Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An anatomical mesh or network, as of veins, arteries, or nerves.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy, a vascular network; a plexus, glomerulus, or congeries of small vessels: in botany, a structure like network.
- n. In certain astrolabes, a movable skeleton framework cut out of a circular sheet of metal, and lying between the planisphere and the diopter or alidade. It carries one or two pointers, also an eccentric ring marked with the signs of the zodiac, and several curved arms indicating the place of the pole of the ecliptic and of certain stars.
Wiktionary
- n. a network of blood vessels or nerves
- n. an anatomical part resembling or including a network
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels
Etymologies
- Latin rēte, net.
Examples
“Pingback: Repubblica. it - Blog - Scene Digitali » Blog Archive » Nasce in rete la stampa libera di Teheran”
Global Voices in English » Iran: Protests prompt emergence of underground Internet newspapers
“He had used the microscope on human tissues with such good effect that one of the lavers of the skin is still called the rete Malpighi; certain bodies in the spleen and in the kidneys are called by his name, and important discoveries in the liver are due to him.”
“Which break into a network of canaliculi called rete testis.”
“This thread has brought me up to snuff on this "rete-esencial" element of the language. mazbook1”
“Lo documenta Hamid Tehrani, autore di Global Voices (inglese) in un servizio accurato e ben fatto sul sito della rete di giornalismo partecipativo – [...] 20 July 2009, 9: 42 am gihane”
Global Voices in English » Iran: Protests prompt emergence of underground Internet newspapers
“Sensations are received, he continues, by delicate pulses from the net below the brain (the rete mirabile), propelling the vital spirit (pneuma) into the front, where it is purified by passing back and forth between phantasia and imagination.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Me: Ok, men eske li ka ap rete youn minit e m ka soti la?”
“Kataweb.it - Blog - Cablogrammi di Massimo Russo » Blog Archive » Il controllo non è scalabile, ecco perché la rete fa paura says:”
“Una video di qualche tempo fa, girato come uno show di una rete locale, con pupazzi, dissolvenze leziose e disturbo da VHS.”
“La clip originale è persa chissà dove sulla rete… Si ringrazia Alex per la segnalazione!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rete’.
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Logolepsy
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bilby Italian soccer jargon - 1. a goal scored; 2. the net attached to the goal posts. Dec 11, 2007