network

Speech parts

1. network - Noun

2. network - Verb

Meaning

A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.

Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

web mesh system net grid meshwork nexus complex matrix internet chain channel connect lattice reticulum
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Antonyms

dodge fork avoid answer explanation divide
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Hypernyms

system material scheme communicate fabric cloth

Hyponyms

reticulum netting gauze tulle snood graticule

Phrases with the word

network solid network television network engineer Elman network filtered-popping recursive transition network data network

Examples

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. Marty Feldman

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. Scott Adams

What, exactly, is the internet Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. Dave Barry

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. Martin Luther King Jr.

Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. Tim Berners-Lee

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks. Fritjof Capra

Close letter words and terms

netwar netwide netwise network adapter network and switching subsystem network architecture