Meaning of web | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
   alt-of
2. The World Wide Web.
3. The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
4. The World Wide Web
5. soul
6. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
   broadly
7. web (strip of material between flanges)
8. The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
9. feminine singular of almo
10. A latticed or woven structure.
11. A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
    usually
12. A plot or scheme.
13. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
14. The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
15. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
16. 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.
17. A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
18. A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
19. A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
    obsolete
20. A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
    dated
21. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
22. The blade of a sword.
23. The blade of a saw.
24. The thin, sharp part of a colter.
25. The bit of a key.
26. A major broadcasting network.
    US, dated
27. A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
28. A cataract of the eye.
    archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.”

“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!"”

“He caught the ball in the web.”

“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.”

“Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.”

“[…] And there with ſtately pompe by heapes they wend, / And Chriſtians ſlaine rolle vp in webs of lead […]”

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

“Let me search the web for that.”

“No, the web probably isn't addictive in the sense that nicotine or heroin are; no, Facebook and Twitter aren't guilty of "killing conversation" or corroding real-life friendship or making children autistic.”

“Some of that content is now only available on the Web.”

“Web page”

“Content on the Web is divided into individual computer files called pages.”

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