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net
net mesh fabric, known from prehistoric times. Nets have been made of many materials, including sinews, strips of hide, silk, vegetable and synthetic fibers, and metallic threads. Their earliest use was probably for snaring animals and for fishing. Fishing nets include the stationary net, an early... Read more |
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Drift Net
Drift net Drift nets are free-floating nets used in oceans to snare fish by their gills. Each net can measure up to 50 feet (15 meters) deep and 55 miles (89 kilometers) long. Because drift nets are not selective, many fish and marine mammals are trapped in them. Those unwanted by fishermen, such... Read more |
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Nets
Nets Nets are two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional shapes. German painter Albrecht Dürer (1471–1536) probably had fishing nets in mind when he first used the term net to name these two-dimensional figures that may be "folded" to form three-dimensional ... Read more |
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Net worth
Net Worth The "net worth" of a business is the remainder after total liabilities are deducted from total assets. If total assets are $1 million and total liabilities $800,000, net worth will be $200,000. On a balance sheet Assets are typically shown in the left column, Liabilities in the right... Read more |
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drifter
drifter, a type of fishing vessel, originally fitted with sails but today fitted with an engine or engines. It uses a drift net which is shot by the drifter, which then lies at the leeward end of the net, drifting with it, until is time to haul the net in.Drifters are essentially fishing boats... Read more |
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Flanigans Enterprises Inc
Flanigan's Enterprises, Inc. 5059 Northeast 18th Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33334 U.S.A. Telephone: (954) 377-1961 Fax: (954) 377-1980 Web site: http://www.flanigans.net Public Company Incorporated: 1959 Employees: 359 Sales: $28.3 million (2002) Stock Exchanges: American Ticker... Read more |
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electric current
electric current net movement or flow of electric charge from one point to another or across some boundary. See alternating current ; direct current ; electricity .... Read more |
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Quality Mills' net tumbles in quarter.
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Wonder of Nature
...faced him in the heavens. Haiku poets usually write on...ago. I chanced upon the biggest spider web I had ever seen...wallet. With such a huge net cast over the lake, it must...day's catch. I wrote a haiku about what I saw and won... |
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Living the Spam life From fashion to poetry, it's the main ingredient
...anymore," she says. "It's bigger than just a food." Bigger than just a food! Imagine the...bank for $6.95 to a die-cast metal model of a Spam racing...Spam. You can even find Spam haiku on the 'Net, should you for some reason... |