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Web   /wɛb/   Listen
noun
Web  n.  A weaver. (Obs.)


Web  n.  
1.
That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom. "Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive." "Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile."
2.
A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
3.
The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. "The smallest spider's web."
4.
Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication. "The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a... thread of rose-color or gold." "Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures."
5.
(Carriages) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
6.
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. "And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead." Specifically: -
(a)
The blade of a sword. (Obs.) "The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel rich stone, hilt gold."
(b)
The blade of a saw.
(c)
The thin, sharp part of a colter.
(d)
The bit of a key.
7.
(Mach. & Engin.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object. Specifically:
(a)
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.
(b)
A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
(c)
The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
(d)
The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
8.
(Med.) Pterygium; called also webeye.
9.
(Anat.) 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.
10.
(Zool.) 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.
Pin and web (Med.), two diseases of the eye, caligo and pterygium; sometimes wrongly explained as one disease. See Pin, n., 8, and Web, n., 8. "He never yet had pinne or webbe, his sight for to decay."
Web member (Engin.), one of the braces in a web system.
Web press, a printing press which takes paper from a roll instead of being fed with sheets.
Web system (Engin.), the system of braces connecting the flanges of a lattice girder, post, or the like.


web  n.  The world-wide web; usually referred to as the web.


verb
Web  v. t.  (past & past part. webbed; pres. part. webbing)  To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Web" Quotes from Famous Books



... image, the theory may liken man to a spider in its web, watching for chance prey. Forces of nature dance like flies before the net, and the spider pounces on them when it can; but it makes many fatal mistakes, though its theory of force is sound. The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams
... won acceptance slowly and grudgingly, because the facts that prove it lie other-where than on the surface, it is easy to understand that the interdependence which is international, resulting as it does from the meeting, and crossing, and twining in the web of national life of innumerable fine threads drawn from the utmost corners of the civilized world, has scarcely yet come within the consideration of the ordinary man as an influence from which he cannot escape, and with which, ...
— The Unity of Civilization • Various
... and moil, like children in their gardens, And spoil with dabbled hands, our flowers i' the planting. And yet a saint is made! Alas, those children! Was there no gentler way? I know not any: I plucked the gay moth from the spider's web; What if my hasty hand have smirched its feathers? Sure, if the whole be good, each several part May for its private blots forgiveness gain, As in man's tabernacle, vile elements Unite to one fair stature. Who'll gainsay it? The whole is good; another saint in heaven; Another ...
— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley
... itself like a Gordian knot; disappears and reappears, almost on the same spot, but higher up on the mountain, and then glides rapidly on along the brinks of fearful abysses, over long iron bridges looking like some fanciful filigree work, some giant spider's web, extending across great valleys, chasms, and precipices, over which great mountain rivers splash down, roaring and foaming in gigantic falls. What giant power has cleft the way for these waters—Vulcan or Neptune? ...
— Dr. Dumany's Wife • Mr Jkai
... caught up and draped with bands of green ribbon. And on the thrones were seated two of the sweetest and fairest little maidens that mortal man had ever beheld. Their lovely hair was fine as a spider's web; their eyes were kind and smiling, their cheeks soft and dimpled, their mouths shapely as a cupid's bow and tinted like the petals of a rose. Upon their heads were set two crowns of fine spun gold, worked into fantastic shapes and set with glittering ...
— The Enchanted Island of Yew • L. Frank Baum


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