What is the difference between net and let?
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A mesh of string, cord or rope.
A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
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, title= A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
(by extension) A trap.
* Bible, Proverbs xxix. 5
(geometry) Of a polyhedron, any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form the polyhedron.
A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them, e.g. computer ~, road ~, electricity distribution ~.
(sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
, title= (sports, tennis) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
To catch by means of a net.
(figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
* Sir Walter Scott
To enclose or cover with a net.
(football) To score (a goal).
* 2012 , Chelsea 6-0 Wolves [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19632463]
(tennis) To hit the ball into the net.
* {{quote-news
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, date=June 28
, author=David Ornstein
, title=Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters
, work=BBC Sport
To form network or netting; to knit.
(obsolete) Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.
Remaining after expenses or deductions.
Final; end.
after expenses or deductions
To receive as profit.
To yield as profit for.
To fully hedge a position.
(label) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without (to)).
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*(Bible), (w) viii. 28
*:Pharaoh said, I will let you go.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is
*1971 , , (The Tombs of Atuan)
*:He could not be let die of thirst there alone in the dark.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets, / But to her mother Nature all her care she lets .
(label) To allow the release of (a fluid).
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(label) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
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(label) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out .
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To cause (+ bare infinitive).
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*1818 , (John Keats), "To—":
*:Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, / Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand.
(archaic) To hinder, prevent; to obstruct (someone or something).
* Bible, 2. Thessalonians ii. 7
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To prevent or obstruct (to) do something, or (that) something happen.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts VIII:
An obstacle or hindrance.
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*:Paulus Emilius'' going to the glorious expedition of ''Macedon'', advertised the people of ''Rome'' during his absence not to speake of his actions: ''For the licence of judgements is an especiall let in great affaires.
*Latimer
*:Consider whether your doings be to the let of your salvation or not.
(tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
In transitive terms the difference between net and let
is that net is to yield as profit for while let is Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.In tennis terms the difference between net and let
is that net is to hit the ball into the net while let is the hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.In obsolete terms the difference between net and let
is that net is good, desirable; clean, decent, clear while let is to prevent or obstruct {{term|to}} do something, or {{term|that}} something happen.As an adjective net
is good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.As an adverb net
is after expenses or deductions.As a proper noun Net
is the Internet.net
English
(NET)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
- A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=Wigan had N'Zogbia sent off late on but Squillaci headed into his own net to give the home side a deserved point.}}
Synonyms
* (mesh) mesh, network * (used for catching or trapping) * snare, trap * (anything that has the appearance of a net) reticulation * (in geometry) development * (in computing) networkDerived terms
* fishnet * hairnet * hit the net * internet * netting * network * neural net * Petri net * safety netVerb
(nett)- And now I am here, netted and in the toils.
- to net a tree
- Evans netted the winner in the 80th minute.
- Romeu then scored a penalty, Torres netted a header and Moses added the sixth from substitute Oscar's cross.
citation, page= , passage=Azarenka whipped a sensational forehand around the net post to break for 2-0 in the second set, followed it up with a love hold and moved to 5-1 when Paszek netted a forehand.}}
Synonyms
* (catch by means of a net) catch * (to trap) catch, ensnare, entrap, snare, trapEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m). Compare (m), (m).Alternative forms
* nettAdjective
(-)- Her brest all naked, as net iuory, / Without adorne of gold or siluer bright
- net wine
- net''' profit''; '''''net weight
- net''' result''; '''''net conclusion
Derived terms
* net income * net loss * net weightAdverb
(-)- You'll have $5000 net .
Verb
(nett)- The company nets $30 on every sale.
- The scam netted the criminals $30,000.
- Every party is netting their position with a counter-party
let
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) leten, .Verb
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
- Soo within a whyle kynge Pellinore cam with a grete hoost / and salewed the peple and the kyng / and ther was grete ioye made on euery syde / Thenne the kyng lete serche how moche people of his party ther was slayne / And ther were founde but lytel past two honderd men slayne and viij kny?tes of the table round in their pauelions
Synonyms
* (to allow) allow, permitUsage notes
The use of "let" to introduce an imperative may sometimes be confused with its use, as its own imperative , in the sense of "to allow". For example, the sentence "Let me go to the store." could either be a second-person imperative of "let" (addressing someone who might prevent the speaker from going to the store) or a first-person singular imperative of "go" (not implying any such preventer).Etymology 2
(etyl) . More at late, delay.Verb
- He who now letteth' will ' let , until he be taken out of the way.
- Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, / And lets me from the saddle.
- And as they went on their waye, they cam unto a certayne water, and the gelded man sayde: Se here is water, what shall lett me to be baptised?