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# {{lb|en|fishing}} A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
# {{lb|en|fishing}} A net dragged across the bottom of a [[body of water]].
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|passage=Anchovy '''dragnets''' are an important part Korea's fishing sector. Over 99% of catches found in anchovy '''dragnets''' are anchovy. Although the annual total catches of anchovy have fluctuated, '''dragnets''' catch 55 to 70% of the total annual catch of anchovy. The remaining portion is caught with drift gill nets (10%) and other fishing methods.
|passage=Anchovy '''dragnets''' are an important part Korea's fishing sector. Over 99% of catches found in anchovy '''dragnets''' are anchovy. Although the annual total catches of anchovy have fluctuated, '''dragnets''' catch 55 to 70% of the total annual catch of anchovy. The remaining portion is caught with drift gill nets (10%) and other fishing methods.
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# {{lb|en|law enforcement}} Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
# {{lb|en|law enforcement}} [[heightened|Heightened]] [[effort]]s by [[law enforcement]] [[personnel]] undetaken [[in order to]] [[capture]] [[suspect]]s.
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2013-07-26|author={{w|Leo Hickman}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2013-07-26|author=w:Leo Hickman
|volume=189|issue=7|page=26|magazine={{w|The Guardian Weekly}}
|volume=189|issue=7|page=26|magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly
|title=[http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jul/01/how-algorithms-rule-world-nsa How algorithms rule the world]
|title=[http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jul/01/how-algorithms-rule-world-nsa How algorithms rule the world]
|passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.{{...}}who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert '''dragnet''' of international telecommunications.}}
|passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.{{...}}who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert '''dragnet''' of international telecommunications.}}
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====Translations====
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{{trans-top|net dragged across the bottom}}
{{trans-top|net dragged across the bottom}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|شبكة|f|tr=šabaka}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{t|arz|شبكة|f|tr=šabaka}}
* Chinese:
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|拖網|tr=tuōwǎng}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|拖網|tr=tuōwǎng}}
* Coptic: {{t|cop|ⲥⲁⲅⲏⲛⲏ|f|tr=saɣene}}
* Coptic: {{t|cop|ⲥⲁⲅⲏⲛⲏ|f|tr=ṣaɣene}}
* Danish: {{t|da|slæbevod|n}}, {{t|da|slæbegarn|n}}
* Danish: {{t|da|slæbevod|n}}, {{t|da|slæbegarn|n}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|sleepnet}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|sleepnet}}
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* Latin: {{t|la|tragula|f}}
* Latin: {{t|la|tragula|f}}
* Lushootseed: {{t|lut|ʔəxʷadᶻad}}
* Lushootseed: {{t|lut|ʔəxʷadᶻad}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|влак|m}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kaharoa}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kaharoa}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|drannet|m}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|drannet|m}}
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* Danish: {{t|da|eftersøgning|c}}
* Danish: {{t|da|eftersøgning|c}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|retata|f}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|retata|f}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|obława|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|obława|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|redada|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|redada|f}}
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# {{lb|en|fishing}} To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
# {{lb|en|fishing|transitive}} To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
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|year=2013
|year=2013
|first=Brian|last=Andrews
|author=Brian Andrews
|title=Ornamental Fish Farming
|title=Ornamental Fish Farming
|passage=When ponds are cleaned out periodically, fish are trapped or '''dragnetted''' and finally the pond is drained to remove all fish.
|passage=When ponds are cleaned out periodically, fish are trapped or '''dragnetted''' and finally the pond is drained to remove all fish.
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}}
# {{lb|en|law enforcement}} To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.
# {{lb|en|law enforcement|transitive}} To undertake heightened efforts to catch a suspect.
#* {{quote-book
#* {{quote-book
|en
|en
|year=2010
|year=2010
|first=Florence|last=O'Donoghue
|author=Florence O'Donoghue
|title=IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921
|title=IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921
|isbn=9781856356893
|isbn=9781856356893
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|date=2013-09-19
|date=2013-09-19
|title=Targeting Oppression
|title=Targeting Oppression
|first=Audrey|last=Black
|author=Audrey Black
|work=Eugene Weekly
|work=Eugene Weekly
|url=http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20130919/news-features/targeting-oppression
|url=http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20130919/news-features/targeting-oppression

Revision as of 21:27, 21 July 2024

See also: drag-net

English

Etymology

From drag +‎ net, probably based on the model of Middle English draynet, dreynett (dragnet), Old English dræġnet, dræġnett (dragnet), equivalent to dray +‎ net. Cognate with Swedish dragnät, Norwegian dragnett, from Icelandic dragnet.

Noun

dragnet (plural dragnets)

  1. (fishing) A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
    • 2000, Transition to Responsible Fisheries Economic and Policy Implications[1], OECD Publishing, →ISBN, page 228:
      Anchovy dragnets are an important part Korea's fishing sector. Over 99% of catches found in anchovy dragnets are anchovy. Although the annual total catches of anchovy have fluctuated, dragnets catch 55 to 70% of the total annual catch of anchovy. The remaining portion is caught with drift gill nets (10%) and other fishing methods.
  2. (law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law enforcement personnel undetaken in order to capture suspects.
    • 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
      The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. [] who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dragnet (third-person singular simple present dragnets, present participle dragnetting, simple past and past participle dragnetted)

  1. (fishing, transitive) To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
    • 2013, Brian Andrews, Ornamental Fish Farming:
      When ponds are cleaned out periodically, fish are trapped or dragnetted and finally the pond is drained to remove all fish.
  2. (law enforcement, transitive) To undertake heightened efforts to catch a suspect.
    • 2010, Florence O'Donoghue, IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921[2], →ISBN, page 164:
      In fact, Carty was not the man, but, after a police swoop had dragnetted twenty men suspected of having taken part in the business, he was lodged in Sligo jail and accused of this violence to the lady.
    • 2013 September 19, Audrey Black, “Targeting Oppression”, in Eugene Weekly[3]:
      A May Day anti-capitalist protest last year in Seattle saw clashes between police and protesters, and the FBI had been dragnetting potential anarchists.

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