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Web

noun

1.

An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.

2.

An intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim. Synonym: entanglement.

3.

The flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft. Synonym: vane.

4.

An interconnected system of things or people. Synonym: network. "Retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life" , "Tangled in a web of cloth"

5.

Computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol. Synonyms: World Wide Web, WWW.

6.

A fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven).

7.

Membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals.

verb

(past & past part. webbed; pres. part. webbing)

1.

Construct or form a web, as if by weaving. Synonym: net.

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"Web" Quotes from Famous Books

... in her a clear resemblance to the shrinking figure of Lichfield Stope. It was as though suddenly she had lost her fine profile and become indeterminate, shadowy. The grey web of the old deflection in Virginia extended over her out of the past—of the past that, ...

— Wild Oranges • Joseph Hergesheimer

... fanatic attention to leaves and fruits or flowers. Bell got pictures of one of the small, furry bipeds that Cochrane and Holden had spied when Babs was with them. He got a picture of what he believed to be a spider-web—it was thicker and heavier and huger than any web on Earth—and rather fearfully looked for the monster that could string thirty-foot cables as thick as fishing-twine. Then he found that it was not a snare at all. It was a construction ...

— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... following the brigadier-general was to inspect us, and we had to appear on parade spick and span, with rifles spotless, and every article of our equipment in good order. Packs were washed and hung over the rim of the table by our billet fire, web-belts were cleaned, and every speck of mud and grease removed. Our packs, when dry, were loaded with overcoat, mess-tin, housewife, razor, towel, etc., and packed tightly and squarely, showing no crease at side or bulge at corner. Ground-sheets were neatly ...

— The Amateur Army • Patrick MacGill

... of a philosopher in Germany who made caterpillars manufacture for him a veil of cobweb. The caterpillars were enclosed in a glass case, and, by properly-disposed conveniences and impediments, were induced to work their web up the sides of the glass case. When completed it weighed four-fifths of a grain. Herschel saw it lying on a table, looking like the film of a bubble. When it collapsed a little, and was in that state wafted up into the ...

— The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

... past noon when at last they arrived at a scooped out area of land between the two mountains, connecting them half way to their summit, like the web foot of ...

— The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp • Katherine Stokes

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