Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Urine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
present participle and gerund of net
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
creating nets
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: weaving
noun
a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: gauze, veiling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: net, network, mesh, meshing, meshwork
Narrower terms: cheesecloth, gossamer
History
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.
From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”), from Old Saxon *nettian, from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan. Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”), all related to the above.
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