net----network----web

net---.
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals: a butterfly net.
2.
a piece of meshed fabric designed to serve a specific purpose, as to divide a court in racket games or protect against insects: a tennis net; a mosquito net.
3.
anything serving to catch or ensnare: a police net to trap the bank robber.
4.
a lacelike fabric with a uniform mesh of cotton, silk, rayon, nylon, etc., often forming the foundation of any of various laces.
5.
(in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball that hits the net.
6.
Often, nets. the goal in hockey or lacrosse.
7.
any network or reticulated system of filaments, lines, veins, or the like.
8.
any network containing computers and telecommunications equipment.
9.
the Net, the Internet.
10.
Mathematics. the abstraction, in topology, of a sequence; a map from a directed set to a given space.
11.
(initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Reticulum.
12.
Informal. a radio or television network.


network



net·work
   /ˈnɛtˌwɜrk/ Show Spelled[net-wurk] Show IPA
–noun
1.
any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.
2.
Radio and Television.
a.
a group of transmitting stations linked by wire or microwave relay so that the same program can be broadcast or telecast by all.
b.
a company or organization that provides programs to be broadcast over these stations: She was hired by the network as program coordinator.
3.
a system of interrelated buildings, offices, stations, etc., esp. over a large area or throughout a country, territory, region, etc.: a network of supply depots.
4.
Electricity. an arrangement of conducting elements, as resistors, capacitors, or inductors, connected by conducting wire.
5.
a netting or net.
6.
Telecommunications, Computers. a system containing any combination of computers, computer terminals, printers, audio or visual display devices, or telephones interconnected by telecommunication equipment or cables: used to transmit or receive information.
7.
an association of individuals having a common interest, formed to provide mutual assistance, helpful information, or the like: a network of recent college graduates.

web

something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
2.
a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars; cobweb.
3.
Textiles.
a.
a woven fabric, esp. a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom.
b.
the flat woven strip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug.
4.
something resembling woven material, esp. something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance: He looked up at the web of branches of the old tree.
5.
an intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.: The thief was convicted by a web of evidence. Who can understand the web of life?
6.
something that snares or entangles; a trap: innocent travelers caught in the web of international terrorism.
7.
webbing.
8.
Zoology. a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds.
9.
Ornithology.
a.
the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather.
b.
the series on both sides, collectively.
10.
an integral or separate part of a beam, rail, truss, or the like, that forms a continuous, flat, narrow, rigid connection between two stronger, broader parallel parts, as the flanges of a structural shape, the head and foot of a rail, or the upper and lower chords of a truss.
11.
Machinery. an arm of a crank, usually one of a pair, holding one end of a crankpin at its outer end.