English Explanatory Dictionary

network

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any interconnected group or system.
  2. A set of people with sociocultural connections to one another; especially, such a set consisting of occupational or business connections.
  3. A group of affiliated television stations that broadcast common programs from a parent company.
  4. A computer network: multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information.
  5. A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals; the act or process of making such an object.
verb
  1. To interact socially for the purpose of getting connections or personal advancement.
  2. To connect two or more computers or other computerized devices.
  3. To interconnect a group or system.
  4. To broadcast across an entire network of stations and affiliates at the same time.

Pronunciation

/ˈnɛt.wɜːk/ /ˈnɛt.wɝk/ en-us-network.ogg

Word forms

network networks networking networked

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *neHd- Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *natją Proto-West Germanic *nati Old English nett Middle English net English net Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Germanic *werką Proto-West Germanic *werk Old English weorc Middle English werk English work English network From net + work; the nonliteral sense and its subsenses are extended from the literal sense; they are now the dominant senses. Cognate with German Netzwerk.

Related words

chainwork knitwork lacework needlework

Derived words

affiliate network Bayesian network bionetwork co-occurrence network cybernetwork Elman network Feistel network fragnet generative adversarial network good old boy network hypernetwork integrated services digital network internetwork intranetwork Jordan network logistics network mesonet mesonetwork metanetwork micronetwork mobile virtual network operator multinetwork nanonetwork networkability networkable network adapter network card network effect network engineer networker network externality networking network interface card network interface controller network marketing network motif network neutrality network option time network printer network provider network proxy Network Rail network socket network state network subsystem network-subsystem network television network time network topology networkwide next-generation network nonnetwork old-boy network old boy network semantic network small-world network spiking neural network spin network subnetwork supernetwork

Translations

Arabic: شَبَكَة Armenian: ցանց Azerbaijani: şəbəkə Belarusian: се́тка Belarusian: сець Belarusian: мярэ́жа Bulgarian: мре́жа Catalan: xarxa Chinese Cantonese: 網絡 /网络 Chinese Cantonese: 網路 /网路 Chinese Mandarin: 網絡 /网络 Chinese Mandarin: 網路 /网路 Czech: síť Danish: netværk Danish: net Dutch: netwerk Finnish: verkko French: réseau Friulian: rêt Galician: rede Georgian: ქსელი German: Netzwerk German: Netz Greek: δίκτυο Hungarian: hálózat Irish: eangach Italian: rete Japanese: ネットワーク Japanese: 網 Kazakh: тор Korean: 네트워크 Korean: 망 Ladin: rei Latin: reticulum Macedonian: мрежа Malay: rangkaian Malay: jaringan Māori: whatunga Norwegian Bokmål: nettverk Norwegian Bokmål: nett Dari: شَبَکَه Iranian Persian: شَبَکِه Polish: sieć Polish: układ Portuguese: rede Romanian: rețea Russian: сеть Serbo-Croatian: мре̏жа Serbo-Croatian: mrȅža Spanish: red Spanish: entramado Sundanese: raramat Swahili: mtandao
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