netting

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/ˈnɛtɪŋ/

noun

Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.

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meshgauzeveiling
OriginEnglish net ← Middle English net ← Old English nett →
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Meanings

netting1

nounnetting (countable and uncountable, plural nettings)

plural nettings

  1. countableuncountableSomething that acts as, or looks like, a net.

    Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]

    1673 May (first performance), John Dryden, Amboyna. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1673, →OCLC, Act III, page 31
    1 more example

    The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. … Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar.

    January 1965, U.S. Army Air Defense Digest (U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas), page 44 (part of chapter 3, Army Air Defense Control Systems) (PDF: cover, contents, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3)

    Synonyms: mesh

netting2

nounnetting (uncountable)
  1. UKdialectalobsoleteuncountableUrine.

    Any undecente or noysome thinge as[…]Nettinge or Fylthe.

    1557, Court Leet Records

netting3

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of net

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSomething that acts as, or looks like, a net.

Similar
mesh

More synonyms by meaning

nouna net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave

Similar
gauzeveiling
Broader
netnetworkmesh
Also see
gauzemeshurineveilingwater

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

netting · noun

  1. Proto-Germanic*natją
  2. Proto-West Germanic*nati
  3. Old Englishnett
  4. Middle Englishnet
  5. Englishnet
  6. Englishnetting

From net + -ing.

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netting · noun

  1. Proto-West Germanic*nattjan“to wet”
  2. Old English*nettan“to wet”
  3. Proto-West Germanic*nattjan
  4. Old Saxon*nettian
  5. Middle Low Germannette“wetness, urine”
  6. Middle Low Germannattinge“wetness”
  7. Middle Englishnetting“urine”
  8. Englishnetting

From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”), from Old Saxon *nettian, from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan. Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”), all related to the above.

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netting · verb

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with netting

gettingsettingbettinglettingforgettingwettingupsettingpettingfrettingjetting
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Anagrams

tentingtingent
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