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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.
an 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.
7.
8.
Zoology. a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds.
9.
Ornithology.
a.
the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather. See illus. under 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. See illus. under crankshaft.
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.
verb (used with object)
17.
to cover with or as if with a web; envelop.
18.
to ensnare or entrap.
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Web
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| phylum of worms comprised of parasitic and free-living nonparasitic species |
| having a backbone or spinal column |
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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web (wɛb) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | any structure, construction, fabric, etc, formed by or as if by weaving or interweavingRelated: retiary |
| 2. | See also cobweb a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects |
| 3. | a similar network of threads spun by certain insect larvae, such as the silkworm |
| 4. | a fabric, esp one in the process of being woven |
| 5. | a membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds or the digits of such aquatic mammals as the otter |
| 6. | the vane of a bird's feather |
| 7. | architect the surface of a ribbed vault that lies between the ribs |
| 8. | the central section of an I-beam or H-beam that joins the two flanges of the beam |
| 9. | any web-shaped part of a casting used for reinforcement |
| 10. | the radial portion of a crank that connects the crankpin to the crankshaft |
| 11. | a thin piece of superfluous material left attached to a forging; fin |
| 12. | a. a continuous strip of paper as formed on a paper machine or fed from a reel into some printing presses |
| b. (as modifier): web offset; a web press | |
| 13. | the woven edge, without pile, of some carpets |
| 14. | a. (often capital) the web short for World Wide Web |
| b. (as modifier): a web site; web pages | |
| 15. | any structure, construction, etc, that is intricately formed or complex: a web of intrigue |
| —vb , webs, webbing, webbed | |
| 16. | (tr) to cover with or as if with a web |
| 17. | (tr) to entangle or ensnare |
| 18. | (intr) to construct a web |
| Related: retiary | |
| [Old English webb; related to Old Saxon, Old High German webbi, Old Norse vefr] | |
| 'webless | |
| —adj | |
| 'weblike | |
| —adj | |
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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
other 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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Science Dictionary
web  (wěb) Pronunciation Key
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The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Computing Dictionary
WEB definition
languageDonald Knuth's self-documenting literate programming, with algorithms and documentation intermixed in one file. They can be separated using Weave and Tangle. Versions exist for Pascal and C. Spiderweb can be used to create versions for other languages. FunnelWeb is a production-quality literate-programming tool.
(ftp://princeton.edu/), (ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/).
["Literate Programming", D.E. Knuth, Computer J 27(2):97-111, May 1984].
(1996-05-10)
Web definition
World-Wide Web"The Web" is the World-Wide Web. "A web" is part of it on some specific website.
(1996-05-10)
Example sentences
Web surfing has been, from its beginning, an open digital road.
If you subscribe to the print edition, you may also need to link your web site account to your print subscription.
Computer simulations have produced vast web structures of this stuff where real matter is supposed to gravitate at the web nodes.
And no wonder, given the prices now being put on web companies.
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