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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



... 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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