web
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Forms: form: webs
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *webaną
Proto-Germanic *wabją
Old English webb
Middle English web
English web
From Middle English web, webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wab (“web”), West Frisian, Dutch web (“web”), Danish væv (“web”), Faroese vevur (“web”), Icelandic vefur (“web”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vev (“web”), Swedish väv (“web”).
Senses: examples: text: The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
glosses: The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: [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.
ref: 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:
text: "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!"
ref: 2018 February 14, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Feb 14, 2018:
glosses: Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
examples: text: He caught the ball in the web.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
examples: text: The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A latticed or woven structure.
examples: text: Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
synonyms: yarn
qualifier: "weave"; or similar verbs; "weave"; or similar verbs
glosses: A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
raw_tags: with "spin"
glosses: A plot or scheme.
glosses: The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
coordinate_terms: head
foot
glosses: The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
glosses: A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
glosses: 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.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
topics: lithography
media
printing
publishing
glosses: A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
synonyms: way
glosses: A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
glosses: A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
examples: text: […] And there with ſtately pompe by heapes they wend, / And Chriſtians ſlaine rolle vp in webs of lead […]
ref: 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:
glosses: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
The blade of a sword.
glosses: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
The blade of a saw.
glosses: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
The thin, sharp part of a colter.
glosses: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
The bit of a key.
examples: text: […] 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 […]
ref: 1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 43, page 9:
text: ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.
ref: 1955, Billboard, page 5:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A major broadcasting network.
topics: architecture
glosses: A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: pin and web
web and pin
glosses: A cataract of the eye.
Hyponyms: cobweb
food web
interweb
spiderweb
subweb
Derived terms: sense: Derived terms of "web"
word: araneomorph funnel-web spider
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word: break the web
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word: cosmic web
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word: dark web
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word: deep-web
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word: deep web
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word: funnel web
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word: funnel-web
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word: funnel-web spider
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word: intellectual dark web
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word: invisible web
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word: nursery web spider
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word: orb-web spider
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word: progressive web app
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word: progressive web application
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word: spider in the web doctrine
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word: spider's web
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word: spider-web
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word: spider web
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word: surface web
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word: Sydney funnel-web spider
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word: tangled web
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word: visible web
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word: web address
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word: web app
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word: web application
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word: webathon
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word: web-based
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word: web beacon
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word: webbed
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word: webber
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word: webbing
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word: webbook
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word: web-browser
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word: web browser
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word: web bug
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word: webby
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word: webcam
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word: webcammer
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word: webcap
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word: webcast
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word: webcasting
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word: web celeb
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word: web chart
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word: web chat
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word: webchat
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word: web color
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word: webcomic
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word: webconference
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word: web conference
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word: web content
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word: WebDAV
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word: web design
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word: web designer
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word: web dev
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word: web developer
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word: web development
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word: web diver
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word: web diving
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word: web feed
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word: web-footed
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word: web-footed gecko
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word: webform
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word: web harvesting
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word: webhead
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word: web-headed
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word: web host
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word: web-hosting
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word: web hosting
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word: webify
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word: webinar
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word: web installer
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word: webisode
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word: webize
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word: webless
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word: weblication
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word: weblike
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word: weblink
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word: webliography
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word: Weblish
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word: weblish
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word: weblog
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word: weblogger
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word: weblogging
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word: webmag
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word: webmail
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word: webmaster
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word: webmeister
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word: webmistress
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word: web moth
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word: webnovel
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word: webocracy
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word: web of trust
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word: webography
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word: webpage
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word: web-page
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word: web page
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word: webphone
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word: webpreneur
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word: web provider
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word: webring
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word: webroot
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word: web scraping
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word: web-server
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word: web server
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word: webserver
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word: web shell
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word: webshop
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word: web shop
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word: web site
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word: web-site
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word: website
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word: webspinner
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word: webster
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word: web surfer
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word: websurfer
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word: web television
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word: web-toed
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word: webtoon
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word: webtop
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word: webumentary
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word: webutation
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word: webwinkel
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word: webwork
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word: webworm
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word: webzine
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word: Welsh web
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word: what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
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word: wood wide web
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word: wood-wide web