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web

  [web] noun, verb, webbed, web⋅bing.
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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, esp. 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, esp. 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. webbing.
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.
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. (usually initial capital letter) Computers. World Wide Web.
–verb (used with object)
17. to cover with or as if with a web; envelop.
18. to ensnare or entrap.
–verb (used without object)
19. to make or form a web.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME (n.), OE; c. D, LG webbe, ON vefr; akin to weave

Related forms:
webless, adjective
weblike, adjective

Synonyms:
5. network, tissue, tangle, maze.
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web   (wěb)   
n.  
    1. A woven fabric, especially one on a loom or just removed from it.
    2. The structural part of cloth.
  2. A latticed or woven structure: A web of palm branches formed the roof of the hut.
  3. A structure of delicate, threadlike filaments characteristically spun by spiders or certain insect larvae.
  4. Something intricately contrived, especially something that ensnares or entangles: caught in a web of lies.
  5. A complex, interconnected structure or arrangement: a web of telephone wires.
  6. often Web The World Wide Web.
  7. A radio or television network.
  8. A membrane or fold of skin connecting the toes, as of certain amphibians, birds, and mammals.
  9. The barbs on each side of the shaft of a bird's feather; a vane.
  10. Baseball A piece of leather or leather mesh that fills the space between the thumb and forefinger of a baseball glove. Also called trap1, webbing.
  11. Architecture A space or compartment between the ribs or groins of a vault. Also called cell.
  12. A metal sheet or plate connecting the heavier sections, ribs, or flanges of a structural element.
  13. A thin metal plate or strip, as the bit of a key or the blade of a saw.
  14. A large continuous roll of paper, such as newsprint, either in the process of manufacture or as it is fed into a web press.
tr.v.   webbed, web·bing, webs
  1. To provide with a web.
  2. To cover or envelop with a web.
  3. To ensnare in a web.

[Middle English, from Old English; see webh- in Indo-European roots.]
Usage Note: The word Web is usually capitalized when referring to the World Wide Web: Many sites on the Web have information about used cars. In this use, however, the word is increasingly found lowercase, and this usage may become dominant. See Usage Note at website.
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Web

Web\, n. [OE. webbe, AS. webba. See Weave.] A weaver. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Web

Web\, n. [OE. web, AS. webb; akin to D. web, webbe, OHG. weppi, G. gewebe, Icel. vefr, Sw. v["a]f, Dan. v[ae]v. See Weave.]

1. That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.

Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive. --Spenser.

Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile. --Bancroft.

2. A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.

3. The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. "The smallest spider's web." --Shak.

4. Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.

The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color or gold. --Hawthorne.

Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures. --W. Irving.

5. (Carriages) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.

6. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead. --Fairfax. Specifically: (a) The blade of a sword. [Obs.]

The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel rich stone, hilt gold. --Fairfax. (b) The blade of a saw. (c) The thin, sharp part of a colter. (d) The bit of a key.

7. (Mach. & Engin.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object. Specifically: (a) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail. (b) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc. (c) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist. (d) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.

8. (Med.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye. --Shak.

9. (Anat.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.

10. (Zo["o]l.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.

Pin and web (Med.), two diseases of the eye, caligo and pterygium; -- sometimes wrongly explained as one disease. See Pin, n., 8, and Web, n., 8. "He never yet had pinne or webbe, his sight for to decay." --Gascoigne.

Web member (Engin.), one of the braces in a web system.

Web press, a printing press which takes paper from a roll instead of being fed with sheets.

Web system (Engin.), the system of braces connecting the flanges of a lattice girder, post, or the like.

Web

Web\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Webbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Webbing.] To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : web
Spanish: tela, tejido,
German: das Netz,
Japanese: くもの巣
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Web

See Internet.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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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 (usually capitalized) is from 1994, shortened from World Wide Web (1990); Website is also from 1994.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: web
Pronunciation: 'web
Function: noun
: a tissue or membrane of an animal or plant; especially : that uniting fingers or toeseither at their bases (as in humans) or for a greater part of their length (as in many waterbirds) —webbed /'webd/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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web (wěb)
n.

  1. A membrane or fold of skin connecting the toes, as of certain mammals.
  2. A structure of delicate, threadlike filaments characteristically spun by spiders.

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web   (wěb)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. A structure of fine, elastic, threadlike filaments characteristically spun by spiders to catch insect prey. The larvae of certain insects also weave webs that serve as protective shelters for feeding and may include leaves or other plant parts.
  2. A membrane or fold of skin connecting the toes in certain animals, especially ones that swim, such as water birds and otters. The web improves the ability of the foot to push against water.
  3. also Web The World Wide Web.

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WEB language
Donald 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 World-Wide Web
"The Web" is the World-Wide Web. "A web" is part of it on some specific website.
(1996-05-10)

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