Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Any set of computer networks that communicate using the Internet Protocol. (An intranet.)
- n. The Internet, the largest global internet.
- n. An internet connection, internet connectivity, access to the internet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A large network{3} of numerous computers connected through a number of major nodes of high-speed computers having high-speed communications channels between the major nodes, and numerous minor nodes allowing electronic communication among millions of computers around the world; -- usually referred to as
the internet . It is the basis for theWorld-Wide Web .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
Examples
“The correct rule, obviously, is to judge internet obscenity by the standards of the *appropriate community on the internet*.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ninth Circuit Adopts National Standard for Internet Obscenity
“Also, since the internet is broadband and always on, @computer and @internet are always the same.”
“* internet*, and even a visit to the EG Expo would show that gamers in real life aren't the same as they are on the internet.”
“The term internet marketing is still somewhat slippery, and may mean different things to different people.”
“All evidence suggests that keeping computers off the internet is a losing battle.”
“One of the first microlenders to have an impact over the internet is the US-based Kiva, which began a few years after a couple traveled to East Africa in 2004.”
Global Voices in English » Can social media help make microfinance sustainable?
“Entry tags: crazy tourists, good little girls, macho macho macho man, the internet is a series of tubes, tv rots your brain, words like violence”
“So while the internet is able to recover in a reasonable period of time after damage to the routers, it is more susceptible to the cutting of the links between the routers.”
“Entry tags: strange coincidences, the internet is a series of tubes if you like double helixes ...”
“I think the internet is a much better subject for Haneke to tackle.”
Michael Haneke Drops Film About Old Age, Will Make a Film About the Internet Instead | /Film
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘internet’.
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Interpreters' Speak
team sheet, pivot language, team leader, mini-plenary, plenary week, mission order, AIC colleague, SCIC, mission, mike, adding a new lang..., language booth and 498 more...
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 338 more...
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Portmanteau words
Words created by blending the sounds and meanings of two pre-existing words.
(The older or the more commonly accepted/understood, the better IMO.)smog, tangelo, motel, telethon, blog, paratrooper, breathalyzer, internet, cremains, moped, chortle, camcorder and 4 more...
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RitaJKing's list
transparency
shimmer, fantastical, sansula, rapture, melancholy, obviated, parenthetically, apoplexy, indelible, pillory, demagogues, quark and 41 more...
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Words inspiring Consciousness
We are inundated with words and phrases all day long, NOW let us inundate our MINDs with words and phrases that Inspire, Enhance and create the environment of greater understanding of ourselves and...
Regard, Compassion, Unitive, Solace, Syncronicity, Grace, Humility, Integrity, Nuturing, desire, will, sex and 12 more...
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Technology
forum, profile, identify, register, user, community, sign in, text, address, inbox, key, screen and 53 more...
Telofy Yeah, that’s Bush-speak: Wikipedia: internets ^^
And there is also a video. Jan 15, 2010
hernesheir lower case plural with article always makes me smile... "the internets". Jan 15, 2010
Telofy Do you think the “Internet” should be capitalized or is it time to minusculize it?
I’ll probably use the word in a formal (American English) text and I would like to make it look progressive, but not at the expense of moderateness.
(As comparison: I now prefer “email” to “e-mail”.)
There is also a Wikipedia article about this topic.
Thanks. Jan 15, 2010
yarb "How gay and delightful life would be if one could get rid of all the human contacts! Perhaps, in the future, when machines have attained to a state of perfection--for I confess that I am, like Godwin and Shelley, a believer in perfectibility, the
perfectibility of machinery--then, perhaps, it will be possible for those who, like myself, desire it, to live in a dignified seclusion, surrounded by the delicate attentions of silent and graceful machines, and entirely secure from any human intrusion. It is a beautiful thought."
"Beautiful," Denis agreed. "But what about the desirable human contacts, like love and friendship?"
The black silhouette against the darkness shook its head. "The pleasures even of these contacts are much exaggerated," said the polite level voice.
- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow Mar 31, 2008