web

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Some experts say things like the web are also keeping kids indoors and sitting around.

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  1. noun A woven fabric, especially one on a loom or just removed from it.
  2. noun The structural part of cloth.
  3. 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
  • 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
  • Its web is absolutely incredible. —  poontang Diary Entry
 

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American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English, from Old English; see webh- in Indo-European roots.

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/ (wĕb)/
ahd pronounces "web"
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