of opportunity to address these shortcomings.
For the last four years, the LDP had shown itself to be utterly unresponsive to the key issues of popular concern: pensions, unemployment, and the fraying social safety net.
It was the huge loss of households' net worth that brought down the real economy (with an assist from the credit squeeze on smaller businesses).
The truth is that all the net employment growth in the US economy over the last 20 years has been in the non-tradable sector, where Americans don't have to compete.
In 1914, Britain's net export of capital gave it an important financial kitty to draw upon (though some historians consider that it would have been better to have invested the money in domestic industry).
In particular, the fact that investment banks, which were propelled into riskier activities by these policy changes, were entirely outside the regulatory net was a recipe for disaster.
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