web
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
arts
ball-games
baseball
broadcasting
business
crafts
games
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
lithography
manufacturing
media
medicine
printing
publishing
radio
rail-transport
railways
sciences
sports
television
transport
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-West Germanic *wabi, from Proto-Germanic *wabją (“web”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wab (“web”), North Frisian wääb (“web”), Saterland Frisian Wäb (“web”), West Frisian and Dutch web (“web”), Danish væv (“web”), Faroese vevur (“web”), Icelandic vefur (“web”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vev (“web”), Swedish väv (“web”); also Cornish goghi (“wasps”), Irish foich, foiche, puch (“wasp”), Welsh gwchi (“drone”), Latin vespa (“wasp”), Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ, “web”), ὑφαίνω (huphaínō, “to weave”) (whence Greek ανυφαίνω (anyfaíno), υφαίνω (yfaíno, “to weave”)), Albanian vej (“to weave”), Latvian lapsene (“wasp”), Lithuanian vapsvà (“wasp”), Old Prussian wobse (“wasp”), Belarusian аса́ (asá, “wasp”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian оса́ (osá, “wasp”), Czech vosa (“wasp”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene osa (“wasp”), Serbo-Croatian о̀са, òsa (“wasp”), Armenian մոզ (moz, “a kind of fly that bites horses and cattle”), Northern Kurdish moz (“hornet; wasp”), Persian بافتن (bâftan, “to weave”), Tocharian A wäp- (“to weave”), Tocharian B wāp- (“to weave”), Sanskrit उभ्नाति (ubhnāti, “to hurt, kill; to cover; fill”).
Inflected forms:
form: webs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: webs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: webbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: webbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: webbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
pos: noun
examples: The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
gloss: Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
[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.
"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!"
gloss: The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
pos: noun
examples: He caught the ball in the web.
gloss: A latticed or woven structure.
pos: noun
examples: The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
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.
gloss: A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
pos: noun
tags: usually
examples: Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
a tangled web of deception
gloss: A plot or scheme.
pos: noun
gloss: The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
pos: noun
gloss: The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
pos: noun
gloss: A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
pos: noun
gloss: A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
pos: noun
gloss: A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
pos: noun
examples: […] And there with ſtately pompe by heapes they wend, / And Chriſtians ſlaine rolle vp in webs of lead […]
gloss: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
pos: noun
gloss: A major broadcasting network.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
examples: […] 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 […]
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.
gloss: A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
pos: noun
gloss: A cataract of the eye.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To construct or form a web.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cover with a web or network.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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[…]
In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre[…]
gloss: To ensnare or entangle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide with a web.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To weave.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth shall weve werk[…]
Derived words: break the web
cosmic web
crankweb
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
web chart
web chat
webchat
web color
webcomic
webconference
web conference
web content
WebDAV
web design
web designer
web dev
web developer
web development
web diver
web diving
web drama
web feed
web-footed
web-footed gecko
webform
web harvesting
webhead
web-headed
web host
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
webnovel
webocracy
web of trust
webography
web page
webpage
web-page
webphone
webpreneur
web provider
webring
webroot
web scraping
web-server
webserver
web server
web shell
web shop
webshop
web-site
web site
website
websleuth
webspinner
webster
websurfer
web surfer
web television
web-toed
webtoon
webtop
webumentary
webutation
webwinkel
webwork
webworm
webzine
Welsh web
what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
wood wide web
wood-wide web
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