different between netting vs jetting

English

Etymology 1

From net +? -ing.

Noun

netting (countable and uncountable, plural nettings)

1. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
   • 1673, John Dryden, Amboyna

     Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare

   • January 1965, U.S. Army Air Defense Digest (U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas), page 44 (part of chapter 3, Army Air Defense Control Systems) (PDF: cover, contents, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3):

     The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. [...] Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar.

Synonyms

• mesh

Etymology 2

From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear.

Noun

netting (uncountable)

1. (Britain, dialect, dated) urine

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 3

From net +? -ing.

Verb

netting

1. present participle of net

Anagrams

• tenting, tingent

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??t??/

Verb

jetting

1. present participle of jet

Noun

jetting (countable and uncountable, plural jettings)

1. The application of a jet of liquid, especially to treat livestock against pests.
   • 1947, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales (volume 57, page 589)

     In bad fly years more than five jettings may be needed. But whatever the conditions, except for rare waves of body-strike, while flies are active station labour can control them by working at jetting for about ten days per month.