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noun
1.
something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
2.
a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars; cobweb.
3.
Textiles.
a.
a woven fabric, especially a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom.
b.
the flat woven strip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug.
4.
something resembling woven material, especially something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance: He looked up at the web of branches of the old tree.
5.
EXPANDan intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.: The thief was convicted by a web of evidence. Who can understand the web of life?
6.
something that snares or entangles; a trap: innocent travelers caught in the web of international terrorism.
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8.
Zoology. a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds.
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Ornithology.
a.
the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather.
b.
the series on both sides, collectively.
10.
an integral or separate part of a beam, rail, truss, or the like, that forms a continuous, flat, narrow, rigid connection between two stronger, broader parallel parts, as the flanges of a structural shape, the head and foot of a rail, or the upper and lower chords of a truss.
11.
Machinery. an arm of a crank, usually one of a pair, holding one end of a crankpin at its outer end.
12.
Architecture. (in a vault) any surface framed by ribbing.
13.
a large roll of paper, as for continuous feeding of a web press.
14.
a network of interlinked stations, services, communications, etc., covering a region or country.
15.
Informal. a network of radio or television broadcasting stations.
16.
COLLAPSEverb (used with object)
17.
to cover with or as if with a web; envelop.
18.
to ensnare or entrap.
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verb (used without object)
19.
to make or form a web.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English (noun), Old English; cognate with Dutch, Low German webbe, Old Norse vefr; akin to weave
before 900; Middle English (noun), Old English; cognate with Dutch, Low German webbe, Old Norse vefr; akin to weave
Related forms
web·less, adjective
web·like, adjective
Synonyms
5. network, tissue, tangle, maze.
5. network, tissue, tangle, maze.
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Word Origin & History
web
O.E. webb "woven fabric," from P.Gmc. *wabjan (cf. O.S. webbi, O.N. vefr, Du. webbe, O.H.G. weppi, Ger. gewebe "web"), from PIE *webh- (related to O.E. wefan; see weave). Meaning "spider's web" is first recorded c.1220. Applied to the membranes between the toes of ducks and
EXPANDother aquatic birds from 1576. Internet sense is from 1992, shortened from World Wide Web (1990); website is from 1994; webmaster is attested from 1993.
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Medical Dictionary
web (wěb)
n.
A membrane or fold of skin connecting the toes, as of certain mammals.
A structure of delicate, threadlike filaments characteristically spun by spiders.
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