网

net / network

to regulate / to govern / to control / to mow

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

to go online / to connect to the Internet / (of a document etc) to be uploaded to the Internet / (tennis, volleyball etc) to move in close to the net

Internet

lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom) / fig. to scoop up the whole lot / to capture them all in one go

silk screen / screen (printing)

lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me

China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the information hub of the China Earthquake Administration 中國地震局|中国地震局[Zhong1 guo2 Di4 zhen4 ju2]

China Education and Research Network (CERNET) / abbr. to 中國教育網|中国教育网[Zhong1 guo2 Jiao4 yu4 Wang3]

abbr. for 中國教育和科研計算機網|中国教育和科研计算机网[Zhong1 guo2 Jiao4 yu4 he2 Ke1 yan2 Ji4 suan4 ji1 Wang3]

China News Service website (chinanews.com)

ChinaNews (China News Service)

core network

core network / backbone network

dedicated network

better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim

World Wide Web (WWW) / lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth / term coined by China News Digest and abbr. to 萬維網|万维网[Wan4 wei2 wang3]

World Wide Web (WWW)

W3C, global Internet steering committee

lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb) / fig. not to persevere in doing sth / to do sth by fits and starts

netbook

to cast a fishing net / (computing) to go offline