Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A system of coordinated procedures for apprehending criminal suspects or other wanted persons.
- n. A net for trawling; a trawl.
- n. A net for catching small game.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A net designed to be drawn on the bottom of a river or pond for taking fish, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
- n. Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
- n. a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals)
Etymologies
- drag + net (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“The first cast of what Crane aptly termed the dragnet had brought in the management and service staff to a man, with a number of the restaurant's habitues, including Sophie Weringrode and her errand-boy, the exquisite Mr. Revel.”
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“Worse, there are hints that the government uses this secret interpretation to gather what one Patriot-watcher calls a "dragnet" for massive amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently.”
“Caught in the dragnet are the handicapped adults who used to line their wheelchairs along a stretch of the boulevard leading to the presidential palace in downtown Dakar.”
“EFF sued the government claiming that AT&T and perhaps other telecommunications companies cooperated with it to allow access to people's phone and Internet records -- a so-called dragnet in a search for terrorist communications.”
“One of the unlucky thousands caught up in the dragnet was a Daily News reporter assigned to cover the ticket blitz; after getting a call from his editor,”
“Two of the people swept up in the dragnet were the CBC's translator, Shakoor, and his brother who was working as a driver for Ms. Fung.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dragnet’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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PECH - fishing technology
anchor, berth, drop anchor, anchored floating..., artificial restoc..., bait, beam trawls, bottom gillnets, entangling nets, bottom nets, bottom-set nets, bottom pair trawl and 478 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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jaydrox's list
Mah list!
mediocracy, captivatingly, devastatingly, dazedly, heavenly, flawless, copious, conviction, synoptic, amalgamation, prefatory, precursory and 150 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Movies I've Seen
There's a jar I've been adding movie ticket stubs to since about age twelve. I am pleased to have a more accessible way of keeping track of the movies I've seen. Even if some are pretty embarrassin...
ghostbusters, amadeus, miller's crossing, no reservations, hoot, insomnia, master and commander, the matrix, o brother, where ..., night of the comet, the dark knight, tropic thunder and 489 more...
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nighthawks at the diner
being words from Tom Waits songs.
vinyl, cigarette, rhinestone, naugahyde, margarine, vermouth, gin, platinum, wurlitzer, menthol, oldsmobile, asphalt and 90 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Words that are also TV shows
Trace back the chain of "this idea was ripped off from" over here.
alias, lost, heroes, journeyman, blossom, monk, scrubs, reaper, hack, legend, recess, firefly and 62 more...
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Books
wastrel, grouse, baronet, brougham, marionette, prevaricate, insouciance, dovecote, mittelshemry, mittelschmerz, colscopy, tetrarch and 51 more...
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Nets
Fishing nets and gear, and the people and craft that employ them.
spilliard, spiller, seine, trawl, trawlwarp, trammel, trammeler, ground-net, fishnet, landing net, spoon net, bag net and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dragnet.
strev stockings for flamboyant fish
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