# web
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɛb/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛb

### Noun

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.
* (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
** 1828, Washington Irving, “Birth, Parentage, and Education of Columbus”, in A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: G. & C. Carvill, […], →OCLC, book I, page 3:The time of his birth, his birth-place, his parentage, are all involved in obscurity; and such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators, that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures with which it is interwoven.
** 1851 (indicated as 1852), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Main-Street”, in The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 96:[T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love of sunshine, and would gladly gild all the world with it, if I knew where to find so much.
** 2018 February 14, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Feb 14, 2018:"But THAT! Was the OLDEN TIMES! A massive, worldwide web of global information has ENTANGLED THE WORLD! People in Beijing can read about a magical incident in Moperville in seconds, and have video of it in minutes!"
* (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.
** 1866, George Bancroft, “New Netherland”, in History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent, 21st edition, volume II, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 281:The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics ; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.
* (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
    Synonym: yarn
    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.
    Coordinate terms: head, foot
* 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.
* (glassblowing, obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
    Synonym: way
* (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.
** 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Tenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 26, page 184:[…] And there with ſtately pompe by heapes they wend, / And Chriſtians ſlaine rolle vp in webs of lead […]
** The blade of a sword.
*** 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Second Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 93, page 38:Argant a ſword, whereof the web was ſteele, / Pommell, rich ſtone ; hilts, gold, approu’d by tuch, / With rareſt workmanſhip all forged weele, / The curious art exceld the ſubſtance much.
** The blade of a saw.
** The thin, sharp part of a colter.
** The bit of a key.
* (dated, 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 […]
* (architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs. (Can we clean up this sense?)
* (medicine, archaic) A cataract of the eye.
    Synonyms: pin and web, web and pin

#### Hyponyms

* cobweb
* food web
* interweb
* spiderweb
* subweb

#### Derived terms

* araneomorph funnel-web spider
* break the web
* cosmic web
* dark web
* deep-web
* deep web
* funnel-web
* funnel web
* funnel-web spider
* intellectual dark web
* invisible web
* nursery web spider
* orb-web spider
* progressive web app
* progressive web application
* spider in the web doctrine
* spider's web
* spider-web
* spider web
* surface web
* Sydney funnel-web spider
* tangled web
* visible web
* web address
* web app
* web application
* webathon
* web-based
* web beacon
* webbed
* webber
* webbing
* webbook
* web browser
* web-browser
* web bug
* webby
* webcam
* webcammer
* webcap
* webcast
* webcasting
* web celeb
* webchat
* web chat
* web color
* webcomic
* web conference
* webconference
* web content
* WebDAV
* web design
* web designer
* web dev
* web developer
* web development
* web diver
* web diving
* web feed
* web-footed
* web-footed gecko
* webform
* web harvesting
* webhead
* web-headed
* web hosting
* web-hosting
* webify
* webinar
* web installer
* webisode
* webize
* webless
* weblication
* weblike
* weblink
* webliography
* Weblish
* weblish
* weblog
* weblogger
* weblogging
* webmag
* webmail
* webmaster
* webmeister
* webmistress
* web moth
* webocracy
* web of trust
* webography
* web page
* web-page
* webpage
* webphone
* webpreneur
* web provider
* webring
* webroot
* web scraping
* web-server
* web server
* webserver
* web shell
* web shop
* webshop
* web site
* website
* web-site
* webspinner
* webster
* web surfer
* websurfer
* web television
* web-toed
* webtoon
* webtop
* webumentary
* webutation
* webwinkel
* webwork
* webworm
* webzine
* what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
* wood wide web
* wood-wide web

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Proper noun

the web
* Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
    I found it on the web.
    Let me search the web for that.
** 2013 May 13, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, in The Guardian‎:No, the web probably isn't addictive in the sense that nicotine or heroin are; no, Facebook and Twitter aren't guilty of "killing conversation" or corroding real-life friendship or making children autistic.

#### Translations
### Verb

web (third-person singular simple present webs, present participle webbing, simple past and past participle webbed)
* (intransitive) To construct or form a web.
* (transitive) To cover with a web or network.
** 1853 June 21, R. C. Stone, “A New Insect”, in Simon Brown, editor, The New England Farmer, volume V, Boston: Raynolds & Nourse, page 362:The canker worm has no shelter upon the tree, but lies out upon the leaf or branch ; this forms itself a house by webbing the corner of a leaf, into which it retreats on the first appearance of danger […]
** 1895, “Has Gold Risen?”, in The Forum, volume XVIII, New York: The Forum Publishing Co., page 577:In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre […]
* (transitive) To ensnare or entangle.
* (transitive) To provide with a web.
* (transitive, obsolete) To weave.
** 1511–12, “An Act agaynst deceyptfull making of Wollen Cloth”, in The Statures of the Realm, volume III, London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, published 1963, page 28:Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth shall weve werk […][paraphrase] Likewise, that the weaver who is to weave any woollen yarn to be woven into cloth shall weave it well.

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Further reading

* web on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Bew, EBW, WBE

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from English web.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈwɛp]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈwep]

### Noun

web m (plural webs)
* web, net, internet
* Clipping of lloc web.

### Noun

web f (plural webs)
* Clipping of pàgina web.

#### Further reading

* “web” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from English web.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɛp]
* Rhymes: -ɛp
* Hyphenation: web

### Noun

web m inan (relational adjective webový)
* the World Wide Web, the Internet
* web page
    Synonym: webová stránka

#### Derived terms

* webdesign
* webkamera
* webovka

### Further reading

* “web”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋɛp/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: web
* Rhymes: -ɛp

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch webbe, from Old Dutch *web, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

#### Noun

web n (plural webben, diminutive webje n or webbetje n)
* web (spiderweb)

##### Derived terms

* spinnenweb
* voedselweb

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: web

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English Web.

#### Noun

web n (uncountable, diminutive webje n)
* (Internet) the Web, the World Wide Web

##### Derived terms

* webadres
* webapplicatie
* webbrowser
* webdienst
* weblink
* weblog
* weblogger
* webontwerp
* webontwikkelaar
* webontwikkeling
* webpagina
* webserver
* webservice
* webshop
* website
* webstek
* webtool
* webwinkel

### Further reading

* “web” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
* web on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## Finnish
### Etymology

< English web

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋeb/, [ˈʋe̞b]
* IPA: /ˈweb/, [ˈwe̞b]
* Rhymes: -eb

### Noun

web
* Synonym of verkko (“web, www”)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of web (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
webini
webini
accusative
nom.
webini
webini
gen.
webini
genitive
webini
webieni
partitive
webiäni
webejäni
inessive
webissäni
webeissäni
elative
webistäni
webeistäni
illative
webiini
webeihini
adessive
webilläni
webeilläni
ablative
webiltäni
webeiltäni
allative
webilleni
webeilleni
essive
webinäni
webeinäni
translative
webikseni
webeikseni
abessive
webittäni
webeittäni
instructive
comitative
—webeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
webisi
webisi
accusative
nom.
webisi
webisi
gen.
webisi
genitive
webisi
webiesi
partitive
webiäsi
webejäsi
inessive
webissäsi
webeissäsi
elative
webistäsi
webeistäsi
illative
webiisi
webeihisi
adessive
webilläsi
webeilläsi
ablative
webiltäsi
webeiltäsi
allative
webillesi
webeillesi
essive
webinäsi
webeinäsi
translative
webiksesi
webeiksesi
abessive
webittäsi
webeittäsi
instructive
comitative
—webeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
webimme
webimme
accusative
nom.
webimme
webimme
gen.
webimme
genitive
webimme
webiemme
partitive
webiämme
webejämme
inessive
webissämme
webeissämme
elative
webistämme
webeistämme
illative
webiimme
webeihimme
adessive
webillämme
webeillämme
ablative
webiltämme
webeiltämme
allative
webillemme
webeillemme
essive
webinämme
webeinämme
translative
webiksemme
webeiksemme
abessive
webittämme
webeittämme
instructive
comitative
—webeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
webinne
webinne
accusative
nom.
webinne
webinne
gen.
webinne
genitive
webinne
webienne
partitive
webiänne
webejänne
inessive
webissänne
webeissänne
elative
webistänne
webeistänne
illative
webiinne
webeihinne
adessive
webillänne
webeillänne
ablative
webiltänne
webeiltänne
allative
webillenne
webeillenne
essive
webinänne
webeinänne
translative
webiksenne
webeiksenne
abessive
webittänne
webeittänne
instructive
comitative
—webeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
webinsä
webinsä
accusative
nom.
webinsä
webinsä
gen.
webinsä
genitive
webinsä
webiensä
partitive
webiään webiänsä
webejään webejänsä
inessive
webissään webissänsä
webeissään webeissänsä
elative
webistään webistänsä
webeistään webeistänsä
illative
webiinsä
webeihinsä
adessive
webillään webillänsä
webeillään webeillänsä
ablative
webiltään webiltänsä
webeiltään webeiltänsä
allative
webilleen webillensä
webeilleen webeillensä
essive
webinään webinänsä
webeinään webeinänsä
translative
webikseen webiksensä
webeikseen webeiksensä
abessive
webittään webittänsä
webeittään webeittänsä
instructive
comitative
—webeineen webeinensä :

#### Derived terms

* webkamera

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɛb/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

web m
* Alternative letter-case form of Web

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

web
* singular imperative of weben
* (colloquial) first-person singular present of weben

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English web.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɛb]
* Rhymes: -ɛb

### Noun

web (plural webek)
* (computing) web (Internet)

#### Derived terms

* webes
(Compound words):
* webalkalmazás
* webáruház
* webcím
* webergonómia
* webkamera
* weblap
* weboldal
* webszerver

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English web, from Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈwɛp̚]
* Hyphenation: wèb

### Noun

web (plural web-web)
* (computing) web, the Web
* (computing) network
    Synonyms: jejaring, jaringan

#### Derived terms

* web gelap

### Further reading

* “web” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English web.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwɛb/
* Rhymes: -ɛb
* Hyphenation: wèb

### Noun

web m (invariable)
* (computing) web (Internet)

### References

* ↑ web in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Japanese
### Alternative forms

* WEB (WEB)

### Etymology

Borrowed from English web.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [β̞e̞bɯ̟]

### Noun

web(ウェブ) • (webu)
* the Internet
    web(ウェブ)上(じょう)で公(こう)開(かい)された
       webu-jō de kōkai sareta
       made public online
    web(ウェブ)番(ばん)組(ぐみ)
       webu-bangumi
       online program

#### Usage notes

* Capitalization may follow English conventions.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English webb, from Proto-West Germanic *wabi, from Proto-Germanic *wabją.

#### Alternative forms

* webb, webbe, webe, weob

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɛb/

#### Noun

web (plural webbes)
* Woven fabric; fabric manufactured by weaving.
* A woven garment or belt.
* A spiderweb (net created by a spider)
* (by extension) A thin layer of material or tissue.
* An opaque growth caused by disease or illness.

##### Related terms

* web bem
* webben
* webbere
* webbestere
* webbynge
* weblome

##### Descendants

* English: web
* Scots: wab, wob

##### References

* “web, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-24.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

web
* Alternative form of webbe (“weaver”)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English web.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /uˈɛ.bi/ [ʊˈɛ.bi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɛ.bi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /uˈɛ.bi/ [ʊˈɛ.bi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɛ.bi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /uˈɛ.be/ [ʊˈɛ.be], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɛ.be/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈwɛ.bɨ/ [ˈwɛ.βɨ]

### Noun

web f (uncountable)
* the World Wide Web
    Synonyms: rede, Internet, net

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English web.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈweb/ [ˈweβ̞], /ˈɡweb/ [ˈɡweβ̞]
* Rhymes: -eb
* Syllabification: web

### Noun

web f (countable and uncountable, plural webs) (Internet)
* web (Internet)
* (countable) webpage, website
    Synonyms: página, página web
** 2022 February 25, Manuel G. Pascual, “La ciberguerra de Rusia contra Ucrania nunca ha acabado [Russia's cyberwar against Ukraine never ended]”, in El País‎:La semana pasada se registraron también ciberataques dirigidos a las webs del Ministerio de Defensa ucranio, a la del ejército y a las de bancos estatales.Last week cyberattacks on the websites of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the army, and state banks were also recorded.

#### Derived terms

* cámara web
* navegador web
* página web
* sitio web

### Further reading

* “web”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From English web.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ɣwɛp̚˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [ɣwɛp̚˦˧˥]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɣwɛp̚˦˥]
* Phonetic spelling: guép

### Noun

(classifier cái, con) web
* website
    tạo một con webto create a website

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɛp/

### Noun

web n (plural webben, diminutive webke)
* web
* World Wide Web

#### Derived terms

* spinneweb
* webside

#### Further reading

* “web”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011