Sports / A1

NET/net/

A net is open material of string or wire with holes. In sport the ball goes into the net (football, tennis). A fishing net catches fish. The internet is often the net in later English — not this A1 meaning. Countable: a net. Not nest (a bird's home).

Meaning

Open material of string or wire with holes, used in sport or to catch things.

Examples

• “The ball went into the net.”
• “She hit the ball into the net.”
• “The football net is broken.”

Good to know

into the net (sport). Contrast: nest (bird). Later: the net = the internet.

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