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Web   /wɛb/   Listen
noun
Web  n.  A weaver. (Obs.)


Web  n.  
1.
That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom. "Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive." "Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile."
2.
A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
3.
The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. "The smallest spider's web."
4.
Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication. "The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a... thread of rose-color or gold." "Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures."
5.
(Carriages) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
6.
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. "And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead." Specifically: -
(a)
The blade of a sword. (Obs.) "The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel rich stone, hilt gold."
(b)
The blade of a saw.
(c)
The thin, sharp part of a colter.
(d)
The bit of a key.
7.
(Mach. & Engin.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object. Specifically:
(a)
The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
(b)
A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
(c)
The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
(d)
The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
8.
(Med.) Pterygium; called also webeye.
9.
(Anat.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
10.
(Zool.) 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. See Feather.
Pin and web (Med.), two diseases of the eye, caligo and pterygium; sometimes wrongly explained as one disease. See Pin, n., 8, and Web, n., 8. "He never yet had pinne or webbe, his sight for to decay."
Web member (Engin.), one of the braces in a web system.
Web press, a printing press which takes paper from a roll instead of being fed with sheets.
Web system (Engin.), the system of braces connecting the flanges of a lattice girder, post, or the like.


web  n.  The world-wide web; usually referred to as the web.


verb
Web  v. t.  (past & past part. webbed; pres. part. webbing)  To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.





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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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