netting :

Search Words
You can search or browse for words

netting

ne ting

  • n  a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
  • n  creating nets
  • v  make as a net profit
  • v  yield as a net profit
  • v  construct or form a web, as if by weaving
  • v  catch with a net

  • He tells us that in netting passenger pigeons the trappers would blind the decoy birds or "stool pigeons" by sewing their eyes shut with a fine needle and silk thread.
  • His multihued acid-washed denims were inventive; his black dresses with netting panels were a sophisticated break from the flash of the '80s retro trend most other designers were .
  • The state's superdelegates would then be able to vote in Denver, likely netting Clinton a few more delegates.
News & Articles

  • Video: Abby Wambach sets scoring record
    Abby Wambach broke Mia Hamm's international soccer scoring record by netting four goals for the U.S. national team against South Korea.
    June 21, 2013 - Washington Post
  • Abby Wambach Breaks Mia Hamm Record For Most Goals [Video]
    Abby Wambach broke Mia Hamm’s record for international career goals tonight after netting four shots against South Korea. Wambach now has 160 career goals during international games, two more than Mia Hamm. According to the Huffington Post, Wambach scored three times during the first 29 minutes. She scored her record breaking goal on a line-drive... Read more » Abby Wambach Breaks Mia Hamm ...
    June 21, 2013 - The Inquisitr
  • Abby Wambach breaks international goal-scoring record
    Abby Wambach entered Thursday night's game against South Korea behind Mia Hamm by two goals on the all-time international scoring list, with 156 goals. It took her just 29 minutes to score a hat trick and surpass Mia Hamm's record, netting her 159th career international goal in 206 appearances with a brilliant header on a corner kick. The USWNT started targeting Wambach from the beginning ...
    June 21, 2013 - SB Nation
Quotes

  • Nicolas Sarkozy in AFP
    We cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind netting, cut off from all social life, deprived of identity,Sarkozy said
  • Ingrid Betancourt in International Herald Tribune
    Now, home is "a hammock strung between two posts, covered with mosquito netting and with tent above that serves as a roof," Betancourt wrote her mother. "I have a shelf for my things, which is to say a backpack for clothing and the Bible that...
  • Tim Thomas in 940 News
    I saw him winding up to take the shot but then I lost it,Thomas said. "I heard it hit the crossbar, then I heard the crowd cheer so I thought it didn't go in, I thought it went up in the netting. I couldn't see the puck because it was...

Bee Dictionary: Search, browse, look at common errors, idioms and more.