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net·ting

(nĕt′ĭng)

1. An openwork fabric; a net.

2. The act or process of making a net.

3. The act or process of fishing with a net.

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netting

(ˈnɛtɪŋ)

any netted fabric or structure

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

net•ting

(ˈnɛt ɪŋ)

n.

any of various kinds of net fabric.

[1560–70]

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Noun	1.	netting - a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave veiling, gauze cheesecloth - a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses gossamer - a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture meshwork, meshing, network, mesh, net - an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals
	2.	netting - creating nets weaving - creating fabric

netting

noun

An open fabric woven of strands that are interlaced and knotted at usually regular intervals:

mesh, net, network, web.

Translations

شَبَكَه

síťovina

net

Filet Geflecht

compensation monétaire de groupetulle

net

sieťovina

netting

[ˈnetɪŋ] N (= wire) → malla f; (= nets) → redes fpl (Sew) → malla f
see also wire C

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

netting

[ˈnɛtɪŋ] n

(for fence) → grillage m

(= fabric) → voile m mosquito netting

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

netting

n → Netz nt; (= wire netting) → Maschendraht m; (= fabric) → Netzgewebe nt; (for curtains etc) → Tüll m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

netting

[ˈnɛtɪŋ] n (nets) → reti fpl; (mesh) → rete (also wire netting) (for fence) → rete metallica, reticolato; (fabric) → tulle m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

net¹

(net) noun

(any of various devices for catching creatures, eg fish, or for any of a number of other purposes, consisting of) a loose open material made of knotted string, thread, wire etc. a fishing-net; a hair-net; a tennis-net; (also adjective) a net curtain.

verb – past tense, past participle ˈnetted –

to catch in a net. They netted several tons of fish.

ˈnetting noun

material made in the form of a net. wire netting.

ˈnetball noun

a team-game in which a ball is thrown into a net hanging high up on a pole.

ˈnetwork noun

1. anything in the form of a net, ie with many lines crossing each other. A network of roads covered the countryside.

2. a widespread organization. a radio network; television networks.

3. a system of computers that can exchange messages and information. The Internet is a global computer network

References in classic literature ?

As Ned remarked, it did look like a camping party, for in the canoes were tents, cooking utensils and, most important, mosquito canopies of heavy netting.

Therefore it was imperative to sleep under mosquito netting.

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Quick enough of comprehension, she understood me directly; her face became a little blanched--a very little--but no muscle in her rather marked features moved; and, calm and self-possessed, she retired from the estrade, taking her seat quietly at a little distance, and occupying herself with netting a purse.

Presently I discovered that she knew I was watching her, for she stirred not, she lifted not her crafty eyelid; she had glanced down from her netting to her small foot, peeping from the soft folds of her purple merino gown; thence her eye reverted to her hand, ivory white, with a bright garnet ring on the forefinger, and a light frill of lace round the wrist; with a scarcely perceptible movement she turned her head, causing her nut-brown curls to wave gracefully.

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Given that netting in any form is an extra vineyard expense, in what areas are growers most likely to need this form of protection?

To net or not to net: bird netting is aggravating but effective; what growers should look for

Roth, Jr., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, concerning the need for a technical clarification of the interest netting rules.

TEI comments on clarification of interest netting rules

Despite Congress's intent to have interest netting apply as broadly as possible, the IRS has interpreted the interest netting rules narrowly, to the disadvantage of many taxpayers.

IRS narrowly interprets scope of interest netting rules

Similarly, in 1989 in establishing the manner of the conduct of the receivership of insured depository institutions under federal law, the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 provided for the termination, or closeout, and netting of qualified financial contracts, including securities, commodity and forward contracts, and repurchase and swap agreements.

Statement by Oliver Ireland, Associate General Counsel, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, March 18, 1999

The following additional netting and ordering rules also would apply:

New capital netting rules

On July 12, 1999, Tax Executives Institute submitted the following comments concerning interest netting rules to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Technical clarification of interest-netting rules

The final regulations continue to permit the netting of gains and losses on the disposition of stock in the same subsidiary.

The loss disallowance rule - round three; is this the final chapter?

Finally, new settlement techniques involving netting are being increasingly employed to reduce liquidity requirements and to control risk.

A primer on the settlement of payments in the United States