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Some experts say things like the web are also keeping kids indoors and sitting around.
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- 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: A web of palm branches formed the roof of the hut.
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- In the middle of the web was a pale, rather nondescript spider. — Sleeping Murder
- This web is another place we are just finding out how to visit, the way people decades ago learned how to make photons line up to lase. — Cyber Way
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Some experts say things like the web are also keeping kids indoors and sitting around.
— CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2008 - "Well, a web is harmless, as long as there's no big spider. — Cube Route
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Its web is absolutely incredible.
— poontang Diary Entry
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- Middle English, from Old English; see webh- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (wĕb)/
ahd pronounces "web"
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