Nets is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NETS in dictionary:

VERB:
• NET, to catch in an openwork fabric
• catch (a fish or other animal) with a net
• fish with nets in (a river)
• acquire or obtain in a skilful way
• (in sport) hit (a ball) into the net; score (a goal)
• cover with a net
• acquire (a sum of money) as clear profit
• return (profit or income) for (someone)
• exclude a non-net amount, such as tax, when making a calculation, in order to reduce the amount left to a net sum
NOUN:
• a piece of open-meshed material made of twine, cord, or something similar, used typically for catching fish or other animals
• a piece of net supported by a frame at the end of a handle, used for catching fish or insects.
• the total amount of fish caught in one session or expedition
• a structure consisting of a net supported on a frame, forming the goal in games such as football
• a net supported on a cord between two posts to divide the playing area in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
• a strip of ground enclosed by a net, for batting and bowling practice
• a safety net
• a fine fabric with a very open weave
• net curtains.
• a means of catching someone; a trap
• a means of selecting or securing someone or something
• a communications or broadcasting network, especially of maritime radio
• a network of interconnected computers
• the Internet.
ADJECTIVE:
• (of an amount, value, or price) remaining after the deduction of tax or other contributions
• (of a weight) excluding that of the packaging.
• remaining after all factors have been taken into account; overall
• (of a score in golf) adjusted to take account of a player's handicap.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to catch in a net (a type of openwork fabric)

Words related to NETS

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Words that contain NETS

benets8 denets7 genets7 lunets6 nonets6 tenets6 bannets9 barnets9 basnets9 bennets9 bonnets9 botnets9 brunets9 bunnets9 burnets9 carnets9 chenets12 cornets9 cronets9 cygnets13 dennets8 dipnets10 elanets7 gannets8 garnets8 gennets8 gurnets8 hornets10 jennets14 kennets11 linnets7 lionets7 magnets10 netsuke11 netsurf10 pinnets9 planets9 posnets9 punnets9 rennets7 runnets7 sennets7 signets8 sinnets7 sonnets7 spinets9 subnets9 telnets7 alkanets12 baronets10 basinets10 bayonets13 beignets11 cabinets12 clapnets12 coronets10 crownets13 darknets13 dragnets10 evernets11 fishnets14 gillnets9 hairnets11 jaconets17 keepnets14 molinets10 netspeak14 netsukes12 netsurfs11 overnets11 quannets17 remanets10 sarsnets8 satinets8 solonets8 spinnets10 tabinets10 balconets13 ballonets11 bascinets13 bassinets11 bobbinets15 burganets12 burgonets12 cabernets13 canzonets20 carcanets13 castanets11 clarinets11 dragonets11 driftnets13 dubonnets12 extranets16 falconets14 internets9 intranets9 jirkinets20 martinets11 moulinets11 muslinets11 Show more ...

How to use NETS in a sentence

• Already some of the boats were launched, and the men were throwing in their nets and fishing-tackle, and were pulling out to sea.
• The shore is fringed with canoes, nets, rafts, and fishing apparatus.
• Or they went out upon the lakes, the river, and its tributaries allotted to each kuren, to throw their nets and draw out rich prey for the enjoyment of the whole kuren.
• Near them lay The weapons of their trade, basket and rod, Hooks, weed-encumbered nets, and cords and oars, And, propped on rollers, an infirm old boat.
• Then they tried with nets of fine silk, and, as they drew them in, there was Alenoushka lying in the nets as if she were asleep.
• The fishermen bring him the largest for size their nets could furnish.
• A young student was easily entangled in the nets of the Jesuits.
• She wished there were nets for keeping them off too.
• The fog was coming in, and the last person to see her was a fisherman returning from his nets.
• In the days when they too had gathered nets in the morning the four fishermen had always been glad to feel the warming rays of the sun breaking through the blanket of fog.
• Evidently the nets have not been used for some time, for there are many holes in them, and the mending is a slow business.
• The huts in which the fishermen kept their baskets, nets, boats, and other implements, occupied a few retired spots on the shore.
• This otter is trained in some parts of India, in the Jessore district and Sunderbunds of Bengal, to drive fish into nets.
• There are miles of net up there, trap and flight nets close by the side of the line.
• One day when the fisherman went out in his boat to cast his nets, he saw a casket of crystal slowly drifting along with the stream.
• It often happened to the fisherman that when he left his nets in the lake at night, they had been emptied before the morning, but he could not discover the cause.
• Now who would be the better for the loss of my nets? answer me that.
• Farther on may be seen men with their hair confined in long nets of silk.
• And, indeed, I think to catch them in the thickets, like birds in the sweet nets of beds.
• All the laborers opened their eyes as they looked with admiration at the woman whose fairy wand seemed to have touched the nets.
• Here are plenty of cords of flax and hemp and wool, with which he intended to make other nets.
• What need had they of words to say they loved? Chapter VI THE FOWLER SNARES AGAIN THE BIRD THAT HAD JUST ESCAPED, AND SETS HIS NETS FOR A NEW VICTIM.

Similar words containing NET without suffix s

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