net – English noun declension

English noun forms of net

Noun: net
Singularnet
Pluralnets

Sample Sentences

  • a hairnet; a mosquito net; a tennis net
  • Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • The nets have to be checked to make sure that they are not tangled up and therefore useless, and the carcasses of the dead sharks are removed. [1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 190:]
  • Petri net
  • A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs xxix:5:]
  • caught in the prosecuting attorney's net
  • Wigan had N'Zogbia sent off late on but Squillaci headed into his own net to give the home side a deserved point. [2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:]
  • The striker headed the ball into the net to make it 1-0.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *natją
3. Proto-West Germanic *nati
4. Old English nett
5. Middle English net
6. English net
7. From Middle English net, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją (“net”), from Proto-Indo-European *neHd- (“to knot, turn, twist”).
8. Cognates
9. Cognate with North Frisian näät (“net”), Saterland Frisian Nät (“net”), West Frisian and Dutch net (“net”), German and Luxembourgish Netz (“net”), Yiddish נעץ (nets, “net”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, and Icelandic net (“net”), Norwegian Bokmål nett (“net”), Norwegian Nynorsk net, nett (“net”), Swedish nät (“net”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌹 (nati, “net”). See: Middle English Nouns 'net', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'nett', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'net', Swedish Nouns 'nät', Gothic Nouns '𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌹'.

Verbs referencing "net"

Danish Nouns net, German Nouns Netz, Latin Nouns nassa, Latin Nouns nodus, Finnish Nouns netti, Gothic Nouns 𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌹.