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English
A baseball glove, with a
web (
sense 3) between the thumb and forefinger
Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the
web (
sense 8)
Etymology
From Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).
Pronunciation
Noun
web (plural webs)
- The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
- (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
1828, Washington Irving, “Birth, Parentage, and Education of Columbus”, in A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. , volume I, New York, N.Y.: G. & C. Carvill, , →OCLC, book I, page 3:The time of his birth, his birth-place, his parentage, are all involved in obscurity; and such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators, that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures with which it is interwoven.
1851 (indicated as 1852), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Main-Street”, in The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 96:[T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love of sunshine, and would gladly gild all the world with it, if I knew where to find so much.
2018 February 14, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Feb 14, 2018:"But THAT! Was the OLDEN TIMES! A massive, worldwide web of global information has ENTANGLED THE WORLD! People in Beijing can read about a magical incident in Moperville in seconds, and have video of it in minutes!"
- (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
He caught the ball in the web.
- A latticed or woven structure.
The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
1866, George Bancroft, “New Netherland”, in History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent, 21st edition, volume II, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 281:The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics ; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.
- (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
- Synonym: yarn
Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
- A plot or scheme.
- The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
- (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
- Coordinate terms: head, foot
- A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
- 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.
- (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
- (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
- A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Tenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. , London: Ar Hatfield, for I Iaggard and M Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 26, page 184:[…] And there with ſtately pompe by heapes they wend, / And Chriſtians ſlaine rolle vp in webs of lead […]
- The blade of a sword.
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Second Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. , London: Ar Hatfield, for I Iaggard and M Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 93, page 38:Argant a ſword, whereof the web was ſteele, / Pommell, rich ſtone ; hilts, gold, approu’d by tuch, / With rareſt workmanſhip all forged weele, / The curious art exceld the ſubſtance much.
- The blade of a saw.
- The thin, sharp part of a colter.
- The bit of a key.
- (dated, US, radio, television) A major broadcasting network.
1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 43, page 9:[…] the first big move toward a contract for television performers was made Friday (20) when the webs agreed to pay them according to the length of the show. […] Altho the major TV webs — NBC and CBS — may fall in line soon, an agreement may possibly be held up by the opposition of DuMont […]
- (architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
- (medicine, archaic) A cataract of the eye.
- Synonyms: pin and web, web and pin
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
any interconnected set of persons, places, or things
the part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing
a latticed or woven structure
interconnection between flanges
the thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top and bottom of the rail
a fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds
a continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing
Translations to be checked
Proper noun
the web
- Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
I found it on the web.
Let me search the web for that.
2013 May 13, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, in The Guardian:No, the web probably isn't addictive in the sense that nicotine or heroin are; no, Facebook and Twitter aren't guilty of "killing conversation" or corroding real-life friendship or making children autistic.
Translations
the World Wide Web (also spelled Web)
- Afrikaans: web
- Arabic: ويب m
- Belarusian: вэб m (veb)
- Bengali: ওয়েব (ōẇeb)
- Bulgarian: уе́б m (uéb)
- Burmese: ဝက်ဘ် (wakbh)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 萬維網/万维网 (zh) (wànwéiwǎng)
- Danish: web n
- Dutch: net (nl) n, web (nl) n
- Estonian: veeb
- Finnish: verkko (fi)
- French: Web (fr) m, Toile (fr) f
- Georgian: ვები (vebi)
- German: Web (de) n
- Greek: Διαδίκτυο n (Diadíktyo), Ιστός m (Istós)
- Hindi: वेब (veb)
- Ido: reto (io)
- Italian: Web m, Rete f
- Japanese: ウェブ (ja) (webu)
- Kazakh: ғаламтор (ğalamtor)
- Korean: 웹 (wep)
- Lao: ເວັບ (wep)
- Macedonian: пајажина f (pajažina), веб (veb)
- Polish: sieć (pl) f
- Portuguese: net (pt) f, rede (pt) f, web (pt) f
- Russian: сеть (ru) f (setʹ), веб (ru) m (vɛb), интерне́т (ru) m (intɛrnɛ́t) (Internet), всеми́рная паути́на f (vsemírnaja pautína)
- Swedish: webb (sv) n, webb (sv) c
- Thai: เว็บ (wép)
- Tibetan: དྲྭ་རྒྱ (drwa rgya, literally “great net”)
- Turkish: Web (tr)
- Ukrainian: веб m (veb)
- Vietnamese: mạng (vi)
- Welsh: Gwe fyd-eang (cy)
- Yiddish: וועב m (veb)
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Verb
web (third-person singular simple present webs, present participle webbing, simple past and past participle webbed)
- (intransitive) To construct or form a web.
- (transitive) To cover with a web or network.
1853 June 21, R. C. Stone, “A New Insect”, in Simon Brown, editor, The New England Farmer, volume V, Boston: Raynolds & Nourse, page 362:The canker worm has no shelter upon the tree, but lies out upon the leaf or branch ; this forms itself a house by webbing the corner of a leaf, into which it retreats on the first appearance of danger […]
1895, “Has Gold Risen?”, in The Forum, volume XVIII, New York: The Forum Publishing Co., page 577:In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre […]
- (transitive) To ensnare or entangle.
- (transitive) To provide with a web.
- (transitive, obsolete) To weave.
1511–12, “An Act agaynst deceyptfull making of Wollen Cloth”, in The Statures of the Realm, volume III, London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, published 1963, page 28:Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth shall weve werk […]
Translations
Translations to be checked
Further reading
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English web.
Pronunciation
Noun
web m (plural webs)
- web, net, internet
- Clipping of lloc web.
Noun
web f (plural webs)
- Clipping of pàgina web.
Further reading
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English web.
Pronunciation
Noun
web m inan (related adjective webový)
- the World Wide Web, the Internet
- web page
- Synonym: webová stránka
Declension
Declension of web (hard masculine inanimate)
Derived terms
Further reading
- web in Internetová jazyková příručka
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch webbe, from Old Dutch *web, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).
Pronunciation
Noun
web n (plural webben, diminutive webje n)
- web
- the World Wide Web
Derived terms
Descendants
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
web m
- Alternative letter-case form of Web
German
Pronunciation
Verb
web
- singular imperative of weben
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of weben
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English web.
Pronunciation
Noun
web (plural webek)
- (computing) web (Internet)
Declension
Derived terms
(Compound words):
References
Indonesian
Etymology
From English web, from Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).
Pronunciation
Noun
web (first-person possessive webku, second-person possessive webmu, third-person possessive webnya)
- (computing) web, the Web.
- (computing) network.
- Synonyms: jejaring, jaringan
Derived terms
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English web.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɛb/
- Rhymes: -ɛb
- Hyphenation: wèb
Noun
web m (invariable)
- (computing) web (Internet)
References
Japanese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English web.
Pronunciation
Noun
web • (webu)
- the Internet
- web上で公開された
- webu-jō de kōkai sareta
- made public online
- web番組
- webu-bangumi
- online program
Usage notes
- Capitalization may follow English conventions.
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English webb, from Proto-West Germanic *wabi, from Proto-Germanic *wabją.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
web (plural webbes)
- Woven fabric; fabric manufactured by weaving.
- A woven garment or belt.
- A spiderweb (net created by a spider)
- (by extension) A thin layer of material or tissue.
- An opaque growth caused by disease or illness.
Related terms
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
Noun
web
- Alternative form of webbe (“weaver”)
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English web.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈɛ.bi/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɛ.bi/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈɛ.bi/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɛ.bi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈɛ.be/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɛ.be/
Noun
web f (uncountable)
- the World Wide Web
- Synonyms: rede, Internet, net
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English web.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈweb/ , /ˈɡweb/
- Rhymes: -eb
- Syllabification: web
Noun
web f (countable and uncountable, plural webs)
- (Internet) web (Internet)
- (Internet, countable) webpage, website
- Synonyms: página, página web
2022 February 25, Manuel G. Pascual, “La ciberguerra de Rusia contra Ucrania nunca ha acabado [Russia's cyberwar against Ukraine never ended]”, in El País:La semana pasada se registraron también ciberataques dirigidos a las webs del Ministerio de Defensa ucranio, a la del ejército y a las de bancos estatales.- Last week cyberattacks on the websites of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the army, and state banks were also recorded.
Derived terms
Further reading
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją.
Pronunciation
Noun
web n (plural webben, diminutive webke)
- web
- World Wide Web
Derived terms
Further reading
- “web”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011