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# net

«net» in Mova's school dictionary: **A material made of string, thread or wire tied together…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a net, nets; "the Net" — the internet); verb (net, nets, netted, netting); adjective (net, as in net weight)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A material made of string, thread or wire tied together with holes in between, or a thing made of it, like a fishing net, a butterfly net or a goal net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#m1)

2) The net (or the Net) is short for the internet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#m2)

3) In maths, a net is a flat shape that can be folded to make a 3D shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#m3)

4) As an adjective, net means what is left after taking things away, like net weight (without the packaging). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#m4)

5) As a verb, to net is to catch in a net, or to score a goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, nets are important: a cube's net has 6 squares; a net of a square-based pyramid has a square and 4 triangles. In sport, nets are used in football goals, tennis, volleyball and netball. In science, scientists catch insects or pond creatures in nets for a short time and let them go. Net weight on food packets means the food alone. Phrases: "fishing net", "safety net", "the net of a cube", "net weight", "surf the net", "back of the net".

### examples

- We used a net to catch tadpoles in the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#x1)
- This is the net of a cube: six squares joined together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#x2)
- The ball hit the back of the net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#x3)
- The tennis ball hit the net and bounced back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#x4)
- Draw a net for a triangular prism. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#x5)
- The net weight of the cereal is 500 g. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#x6)
- Fishermen pulled in their nets full of fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#x7)
- She netted two goals in the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#x8)
- SOME FISHERMEN were out trawling their nets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/#x9)

### note

Countable: a net, nets; verb doubles the t: netted, netting. "Netting" is net material. In maths, not every set of 6 joined squares is a net of a cube: some arrangements will not fold into one. "Net" (what is left) is the opposite of "gross" (the total before taking away).

### In the corpora

- [Benefits are paid for by everyone's taxes as a safety net, and many families who work get some help too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/11/)
- [In Aesop's fable from ancient Greece, about 2500 years ago, a little mouse saves a lion by gnawing through a net.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/12/)
- [Sawfish are critically endangered, mainly because their saws tangle in fishing nets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays/14/)
- [When you cut yourself, platelets and stringy fibres make a net that plugs the cut and hardens into a scab.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood/11/)
- [Fish come from the wild sea or from fish farms, like the round floating net pens in Scottish lochs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «net» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/net/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.