web

Meaning

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. (broadly) 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. (usually) 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. (dated) 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 thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
20. (US, dated) A major broadcasting network.
21. A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
22. (archaic) A cataract of the eye.

Name

Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide 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.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To weave.

Synonyms

net

cobweb

spider’s web

network

weave

spider web

🕸️

cloth

gossamer

lace

fabric

weft

textile

tissue

grid

webbing

World Wide Web

texture

vane

entangle

material

fin

spiderweb

flipper

🐬

mesh

web plate

paddle

entanglement

grate

grain

ensnare

chains

⛓️

glove

fretwork

enmesh

foil

meshing

embroil

canvas

belly

fishing net

membrane

cord

mast

loom

film

📽️

meshed

latticework

meshwork

mitt

lattice

Translations

rete

Netz

red

Steg

🛣️

tela

ιστός

ragnatela

telaraña

toile d’araignée

rede

toile

tela

réseau

Gewebe

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɛb/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: webbe

Inherited from Old English: webb

In summary

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”).

Sentences

The more people that can participate in the web , the better the Internet , and the world will be .

See the Heathkit web page .

This is great for sandboxed web testing .

The detective untangles a web of robberies , lies and murder .

Recently automatic reasoners found in semantic web a new field of application .

It would be very useful if my web browser could synchronize all of its preferences , not just some .