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netting en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈnɛtɪŋ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *natją Proto-West Germanic *nati Old English nett Middle English net English net Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English netting From net + -ing.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
   • The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. … Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar. January 1965, U.S. Army Air Defense Digest (U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas), page 44 (part of chapter 3, Army Air Defense Control Systems) (PDF: cover, contents, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3)
   • Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […] 1673 May (first performance), John Dryden, Amboyna. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1673, →OCLC, Act III, page 31:

Forms

Deriveds

hammock netting · set-netting · netting-needle · side-netting · wire netting · side netting · mosquito netting · set netting

Synonyms

mesh

netting en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”), from Old Saxon *nettian, from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan. Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”), all related to the above.

Meanings

1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable) Urine.
   • Any undecente or noysome thinge as[…]Nettinge or Fylthe. 1557, Court Leet Records:

netting en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /ˈnɛtɪŋ/

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of net
   form of net