Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woven fabric, especially one on a loom or just removed from it.
- noun The structural part of cloth.
- noun A latticed or woven structure.
- noun A structure of delicate, threadlike filaments characteristically spun by spiders or certain insect larvae.
- noun Something intricately contrived, especially something that ensnares or entangles.
- noun A complex, interconnected structure or arrangement.
- noun The World Wide Web.
- noun A radio or television network.
- noun A membrane or fold of skin connecting the toes, as of certain amphibians, birds, and mammals.
- noun The barbs on each side of the shaft of a bird's feather; a vane.
- noun Baseball A piece of leather or leather mesh that fills the space between the thumb and forefinger of a baseball glove.
- noun Architecture A space or compartment between the ribs or groins of a vault.
- noun A metal sheet or plate connecting the heavier sections, ribs, or flanges of a structural element.
- noun A thin metal plate or strip, as the bit of a key or the blade of a saw.
- noun A large continuous roll of paper, such as newsprint, either in the process of manufacture or as it is fed into a web press.
- transitive verb To provide with a web.
- transitive verb To cover or envelop with a web.
- transitive verb To ensnare in a web.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which is woven; a woven fabric; specifically, a whole piece of cloth in course of being woven, or after it comes from the loom.
- noun Same as
webbing , 1. - noun The warp in a loom.
- noun Something resembling a web or sheet of cloth; specifically, a large roll of paper such as is used in the web-press for news papers.
- noun Any one of various thin and broad objects, probably so named from some similarity to the thin, broad fabric of the loom.
- noun The blade of a sword.
- noun The blade of a saw.
- noun The plate (or its equivalent) in a beam or girder which connects the upper and lower fiat or laterally extending plates.
- noun The corresponding part of a rail, between the tread and the foot. See cut under
rail . - noun The flat part of a wheel, between the nave and the rim, as in some railway-wheels—occupying the space where spokes would be in an ordinary wheel.
- noun The solid part of the bit of a key.
- noun The part of an anvil below the head, which is of reduced size.
- noun The thin, sharp part of the colter of a plow. See cut under
plow . - noun A canvas cloth used in a saddle.
- noun The basketwork of a gabion. See cut under
gabion . - noun In a vehicle, a combination of bands or straps of a stout fabric, serving to keep the hood from opening too far.
- noun The arm of a crank.
- noun In ornithology, the blade, standard, vane, or vexillum of a feather: so called from the texture acquired through the weaving or interlocking of the barbs by the barbules with their barbicels and hooklets.
- noun The plexus of very delicate threads or filaments which a spider spins, and which serves as a net to catch flies or other insects for its food; a cobweb; also, a similar substance spun and woven into a sort of fabric by many insects, usually as a covering or protection. See bag-worm, web-worm, and tent-caterpillar.
- noun Figuratively, anything carefully contrived and elaborately put together or woven; a plot; a scheme.
- noun In anatomy, a connective or other tissue; any open structure composed of fibers and membranes running into each other irregularly as if tangled, and serving to support fat or other soft substances. See
tissue and histology. - noun In zoology, the membrane or fold of skin which connects the digits of any animal; especially, that which connects the toes of a bird or a quadruped, making the animal palmiped, and the foot itself palmate, as occurs in nearly all aquatic birds (hence called
web-footed ), and in many aquatic mammals, as the beaver, the muskrat, and ornithorhynchus. Webs sometimes occur as a congenital defect of the human fingers or toes. The relatively largest webs are those of the bats' wings. In birds the extent and special character of the webs (technically calledpalamæ ) are taken into some account in classification, and some conditions of the webs receive special names. Seeweb-footed , and cuts underbat , duckbill, flying-frog, Œdemia, otary, palmate, semipalmate, and totipalmate. - noun In coal-mining, the face or wall of a long-wall stall in course of being holed and broken down for removal.
- To cover with or as with a web; envelop.
- To connect with a web, as the toes of a bird; render palmate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
- noun obsolete A weaver.
- noun That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.
- noun A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
- noun The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
- noun Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Now, while our _idea of God_ thus tells us that God has in his hand all causal chains in the world, and its million-threaded web in constant omni-surveying presence and in all-controlling omnipotence, our reflection on the _world_ and its substance and course also leads us from the _a posteriori_ starting-point of analytical investigation precisely to the same result; it even leads us to a still more concrete conception of this idea -- namely, to the result, that not only the _causal chains, in their totality and in their web_, but also _all single links_ of these chains,
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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$web - full web including parents, such as "Engineering/Techpubs/Apps"
TWiki.Codev The contributing authors of TWiki 2010
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$web - full web including parents, such as "Engineering/Techpubs/Apps"
TWiki.Codev The contributing authors of TWiki 2010
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$web - full web including parents, such as "Engineering/Techpubs/Apps"
TWiki.Codev The contributing authors of TWiki 2010
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$web - full web including parents, such as "Engineering/Techpubs/Apps"
TWiki.Codev The contributing authors of TWiki 2010
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$web - full web including parents, such as "Engineering/Techpubs/Apps"
TWiki.Codev The contributing authors of TWiki 2010
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In this context the term web services is clear enough.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Please also rate the article as it will help us decide Hmm, I'd like to agree with Andy and say a minimum requirement would be straight up visual design but the term web designer seems to be taking on a broader meaning every …
Smashing Magazine Feed Kat Neville 2010
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Here at WebWorkerDaily, our definition of the term web worker has always been "anyone who works using the web" - which is admittedly rather broad.
ruzuzu commented on the word web
For a use of it that made my Spidey sense tingle, see floodgate.
November 7, 2012