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English

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A spider's web (noun sense 1)
A baseball glove, with a web (noun sense 3) between the thumb and forefinger
Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the web (noun sense 8)

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *webh- der.
Proto-Germanic *webaną
Proto-Germanic *wabją
Old English webb
Middle English web
English web

    From Middle English web , webbe , from Old English webb , from Proto-West Germanic *wabi , from Proto-Germanic *wabją ("web"), from Proto-Germanic *webaną ("to weave"), from Proto-Indo-European *webh- ("to braid, weave").

    Cognates

    Cognate with Scots wab ("web"), North Frisian wääb ("web"), Saterland Frisian Wäb ("web"), West Frisian and Dutch web ("web"), Danish væv ("web"), Faroese vevur ("web"), Icelandic vefur ("web"), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vev ("web"), Swedish väv ("web"); also Cornish goghi ("wasps"), Irish foich , foiche , puch ("wasp"), Welsh gwchi ("drone"), Latin vespa ("wasp"), Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ, "web"), ὑφαίνω (huphaínō, "to weave") (whence Greek ανυφαίνω (anyfaíno), υφαίνω (yfaíno, "to weave")), Albanian vej ("to weave"), Latvian lapsene ("wasp"), Lithuanian vapsvà ("wasp"), Old Prussian wobse ("wasp"), Belarusian аса́ (asá, "wasp"), Bulgarian , Macedonian , Russian , and Ukrainian оса́ (osá, "wasp"), Czech vosa ("wasp"), Polish , Slovak , and Slovene osa ("wasp"), Serbo-Croatian о̀са , òsa ("wasp"), Armenian մոզ (moz, "a kind of fly that bites horses and cattle"), Northern Kurdish moz ("hornet; wasp"), Persian بافتن (bâftan, "to weave"), Tocharian A wäp- ("to weave"), Tocharian B wāp- ("to weave"), Sanskrit उभ्नाति (ubhnāti, "to hurt, kill; to cover; fill").

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    Noun

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    web (plural webs )

    1. 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.
    2. (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!"
    3. (baseball ) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
      He caught the ball in the web.
    4. 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.
    5. (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 tangled web of deception
    6. A plot or scheme.
    7. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
    8. (rail transport ) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
      Coordinate terms: head , foot
    9. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
    10. 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.
    11. (manufacturing ) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
    12. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
    13. (glassblowing , obsolete ) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
      Synonym: way
    14. (dated ) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
    15. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
      1. The blade of a sword.
      2. The blade of a saw.
      3. The thin, sharp part of a colter.
      4. The bit of a key.
    16. (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 [...]
      • 1955, Billboard, page 5:
        ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.
    17. (architecture ) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs. (Can we clean up (+) this sense?)
    18. (medicine , archaic ) A cataract of the eye.
      Synonyms: pin and web , web and pin
    19. (obsolete ) Woven cloth or material.
    20. (obsolete ) A piece of cloth or fabric, as off the loom.
      • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 165:
        She was presented with webs of the finest cloth, and with boxes of precious ointments.

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    Derived terms of "web"

    Translations

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    spiderweb — see spiderweb
    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
    a long sheet of paper
    architecture
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    Proper noun

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    the web

    1. Alternative letter-case form of Web : the World Wide 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[2] :
        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.

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    the World Wide Web (also spelled Web)

    Verb

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    web (third-person singular simple present webs , present participle webbing , simple past and past participle webbed )

    1. (intransitive ) To construct or form a web.
    2. (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[...]
    3. (transitive ) To ensnare or entangle.
    4. (transitive ) To provide with a web.
    5. (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[...]
        [paraphrase] Likewise, that the weaver who is to weave any woollen yarn to be woven into cloth shall weave it well.

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    Borrowed from English web .

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    Noun

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    web m (plural webs )

    1. web , net, internet
    2. clipping of lloc web

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    web f (plural webs )

    1. ellipsis of pàgina web

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    Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia cs

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    Proto-Indo-European *webh- der.
    Proto-Germanic *webaną
    Proto-Germanic *wabją
    Old English webb
    Middle English web
    English web bor.
    Czech web

      Borrowed from English web .

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      Noun

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      web m inan (relational adjective webový )

      1. the World Wide Web, the Internet
      2. web page
        Synonym: webová stránka

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      Declension of web (hard masculine inanimate)
      singular plural
      nominative web weby
      genitive webu webů
      dative webu webům
      accusative web weby
      vocative webe weby
      locative webu webech
      instrumental webem weby

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      Dutch

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      From Middle Dutch webbe , from Old Dutch *web , from Proto-Germanic *wabją , ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webh- ("weave").

      Noun

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      web n (plural webben , diminutive webje  n or webbetje  n)

      1. web (spiderweb)
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      • Afrikaans: web

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      Borrowed from English Web .

      Noun

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      web n (uncountable , diminutive webje  n)

      1. (Internet ) the Web, the World Wide Web
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      • "web" in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
      • web on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl

      Finnish

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      Etymology

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      < English web

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      Noun

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      web

      1. synonym of verkko ("web, www")

      Declension

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      Inflection of web (Kotus type 5/risti , no gradation)
      nominative web webit
      genitive webin webien
      partitive webiä webejä
      illative webiin webeihin
      singular plural
      nominative web webit
      accusative nom. web webit
      gen. webin
      genitive webin webien
      partitive webiä webejä
      inessive webissä webeissä
      elative webistä webeistä
      illative webiin webeihin
      adessive webillä webeillä
      ablative webiltä webeiltä
      allative webille webeille
      essive webinä webeinä
      translative webiksi webeiksi
      abessive webittä webeittä
      instructive — webein
      comitative See the possessive forms below.
      Possessive forms of web (Kotus type 5/risti , no gradation)
      first-person singular possessor
      singular plural
      nominative webini webini
      accusative nom. webini webini
      gen. webini
      genitive webini webieni
      partitive webiäni webejäni
      inessive webissäni webeissäni
      elative webistäni webeistäni
      illative webiini webeihini
      adessive webilläni webeilläni
      ablative webiltäni webeiltäni
      allative webilleni webeilleni
      essive webinäni webeinäni
      translative webikseni webeikseni
      abessive webittäni webeittäni
      instructive — —
      comitative — webeineni
      second-person singular possessor
      singular plural
      nominative webisi webisi
      accusative nom. webisi webisi
      gen. webisi
      genitive webisi webiesi
      partitive webiäsi webejäsi
      inessive webissäsi webeissäsi
      elative webistäsi webeistäsi
      illative webiisi webeihisi
      adessive webilläsi webeilläsi
      ablative webiltäsi webeiltäsi
      allative webillesi webeillesi
      essive webinäsi webeinäsi
      translative webiksesi webeiksesi
      abessive webittäsi webeittäsi
      instructive — —
      comitative — webeinesi
      first-person plural possessor
      singular plural
      nominative webimme webimme
      accusative nom. webimme webimme
      gen. webimme
      genitive webimme webiemme
      partitive webiämme webejämme
      inessive webissämme webeissämme
      elative webistämme webeistämme
      illative webiimme webeihimme
      adessive webillämme webeillämme
      ablative webiltämme webeiltämme
      allative webillemme webeillemme
      essive webinämme webeinämme
      translative webiksemme webeiksemme
      abessive webittämme webeittämme
      instructive — —
      comitative — webeinemme
      second-person plural possessor
      singular plural
      nominative webinne webinne
      accusative nom. webinne webinne
      gen. webinne
      genitive webinne webienne
      partitive webiänne webejänne
      inessive webissänne webeissänne
      elative webistänne webeistänne
      illative webiinne webeihinne
      adessive webillänne webeillänne
      ablative webiltänne webeiltänne
      allative webillenne webeillenne
      essive webinänne webeinänne
      translative webiksenne webeiksenne
      abessive webittänne webeittänne
      instructive — —
      comitative — webeinenne

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      web m

      1. alternative letter-case form of Web

      Galician

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from English web . The sense of "webpage" may be influenced by Spanish web .

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      web f (countable and uncountable , plural webs ) (Internet )

      1. web (Internet)
      2. (countable ) webpage, website
        Synonyms: páxina , páxina web

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      web

      1. singular imperative of weben
      2. (colloquial ) first-person singular present of weben

      Hungarian

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      Unadapted borrowing from English web .[1]

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      web (plural webek )

      1. (computing ) web (Internet)

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      Possessive forms of web
      possessor single possession multiple possessions
      1st person sing. webem webjeim
      2nd person sing. webed webjeid
      3rd person sing. webje webjei
      1st person plural webünk webjeink
      2nd person plural webetek webjeitek
      3rd person plural webjük webjeik

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      (Compound words):

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      1. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

      Indonesian

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      Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
      Wikipedia id

      Etymology

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      From English web , from Middle English webbe , from Old English webb , from Proto-Germanic *wabją , from Proto-Indo-European *webh- ("weave").

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      web (plural web-web)

      1. (computing ) web , the Web
      2. (computing ) network
        Synonyms: jejaring , jaringan

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      Italian

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      Unadapted borrowing from English web .

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      web m (invariable )

      1. (computing ) web (Internet)

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      1. ^ web in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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      Borrowed from English web .

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      Noun

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      web(ウェブ ) • (webu ) 

      1. the Internet
        web(ウェブ)上(じょう)で公(こう)開(かい)された
        webu-jō de kōkai sareta
        made public online
        web(ウェブ)番(ばん)組(ぐみ)
        webu-bangumi
        online program

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      • Capitalization may follow English conventions.

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        From Old English webb ,[1] from Proto-West Germanic *wabi , from Proto-Germanic *wabją .

        The Southwest Midland form weob shows a development of /ɛ/ into /œ/ under the influence of the preceding /w/ and the following labial (like hweolp , tweolf , weopmon ).[2]

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        web (plural webbes )

        1. Woven fabric; fabric manufactured by weaving.
        2. A woven garment or belt.
        3. A spiderweb (net created by a spider )
        4. (by extension) A thin layer of material or tissue.
        5. An opaque growth caused by disease or illness.
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        1. ^ "web, n.", in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 June 2018.
        2. ^ Jordan, Richard (1974),  Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 218)‎[1] , The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., →DOI , § 34, page 59.

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        web

        1. alternative form of webbe ("weaver")

        Portuguese

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          Unadapted borrowing from English web .

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          • (Brazil ) IPA (key): /uˈɛ.bi/ [ʊˈɛ.bi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɛ.bi/
          • (Brazil ) IPA (key): /uˈɛ.bi/ [ʊˈɛ.bi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɛ.bi/

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          web f (uncountable )

          1. the World Wide Web
            Synonyms: rede , Internet , net

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          Proto-Indo-European *webh- der.
          Proto-Germanic *webaną
          Proto-Germanic *wabją
          Old English webb
          Middle English web
          English web bor.
          Spanish web

            Borrowed from English web .

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            • IPA (key): /ˈw̝eb/ [ˈw̝eβ̞]
            • Rhymes: -eb

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            web f or (uncommon ) m (countable and uncountable , plural webs ) (Internet )

            1. web (Internet)
            2. (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[4] :
                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.

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            Vietnamese

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            Clipping of English website .

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            (classifier cái, con ) web (neologism )

            1. website
              tạo một con web
              to create a website

            West Frisian

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            From Old Frisian webb , from Proto-Germanic *wabją .

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            web n (plural webben , diminutive webke )

            1. web
            2. World Wide Web

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            • "web", in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

            AltStyle によって変換されたページ (->オリジナル) /