webber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English webbere, webber; equivalent to web + -er.
Base: web
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: webbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An animal that creates webs, such as a spider.
pos: noun
examples: Mites of this sort are prolific webbers […]
The eightleg webbers caused that fear in him.
Some webbers are drab, colorless, and small, preferring to spin their webs in dark cellars.
Web solvent is used to disintegrate the sticky, constricting mass fired by webbers.
Weak webbers like P. ulmi and P. citri, under harsh situations tend to colonize along and remain close to the midribs and veins.
gloss: A person who weaves webs, especially one who manufactures webbing.
pos: noun
examples: On the other hand, the Wurtemberg calico manufacturers succeeded in doing a profitable business, and a similar good report may be given as respects machine weavers in colours, wick makers, webbers ( i.e., girth makers, &c.) and staymakers, at all events for the latter half of the year.
The men employed in the cloth trade were weavers, webbers, tuckers, walkers (who thickened the cloth by walking and stamping upon it), fullers, millmen, shearmen, carders, and sorters of wool, spinners and spullars of yarn, &c.
Such questionable tactics, however, were in some instances followed by webbers who, when a bonus could be secured, sold to other parties goods that were already contracted for.
The complaint further charges that "Respondent Allied, respondent Robbins, and Robbins' predecessor in interest, J.R. Co., have carried out a program of acquisition and expansion, the cumulative effect of which is, and has been, to lessen, restrain, and eliminate competition in the manufacture and sale, in the United States, of seat belts to automobile manufactureres, webbing to seat belt manufacturers, and yarn to webbers."
We will be the champion string webbers.
gloss: One who applies webbing.
pos: noun
examples: From there the assembled backs and fronts went to the webbers, who put on the webbing.
Job simplification has resulted in less skilled workers taking over parts of the job, i.e. webbers to tack the webbing and spring setters to install the springs.
Coil spring setters install springs after webbers have tacked the webbing on which the springs rest.
gloss: Any of various devices that emit string in the production of a web or webbing.
pos: noun
examples: A knitting machine, provided with two needle beds coacting, each having a combway for the reception of the same set of webbers, the combways of the first bed provided at their bottoms in the base of the bed with slideway seatings […]
The few plain webbers on show seemed to be designed primarily for speed and at least one of them was demonstrating how fabric for meat bags should be made.
Random webs are preferably produced by the air-dynamic method on pneumatic webbers.
Most webbers utilize pneumatic transport and deposition of short fibers to form webs.
A webber for putting cotton over fruit bushes is shown.
gloss: A creature with webbed feet.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: All the Swimmers are webbers.
gloss: A member of a food web.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Many brown food webbers eat a mixture of foods—including each other!
Marine food webbers gobble their fill.
gloss: Someone who uses the internet; a visitor of websites.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Similar to ScienceNOW 's readers, The Why Files audience seems to range from technoliterate scientists killing time on the job to first-time webbers.
So, even if you use JPEG images, their beauty will be lost on webbers having Windows systems, until the JDK is updated.
Netscape is the web browser used by an estimated 70% of the US isp webbers, and can be enabled to read Java.
There is a world of creative, opinionated and generous 'webbers' just waiting for you to click 'connect'.
gloss: One who works on the creation or publishing of websites.
pos: noun
examples: Perhaps you're still just enjoying exploring, or maybe you've found your own little niche of favorite sites run by like-minded Webbers.
Figure 2 represents a possible future scenario, where the webber-analyst grabs and glues bits of model that might be deemed sufficiently appropriate.
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