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web (web)

noun

  1. any woven fabric; esp., a length of cloth being woven on a loom or just taken off
    1. the woven or spun network of a spider; cobweb
    2. a similar network spun by the larvae of certain insects
  3. a carefully woven trap or snare
  4. a complicated work of the mind, imagination, etc. a web of lies
  5. anything like a web, as in intricacy of pattern or interconnection of elements; network
  6. Anat.
    1. tissue or membrane
    2. an abnormal membrane joining fingers or toes at the base
  7. Archit. the portion of a ribbed vault between the ribs
  8. Comput. World Wide Web: usually with the
  9. Mech. the plate joining the flanges of a joist, girder, rail, etc.
  10. Printing a large roll of paper used in a rotary press, designed for continuous feeding
  11. Zool.
    1. the vane of a feather
    2. a membrane partly or completely joining the digits of various water birds, water animals, etc.

Etymology: ME < OE webb, akin to ON vefr, OHG weppi < IE *webh-, to weave

transitive verb webbed, web′·bing

  1. to join by or as by a web
  2. to cover with or as with a web
  3. to catch or snare in or as in a web

web Related Forms
web′·like′ adjective
web Synonyms

web

n.

  1. A combination of threads

    cobweb, lacework, netting, plait, mesh, mat, matting, wicker, weft, warp, woof.

  2. An intricate combination

    network, interconnection, reticulation, intermixture, entanglement, tracery, filigree, interweaving, trellis.

Web (World Wide Web) Telecom Definition
See WWW.
web Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • intrigue: Conspiratorial Seeks to draw lawyer into web of intrigue.

Converse of object

  • surf: The basic course comprises 10 training sessions and includes email, surfing the web and an introduction to newsgroups and chatrooms.
  • browse: One in five even admitted to getting up in the middle of the night to browse the web.
  • base: Creating the entry is simple via the easy-to-use web based control panel.
  • trawl: Because an essential measure for the ranking will be the number of connections to your site when these engines trawl the web.
  • navigate: Thus you can use your Bookmarks/Favorites to help you navigate the web.
  • unravel: As the club gradually unravels the tangled web of fate, Anne learns shocking news about herself.

Adjective modifier

  • tangled: As the club gradually unravels the tangled web of fate, Anne learns shocking news about herself.
  • world-wide: Welcome to the home of Scottish Episcopal satire on the world-wide web.
  • wide: What is new on the world wide web for 2006?
  • complex: In this way links create a complex virtual web of connections which allow you to move within and between web pages and web sites.

Modifies a noun

  • site: Here's a web site where you can get your mate fixed up on a hot date.
  • page: Their web pages can be seen by clicking here.
  • browser: At the simplest possible level the client may just be the web browser itself viewing suitable web pages.
  • server: The server software either sits behind an existing web server or includes its own web server in the package.
  • design: All states mortgage broker web site design except our biggest concern risks outside the.
  • designer: We have also engaged a new web designer to provide a dynamic resources site on our web pages.

Noun used with modifier

  • spider: I made fairy cakes and covered them in white icing and piped a chocolate spider web on them.
  • easy-to-use: Creating the entry is simple via the easy-to-use web based control panel.
  • library: Previous issues are still available on the library web pages.
web Quotes

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She looked down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked from side to side; 'The curse is come upon me', cried The Lady of Shalott.

—Tennyson

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

—Scott, Sir Walter

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are na|«ve.

—Nash, (Frederic) Ogden

A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one's own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion.

—Pagels, Heinz R(udolf)

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper ageö Are they withered in the sod?

—Bronte«  , Charlotte