▪ 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. 1999 Yahoo! Internet Life Dec. 184/2 Place it [sc. an Internet radio] in any room in the home, and listen to Netcasts. 2000 M. Roche Mega-Events & Modernity vii. 206 FIFA withdrew from live ‘netcasts’ of the 1998 soccer World Cup stage in France. 2005 N.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. 1998 Spirit No. 9. 52/3 Presently Pseudo netcasts over 150 hours of original programming per month. 2003 Irish Independent (Nexis) 8 Dec. Yesterday, Ireland's first ever live website to ‘netcast’ Mass went active. 2004 R. 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. |