Definition of web in English:

web

nounPlural webs wɛbwɛb

1A network of fine threads constructed by a spider from fluid secreted by its spinnerets, used to catch its prey.
Example sentencesExamples
- They include both the web-spinning variety and those, which do not spin a web.
- Such meals exact a price, however: after chowing down on toxic aphids, spiders spin asymmetrical webs.
- Although many spiders have relatively poor eyesight - those that use webs to trap prey have no need for acute vision, Nelson says; jumping spiders are an exception.
- They are likely to spin huge webs during autumn and will keep the ‘dusters’ in the family busy.
- Crab spiders do not build webs but ambush pollinating insects on flowers with their raptorial forelimbs.
- These designs typically are built in the non-sticky center of the web, where spiders wait when foraging.
- You know the spider and how he constructs his web.
- Of the more than 37,000 species of spiders, all of them can make silk, but only about half use the silk to spin webs.
- For example, spiders that hunt other spiders on their webs time their movements to coincide with wind-induced movements of the web.
- It stalks its prey rather than trapping it in a web.
- One experiment was purportedly designed to find out whether spiders would spin different kinds of webs in near-zero gravity.
- I saw a spider's web and an insect larva beginning to spin a cocoon.
- We don't have any proven reason as to why these or other spiders create symmetrical webs.
- A spider crawled across the wall, spinning its web in the doorframe.
- He tried various spiders to get the finest web for the purpose and carefully glued it to the eyepiece.
- While many spiders build webs, others do not, but instead ambush prey as it passes by.
- A million things ran through her mind, like the many intricate threads in a spider's web, only these threads were made out of fear and perplexity.
- Just prior to mating, the female constructs a tiny cup nest of moss, lichens, and the silk of spiders' webs.
- The only similarity to the deadly Australian spider is that both use a comparable type of web for capturing prey.
- She chased the spider from its web onto adjoining vegetation to which the lead threads of the web were attached.
- There are one to four pairs of spinnerets present, even on those spiders which do not spin webs.
Synonyms
mesh, netting, net, lattice
latticework, lacework, interlacing, webbing
tissue, gauze, gossamer, chiffon
fabric, material, textile, fibre
1. 1.1 A filmy network spun by some insect larvae, especially communal caterpillars.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It either spins a silken web to fasten the pupa on a firm base or a silken girdle to support the pupa from a stem or a twig.
  Two weeks later, the greyish-green larvae with short, black, hairy spines begin to appear as they make a communal feeding web on the top of the aster.
  To combat another common pest, tent caterpillars, use a forked branch to wind up the webs and expose the caterpillars to predators.
  Third-instar larvae exit these webs, migrate to new buds, and construct larger, resin-lined webs between buds.
  They construct webs in the branches of shrubs and low trees in open habitat near water.
2A complex system of interconnected elements.
he found himself caught up in a web of bureaucracy
Example sentencesExamples
- All are bound together in a web of political and sexual intrigue: each novel reveals different aspects of the truth.
- His campaign skillfully spun a web, not of political opinion, but of beliefs and feelings.
- He insists he was a success there, but he lost more matches than he won, and despite a web of financial and political intrigue to contend with behind the scenes, he suffered at the hands of the media.
- This is what happens when you use a gentle little fib, one designed to make children happy, and turn it into a full scale lie, complete with intricate webs of deceit.
- He also points out that employees are often drawn into a web of corruption by people they work with.
- Just in terms of carbon trading between countries, there will be a complex web for translating trading rules into every different country's legal system.
- The man led us through a web of corridors, and up two flights of stairs.
- There are now a number of online dating agencies specifically targeted towards married women seeking extramarital sex, so what drives married women into a web of deceit?
- In those days, says Heylin, Greenwich Village was ‘the epicentre of a buzzing folk revival’, a bohemian quarter located in a web of small streets.
- The footballing front man was able to portray an image of being a friendly supplier fulfilling a social need, rather than being a dealer in a web of potentially lethal drugs.
- I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations.
- The biggest information repository in most organisations sits in the heads of the people who work there, and the largest communication network is the web of conversations that binds them.
- The more I think about it, the more I get tangled up in a web of interpretations, none of which make complete sense.
- You can resist the opera's vision of redemption but you cannot resist music which enfolds you so completely in a web of sensuous twisting harmonies.
- In addition the company used a web of partnerships and trusts to hide the true financial position of the business.
- A web of social, medical, legal and political circumstances conspire against the medical care of women inmates.
- These vessels form a web of complex interconnections with the channels.
- He created a web of lies about his life, including claiming he was a professional tennis player, and funded his fantasies by applying for 13 credit cards in his father's name.
- So in an effort to promote integration, we instead wind up engulfing the mentally disabled in a web of political correctness.
- He asserted that democracy needs ‘a web of rules, regulations, institutions, laws, morals, public opinion and conventions’.
- Black and his executives are claimed to make millions each year through ‘management fees’ channelled through a web of smaller companies.
- His obituary pointed out that he used his post to enrich himself through a web of smuggling and warped business deals.
Synonyms
network, nexus, tangle, knot, complex, mass, conglomeration, set, series, chain, maze, snare, trap
1. 2.1 The World Wide Web or the Internet.
  material downloaded from the Web
  as modifier Web publishing
  Example sentencesExamples
  Let's assume that the average Web document, when printed, uses two sheets of paper.
  Speaking to the people behind the websites, there is now a clear view of where and how to make money from news on the Web.
  I read a lot of newspapers on the Web, and this is something new and wonderful.
  So, anyway, I did some research on the Web, and found the reason for his situation.
  If the patent is eventually upheld, the implications for the Web are enormous.
  Thankfully, when it all gets too much, the Web has some quick fixes for my addiction.
  Most of these are available on the Web to anyone capable of using a search engine with a modicum of ingenuity.
  The plan's flaw is that if you've got a PDA with you, you don't need to access your data via the Web.
  Many anti-virus vendors also make scanners available as a Web service application.
  The Web is full of ordinary people from all over the planet wittering on about whatever they want to.
  Alternatively, use a search engine such as Google to locate numbers via the Web.
  The issue of making the Internet safe for kids has become a bigger one as the Web becomes ever more ubiquitous.
  Unable to find another publisher, Huang elected to sell the book himself through the Web.
  Again and again, the history of the Web shows us the value of relinquishing control.
  How many times have you been surfing the Web and wanted to buy a product or service?
  Almost half of all the Danish Internet population are using the Web for banking and tax purposes.
  Is there something that your Web readers can do to take some of this research forward?
  But it is not enough to say that global networks and the Web will change everything.
  How many other questions would yield more wrong answers on the Web than right ones?
  Each answer can be found by searching on the Web, or digging deep in your mind.
  The City recognises the enormous benefit of a heavily wired Britain and the media has come to love the Web.
3A membrane between the toes of a swimming bird or other aquatic animal.
Example sentencesExamples
- His feet are rather large, but the web is not wide as in ducks.
- Then, as the duck draws its foot forward and brings the toes together, the web folds up so there is less resistance to the water.
1. 3.1 A thin flat part connecting thicker or more solid parts in machinery.
4A roll of paper used in a continuous printing process.
Example sentencesExamples
- By varying the size and placement of each cell, varying amounts of ink can be deposited onto the wallcovering by pressing the inked cylinder against the web.
- Assume a moving web of paper approximately 6.6 m wide, moving at thousands of feet per minute.
1. 4.1 The endless wire mesh in a papermaking machine on which the paper is made.
5A piece of woven fabric.
Example sentencesExamples
- I need not remind my readers of the connection always maintained in classical poetry and legend between the spider and the weaver, the spinner and the web. Even in our vernacular we speak of ‘the web’ on the loom, and the fable of Arachne has blended itself with almost all thought on the subject.
- Every woman made her web and bleached it herself, and the price never rose higher than 2 shillings a yard, and with this cloth almost everyone was clothed.
Synonyms
mesh, netting, net, lattice

verbwebs, webbing, webbed wɛbwɛb

[with object]

Cover with or as though with a web.
she noticed his tanned skin, webbed with fine creases
Example sentencesExamples
- Her dark eyes are webbed with blood, her lips chapped, glossed over with bluish balm.
- He had scars from the war; half his chest was webbed with scars which still smarted and stung when touched roughly.
- St. Vitus' Cathedral's vast but delicate beauty represents the epitome of the Gothic and Neo-Gothic, with its soaring height and geometric webbed tracery on the ceiling.
- He felt at his arms and found raised scars webbing his arms, and torso, and legs.
- The lighting was romantically dim; strings of tiny white lights webbed the ceiling; the neat white-clothed tables each had a candle in a delicate glass holder.
- As the name suggests, the fins are supported by parallel bony rays, which in life are webbed with thin tissue; the fins themselves contain very little muscle, and are primarily moved by muscles within the body.

Derivatives

web-like

adjective

The driver's side door was smashed in, its paint scraped off, window cracked, matching the web-like point of impact on the windshield where Jess had hit her head.
Example sentencesExamples
- Viruses also tended to spread in a web-like pattern so it wasn't hard to find the centre.
- In an earlier paper, I illustrated the dense, web-like pattern of collaboration that epitomized the reading and writing activities in Room 110.
- This web-like tissue binds cells and organs together but permits these cells and organs to move, as necessary, in relation to each other.
- The curved structures that appear to spring out of these intersections are joined together by more beams, giving rise to a web-like appearance.

Origin

Old English web(b) 'woven fabric', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch web, also to weave¹. Early use of the verb was in the sense 'weave fabric on a loom'.

weave from Old English:
English has two words spelled weave. The one meaning ‘twist from side to side’ probably comes from Old Norse veifa ‘to wave, brandish’. The other one is Old English and comes from an ancient root shared by Sanskrit ūrnavābhi ‘spider’, or literally ‘wool-weaver’. Web is a related word, first recorded in about ad 725. The World Wide Web was first mentioned in writing in 1990, in a paper by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, who are credited with its invention.

Rhymes

Aurangzeb, bleb, celeb, deb, ebb, pleb, reb, Webb

Definition of web in US English:

web

nounwebwɛb

1A network of fine threads constructed by a spider from fluid secreted by its spinnerets, used to catch its prey.
Example sentencesExamples
- I saw a spider's web and an insect larva beginning to spin a cocoon.
- Such meals exact a price, however: after chowing down on toxic aphids, spiders spin asymmetrical webs.
- Crab spiders do not build webs but ambush pollinating insects on flowers with their raptorial forelimbs.
- You know the spider and how he constructs his web.
- There are one to four pairs of spinnerets present, even on those spiders which do not spin webs.
- These designs typically are built in the non-sticky center of the web, where spiders wait when foraging.
- A million things ran through her mind, like the many intricate threads in a spider's web, only these threads were made out of fear and perplexity.
- They are likely to spin huge webs during autumn and will keep the ‘dusters’ in the family busy.
- We don't have any proven reason as to why these or other spiders create symmetrical webs.
- While many spiders build webs, others do not, but instead ambush prey as it passes by.
- The only similarity to the deadly Australian spider is that both use a comparable type of web for capturing prey.
- Although many spiders have relatively poor eyesight - those that use webs to trap prey have no need for acute vision, Nelson says; jumping spiders are an exception.
- Of the more than 37,000 species of spiders, all of them can make silk, but only about half use the silk to spin webs.
- One experiment was purportedly designed to find out whether spiders would spin different kinds of webs in near-zero gravity.
- A spider crawled across the wall, spinning its web in the doorframe.
- It stalks its prey rather than trapping it in a web.
- For example, spiders that hunt other spiders on their webs time their movements to coincide with wind-induced movements of the web.
- She chased the spider from its web onto adjoining vegetation to which the lead threads of the web were attached.
- They include both the web-spinning variety and those, which do not spin a web.
- He tried various spiders to get the finest web for the purpose and carefully glued it to the eyepiece.
- Just prior to mating, the female constructs a tiny cup nest of moss, lichens, and the silk of spiders' webs.
Synonyms
mesh, netting, net, lattice
1. 1.1 A filmy network spun by some insect larvae, especially communal caterpillars.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Two weeks later, the greyish-green larvae with short, black, hairy spines begin to appear as they make a communal feeding web on the top of the aster.
  Third-instar larvae exit these webs, migrate to new buds, and construct larger, resin-lined webs between buds.
  It either spins a silken web to fasten the pupa on a firm base or a silken girdle to support the pupa from a stem or a twig.
  They construct webs in the branches of shrubs and low trees in open habitat near water.
  To combat another common pest, tent caterpillars, use a forked branch to wind up the webs and expose the caterpillars to predators.
2A complex system of interconnected elements.
he found himself caught up in a web of bureaucracy
Example sentencesExamples
- The biggest information repository in most organisations sits in the heads of the people who work there, and the largest communication network is the web of conversations that binds them.
- You can resist the opera's vision of redemption but you cannot resist music which enfolds you so completely in a web of sensuous twisting harmonies.
- The man led us through a web of corridors, and up two flights of stairs.
- Black and his executives are claimed to make millions each year through ‘management fees’ channelled through a web of smaller companies.
- He insists he was a success there, but he lost more matches than he won, and despite a web of financial and political intrigue to contend with behind the scenes, he suffered at the hands of the media.
- In those days, says Heylin, Greenwich Village was ‘the epicentre of a buzzing folk revival’, a bohemian quarter located in a web of small streets.
- The more I think about it, the more I get tangled up in a web of interpretations, none of which make complete sense.
- This is what happens when you use a gentle little fib, one designed to make children happy, and turn it into a full scale lie, complete with intricate webs of deceit.
- He also points out that employees are often drawn into a web of corruption by people they work with.
- In addition the company used a web of partnerships and trusts to hide the true financial position of the business.
- He asserted that democracy needs ‘a web of rules, regulations, institutions, laws, morals, public opinion and conventions’.
- His obituary pointed out that he used his post to enrich himself through a web of smuggling and warped business deals.
- A web of social, medical, legal and political circumstances conspire against the medical care of women inmates.
- He created a web of lies about his life, including claiming he was a professional tennis player, and funded his fantasies by applying for 13 credit cards in his father's name.
- I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations.
- The footballing front man was able to portray an image of being a friendly supplier fulfilling a social need, rather than being a dealer in a web of potentially lethal drugs.
- His campaign skillfully spun a web, not of political opinion, but of beliefs and feelings.
- These vessels form a web of complex interconnections with the channels.
- All are bound together in a web of political and sexual intrigue: each novel reveals different aspects of the truth.
- Just in terms of carbon trading between countries, there will be a complex web for translating trading rules into every different country's legal system.
- So in an effort to promote integration, we instead wind up engulfing the mentally disabled in a web of political correctness.
- There are now a number of online dating agencies specifically targeted towards married women seeking extramarital sex, so what drives married women into a web of deceit?
Synonyms
network, nexus, tangle, knot, complex, mass, conglomeration, set, series, chain, maze, snare, trap
1. 2.1the Web The World Wide Web or the Internet.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The City recognises the enormous benefit of a heavily wired Britain and the media has come to love the Web.
  Thankfully, when it all gets too much, the Web has some quick fixes for my addiction.
  Most of these are available on the Web to anyone capable of using a search engine with a modicum of ingenuity.
  Speaking to the people behind the websites, there is now a clear view of where and how to make money from news on the Web.
  Is there something that your Web readers can do to take some of this research forward?
  Almost half of all the Danish Internet population are using the Web for banking and tax purposes.
  The issue of making the Internet safe for kids has become a bigger one as the Web becomes ever more ubiquitous.
  So, anyway, I did some research on the Web, and found the reason for his situation.
  Each answer can be found by searching on the Web, or digging deep in your mind.
  Unable to find another publisher, Huang elected to sell the book himself through the Web.
  Many anti-virus vendors also make scanners available as a Web service application.
  The Web is full of ordinary people from all over the planet wittering on about whatever they want to.
  How many times have you been surfing the Web and wanted to buy a product or service?
  The plan's flaw is that if you've got a PDA with you, you don't need to access your data via the Web.
  Let's assume that the average Web document, when printed, uses two sheets of paper.
  I read a lot of newspapers on the Web, and this is something new and wonderful.
  If the patent is eventually upheld, the implications for the Web are enormous.
  But it is not enough to say that global networks and the Web will change everything.
  Again and again, the history of the Web shows us the value of relinquishing control.
  Alternatively, use a search engine such as Google to locate numbers via the Web.
  How many other questions would yield more wrong answers on the Web than right ones?
3A membrane between the toes of a swimming bird or other aquatic animal.
Example sentencesExamples
- Then, as the duck draws its foot forward and brings the toes together, the web folds up so there is less resistance to the water.
- His feet are rather large, but the web is not wide as in ducks.
1. 3.1 A thin flat part connecting thicker or more solid parts in machinery.
4A roll of paper used in a continuous printing process.
Example sentencesExamples
- Assume a moving web of paper approximately 6.6 m wide, moving at thousands of feet per minute.
- By varying the size and placement of each cell, varying amounts of ink can be deposited onto the wallcovering by pressing the inked cylinder against the web.
1. 4.1 The endless wire mesh in a papermaking machine.
5A piece of woven fabric.
Example sentencesExamples
- Every woman made her web and bleached it herself, and the price never rose higher than 2 shillings a yard, and with this cloth almost everyone was clothed.
- I need not remind my readers of the connection always maintained in classical poetry and legend between the spider and the weaver, the spinner and the web. Even in our vernacular we speak of ‘the web’ on the loom, and the fable of Arachne has blended itself with almost all thought on the subject.
Synonyms
mesh, netting, net, lattice

verbwebwɛb

[with object]

Cover with or as though with a web.
she noticed his tanned skin, webbed with fine creases
Example sentencesExamples
- He had scars from the war; half his chest was webbed with scars which still smarted and stung when touched roughly.
- He felt at his arms and found raised scars webbing his arms, and torso, and legs.
- As the name suggests, the fins are supported by parallel bony rays, which in life are webbed with thin tissue; the fins themselves contain very little muscle, and are primarily moved by muscles within the body.
- Her dark eyes are webbed with blood, her lips chapped, glossed over with bluish balm.
- St. Vitus' Cathedral's vast but delicate beauty represents the epitome of the Gothic and Neo-Gothic, with its soaring height and geometric webbed tracery on the ceiling.
- The lighting was romantically dim; strings of tiny white lights webbed the ceiling; the neat white-clothed tables each had a candle in a delicate glass holder.

Origin

Old English web(b) ‘woven fabric’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch web, also to weave. Early use of the verb was in the sense ‘weave fabric on a loom’.

单词	web
释义	Definition of web in English: web nounPlural webs wɛbwɛb 1A network of fine threads constructed by a spider from fluid secreted by its spinnerets, used to catch its prey. Example sentencesExamples They include both the web-spinning variety and those, which do not spin a web. Such meals exact a price, however: after chowing down on toxic aphids, spiders spin asymmetrical webs. Although many spiders have relatively poor eyesight - those that use webs to trap prey have no need for acute vision, Nelson says; jumping spiders are an exception. They are likely to spin huge webs during autumn and will keep the ‘dusters’ in the family busy. Crab spiders do not build webs but ambush pollinating insects on flowers with their raptorial forelimbs. These designs typically are built in the non-sticky center of the web, where spiders wait when foraging. You know the spider and how he constructs his web. Of the more than 37,000 species of spiders, all of them can make silk, but only about half use the silk to spin webs. For example, spiders that hunt other spiders on their webs time their movements to coincide with wind-induced movements of the web. It stalks its prey rather than trapping it in a web. One experiment was purportedly designed to find out whether spiders would spin different kinds of webs in near-zero gravity. I saw a spider's web and an insect larva beginning to spin a cocoon. We don't have any proven reason as to why these or other spiders create symmetrical webs. A spider crawled across the wall, spinning its web in the doorframe. He tried various spiders to get the finest web for the purpose and carefully glued it to the eyepiece. While many spiders build webs, others do not, but instead ambush prey as it passes by. A million things ran through her mind, like the many intricate threads in a spider's web, only these threads were made out of fear and perplexity. Just prior to mating, the female constructs a tiny cup nest of moss, lichens, and the silk of spiders' webs. The only similarity to the deadly Australian spider is that both use a comparable type of web for capturing prey. She chased the spider from its web onto adjoining vegetation to which the lead threads of the web were attached. There are one to four pairs of spinnerets present, even on those spiders which do not spin webs. Synonyms mesh, netting, net, lattice latticework, lacework, interlacing, webbing tissue, gauze, gossamer, chiffon fabric, material, textile, fibre 1.1 A filmy network spun by some insect larvae, especially communal caterpillars. Example sentencesExamples It either spins a silken web to fasten the pupa on a firm base or a silken girdle to support the pupa from a stem or a twig. Two weeks later, the greyish-green larvae with short, black, hairy spines begin to appear as they make a communal feeding web on the top of the aster. To combat another common pest, tent caterpillars, use a forked branch to wind up the webs and expose the caterpillars to predators. Third-instar larvae exit these webs, migrate to new buds, and construct larger, resin-lined webs between buds. They construct webs in the branches of shrubs and low trees in open habitat near water. 2A complex system of interconnected elements. he found himself caught up in a web of bureaucracy Example sentencesExamples All are bound together in a web of political and sexual intrigue: each novel reveals different aspects of the truth. His campaign skillfully spun a web, not of political opinion, but of beliefs and feelings. He insists he was a success there, but he lost more matches than he won, and despite a web of financial and political intrigue to contend with behind the scenes, he suffered at the hands of the media. This is what happens when you use a gentle little fib, one designed to make children happy, and turn it into a full scale lie, complete with intricate webs of deceit. He also points out that employees are often drawn into a web of corruption by people they work with. Just in terms of carbon trading between countries, there will be a complex web for translating trading rules into every different country's legal system. The man led us through a web of corridors, and up two flights of stairs. There are now a number of online dating agencies specifically targeted towards married women seeking extramarital sex, so what drives married women into a web of deceit? In those days, says Heylin, Greenwich Village was ‘the epicentre of a buzzing folk revival’, a bohemian quarter located in a web of small streets. The footballing front man was able to portray an image of being a friendly supplier fulfilling a social need, rather than being a dealer in a web of potentially lethal drugs. I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations. The biggest information repository in most organisations sits in the heads of the people who work there, and the largest communication network is the web of conversations that binds them. The more I think about it, the more I get tangled up in a web of interpretations, none of which make complete sense. You can resist the opera's vision of redemption but you cannot resist music which enfolds you so completely in a web of sensuous twisting harmonies. In addition the company used a web of partnerships and trusts to hide the true financial position of the business. A web of social, medical, legal and political circumstances conspire against the medical care of women inmates. These vessels form a web of complex interconnections with the channels. He created a web of lies about his life, including claiming he was a professional tennis player, and funded his fantasies by applying for 13 credit cards in his father's name. So in an effort to promote integration, we instead wind up engulfing the mentally disabled in a web of political correctness. He asserted that democracy needs ‘a web of rules, regulations, institutions, laws, morals, public opinion and conventions’. Black and his executives are claimed to make millions each year through ‘management fees’ channelled through a web of smaller companies. His obituary pointed out that he used his post to enrich himself through a web of smuggling and warped business deals. Synonyms network, nexus, tangle, knot, complex, mass, conglomeration, set, series, chain, maze, snare, trap 2.1 The World Wide Web or the Internet. material downloaded from the Web as modifier Web publishing Example sentencesExamples Let's assume that the average Web document, when printed, uses two sheets of paper. Speaking to the people behind the websites, there is now a clear view of where and how to make money from news on the Web. I read a lot of newspapers on the Web, and this is something new and wonderful. So, anyway, I did some research on the Web, and found the reason for his situation. If the patent is eventually upheld, the implications for the Web are enormous. Thankfully, when it all gets too much, the Web has some quick fixes for my addiction. Most of these are available on the Web to anyone capable of using a search engine with a modicum of ingenuity. The plan's flaw is that if you've got a PDA with you, you don't need to access your data via the Web. Many anti-virus vendors also make scanners available as a Web service application. The Web is full of ordinary people from all over the planet wittering on about whatever they want to. Alternatively, use a search engine such as Google to locate numbers via the Web. The issue of making the Internet safe for kids has become a bigger one as the Web becomes ever more ubiquitous. Unable to find another publisher, Huang elected to sell the book himself through the Web. Again and again, the history of the Web shows us the value of relinquishing control. How many times have you been surfing the Web and wanted to buy a product or service? Almost half of all the Danish Internet population are using the Web for banking and tax purposes. Is there something that your Web readers can do to take some of this research forward? But it is not enough to say that global networks and the Web will change everything. How many other questions would yield more wrong answers on the Web than right ones? Each answer can be found by searching on the Web, or digging deep in your mind. The City recognises the enormous benefit of a heavily wired Britain and the media has come to love the Web. 3A membrane between the toes of a swimming bird or other aquatic animal. Example sentencesExamples His feet are rather large, but the web is not wide as in ducks. Then, as the duck draws its foot forward and brings the toes together, the web folds up so there is less resistance to the water. 3.1 A thin flat part connecting thicker or more solid parts in machinery. 4A roll of paper used in a continuous printing process. Example sentencesExamples By varying the size and placement of each cell, varying amounts of ink can be deposited onto the wallcovering by pressing the inked cylinder against the web. Assume a moving web of paper approximately 6.6 m wide, moving at thousands of feet per minute. 4.1 The endless wire mesh in a papermaking machine on which the paper is made. 5A piece of woven fabric. Example sentencesExamples I need not remind my readers of the connection always maintained in classical poetry and legend between the spider and the weaver, the spinner and the web. Even in our vernacular we speak of ‘the web’ on the loom, and the fable of Arachne has blended itself with almost all thought on the subject. Every woman made her web and bleached it herself, and the price never rose higher than 2 shillings a yard, and with this cloth almost everyone was clothed. Synonyms mesh, netting, net, lattice verbwebs, webbing, webbed wɛbwɛb [with object] Cover with or as though with a web. she noticed his tanned skin, webbed with fine creases Example sentencesExamples Her dark eyes are webbed with blood, her lips chapped, glossed over with bluish balm. He had scars from the war; half his chest was webbed with scars which still smarted and stung when touched roughly. St. Vitus' Cathedral's vast but delicate beauty represents the epitome of the Gothic and Neo-Gothic, with its soaring height and geometric webbed tracery on the ceiling. He felt at his arms and found raised scars webbing his arms, and torso, and legs. The lighting was romantically dim; strings of tiny white lights webbed the ceiling; the neat white-clothed tables each had a candle in a delicate glass holder. As the name suggests, the fins are supported by parallel bony rays, which in life are webbed with thin tissue; the fins themselves contain very little muscle, and are primarily moved by muscles within the body. Derivatives web-like adjective The driver's side door was smashed in, its paint scraped off, window cracked, matching the web-like point of impact on the windshield where Jess had hit her head. Example sentencesExamples Viruses also tended to spread in a web-like pattern so it wasn't hard to find the centre. In an earlier paper, I illustrated the dense, web-like pattern of collaboration that epitomized the reading and writing activities in Room 110. This web-like tissue binds cells and organs together but permits these cells and organs to move, as necessary, in relation to each other. The curved structures that appear to spring out of these intersections are joined together by more beams, giving rise to a web-like appearance. Origin Old English web(b) 'woven fabric', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch web, also to weave¹. Early use of the verb was in the sense 'weave fabric on a loom'. weave from Old English: English has two words spelled weave. The one meaning ‘twist from side to side’ probably comes from Old Norse veifa ‘to wave, brandish’. The other one is Old English and comes from an ancient root shared by Sanskrit ūrnavābhi ‘spider’, or literally ‘wool-weaver’. Web is a related word, first recorded in about ad 725. The World Wide Web was first mentioned in writing in 1990, in a paper by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, who are credited with its invention. Rhymes Aurangzeb, bleb, celeb, deb, ebb, pleb, reb, Webb Definition of web in US English: web nounwebwɛb 1A network of fine threads constructed by a spider from fluid secreted by its spinnerets, used to catch its prey. Example sentencesExamples I saw a spider's web and an insect larva beginning to spin a cocoon. Such meals exact a price, however: after chowing down on toxic aphids, spiders spin asymmetrical webs. Crab spiders do not build webs but ambush pollinating insects on flowers with their raptorial forelimbs. You know the spider and how he constructs his web. There are one to four pairs of spinnerets present, even on those spiders which do not spin webs. These designs typically are built in the non-sticky center of the web, where spiders wait when foraging. A million things ran through her mind, like the many intricate threads in a spider's web, only these threads were made out of fear and perplexity. They are likely to spin huge webs during autumn and will keep the ‘dusters’ in the family busy. We don't have any proven reason as to why these or other spiders create symmetrical webs. While many spiders build webs, others do not, but instead ambush prey as it passes by. The only similarity to the deadly Australian spider is that both use a comparable type of web for capturing prey. Although many spiders have relatively poor eyesight - those that use webs to trap prey have no need for acute vision, Nelson says; jumping spiders are an exception. Of the more than 37,000 species of spiders, all of them can make silk, but only about half use the silk to spin webs. One experiment was purportedly designed to find out whether spiders would spin different kinds of webs in near-zero gravity. A spider crawled across the wall, spinning its web in the doorframe. It stalks its prey rather than trapping it in a web. For example, spiders that hunt other spiders on their webs time their movements to coincide with wind-induced movements of the web. She chased the spider from its web onto adjoining vegetation to which the lead threads of the web were attached. They include both the web-spinning variety and those, which do not spin a web. He tried various spiders to get the finest web for the purpose and carefully glued it to the eyepiece. Just prior to mating, the female constructs a tiny cup nest of moss, lichens, and the silk of spiders' webs. Synonyms mesh, netting, net, lattice 1.1 A filmy network spun by some insect larvae, especially communal caterpillars. Example sentencesExamples Two weeks later, the greyish-green larvae with short, black, hairy spines begin to appear as they make a communal feeding web on the top of the aster. Third-instar larvae exit these webs, migrate to new buds, and construct larger, resin-lined webs between buds. It either spins a silken web to fasten the pupa on a firm base or a silken girdle to support the pupa from a stem or a twig. They construct webs in the branches of shrubs and low trees in open habitat near water. To combat another common pest, tent caterpillars, use a forked branch to wind up the webs and expose the caterpillars to predators. 2A complex system of interconnected elements. he found himself caught up in a web of bureaucracy Example sentencesExamples The biggest information repository in most organisations sits in the heads of the people who work there, and the largest communication network is the web of conversations that binds them. You can resist the opera's vision of redemption but you cannot resist music which enfolds you so completely in a web of sensuous twisting harmonies. The man led us through a web of corridors, and up two flights of stairs. Black and his executives are claimed to make millions each year through ‘management fees’ channelled through a web of smaller companies. He insists he was a success there, but he lost more matches than he won, and despite a web of financial and political intrigue to contend with behind the scenes, he suffered at the hands of the media. In those days, says Heylin, Greenwich Village was ‘the epicentre of a buzzing folk revival’, a bohemian quarter located in a web of small streets. The more I think about it, the more I get tangled up in a web of interpretations, none of which make complete sense. This is what happens when you use a gentle little fib, one designed to make children happy, and turn it into a full scale lie, complete with intricate webs of deceit. He also points out that employees are often drawn into a web of corruption by people they work with. In addition the company used a web of partnerships and trusts to hide the true financial position of the business. He asserted that democracy needs ‘a web of rules, regulations, institutions, laws, morals, public opinion and conventions’. His obituary pointed out that he used his post to enrich himself through a web of smuggling and warped business deals. A web of social, medical, legal and political circumstances conspire against the medical care of women inmates. He created a web of lies about his life, including claiming he was a professional tennis player, and funded his fantasies by applying for 13 credit cards in his father's name. I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations. The footballing front man was able to portray an image of being a friendly supplier fulfilling a social need, rather than being a dealer in a web of potentially lethal drugs. His campaign skillfully spun a web, not of political opinion, but of beliefs and feelings. These vessels form a web of complex interconnections with the channels. All are bound together in a web of political and sexual intrigue: each novel reveals different aspects of the truth. Just in terms of carbon trading between countries, there will be a complex web for translating trading rules into every different country's legal system. So in an effort to promote integration, we instead wind up engulfing the mentally disabled in a web of political correctness. There are now a number of online dating agencies specifically targeted towards married women seeking extramarital sex, so what drives married women into a web of deceit? Synonyms network, nexus, tangle, knot, complex, mass, conglomeration, set, series, chain, maze, snare, trap 2.1the Web The World Wide Web or the Internet. Example sentencesExamples The City recognises the enormous benefit of a heavily wired Britain and the media has come to love the Web. Thankfully, when it all gets too much, the Web has some quick fixes for my addiction. Most of these are available on the Web to anyone capable of using a search engine with a modicum of ingenuity. Speaking to the people behind the websites, there is now a clear view of where and how to make money from news on the Web. Is there something that your Web readers can do to take some of this research forward? Almost half of all the Danish Internet population are using the Web for banking and tax purposes. The issue of making the Internet safe for kids has become a bigger one as the Web becomes ever more ubiquitous. So, anyway, I did some research on the Web, and found the reason for his situation. Each answer can be found by searching on the Web, or digging deep in your mind. Unable to find another publisher, Huang elected to sell the book himself through the Web. Many anti-virus vendors also make scanners available as a Web service application. The Web is full of ordinary people from all over the planet wittering on about whatever they want to. How many times have you been surfing the Web and wanted to buy a product or service? The plan's flaw is that if you've got a PDA with you, you don't need to access your data via the Web. Let's assume that the average Web document, when printed, uses two sheets of paper. I read a lot of newspapers on the Web, and this is something new and wonderful. If the patent is eventually upheld, the implications for the Web are enormous. But it is not enough to say that global networks and the Web will change everything. Again and again, the history of the Web shows us the value of relinquishing control. Alternatively, use a search engine such as Google to locate numbers via the Web. How many other questions would yield more wrong answers on the Web than right ones? 3A membrane between the toes of a swimming bird or other aquatic animal. Example sentencesExamples Then, as the duck draws its foot forward and brings the toes together, the web folds up so there is less resistance to the water. His feet are rather large, but the web is not wide as in ducks. 3.1 A thin flat part connecting thicker or more solid parts in machinery. 4A roll of paper used in a continuous printing process. Example sentencesExamples Assume a moving web of paper approximately 6.6 m wide, moving at thousands of feet per minute. By varying the size and placement of each cell, varying amounts of ink can be deposited onto the wallcovering by pressing the inked cylinder against the web. 4.1 The endless wire mesh in a papermaking machine. 5A piece of woven fabric. Example sentencesExamples Every woman made her web and bleached it herself, and the price never rose higher than 2 shillings a yard, and with this cloth almost everyone was clothed. I need not remind my readers of the connection always maintained in classical poetry and legend between the spider and the weaver, the spinner and the web. Even in our vernacular we speak of ‘the web’ on the loom, and the fable of Arachne has blended itself with almost all thought on the subject. Synonyms mesh, netting, net, lattice verbwebwɛb [with object] Cover with or as though with a web. she noticed his tanned skin, webbed with fine creases Example sentencesExamples He had scars from the war; half his chest was webbed with scars which still smarted and stung when touched roughly. He felt at his arms and found raised scars webbing his arms, and torso, and legs. As the name suggests, the fins are supported by parallel bony rays, which in life are webbed with thin tissue; the fins themselves contain very little muscle, and are primarily moved by muscles within the body. Her dark eyes are webbed with blood, her lips chapped, glossed over with bluish balm. St. Vitus' Cathedral's vast but delicate beauty represents the epitome of the Gothic and Neo-Gothic, with its soaring height and geometric webbed tracery on the ceiling. The lighting was romantically dim; strings of tiny white lights webbed the ceiling; the neat white-clothed tables each had a candle in a delicate glass holder. Origin Old English web(b) ‘woven fabric’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch web, also to weave. Early use of the verb was in the sense ‘weave fabric on a loom’.
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