net

net is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 4 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.
2. transitive verb. To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile.
3. transitive verb. To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.
4. intransitive verb. To form network or netting; to knit.
5. adjective. Without spot; pure; shining.
6. adjective. Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc.
7. adjective. Not including superfluous, incidental, or foreign matter, as boxes, coverings, wraps, etc.; free from charges, deductions, etc; as, net profit; net income; net weight, etc.
8. transitive verb. To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.
9. noun. a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange

   Synonyms: cyberspace, internet

10. noun. an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals

    Synonyms: mesh, meshing, meshwork, network

11. noun. a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects
12. noun. game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton
13. noun. a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey)
14. noun. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

    Synonyms: earnings, lucre, profit, profits

15. verb. catch with a net

    "net a fish"

    Synonyms: nett

16. verb. construct or form a web, as if by weaving

    Synonyms: web

17. verb. make as a net profit

    "The company cleared $1 million"

    Synonyms: clear, sack

18. verb. yield as a net profit

    "This sale netted me $1 million"

    Synonyms: clear

19. adjective. conclusive in a process or progression

    "the final answer"

    "a last resort"

    Synonyms: final, last

20. adjective. remaining after all deductions

    "net profit"

    Synonyms: nett

Synonyms

cyberspace, internet, mesh, meshing, meshwork, network, earnings, lucre, profit, profits, nett, web, clear, sack, final, last

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in net:

ten

Common word forms

nets, neter, netful, netted, netter, netless, netting, nettion

Words from these letters

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