netting

noun

net·​ting ˈne-tiŋ How to pronounce netting (audio)
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2
: the act or process of making a net or network
3
: the act, process, or right of fishing with a net

Examples of netting in a Sentence

He put up wire netting around the garden. wore a veil of netting
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Another row of six towers and netting, some of them 130-feet-tall, just beyond the existing structures and running for about 260 feet along Edgewood Road. Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025 In the first three months of the war, the archive collected dreams featuring air raids, fireworks, Molotov cocktails, shells, guns, railway stations, debris, drones, soldiers, bunkers, planes, concrete blockades, loudspeakers, camouflage netting, alarm backpacks, Telegram and Signal networks. Mireille Juchau, The Dial, 4 Feb. 2025 Icy winds fluttered the camouflage netting concealing the vehicle. Erin Banco, Anastasiia Malenko, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025 Its rotating turret carried a metal frame and netting, a combination derisively referred to as a cope cage, designed to snag drones and prevent warheads from making direct strikes on hulls. C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for netting

Word History

First Known Use

1567, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of netting was in 1567

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“Netting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/netting. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

Kids Definition

netting

noun
net·​ting
ˈnet-iŋ
1
2
: the act or process of making a net

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