"mist net" meaning in English

See mist net in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: mist nets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mist net (plural mist nets)
  1. A net, made from fine strands that are nearly invisible, used to catch birds so that they may be ringed or studied. Wikipedia link: mist net
    Sense id: en-mist_net-en-noun-kU3FUsV- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for mist net meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mist nets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mist net (plural mist nets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 128",
          "text": "Jens-Kjeld sets up a mist net between two lightweight poles at the edge of the boulder field, nearest to the cliffe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A net, made from fine strands that are nearly invisible, used to catch birds so that they may be ringed or studied."
      ],
      "id": "en-mist_net-en-noun-kU3FUsV-",
      "links": [
        [
          "net",
          "net"
        ],
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "ringed",
          "ringed"
        ],
        [
          "studied",
          "studied"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "mist net"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mist net"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mist nets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mist net (plural mist nets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 128",
          "text": "Jens-Kjeld sets up a mist net between two lightweight poles at the edge of the boulder field, nearest to the cliffe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A net, made from fine strands that are nearly invisible, used to catch birds so that they may be ringed or studied."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "net",
          "net"
        ],
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "ringed",
          "ringed"
        ],
        [
          "studied",
          "studied"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "mist net"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mist net"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.