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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

... the gorgeousness of the Greenock's saloons and cabins, and the height of her masts, and the multitude of ropes about running in every conceivable direction, crossing and recrossing each other with the bewildering ingenuity of a spider's web; but Uncle Jack took all these wonders as a matter of course, and ...

— Teddy - The Story of a Little Pickle • J. C. Hutcheson

... that fate wove me and my doings into the web of some very strange events; terrible, tragic and complete indeed as those of a Greek play, as it has often done both before and ...

— Child of Storm • H. Rider Haggard

... word to be suspicious of as sounding affected, a word to be scoffed at. But of this relationship he had a vague understanding. He thought of it as a criss-cross of threads binding one person to the other, or as a web which might be light and easily broken, or which might have the strength of steel cables and which might work into knots here and there and become a tangle that could crush those ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... laid down her new feather fan on the ledge of the box. It was possibly the loveliest thing that existed in the world at that moment. No artist had ever dreamed of so wonderful a scheme of color—such miracles of color—combinations in every feather from the quill to the spider-web-like fluffs at the tips, each of which shone not like gold but like glass. It was well worth all the nudging that ...

— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore

... days of my depression seemed at once to correct themselves. Untruth became Truth. A large part of what was once my old world was again mine. To me, at last my mind seemed to have found itself, for the gigantic web of false beliefs in which it had been all but hopelessly enmeshed I now immediately recognized as a snare of delusions. That the Gordian knot of mental torture should be cut and swept away by the mere glance of a willing eye is like a miracle. Not a few ...

— A Mind That Found Itself - An Autobiography • Clifford Whittingham Beers

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