Web
[web] or [wɛb]
Definition
(noun.) membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals.
(noun.) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim.
(noun.) a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven).
(noun.) an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving; 'the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn'.
(verb.) construct or form a web, as if by weaving.
Inputed by Jarvis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A weaver.
(n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.
(n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
(n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
(n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
(n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
(n.) A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
(n.) The blade of a sword.
(n.) The blade of a saw.
(n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter.
(n.) The bit of a key.
(n.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
(n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
(n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
(n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Texture, tissue, structure, textile fabric.[2]. Suffusion (of the eye), film.[3]. Cobweb.[4]. Membrane (as in the feet of swimming birds).
Typist: Nigel
Definition
n. that which is woven: anything resembling a web as a roll of cloth paper &c.: a plot scheme: in birds the blade of a feather: (anat.) any connective tissue: the fine texture spun by the spider as a snare for flies: a film over the eye: the skin between the toes of water-fowls.—v.t. to envelop to connect with a web.—adj. Webbed having the toes united by a web or skin.—n. Web′bing a narrow woven fabric of hemp used for chairs &c.: (zool.) the webs of the digits: (print.) tapes conducting webs of paper in a printing machine.—adj. Web′by.—n. Web′-eye a film spreading over the eye.—adjs. Web′-eyed; Web′-fing′ered.—n. Web′-foot a foot the toes of which are united with a web or membrane.—adjs. Web′-foot′ed; Web′-toed.—Web and pin (Shak.) or Pin and web cataract on the eye.
Editor: Mary
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of webs, foretells deceitful friends will work you loss and displeasure. If the web is non-elastic, you will remain firm in withstanding the attacks of the envious persons who are seeking to obtain favors from you.
Editor: Luke
Examples
- This consisted of mechanical means for throwing the shuttle across the web by a sudden jerk of a bar--one at each side--operated by pulling a cord. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation methods and addresses. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And this man I bent over--this commonplace, quiet stranger--how had he become involved in the web of horror? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Let us be honest, and cut, as heretofore, from the homely web of truth. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As for Rosamond, she was in the water-lily's expanding wonderment at its own fuller life, and she too was spinning industriously at the mutual web. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- For the making of ribbons and other kind of narrow ware, the needle power loom has been invented, in which the fine weft thread is carried through the web by a needle instead of a shuttle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The operations of the mint were, upon this account, somewhat like the web of Penelope; the work that was done in the day was undone in the night. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is hard, when you have done nothing to deserve it, that you should have got involved in such a web as this. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Scorpions abounded, and a number of early spiders, which, however, had no spinnerets for web making. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Each sheet of paper is laid by a boy on a web of tapes, by which it is carried round one paper cylinder, and then over and under two wooden drums to the other paper cylinder. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- So the tangled web will be most speedily and most intelligibly unrolled. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was with such a furnace probably that India produced her keen-edged weapons that would cut a web of gossamer, and Damascus its flashing blades--the synonym of elastic strength. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To-day it stands a triumph of human ingenuity, ranking in importance with the rotary web-perfecting press, and is probably the most ingenious piece of practical mechanism in existence. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A Frenchman named Louis Robert about 1799 was the first to make a continuous web of paper, and in 1800 he received from the French Government a reward of 8,000 francs for his discovery. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Unlike most other spiders, it hunts its game without the aid of webs or snares. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Tracing mile after mile along between the dying ferns and the wet white spiders' webs, she at length turned her steps towards her grandfather's house. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- At my entrance, he called aloud to me, not to disturb his webs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Louis Robert’s Machine for Making Continuous Webs of Paper. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Crank webs, 16-3/8 inches thick, 6 feet 1-1/2 inches long, 4 feet 1 inch wide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Terence