internet — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Internet access or connection; internet connectivity.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

   Examples

   The internet is not working today.

   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.

   Usage

   • Countable

3. A fictitious unit of scoring awarded for making outstanding posts on the internet.

   Usage

   • Internet
   • Countable
   • Humorous
   • Uncountable

   Examples

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   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!

   I have been looking through CupOJoes and kind of want something dark with a silver band between the bit and the bowl [of the pipe]. That's not a must, but 1000 internets go to the first person to find one.

   You win one internet.

   I hope this is sarcastic. Otherwise -100 internets for you.

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   Do I win an internet?

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.

   Usage

   • Internet
   • Countable
   • Humorous
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   "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."

Verb

1. To use the internet; specifically, to search for information by using the internet.

   Usage

   • Internet
   • Informal
   • Intransitive

   Examples

   Having no idea what that means, I am internetting like mad.

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   We have several groups of Internetters, from Alaska, from New Zealand, and a group from San Francisco interested in deserts as a context where different faiths developed. Internetting with them could stimulate discussion. Internetting with other countries is seen as a way of broadening the students' areas of interest and triggering their questions.

   Most of us, before and after the second uprising, can be found in schools, offices, or factories, going about our everyday lives. Dreaming, working hard for a future. Texting, internetting, entertaining ourselves in the present.

   I collect cookbooks, too. And recipes, you know, that I've internetted.

Verb

1. To entwine or link (several things) together, so as to form a network; to interconnect, to network.

   Usage

   • Transitive or intransitive
   • Archaic
   • Rare

   Synonyms

   interweave

   Examples

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   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.

   With 1849 began the organization of the secret societies, which, regulated from Piedmont, internetted the entire southern peninsula.

   Thus silent and imperceptible is the webwork of material interests which are internetting the great family of nations with the bonds of peace.

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   As the light filters through some gap in the topmost boughs into the damp atmosphere, it magnifies and confuses the foliage, and lights up thousands of monkey-ropes, or lianas, that hang from every branch through the forests and which stretch without beginning and without end, hanging loosely like gymnasium ropes, or swung up again in a giant loop, often twisting into fantastic knots as it internets with some other portion of the mighty cable.

   ARTHROPYRENIA. Mass. Paraphyses loosely branching and internetting or absent; spores 2 to 6-locular, colorless, ovoid or oblong.

   These studies finally resulted in the discovery of a membrane guanylate cyclase transduction system that is internetted with seven transmembrane receptor signaling system.

   The synergistic effects achieved by internetting highly trained soldiers and leaders with platforms and organizational design enable the force to avoid surprise, develop rapid decisions, control the time and place to engage in combat, conduct precision maneuver, shape the battlespace with precision fires and effects, and achieve decisive outcomes.

2. To connect (a computer, an electronic device, etc.) into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).

   Usage

   • Transitive or intransitive
   • specifically

   Examples

   We are continuing our program of internetting our radar system with that of the Federal Aviation Agency.

   More efficient means of internetting the computers in the system must also be developed.

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   Other less dynamic examples of information networks include intelligence or military command centers, internetted with communications including different kinds of voice circuits, (i.e., encrypted and non encrypted), data communications, teletype, facsimile, and the like.

   […] Soviet interceptors have been internetted with radars, enabling the use of early-warning radars to track reentry vehicles for interception. […] [T]he Soviets have evidently internetted their SA-5, not with earlier mechanical radars, but with phased-array systems that are far more adequate for reentry vehice tracking purposes.

   We hear that Air Force Intelligence has officially concluded the Soviets have rolled production lines to break out of the ABM treaty and deploy a nationwide anti-missile system, which could possibly be in place by next year. […] [T]he Soviets are internetting their early-warning radars […]

   Question. How will the various radars of the Caribbean Basin Radar Network be internetted together? / Answer. […] These operation centers will also be internetted so as to share surveillance data and coordinate tracking/interdiction efforts.

   An experiment conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the ARPANET experiment sought to explore technologies for the networking of remote research sites. ARPANET sends independent digital packets over networks "internetted" together to pass information.

   Emergency "patches" were applied to WWMCCS's General Comprehensive Operating System software as engineers desperately tried to find a way to work around the limitations of the Honeywell 6000 computers so that the network's nodes could be effectively internetted.

Noun

1. a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange

   Synonyms

   netcyberspace

   Broader terms

   computer network