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English

A spider's web (sense 1)

A baseball glove, with a web (sense 3) between the thumb and forefinger

Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the web (sense 8)

Etymology

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-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

Cognates

Cognate with Scots wab (“web”), West Frisian, Dutch web (“web”), Danish væv (“web”), Faroese vevur (“web”), Icelandic vefur (“web”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vev (“web”), Swedish väv (“web”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wɛb/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛb

Noun

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web (L12284)

web (plural webs)

The silken structure which 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.
(by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
- 1828, Washington Irving, “Birth, Parentage, and Education of Columbus”, in A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: G. & C. Carvill, […], →OCLC, book I, page 3:
  The time of his birth, his birth-place, his parentage, are all involved in obscurity; and such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators, that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures with which it is interwoven.
- 1851 (indicated as 1852), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Main-Street”, in The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 96:
  [T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love of sunshine, and would gladly gild all the world with it, if I knew where to find so much.
- 2018 February 14, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Feb 14, 2018:
  "But THAT! Was the OLDEN TIMES! A massive, worldwide web of global information has ENTANGLED THE WORLD! People in Beijing can read about a magical incident in Moperville in seconds, and have video of it in minutes!"
(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
He caught the ball in the web.
A latticed or woven structure.
The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
- 1866, George Bancroft, “New Netherland”, in History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent, 21st edition, volume II, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 281:
  The 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.
(usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
Synonym: yarn

Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
A plot or scheme.
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
(rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
Coordinate terms: head, foot
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
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.
(manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
(glassblowing, obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
Synonym: way
(dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Tenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 26, page 184:
  […] And there with ſtately pompe by heapes they wend, / And Chriſtians ſlaine rolle vp in webs of lead […]
1. The blade of a sword.
  - 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Second Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 93, page 38:
    Argant a ſword, whereof the web was ſteele, / Pommell, rich ſtone ; hilts, gold, approu’d by tuch, / With rareſt workmanſhip all forged weele, / The curious art exceld the ſubſtance much.
2. The blade of a saw.
3. The thin, sharp part of a colter.
4. The bit of a key.
(dated, US, radio, television) A major broadcasting network.
- 1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 43, page 9:
  […] the first big move toward a contract for television performers was made Friday (20) when the webs agreed to pay them according to the length of the show. […] Altho the major TV webs — NBC and CBS — may fall in line soon, an agreement may possibly be held up by the opposition of DuMont […]
- 1955, Billboard, page 5:
  ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.
(architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
(medicine, archaic) A cataract of the eye.
Synonyms: pin and web, web and pin

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Derived terms of "web"

Translations

spiderweb — see spiderweb

any interconnected set of persons, places, or things

Afrikaans: web
Belarusian: се́тка f (sjétka)
Bulgarian: мре́жа (bg) f (mréža)
Catalan: xarxa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 網 / 网 (zh) (wǎng)
Czech: síť (cs) f
Danish: net c
Finnish: verkosto (fi)
French: réseau (fr) m
Galician: rede (gl) f
Georgian: ქსელი (ka) (kseli)
Greek: ιστός (el) m (istós), δίκτυο (el) n (díktyo)
Hindi: जाल (hi) m (jāl)
Italian: rete (it)
Japanese: 網 (ja) (あみ, ami)
Korean: 망(網) (ko) (mang)
Macedonian: мрежа (mk) f (mreža)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nett (no) n, vev n
Polish: sieć (pl) f
Portuguese: rede (pt) fna
Russian: сеть (ru) f (setʹ), се́тка (ru) f (sétka)
Slovak: sieť f
Spanish: red (es) f
Swedish: väv (sv) c
Ukrainian: мере́жа f (meréža), сі́тка f (sítka)
Vietnamese: mạng (vi)
Yiddish: וועב m (veb)

the part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing

Afrikaans: web
Catalan: membrana (ca) f
Finnish: verkko (fi)
French: panier (fr) m, poche (fr) f

a latticed or woven structure

Bulgarian: мре́жа (bg) f (mréža)
Danish: net n, væv (da) c
Finnish: ristikko (fi), punos (fi)
Greek: ιστός (el) m (istós), πλέγμα (el) n (plégma), δίχτυ (el) n (díchty)
Hindi: जाल (hi) m (jāl), जाली (hi) f (jālī)
Irish: fíochán m
Russian: сеть (ru) f (setʹ), се́тка (ru) f (sétka)

interconnection between flanges

Catalan: ànima (ca) f
French: âme (fr) f
Spanish: alma (es) f

the thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top and bottom of the rail

Catalan: ànima (ca) f
Finnish: varsi (fi)
French: âme (fr) f (de rail)
Spanish: alma (es) f

a fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds

Afrikaans: web
Bulgarian: плава́телна ци́па f (plavátelna cípa)
Danish: svømmehud (da) c
Finnish: räpylä (fi)
French: palmure (fr) f
Greek: νηκτική μεμβράνη f (niktikí memvráni)
Hindi: जाली (hi) f (jālī)
Irish: scamall m
Polish: błona pławna f
Portuguese: palmura f
Russian: перепо́нка (ru) f (perepónka)
Spanish: membrana (es) f
Swedish: simhud (sv)

a continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing

Danish: bånd (da)
Finnish: nauha (fi), rata (fi)
French: bobine (fr) f, bande (fr) f

a long sheet of paper

Bulgarian: руло́н m (rulón)
Finnish: raina (fi)
French: bande (fr) f

architecture

Hindi: जाली (hi) f (jālī)
Italian: vela (it) f

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Azerbaijani: ^{(please verify)} tor (az)
Cebuano: ^{(please verify)} lawâ
Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 網 / 网 (zh) (wăng)
Estonian: ^{(please verify)} võrk
German: ^{(please verify)} Netz (de) n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} nett (no) n, ^{(please verify)} vev n
Persian: ^{(please verify)} تار عنکبوت
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} ağ (tr)

Proper noun

the web

Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
Let me search the web for that.
- 2013 May 13, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, in The Guardian‎:
  No, the web probably isn't addictive in the sense that nicotine or heroin are; no, Facebook and Twitter aren't guilty of "killing conversation" or corroding real-life friendship or making children autistic.

Translations

the World Wide Web (also spelled Web)

Afrikaans: web
Arabic: ويب m
Belarusian: вэб m (veb)
Bengali: ওয়েব (ōẇeb)
Bulgarian: уе́б m (uéb)
Burmese: ဝက်ဘ် (wakbh)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 萬維網 / 万维网 (zh) (wànwéiwǎng)
Danish: web n
Dutch: net (nl) n, web (nl) n
Estonian: veeb
Finnish: verkko (fi)
French: Web (fr) m, Toile (fr) f
Georgian: ვები (vebi)
German: Web (de) n
Greek: Διαδίκτυο n (Diadíktyo), Ιστός m (Istós)
Hindi: अंतरजाल (hi) m (antarjāl)
Ido: reto (io)
Italian: Web m, Rete f
Japanese: ウェブ (ja) (webu)
Kazakh: ғаламтор (ğalamtor)
Korean: 웹 (wep)
Lao: ເວັບ (wep)
Macedonian: пајажина f (pajažina), веб (veb)
Polish: sieć (pl) f
Portuguese: net (pt) f, rede (pt) f, web (pt) f
Russian: сеть (ru) f (setʹ), веб (ru) m (vɛb), интерне́т (ru) m (intɛrnɛ́t) (Internet), всеми́рная паути́на f (vsemírnaja pautína)
Swedish: webb (sv) n, webb (sv) c
Thai: เว็บ (wép)
Tibetan: དྲྭ་རྒྱ (drwa rgya, literally “great net”)
Turkish: Web (tr)
Ukrainian: веб m (veb)
Vietnamese: mạng (vi)
Welsh: Gwe fyd-eang (cy)
Yiddish: וועב m (veb)

Verb

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web (L333484)

web (third-person singular simple present webs, present participle webbing, simple past and past participle webbed)

(intransitive) To construct or form a web.
(transitive) To cover with a web or network.
- 1853 June 21, R. C. Stone, “A New Insect”, in Simon Brown, editor, The New England Farmer, volume V, Boston: Raynolds & Nourse, page 362:
  The canker worm has no shelter upon the tree, but lies out upon the leaf or branch ; this forms itself a house by webbing the corner of a leaf, into which it retreats on the first appearance of danger […]
- 1895, “Has Gold Risen?”, in The Forum, volume XVIII, New York: The Forum Publishing Co., page 577:
  In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre […]
(transitive) To ensnare or entangle.
(transitive) To provide with a web.
(transitive, obsolete) To weave.
- 1511–12, “An Act agaynst deceyptfull making of Wollen Cloth”, in The Statures of the Realm, volume III, London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, published 1963, page 28:
  Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth shall weve werk […]
  [paraphrase] Likewise, that the weaver who is to weave any woollen yarn to be woven into cloth shall weave it well.

Translations

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Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} nettverke

Anagrams

Bew, EBW, WBE

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