Word Finder - nets

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A mesh of string, cord or rope.

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a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net

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A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.

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A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.

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Anything that has the appearance of such a device.

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Petri net

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(by extension) A trap.

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caught in the prosecuting attorney's net

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Of a polyhedron, any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form the polyhedron.

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A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.

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a computer network; a road network; an electricity distribution network

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A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.

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The striker headed the ball into the net to make it 1-0.

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A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.

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(by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).

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To catch by means of a net.

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To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.

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To enclose or cover with a net.

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to net a tree

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To score (a goal).

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Evans netted the winner in the 80th minute.

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To hit the ball into the net.

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To form network or netting; to knit.

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The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.

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To receive as profit.

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The company nets $30 on every sale.

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To yield as profit for.

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The scam netted the criminals $30,000.

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To fully hedge a position.

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Every party is netting their position with a counter-party

Their nets, made by women, either of the tendons of animals or the fibres of plants, will catch and hold the kangaroo or the emu, or the very large fish of Australian rivers.

The principal industries include paper-making, brewing, the making of nets and twine, bricks, tiles and pottery, tanning and oil-refining, besides saltworks and seed-crushing works.

The nets or snares are highly efficient for this purpose.

They made nets and fishing lines, and used canoes.

Flax, Hemp, Jute, &c.The preparation and spinning of these materials and the manufacture of nets and rope, together with the weaving of linen and other fabrics, give occupation to 112,000 persons chiefly in the departments of Nord (Lille, Armentires, Dunkirk), Somme (Amiens) and Maine-et-Loire (Angers, Cholet).

In old age they appear much ground down; particularly is this the case with women, who chew the different kinds of fibres, of which they make nets and bags.

Being pursued by Minos, king of Crete, who was enamoured of her, she sprang from a rock into the sea, but was saved from drowning by falling into some fishermen's nets.

These early schools, which consist chiefly of one-year and two-year-old fishes, yield sometimes enormous catches, whilst in other years they escape the drift-nets altogether, passing them, for some hitherto Unexplained reason, at a greater depth than that to which the nets reach, 1 The term "Spanish mackerel" is applied in America to Cybium maculatum.

Mention is made of nets and snares, but the dog does not seem to have been used in the pursuit of game.

In the early periods of their history the Greeks depended too much on their nets to capture game, and it was not until later times that they pursued their prey with dogs, and then not with greyhounds, which run by sight, but with beagles, the dwarf hound which is still very popular.

It feeds on mackerel, pilchards and herrings and, following the shoals, is often caught by fishermen in the nets along with its prey.

It supports a fishing population of over 30,000, most of whom are Annamese; the fish, which are taken by means of large nets at the end of the inundation, are either dried or fermented for the production of the sauce known as nuoc-mam.

The fruit is edible and its juice is made into beer; the sap of the tree is made into wine, and its pith into bread; the leaves furnish an excellent thatch, and the fibre extracted from their midribs is used f or fish lines, cordage, hammocks, nets, &c.; and the wood is hard and makes good building' material.

Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts.

Among its manufactures are cotton goods, iron, lumber, nets and twine, bricks, and carriages and wagons.

The "Fisherman's ring" is a red ink stamp representing St Peter on a boat casting out his nets, with the name of the reigning pope.

Each sort of fruit should be planted by itself, for the sake of orderly arrangement, and in order to facilitate protection when necessary by a covering of nets.

The lake swarms with fish, which are caught with nets by a gild of fishermen, whose boats are the only representatives of the many ships and boats which plied on the lake as late as the 10th century.

Hunting, Fishing, &c.In the desert hunting was carried on by hunters with bows and arrows, dogs and nets to check the game.

Fishing nets were common in all historic times, and the lead sinkers (83) and stone sinkers (84) are often found under the XVIIIth-XXth Dyiiasties.

Thus he invented nets for catching wolves and built innumerable water-mills, " for he would not let the waters run into the sea before they had been of use to the community."

Flint implements, exactly like those of Siberia and Russia, have been found at Dui and Kusunai in great numbers, as well as polished stone hatchets, like the European ones, primitive pottery with decorations like those of Olonets and stone weights for nets.

The treatise chiefly deals with the capture of the hare; in the author's day the approved method was to find the hare in her form by the use of dogs; when found she was either driven into nets previously set in her runs or else run down in the open.

Boar-hunting is also described; it was effected by nets into which the animal was pursued, and in which when fairly entangled he was speared.

The people also use the various fibre-producing plants for the manufacture of ropes, coarse string and fine cord, and for making fishing nets.

The nets are often very large, and are netted with a needle and mesh as in hand-netting among ourselves.

In the former year considerable numbers were taken off Dover in drift nets of small mesh used for the capture of sprats.

Large numbers of darekh, a kind of herring, exist in the lake, and are caught in nets from boats or when they enter the shallow lagoons in the spring and summer.

Hence if we take two nets of wire with hexagonal meshes, and place one on the other so that the point of concourse of three hexagons of one net coincides with the middle of a hexagon of the other, and if we then, after dipping them in Plateau's liquid, place them horizontally, and gently raise the upper one, we shall develop a system of plane laminae arranged as the walls and floors of the cells are arranged in a honeycomb.

Both the state government and the national government have established hatcheries within the state, and state laws protect the industry by regulating the size of mesh in the nets used, prescribing the size of fish that may be taken and kept, establishing close seasons for several kinds of fish, and by other limitations.

On the south coast of England it lives chiefly on pilchard and mackerel, and when in pursuit of these is often taken in the nets.

Fishing operations are carried on extensively in Lake Erie, the fish being taken with gill nets, seins and pound nets.

The produce of the second barking is still so coarse in texture that it is only fit for making floats for nets and for similar applications.

The principal colony has its summer quarters on the Stora-Lule Lake, possesses good boats and nets, and, besides catching and drying fish, makes money by the shooting of wild fowl and the gathering of eggs.

The birds and the contents of the nests are taken in nets mounted on poles; shooting is not practised, lest it should permanently scare the birds away.

They are skilful cultivators and good boat-builders, the carpenters, being an hereditary caste; there are also tribes of fishermen and sailors; their mats, baskets, nets, cordage and other fabrics are substantial and tasteful; their pottery, made, like many of the above articles, by women, is far superior to any other in the South Seas; but many native manufactures have been supplanted by European goods.

Their houses, of which the framework is timber and the rest lattice and thatch, are ingeniously constructed, with great taste in ornamentation, and are well furnished with mats, mosquito-curtains, baskets, fans, nets and cooking and other utensils.

The "schools" of whitebait advancing and retiring with the tide for days, and probably for weeks, have to run the gauntlet of a dozen of these nets, and therefore get very much thinned in number by the end of the season.

The otters are captured by spearing, clubbing, nets and bullets.

It contains two Cricket nets and is used for cricket practice, marital arts, athletic training and indoor archery.

The harbor was once busy with small cobles working stake nets for salmon off the River Tyne.

The call is so decisive that they immediately left their fishing nets and followed Jesus.

All Bedrooms have ceiling fans, mosquito nets, & Satellite TV.

It's a downbeat experience, and the presence of those nets with the trapped and decaying fish makes it all the more foreboding.

An additional cause of accidental death to otters can be drowning in eel fyke nets.

Dreams are made of Rooney, Rossi and Ronaldo exchanging high-fives in the future as their goals bulge the nets of opposing sides.

Nets also give the user a peaceful night where any biting insects are prevalent.

So in 21 of the 56 stations we have found krill and have caught some in our nets.

High speed explosive motorboats were to blast breaches in the protective booms and nets allowing two SLCs to penetrate the harbor.

Each drift net would be up to 120 fathoms long, up to 12 nets would be joined together to create the drift.