Definition of Net

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Definition of Net

Net

To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile.

To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.

To form network or netting; to knit.

Without spot; pure; shining.

Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc.

Not including superfluous, incidental, or foreign matter, as boxes, coverings, wraps, etc.; free from charges, deductions, etc; as, net profit; net income; net weight, etc.

To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.

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Net Quotations

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Aeschylus

Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs

The internet is a great way to get on the net.
Bob Dole

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte

Net Translations

net in Afrikaans is netjies
net in Danish is net
net in Dutch is netto, netto-, net, duidelijk
net in Finnish is netto, verkko
net in German is vernetzen, Netz, Netto, netzartig, Netz
net in Italian is ordito
net in Portuguese is rede
net in Spanish is neto, red

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