Definition of netting
1 : network 1
2 : the act or process of making a net or network
3 : the act, process, or right of fishing with a net
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Examples of netting in a Sentence
He put up wire netting around the garden.
wore a veil of netting
Recent Examples of netting from the Web
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Tripods or row trellising with poles and string or netting are effective.
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Midfielder William Da Silva took a pass across the top of the box and sliced a shot on his first shot into the right netting, just beyond Marchesin’s fingertips.
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A caller reported finding a raccoon wrapped in netting.
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With Chinese workers in assembly plants that management has ringed with netting to deter suicides?
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In a video captured by Mike Swanson, the Royals’ vice president of communications, Parker unleashes a rise ball and knocks Butera back into the netting of the batting cage.
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Spears and her husband Jamie Watson could not free her from the vehicle’s seatbelt and safety netting, so she was submerged underwater for several minutes until first responders arrived.
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Along with expanding the 30-foot netting by four sections on each side of home plate, the Mets are installing 8-foot netting that spans two sections farther down each foul line.
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The technology is in place to install protective netting that minimally changes the fans’ experience and could save a life or protect someone from traumatic injury.
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First Known Use of netting
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NETTING Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of netting for English Language Learners
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: material consisting of pieces of string, rope, wire, etc., that are woven together with open spaces left in between : material that is used to make nets
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