Definitions

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  • adjective Having openings like a web.

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  • adjective having open interstices or resembling a web

Etymologies

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net +‎ -like

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Examples

  • In that area the sparks were not traveling on the netlike lines, but leaping randomly into the grayness and disappearing.

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  • There were two sorts, refined, adjustable strap racks, with beddings of flat, soft, criss-crossed straps, with sturdy stud-and-eyelet securing straps, and simple net racks, little more than sturdy wooden frames within which was slung a netlike webbing of rope.

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  • After a certain age, netlike structures of proteins and sugars in the amygdala — the region of the brain responsible for making and altering memories — make recollections of fear erasure-resistant.

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  • Reticulum, from the Latin for “little net,” simply means a netlike structure.

    The Answer John Assaraf 2008

  • For a while, researchers have been looking at using carbon nanotubes as semiconductors, crisscrossing them in a netlike pattern.

    Material World: Carbon Nanotubes Net Make Bendable Circuits Tracy Staedter 2008

  • For a while, researchers have been looking at using carbon nanotubes as semiconductors, crisscrossing them in a netlike pattern.

    Material World: July 2008 Tracy Staedter 2008

  • Reticulum, from the Latin for “little net,” simply means a netlike structure.

    The Answer John Assaraf 2008

  • Several netlike lengths of rope hung on the airship's dull-colored gasbag, just like rigging on a ship.

    Crystal Rain 2006

  • A netlike long underwear worn under a spacesuit and that holds a maze of small tubes that circulate chilled water to prevent spacewalkers from overheating.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • A netlike long underwear worn under a spacesuit and that holds a maze of small tubes that circulate chilled water to prevent spacewalkers from overheating.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

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