network
UK/ˈnɛt.wɜːk//ˈnɛt.wɝk/
network noun: any interconnected group or system.
Noun
network (plural networks)
- Any interconnected group or system.
- A network of roads crisscrossed the country.
- The many species that live in the forest canopy constitute a network of life via their complex interactions.
- A set of people with sociocultural connections to one another; especially, such a set consisting of occupational or business connections.
- To get a job in today's economy, it is important to have a strong network.
- For people with mental health challenges, having a support network of family and friends can improve the chances of maintaining successful mental health care.
- A group of affiliated television stations that broadcast common programs from a parent company.
- TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
- A computer network: multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information.
- The copy machine is connected to the network so it can now serve as a printer.
- A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals; the act or process of making such an object.
- He wore a mantle of network.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 287
Verb
network (third-person singular simple present networks, present participle networking, simple past and past participle networked)
- To interact socially for the purpose of getting connections or personal advancement.
- Many people find it worthwhile to network for jobs and information.
- The yuppies networking and / The panic, the vomit1997, “Paranoid Android”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead
- To connect two or more computers or other computerized devices.
- If we network his machine to the server, he will be able to see all the files.
- To interconnect a group or system.
- To broadcast across an entire network of stations and affiliates at the same time.
network meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
network in Hindi
- multiple computers and other devices connected together
- नेटवर्क neṭvark, संजाल sañjāl
- fabric or structure of fibrous elements
- जाल jāl
network in Tamil
- interconnected group or system
- அமைப்பு amaippu
- directory of people
- தொடர்பு toṭarpu
- multiple computers and other devices connected together
- வலைப்பின்னல் valaippiṉṉal, வலையம் valaiyam, பிணையம் piṇaiyam, வலையமைப்பு valaiyamaippu
- fabric or structure of fibrous elements
- உறி uṟi
network in Urdu
- interconnected group or system
- شَبَکَہ śabaka
- multiple computers and other devices connected together
- نیٹ وَرْک neṭ vark, نیٹْوَرْک neṭvark, شَبَکَہ śabaka, جال jāl, جال داری jāl dārī
- fabric or structure of fibrous elements
- جال jāl, شَبَکَہ śabaka, جالی jālī, جالا jālā
network in Bengali
- multiple computers and other devices connected together
- নেটওয়ার্ক neṭōẇark
- fabric or structure of fibrous elements
- জাল jal
More languagesFewer languages
- network in Telugu
- జాలరు jālaru
- network in Malayalam
- നെറ്റുവർക്ക്, ശൃംഖല, ശൃംഖലാസംവിധാനം, ജാലകർമ്മം
- network in Kannada
- ನೆಲುಹು, ನೆಲು, ಕಲ್ಲಿ, ಜಾಲಬಂಧ
- network in Punjabi
- ਜਾਲ jāl
- network in Gujarati
- નેટવર્ક neṭvark
- network in Sinhala
- ජාල jāla
- network in Assamese
- নেটৱৰ্ক netowork
- network in Pashto
- شبکه šabaka
- network in Tagalog
- kabalagan, kalambatan
- network in Arabic
- شَبَكَة šabaka
- network in Malay
- rangkaian, jaringan
- network in Indonesian
- jaringan
- network in Thai
- เครือข่าย krʉʉa-kàai
- network in Vietnamese
- mạng, mạng lưới
- network in Myanmar
- ကွန်ရက် kwanrak
Examples of network in a sentence
- When I logged in to the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.
- A report by the telecommunications ministry on the phone network revealed a severe capacity problem.
- The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
Forms of network
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | networks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | networks |
| present participle | networking |
| past participle | networked |
| past | networked |
Origin of 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.
Words formed from network
- 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
Phrases with network
- dumb network
- flow network
- mesh network
- network cards
- network times
- onion network
- network motifs
- network states
- neural network
- social network
- supply network
- zombie network
48 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Kohonen network
- network effects
- network sockets
- whisper network
- computer network
- Hopfield network
- network adapters
- network printers
- two-port network
- wireless network
- Cunt News Network
- network engineers
- network providers
- wide area network
- wide-area network
- echo state network
- local area network
- network subsystems
- network topologies
- television network
- trans-Golgi network
- value-added network
- Clinton News Network
- default mode network
- network option times
- storage area network
- Criminal News Network
- network externalities
- Network Time Protocol
- personal area network
- random neural network
- Communist News Network
- Joint Academic Network
- transportation network
- network interface cards
- virtual private network
- recurrent neural network
- recursive neural network
- metropolitan area network
- Portable Network Graphics
- feedforward neural network
- convolutional neural network
- network interface controllers
- your net worth is your network
- your network is your net worth
- mobile virtual network operators
- transportation network vehicle service
- filtered-popping recursive transition network
Questions about network
- What does network mean?
- Network means any interconnected group or system.
- What is network in Hindi?
- Network in Hindi is नेटवर्क (neṭvark), संजाल (sañjāl), जाल (jāl). See Network meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is network?
- Network can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce network?
- Network is pronounced /ˈnɛt.wɜːk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of network?
- The plural of network is networks.
Words near network in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: network (page history and authors); జాలరు (Telugu) (page history and authors); network (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); network (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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