internet

名词 n. 动词 v. 专有名词
/ˈɪn.təˌnɛt/    /ˈɪn.(t)əɹˌnɛt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Internet access or connection; internet connectivity. uncountable
    — Do you have internet at your place? My internet is down and I want to check my email.
  2. Any set of computer networks that communicate using the Internet Protocol; an intranet. countable
  3. A fictitious unit of scoring awarded for making outstanding posts on the internet. Internet,countable,humorous,uncountable
    — You did a nice job there Patty … you came off as intelligent, well-spoken, and concerned about the well being of the victims, in stark contrast to the self-serving, uncaring, unconcerned attitude of the Narconon spokeswoman. 100 internets for you!
  4. The knowledge or ability to read the room, especially to avoid being politically incorrect, chiefly to make light of someone's lack of such knowledge, implied to be gained only from active use of social media. Internet,countable,humorous,uncountable
    — "He don't got Internet y'all," one fan wrote. Another declared: "That’s it, I will no longer be listening to any YB music."
动词 v.
  1. To use the internet; specifically, to search for information by using the internet. Internet,informal,intransitive
    — Having no idea what that means, I am internetting like mad.
  2. To entwine or link (several things) together, so as to form a network; to interconnect, to network. ambitransitive,archaic,rare
    — A railroad performs in a single day as much work as a ship in a whole year. This is done, too, in the midst of society, internetted among the cities, the farms, the dwellings of the people.
  3. To connect (a computer, an electronic device, etc.) into a computer network (in particular, the Internet). ambitransitive,specifically
    — We are continuing our program of internetting our radar system with that of the Federal Aviation Agency.
专有名词
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Internet (“the specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications”). alt-of
    — Most newspapers are available on the internet now.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Internet (“global community of individuals communicating via the Internet”). alt-of
    — As soon as the trailer was released, the internet went nuts.

词形变化

the internet canonical internets plural internets present,singular,third-person internetting participle,present internetted participle,past internetted past internets present,singular,third-person internetting participle,present internetted participle,past internetted past

词源

词源 1
The noun is a variant of Internet. The verb is derived from the noun.
词源 2
From inter- (prefix meaning ‘amid, among; between’) + net (“to form a netting or network”).
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