bag vs net

bag

verb
  • To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. 

  • To arrest. 

  • To laugh uncontrollably. 

  • To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest. 

  • To steal. 

  • To put into a bag. 

  • To fit with a bag to collect urine. 

  • To hang like an empty bag. 

  • To drop away from the correct course. 

  • To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. 

  • To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator. 

  • To criticise sarcastically. 

  • To forget, ignore, or get rid of. 

  • To furnish or load with a bag. 

noun
  • A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath. 

  • One's preference. 

  • A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags. 

  • A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods. 

  • The scrotum. 

  • A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated. 

  • £1000, a grand. 

  • A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance. 

  • An ugly woman. 

  • A fellow gay man. 

  • The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base. 

  • A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics. 

  • A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc. 

  • A large number or amount. 

  • First, second, or third base. 

  • A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig. 

  • A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds. 

  • The quantity of game bagged in a hunt. 

net

verb
  • To catch in a trap, or by stratagem. 

  • To form a netting or network; to knit. 

  • To yield as profit for. 

  • To enclose or cover with a net. 

  • To score (a goal). 

  • To catch by means of a net. 

  • To receive as profit. 

  • To fully hedge a position. 

  • To hit the ball into the net. 

adv
  • After expenses or deductions. 

adj
  • Final; end. 

  • Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat. 

  • Remaining after expenses or deductions. 

noun
  • A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals. 

  • The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit. 

  • Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron. 

  • A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something. 

  • Anything that has the appearance of such a device. 

  • The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court). 

  • A mesh of string, cord or rope. 

  • A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them. 

  • A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc. 

  • A trap. 

  • A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc. 

  • A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc. 

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