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Encyclopedia > Net (device)
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Bird netting on wine grapes.

A net, in its primary meaning, comprises fibers woven in a grid-like structure, as in fishing nets, butterfly nets, cricket nets, or nets used in sporting goals in games such as soccer, basketball, Bossaball and ice hockey. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (from wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 300 KB)Bird netting on wine grapes File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 300 KB)Bird netting on wine grapes File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Fishing with a cast net. ... A butterfly net is one of several kinds of nets used to collect insects. ... Cricket nets are practice nets used by batsmen and bowlers to warm up and/or improve their techniques. ... In Association Football (soccer), the word goal refers to both the result of a score and the physical structure that defines when a score has occurred. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ...


The adjectives reticulated and retiary both mean "net-like".


Most of the other meanings of the term are by analogy with the use above.



 

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