web

Meaning

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.

spider’s web

web plate

soft goods

silk screen

woven fabric

Cheviot

bird’s foot

core bit

soffit of girder

wire-mesh screen

silk net

web of girder

abdomen

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɛb/

From Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

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