NETTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does netting mean? 

• NETTING (noun)
  The noun NETTING has 2 senses:

1. a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave

2. creating nets

  Familiarity information: NETTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NETTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gauze; netting; veiling

Hypernyms ("netting" is a kind of...):

mesh; meshing; meshwork; net; network (an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "netting"):

cheesecloth (a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses)

gossamer (a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Creating nets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("netting" is a kind of...):

weaving (creating fabric)

Derivation:

net (construct or form a web, as if by weaving)

 Context examples 

The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She is netting herself the sweetest cloak you can conceive.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I was shown into a pretty but rather close drawing-room, and there sat Agnes, netting a purse.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The insecticide was then unleashed in a purpose-built 6,550-square-foot ‘village’ in Burkina Faso, containing huts, plants, and breeding pools, and covered in netting to stop the insects escaping.

(Genetically modified fungus hailed as malaria breakthrough, SciDev.Net)