web
see also: Web
Pronunciation
Web
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Web
Pronunciation
- IPA: /wɛb/
web (plural webs)
- The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
- The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
- Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
- Specifically, the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).
- Let me search the web for that.
- (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
- He caught the ball in the web.
- A latticed or woven structure.
- The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
- (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
- Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
- A plot or scheme.
- The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
- (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
- A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
- 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.
- (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
- (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
- A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- (US, radio, television) A major broadcasting network.
- 1950, Billboard (volume 62, number 43, page 9)
- […] the first big move toward a contract for television performers was made Friday (20) when the webs agreed to pay them according to the length of the show. […] Altho the major TV webs — NBC and CBS — may fall in line soon, an agreement may possibly be held up by the opposition of DuMont […]
- 1950, Billboard (volume 62, number 43, page 9)
- (fanciful tale) yarn
- Russian: сеть
- French: âme
- French: palmure
- Portuguese: palmura
- Russian: перепо́нка
- French: bande
- Alternative letter-case form of Web#English|Web: the World Wide Web.
- I found it on the web.
web (webs, present participle webbing; past and past participle webbed)
- (intransitive) To construct or form a web.
- (transitive) To cover with a web or network.
- (transitive) To ensnare or entangle.
- (transitive) To provide with a web.
- (transitive, obsolete) To weave.
Web
Pronunciation Proper noun
- (possibly, informal, outside, attributive use) The World Wide Web.
- Some of that content is now only available on the Web.
- Web page. Web portal. (attributive use)
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