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▪ I. netcast, n. Computing.
Brit. |ˈnɛtkɑːst|, |ˈnɛtkast|, U.S. |ˈnɛtˌkæst|
Forms: also with capital initial.
[‹ net n.1 + -cast (in broadcast n.). Compare netcast v. and slightly later webcast n.]
= webcast n.
1992Re: DOOL—Questions & Spoilers in rec.arts.tv.soaps (Usenet newsgroup) 28 Feb. We now return you to your regularly scheduled net-cast. 1999Yahoo! Internet Life Dec. 184/2 Place it [sc. an Internet radio] in any room in the home, and listen to Netcasts. 2000M. Roche Mega-Events & Modernity vii. 206 FIFA withdrew from live ‘netcasts’ of the 1998 soccer World Cup stage in France. 2005N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Jan. 20/1 It's hard to come up with a solid figure for the number of online listeners, since the station's Netcasts travel not just from its own site but also through AOL and Apple's iTunes software.
▪ II. netcast, v. Computing.
Brit. |ˈnɛtkɑːst|, |ˈnɛtkast|, U.S. |ˈnɛtˌkæst|
Past tense and past participle netcast, netcasted
[‹ net n.1 + -cast (in broadcast v.). Compare netcast n. and slightly later webcast v.]
trans. = webcast v.
1991EFFector Online 1.09 in comp.org.eff.news (Usenet newsgroup) 26 July The alert was netcast before we owned the NeXT so we were not aware of it. 1998Spirit No. 9. 52/3 Presently Pseudo netcasts over 150 hours of original programming per month. 2003Irish Independent (Nexis) 8 Dec. Yesterday, Ireland's first ever live website to ‘netcast’ Mass went active. 2004R. Barcan Nudity 268 This camera was replaced some time later by a colour version..that netcasted her life to an increasingly voracious (and mostly male) public. |