different between nether vs netter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n?ð.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /n?ð.?/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”).

Adjective

nether (comparative nethermore, superlative nethermost)

1. Lower; under.

   The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.

2. Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.

   the nether regions

   • 1873, Mark Twain, The Gilded Age, page187:

     When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,

Synonyms

• (lower): bottom, lower
• (beneath the Earth's surface): subsurface, subterranean

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

nether (comparative more nether, superlative most nether)

1. Down; downward.
2. Low; low down.

Etymology 2

Alteration of earlier nither, from Middle English nitheren, from Old English niþerian (“to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn”), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). See above.

Alternative forms

• nither

Verb

nether (third-person singular simple present nethers, present participle nethering, simple past and past participle nethered)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
4. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
5. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.

Derived terms

• nethering

Noun

nether (plural nethers)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
2. (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

Anagrams

• ethren, threne

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English nethere, from Old English niþera.

Adjective

nether

1. lower

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English netter, nettare, equivalent to net +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t?(?)/, /-??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: net?ter

Noun

netter (plural netters)

1. One who nets (in any sense), or who uses a net.
   • 1891, Samuel Wilmot, “Salmon Fisheries of the Bay des Chaleurs”, in Part II of Supplement No. 1 to the Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries 1890, Brown Chamberlin (publisher), page 30:

     In England and in Scotland, after centuries of experience, the netter has been so restricted in the use of the destructive engines which were formerly in use there that at the present time many of the more important rivers continue to uphold almost their original standard of fish,—thus actually benefiting the tidal fisherman, the rivers' proprietors, and all concerned.

   • 2004, Cristiana S. Seixas and Fikret Berkes, “Stakeholder Conflicts and Solutions across Political Scales: the Ibiraquera Lagoon, Brazil”, chapter eight of Leontine E. Visser (editor), Challenging Coasts: Transdisciplinary Excursions into Integrated Coastal Zone Development, Amsterdam University Press, ?ISBN, page 190:

     The conflict between gill-netters and cast-netters has existed at least since the 1940s. The conflict is about resource allocation since gill-netters, who are only a few in number, capture much more resources with less human effort than the large majority of fishers who use cast nets.

2. An Internet user.
   • 2005, David T. Hill, Krishna Sen, The Internet in Indonesia's new democracy (page 61)

     The vast majority of Indonesian netters use landlines, either from home or office, or from a public Internet access point.

Anagrams

• retent, tenter

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

netter

1. comparative degree of nett

Adjective

netter

1. inflection of nett:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

netter f or m

1. indefinite plural of natt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

netter f

1. indefinite plural of natt