webweb /web/ ●●● S2 W2 noun 
[singular] the Web the system on the Internet that allows you to find and use information that is held on computers all over the world SYN the World Wide Webon the Web
a guide to the best education-related sites on the WebGRAMMAR Don’t say: in the Web/on Web2[countable] a net of thin threads made by a spider to catch insects: He watched a spider spinning its web. → cobweb3[countable usually singular] a closely related set of things that can be very complicateda web of intrigue/deceit/deception/lies etc a tangled web of relationships4[countable] a piece of skin that connects the toes of ducks and some other birds, and helps them to swim well
WORD ORIGINweb
Origin:
Old EnglishEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- In reality any organization will be involved in a web of relationships, which vary in character and intensity according to the issue.
- My concern has been to specify as clearly as possible the Orphic strand of the web.
- Netscape hooked millions of web surfers on Navigator by letting them have it for free.
- The webs which are woven are many and varied.
- The larger facilities will be used to provide all types of web and application hosting as well as co-location services.
- The whole tangled web of each other's relationships was getting to breaking-point.
- Throw some small insects into the web and find out what prevents them getting out before the spider can catch them.
- Yank on one filament in the web, and the other filaments had to move, too.
Longman Language Activatorthe Internet and places on the Internet
a network of computer connections that allows computer users around the world to exchange information: · The Internet makes it possible for people all over the world to keep in touch.· In theory, the Net should make things quicker, but that isn't always the case.on the Internet/Net: · She spends nearly all her free time on the Internet.· The couple met on the Internet.Internet/Net access: · The city's libraries provide free Internet access.
also E- used to form words that relate to activities involving use of the Internet, especially those connected with business. : · E-commerce was then seen as a booming economic area.
used to form words that relate to activities involving the use of computers, especially the Internet: · Cyber-crime, for example the fraudulent use of credit cards on the net, presents particular problems for the police.· He seems to spend all his time in cyberspace!
relating to a company whose business involves the Internet: · The business world was shaken by the huge drop in dotcom shares. · dotcom jobs
a place on the Internet where you can find information about a particular company, organization, or person: · Visit our website on www.stellamary.UK.
one of the areas you can go to on a website: · Do you want me to print off this web page?
the first place you go to on a website: · You can reach all the other pages on a website from its home page.
an area on the Internet where people can talk to each other by sending messages that can be read or heard immediately: · Children should be taught to be careful about who they talk to in chat rooms.
writing or pictures on a web page which you can click on if you want to immediately go to another website or to another web page on the same website: · For more info, click on this link.
a computer program that helps you find information on the Internet: · This search engine will only find sites that originate in Europe.
a program, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, that allows you to find and read documents on the Internet: · My browser really is incredibly slow.
frequently asked question(s); on websites, a list of questions that users often ask about the website, and answers to them: · Before e-mailing us, it might be advisable to click on FAQ first.
connected to other computers through the Internet, or available through the Internet: go online: · I'll just go online and look up her address.
an occasion when someone uses a website, a web page, or part of a web page. Companies count the number of hits their websites, advertisements, etc receive to find out how well they are doing: · The official World Cup web-site scored a record number of hits last week.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He watched a spider spinning its web. a tangled web of relationshipsCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a web of intrigue (=complicated set of secret plans) the tangled web of local politicsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
He watched a spider spinning its web. a tangled web of relationships· Just type in the web address.
a web of intrigue (=complicated set of secret plans) (=the network of threads a spider makes)
(=makes a network of threads)· A spider had spun a web between the bars of the gate.
the tangled web of local politics· This may lead to the whole group moving, tugged along by a complex web of bonds.· Gradually, though, hierarchy is giving way to more horizontal structures with complex yet flexible webs of interconnection.· Unhindered by the country's lax competition rules, they built up complex webs of cross-shareholdings across an astonishing array of businesses.· The international sector Our economy is deeply enmeshed in a complex web of economic relationships with the rest of the world.· A Healthy Community Any community is held together by a complex web of achievement, responsibility and loyalty.· Human beings, according to these accounts, are located in a complex and intricate web of cosmic factors and relations.· Historically, this was driven by a complex web of lineage lines in which one set of loyalties was hedged against another.· Ingrid's designs have a complex web of influences.
· The whole tangled web of each other's relationships was getting to breaking-point.· Would you have put on your disapproving hat and talked about tangled webs and reaping what you sow?· Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged.· The tangled web of their past and present balled against the rage of Ruth's emotions.· Almost inevitably the issue had become caught up in a tangled web of local education politics.· Six more joined it, slowly screwing out of nothing, until they suddenly stretched together into a tangled web of pulsating tendrils.· With so many weapons to hand, some cancel out others in a tangled web of incentives and disincentives.· The Conservatives also promised to: reform the tangled web of income-related benefits which had grown up piecemeal over forty years.
· Tiny, beautiful spiders, infused with an inner light, spinning their vast webs across the endless darkness.· All matter, big and small, will be linked into vast webs of networks at many levels.· Receptive reading of mythology can open up our perceptions of reality so that a vast web of interconnections becomes evident.
· In two years it has become the most spectacularly successful phenomenon in the brief history of the world wide web.
NOUN· But to participate, you need something called a web browser.· Companies that make web browser software can purchase the Stonehand viewer and build it into their programs.· And yet, a good web browser will let you access just about everything on the Internet.
· Despite their differences, the two oceans support basically similar food webs, with high seasonal productivity from small overwintering standing crops.· The creatures are wired together in various degrees of connectance by food webs and by smells and vision.· One approach the ecologists favored was building redundancy of pathways into the food webs.
· I check out your web page everyday as apart from a decent cup of tea I miss my Sun newspaper badly!· Microsoft already makes a product called Internet Assistant for use in designing individual web pages.· Its teachers are being trained, for example, to download information from the web, or design web pages.· The best-known example is Java, a programming language from Sun Microsystems that can bring web pages to life.· All this is possible because the protocols for formatting, requesting and transmitting web pages have been standardised.· This allows an activist to observe and modify all web pages sent to a target's computer.
· I know that you have invested a great deal of your time in developing a very important web site.· Angiletta said the primary purpose of the web site was to keep the public informed about legislation to protect children from predators.· And I have recently started using my web site for posting brief responses to papers that discuss my work.· The web site proved to be a bit bulky and tough to maneuver during a weeknight trial run....· Microsoft is also offering its web software to help its partner banks set up their own web sites.· He even has a child-privacy web site, which recently attracted 156, 000 visits in a single week.· There are koi web sites, koi magazines, koi competitions and koi auctions.
· Dawn brings a gift of spider webs flashing diamonds on sea-grey gorse.· Like a spider web or a caddis house, a beaver dam is among the true wonders of the world.· The third task was to get the five members of our group through a large spider web.· It was small but typically eighteenth-century in origin, with an Adam doorway and spider web fanlight.
VERB· But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after, the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics.· The state also is caught in the web and can not seem to extricate itself.· According to her, Rick Lawrence is caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.· After that, like any clumsy criminal caught in a thickening web of deception, he had panicked.· It's like being caught in huge sticky web - the more you struggle, the more entangled you get.
· Tiny, beautiful spiders, infused with an inner light, spinning their vast webs across the endless darkness.· And when they could, they bought me what I needed to spin my web.· Campbell was arrogant and weak and he spun a web of desperate lies around himself and both women.· He hid in an abandoned dwelling, where a spider spun its web across the entrance, fooling the mob.· He spun his web and ran there and here in scummy clothes with bloodshot eyeballs.
· The tangled web of life ultimately complements the finished weave of art.· It was a tangled web of paths, roads, and tracks through wilderness.· The extraordinary thing about these life-and-death medical ethics cases is that they knit a tangled web of contradictory principles.· Set in San Diego, the play examines the tangled web woven by those who conceal certain truths from others.
· Textrix weaves a sheet web composed of extremely fine and closely woven silk.· He trained them to store supplies, to weave a secret communications web and to eradicate spies and informers.· Some of us weave small tight webs.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1- All I want is a record of the Web sites visited along with the times and dates.
- At first, the Web site will provide information only, such as product specifications, dealer locations and answers to questions.
- Managers representing the organization are also caught in the web of their own anxieties about production, status and power.
- The difference is, they battle in front of friends and family and thousands of strangers on the Web.
- Then head back to the web.
- There are a lot of search engines on the Web.
- While Interchange was reaching thousands of subscribers, the web reaches millions.
- Without disentangling the threads of the web that surrounds us, any attempt to describe how things might be otherwise will fall.
[singular] the Web the system on the Internet that allows you to find and use information that is held on computers all over the world SYN the World Wide Webon the Web a guide to the best education-related sites on the WebGRAMMAR Don’t say: in the Web/on Web2[countable] a net of thin threads made by a spider to catch insects: He watched a spider spinning its web. → cobweb3[countable usually singular] a closely related set of things that can be very complicateda web of intrigue/deceit/deception/lies etc a tangled web of relationships4[countable] a piece of skin that connects the toes of ducks and some other birds, and helps them to swim well