Meaning of 'web' (Webster Dictionary)
- A weaver.
- That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp.,
something woven in a loom.
- A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
- The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching
insects at its prey; a cobweb.
- Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
- A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
- A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- The blade of a sword.
- The blade of a saw.
- The thin, sharp part of a colter.
- The bit of a key.
- A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting
stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.
- 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.
- A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for
connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
- The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
- The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
- Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
- 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.
- 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.
- To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to
envelop; to entangle.
Meaning of 'web' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- an interconnected system of things or people
Example in sentence:- he owned a network of shops;
- retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life;
- tangled in a web of cloth
Meaning (2):
- an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
Example in sentence:- the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn
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