internet

1. (intransitive, Internet, informal) To use the internet; specifically, to search for information by using the internet.Examples: "Having no idea what that means, I am internetting like mad."; "We have several groups of Internetters, from Alaska, from New Zealand, and a group from San Francisco interested in deserts as a context where different faiths developed. Internetting with them could stimulate discussion. Internetting with other countries is seen as a way of broadening the students' areas of interest and triggering their questions."; "Most of us, before and after the second uprising, can be found in schools, offices, or factories, going about our everyday lives. Dreaming, working hard for a future. Texting, internetting, entertaining ourselves in the present."Internetinformalintransitive

1. (archaic, rare) To entwine or link (several things) together, so as to form a network; to interconnect, to network.Examples: "A railroad performs in a single day as much work as a ship in a whole year. This is done, too, in the midst of society, internetted among the cities, the farms, the dwellings of the people."; "With 1849 began the organization of the secret societies, which, regulated from Piedmont, internetted the entire southern peninsula."; "Thus silent and imperceptible is the webwork of material interests which are internetting the great family of nations with the bonds of peace."Synonyms: interweaveambitransitivearchaicrare

2. (specifically, networking) To connect (a computer, an electronic device, etc.) into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).Examples: "We are continuing our program of internetting our radar system with that of the Federal Aviation Agency."; "More efficient means of internetting the computers in the system must also be developed."; "Other less dynamic examples of information networks include intelligence or military command centers, internetted with communications including different kinds of voice circuits, (i.e., encrypted and non encrypted), data communications, teletype, facsimile, and the like."ambitransitivespecifically

1. (by extension, informal) The global community of individuals communicating via the Internet.Examples: "We know how much the Internet has changed America. And we are already an open society. Imagine how much it could change China. Now, there is no question – China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. Good luck. That's sort of like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall."; "Not to be confused with the Josh Hutcherson Saturday Night Live sketch that's almost impossible to find online, the tragedy of Peanut, an Instagram-famous squirrel that was euthanized late last month, has sent the internet into mourning."broadlyinformal