Web

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wÉ›b/
• Rhymes: -É›b

Origin

From Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabjÄ…, from Proto-Indo-European *webÊ°- ("weave").

Full definition of web

Noun

1. The silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
2. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
• Hawthornethe sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-colour or gold
• Washington IrvingSuch has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.
3. Specifically, the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).Let me search the web for that.
4. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.He caught the ball in the web.
5. A latticed or woven structure.The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
• George BancroftThe 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.
6. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
7. (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
8. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
9. 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.
10. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
11. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
12. (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
13. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
• FairfaxAnd Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
1. The blade of a sword.
• FairfaxThe sword, whereof the web was steel,
  Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
2. The blade of a saw.
3. The thin, sharp part of a colter.
4. The bit of a key.

Derived terms

• cobweb
• spiderweb
• webbed
• webbing

Proper noun

1. Alternative capitalization of Web: the World Wide Web.I found it on the web.

Verb

1. (intransitive) to construct or form a web
2. (transitive) to cover with a web or network
3. (transitive) to ensnare or entangle
4. (transitive) to provide with a web

Anagrams

• WBE