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Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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name
The World Wide Web.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
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noun
Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A latticed or woven structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: usually
Qualifier: "weave"; or similar verbs; "weave"; or similar verbs
Synonyms: yarn
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noun
A plot or scheme.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
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noun
The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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noun
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
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.
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noun
A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, manufacturing
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noun
A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: lithography, media, printing, publishing
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noun
A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: arts, crafts, glassblowing, hobbies, lifestyle
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Synonyms: way
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noun
A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
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noun
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
The blade of a sword.
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noun
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
The blade of a saw.
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noun
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
The thin, sharp part of a colter.
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noun
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
The bit of a key.
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noun
A major broadcasting network.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated
Topics: broadcasting, media, radio, television
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noun
A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
A cataract of the eye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: pin and web, web and pin
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noun
Woven cloth or material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A piece of cloth or fabric, as off the loom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To construct or form a web.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To cover with a web or network.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To ensnare or entangle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To provide with a web.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To weave.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: vane
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Broader terms: blade
noun
membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: membrane, tissue layer
noun
an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: entanglement
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Broader terms: trap
Narrower terms: spider web, spider's web
noun
a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
noun
computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: World Wide Web, WWW
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Broader terms: computer network
noun
an interconnected system of things or people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: network
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: system, scheme
Narrower terms: reticulum, espionage network, old boy network, support system
noun
an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: object, physical object
Narrower terms: spider web, spider's web, tent, webbing
verb
construct or form a web, as if by weaving
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: net
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Broader terms: weave, tissue
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *webh-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web From Middle English web, webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-West Germanic *wabi, from Proto-Germanic *wabją (“web”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webh- (“to braid, weave”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wab (“web”), North Frisian wääb (“web”), Saterland Frisian Wäb (“web”), West Frisian and Dutch web (“web”), Danish væv (“web”), Faroese vevur (“web”), Icelandic vefur (“web”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vev (“web”), Swedish väv (“web”); also Cornish goghi (“wasps”), Irish foich, foiche, puch (“wasp”), Welsh gwchi (“drone”), Latin vespa (“wasp”), Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ, “web”), ὑφαίνω (huphaínō, “to weave”) (whence Greek ανυφαίνω (anyfaíno), υφαίνω (yfaíno, “to weave”)), Albanian vej (“to weave”), Latvian lapsene (“wasp”), Lithuanian vapsvà (“wasp”), Old Prussian wobse (“wasp”), Belarusian аса́ (asá, “wasp”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian оса́ (osá, “wasp”), Czech vosa (“wasp”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene osa (“wasp”), Serbo-Croatian о̀са, òsa (“wasp”), Armenian մոզ (moz, “a kind of fly that bites horses and cattle”), Northern Kurdish moz (“hornet; wasp”), Persian بافتن (bâftan, “to weave”), Tocharian A wäp- (“to weave”), Tocharian B wāp- (“to weave”), Sanskrit उभ्नाति (ubhnāti, “to hurt, kill; to cover; fill”).
Ellipsis of World Wide Web.
Across languages
124 source translations are retained for this English entry.
