internet
Internet access or connection; internet connectivity.
Proper noun
- 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”).
- Most newspapers are available on the internet now.
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date...
- He was able to do this because the internet, which had been publicly available since January 1983, enabled it. - 2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian:
- Alternative letter-case form of Internet (“global community of individuals communicating via the Internet”).
- As soon as the trailer was released, the internet went nuts.
- In 2014, a hot dog entrepreneur, Laura Ustick, general manager of Superdawg in Chicago, Illinois, asked the internet to get behind her in support of the Emoji Hot Dog. - 2015, Emojis: the secret behind the smile, page...
- On Friday, as the internet reacted to the video of Thomas getting arrested for walking in the street, the city rushed out a statement explaining what happened around noon last Wednesday. - 2016, Star Tribune 2016-10-19,...
Origin
The noun is a variant of Internet. The verb is derived from the noun.
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Noun
- Internet access or connection; internet connectivity.
- Do you have internet at your place? My internet is down and I want to check my email.
- Any set of computer networks that communicate using the Internet Protocol; an intranet.
- A fictitious unit of scoring awarded for making outstanding posts on the internet.
- 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...
- 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. - 2010 August...
- You win one internet. - 2011 November 12, David Johnston, “What Did You Watch? 2011-11-10 (Thursday)”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
- 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.
- "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." - 2025 July 25, Cole Blake, “NBA YoungBoy Shocks Fans By Defending Donald Trump On New Song,...
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Verb ambitransitive, archaic
- To entwine or link (several things) together, so as to form a network; to interconnect, to network.
- 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. - 1856 March, John O’Fallon...
- With 1849 began the organization of the secret societies, which, regulated from Piedmont, internetted the entire southern peninsula. - 1862 September, “The Two Sicilies in 1862. [First Notice.]”, in [Charles Patrick...
- Thus silent and imperceptible is the webwork of material interests which are internetting the great family of nations with the bonds of peace. - 1864 November 1, Elihu Burritt, “Material Bonds of Peace”, in Bond of...
Synonyms: interweave
- To connect (a computer, an electronic device, etc.) into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).
- We are continuing our program of internetting our radar system with that of the Federal Aviation Agency. - 1966 February 14, Robert S[trange] McNamara (witness), “Statement of the Secretary of Defense”, in Department of...
- More efficient means of internetting the computers in the system must also be developed. - 1975 March 7, Malcolm R[oderick] Currie (witness), “Statement of Dr. Malcolm R. Currie, Director, Defense Research and...
- 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),...
Origin
From inter- (prefix meaning ‘amid, among; between’) + net (“to form a netting or network”).
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Verb Internet, informal
- To use the internet; specifically, to search for information by using the internet.
- Having no idea what that means, I am internetting like mad.
- 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...
- 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...