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# netted

«netted» in Mova's school dictionary: **Caught with a net** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (past tense and past participle of net: net, nets, netted, netting); adjective (netted)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Caught with a net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#m1)

2) (sport) Scored, especially a goal in football or hockey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#m2)

3) (money) Earned or gained as profit after costs, as in "netted £500". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#m3)

4) (adjective) Covered with a net or a pattern like a net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Used in nature (fishermen netted fish), sport reports ("Smith netted twice"), money and maths (net profit = money left after costs) and gardening (netted fruit bushes to keep birds off).

### examples

- The fishermen netted hundreds of fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#x1)
- She netted the winning goal in the last minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#x2)
- Our cake sale netted £85 for charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#x3)
- We netted a butterfly and then let it go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#x4)
- The strawberries were netted to stop the birds eating them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#x5)
- He netted a hat-trick on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#x6)
- The pond was netted to keep the leaves out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#x7)
- Birds sang in the trees, which were netted over to keep them always there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/netted/#x8)

### note

Spelling: double t before -ed and -ing (net, netted, netting). In maths and money, "net" amount = what is left after taking away costs; "gross" = before. So if a sale took £100 and cost £15, it netted £85.

### Trees and pragmatics

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