Signification

• Noun

  1. The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
  2. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
  3. The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
  4. A latticed or woven structure.
  5. A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
  6. A plot or scheme.
  7. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
  8. The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
  9. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
  10. 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.
  11. A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
  12. A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
  13. (obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
  14. A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
  15. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
  16. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
  17. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
  18. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
  19. A major broadcasting network.
  20. A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
  21. A cataract of the eye.

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