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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.





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"Web" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the midst of it, the miniature portrait of Mrs. Wentworth's nephew. It fell into the hands of one of that lady's friends, who immediately despatched the bundle to her. Mervyn, in his interview with this lady, spied the portrait on the mantel-piece. Led by some freak of fancy, or some web of artifice, he introduced the talk respecting her nephew, by boldly claiming it as his; but, when the mode in which it had been found was mentioned, he was disconcerted and confounded, and ...
— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown
... discovered that the webs of the little spiders in the road, when saturated with moisture, as they were from the early fog this morning, exhibit prismatic tints. Every thread of the web was strung with minute spherules of moisture, and they displayed all the tints of the rainbow. In each of them I saw one abutment of a tiny rainbow. When I stepped a pace or two to the other side, I saw the other abutment. ...
— Under the Maples • John Burroughs
... belief of its private members; and the forms of orthodoxy, the articles of faith, are subscribed with a sigh, or a smile, by the modern clergy. Yet the friends of Christianity are alarmed at the boundless impulse of inquiry and scepticism. The predictions of the Catholics are accomplished: the web of mystery is unravelled by the Arminians, Arians, and Socinians, whose number must not be computed from their separate congregations; and the pillars of Revelation are shaken by those men who preserve the name without ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon
... remarkable scenes of carnage and destruction. I have taken down a ball as large as a man's head consisting of successive layers rolled together, in the heart of which was the den of the family, whilst the envelope was formed, sheet after sheet, by coils of the old web filled with the wings and limbs of insects of all descriptions, from the largest moths and butterflies to mosquitoes and minute coleoptera. Each layer appeared to have been originally suspended across the passage to intercept the expected prey; and, as it became surcharged with ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... melody of his voice. Orson charmed us with the secrets won from his interviews with Pan in the Walden woods; while Emerson, with the zeal of an engineer trying to dam wild waters, sought to bind the wide-flying embroidery of discourse into a web of clear sweet sense. But still in vain. The oracular sayings were the unalloyed saccharine element; and every chemist knows how much else goes to practical food—how much coarse, rough, woody fibre is essential. ...
— Literary and Social Essays • George William Curtis


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