Internet

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Proper noun 1.4.1 Usage notes 1.4.2 Synonyms 1.4.3 Coordinate terms 1.4.4 Translations 1.5 Anagrams 2 Finnish 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Proper noun 2.3.1 Declension 2.3.2 Synonyms 3 Icelandic 3.1 Proper noun 3.1.1 Declension 3.1.2 Synonyms 4 Italian 4.1 Noun 5 Mandarin 5.1 Proper noun 5.1.1 Synonyms 6 Polish 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Proper noun 6.2.1 Declension 6.2.2 Derived terms

[edit] English

Wikipedia

[edit] Alternative spellings

• internet (see Usage notes below)

[edit] Etymology

(1986) Coined by the U.S. Defense Department, shortening of internetwork.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɪntəˌnɛt/, SAMPA: /"Int@%nEt/
• (US) enPR: ĭnʹtərnĕt', IPA: /ɪntɚˌnɛt/, SAMPA: /Int3`nEt/

[edit] Proper noun

Singular Internet

Plural -

Internet

1. The specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications.

[edit] Usage notes

• Usage in reference to the global network is normally capitalised, reserving internet with a lower-case i for any other set of computer networks connected by internetworking.
• However popular usage (e.g. BBC and Timesonline) increasingly follows normal grammatical rules with a lower-case i.

[edit] Synonyms

• (the global internet): cyberspace, the information superhighway (dated), (teh) interweb (jocular), interwebs (jocular), the Net, the net, the World Wide Web(imprecisely), the Web (imprecisely), t'internet / tinternet (informal or humorous)

[edit] Coordinate terms

• intranet

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: eeinnrtt
• renitent

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[edit] Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

[edit] Etymology

From English Internet.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈin̪t̪e̞rne̞t̪]
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧net

[edit] Proper noun

Internet

1. (Internet) the Internet

[edit] Declension

Declension of Internet (type risti) singular plural nominative Internet – genitive Internetin – partitive Internetiä – accusative Internet Internetin – inessive Internetissä – elative Internetistä – illative Internetiin – adessive Internetillä – ablative Internetiltä – allative Internetille – essive Internetinä – translative Internetiksi – instructive – – abessive Internetittä – comitative – –

[edit] Synonyms

• (colloquial) netti
• (colloquial) verkko
• (colloquial, imprecisely) veppi, weppi
• (imprecisely) www

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[edit] Icelandic

Wikipedia ^is

[edit] Proper noun

Internet

1. (Internet) the Internet

[edit] Declension

Declension of Internet
	(singular)		(plural)
	(indefinite)	(definite)	(indefinite)	(definite)
nominative	Internet	Internetið	Internet	Internetin
accusative	Internet	Internetið	Internet	Internetin
dative	Interneti	Internetinu	Internetum	Internetunum
genitive	Internets	Internetsins	Interneta	Internetanna
Other words with the same declension

[edit] Synonyms

• net, alnetið (very rare), Veraldarvefurinn (very rare)

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

Internet f. inv.

1. Alternative form of internet.

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Proper noun

Internet (Pinyin Internet, traditional and simplified Internet)

1. Internet
   • suiran juli hen yuan, danshi Internet shǐ women kaojin.

   We are close to each other on the Internet though far apart.

[edit] Synonyms

• Hulianwang
• Yintewang

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[edit] Polish

Wikipedia ^pl

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /inˈtɛrnɛt/ or /intɛrˈnɛt/

[edit] Proper noun

Internet m.

1. (Internet) the Internet

[edit] Declension

	Singular only
Nominative	Internet
Genitive	Internetu
Dative	Internetowi
Accusative	Internet
Instrumental	Internetem
Locative	Internecie
Vocative	Internecie

[edit] Derived terms

• internetowy