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Something used for catching fish, insects, or animals which is made of threads or wires woven across each other with regular spaces between them.

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Usage examples (31)
  • It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
  • net profit
  • net a fish
  • Under my Firefox profile, I have created a file called sample@example. net, which contains the URI F: \Web\firefox\sample@example. net\
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