net (original) (raw)
net noun (SPORT)
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net verb [T] (CATCH)
to catch something using a net:
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- catchThe dog got out, but we caught her.
- netWe netted a ton of fish downstream.
- trawlCommercial fisheries trawl these waters for cod.
- trollThey troll for tuna far offshore.
- lassoThe cowboys learned at a young age how to lasso horses and steers.
- trapThe turtles are trapped for their flesh.
to get something good or to earn a lot of money from something:
net something for someone She netted $10 million for herself from the sale of her company.
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net verb [T] (SCORE)
(Definition of net from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
net | American Dictionary
net noun [C] (MATERIAL)
net adjective [not gradable] (LEFT OVER)
net verb [T] (GET)
net verb [T] (HIT INTO NET)
To net is also to catch something in a net:
net verb [T] (HAVE LEFT OVER)
Smithsonian, on a gross of 28million,netted28 million, netted 28million,netted7 million with one magazine.
(Definition of net from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
net | Business English
[ U ] MONEY, TAX US (also net income); (also net profit)
The company's fourth-quarter net edged higher to 22.4millionfrom22.4 million from 22.4millionfrom22 million.
cast/spread your net wide
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He had netted $1 million before he was 40.
net sb sth The business was sold in 1998, netting him £174m.
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(Definition of net from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of net
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Viewed on a per holding basis the net present value of mean economic returns per holding come to $500/ha.
For the maize yield and net returns equations, the estimated coefficients of the farm size variables were statistically different between the adopters and non-adopters.
But farm size does not appear to explain differences in yields and net returns when the technology is adopted.
This is under the assumption that farmers are risk neutral and that net farm returns () represent wealth.
Net returns under the alternate management plans are lower than in the base model for all years.
The net free energy change then represents the difference between several large-value terms, and no single component can be said to dominate.
The constant represents the expected project yield in capital (per unit invested), net of monitoring costs.
The net impact concerns the effect on parties.
The net result is reduced diversity in provision.
The surfaces generated by subdivision schemes on such nets are no longer restricted to bivariate functions, and they can represent surfaces of arbitrary topology.
Such nets are valuable for the design of free-form surfaces.
Rising levels of net disposable income allowed town-dwellers to climb the housing ladder, thereby reducing some at least of the ravages of infection.
Humans are typically not very altruistic in situations where theory cannot find any long-term net benefits.
It would have been useful if the editors had been able to accomplish a similar thing regarding the topic of whether pensions are net saving.
Hence, to avoid the creation of cyclic causal dependencies in the resulting net, the induced causality will be required to be a strict partial order.
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At the end of the maze, the castaways would bounce along a cargo net to retrieve five puzzle piece bags.
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Fishing net possession gives rise to a 10 per cent higher probability of using fishing as a coping strategy.
Initial design of gear using an artifical neural net.
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