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Webster 1913 Edition

Web

Web

,
Noun.
[OE.
webbe
, AS.
webba
. See
Weave
.]
A weaver.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Web

,
Noun.
[OE.
web
, AS.
webb
; akin to D.
web
,
webbe
, OHG.
weppi
, G.
gewebe
, Icel.
vefr
, Sw.
väf
, Dan.
væv
. See
Weave
.]
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.
Spenser.
Not
web
might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile.
Bancroft.
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.”
Shak.
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.
Hawthorne.
Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the
web
of conjectures.
W. Irving.
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.
Fairfax.
Specifically: -
(a)
The blade of a sword.
[Obs.]
The sword, whereof the
web
was steel,
Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
Fairfax.
(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
.
Shak.
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
,
Noun.
, 8, and
Web
,
Noun.
, 8.
“He never yet had pinne or webbe, his sight for to decay.”
Gascoigne.
–
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

(wĕb)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Webbed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Webbing
.]
To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.

Webster 1828 Edition

Web

WEB

,
Noun.
[See Weave.]
1.
Texture of threads; plexus; any thing woven. Penelope devised a web to deceive her wooers.
2.
Locally, a piece of linen cloth.
3.
A dusky film that forms over the eye and hinders the sight; suffusion.
4.
Some part of a sword. Qu. Net-work of the handle or hilt.
5.
In ship-building, the thin partition on the inside of the rim, and between the spokes of a sheave.
6.
In ornithology, the membrane which unites the toes of many water-fowls.
Spiders web, a plexus of very delicate threads or filaments which a spider spins from its bowels, and which serves as a net to catch flies or other insects for its food.
Web of a coulter, is the thin sharp part.

Definition 2024

Web

Web

See also: web

English

Proper noun

the Web

  1. (possibly informal outside attributive use) The World Wide Web.
    • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
      The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing" […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
    Some of that content is now only available on the Web.‎
    Web page. Web portal. (attributive use)

Derived terms

Anagrams

See also

  • Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English

Proper noun

le Web m

  1. the Web; the World Wide Web.

Synonyms

German

Etymology

From English Web

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛp/
  • Hyphenation: Web

Proper noun

Web n ‎(genitive Webs)

  1. (Internet) the Web; the World Wide Web.

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from English Web.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈveb/
  • Hyphenation: Web

Proper noun

Web

  1. (Internet) the Web; the World Wide Web.

web

web

See also: Web

English

Noun

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.
    A spider's web
    The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
  2. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
    • Hawthorne
      the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-colour or gold
    • Washington Irving
      Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.
  3. Specifically, the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).
    Let me search the web for that.
  4. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
    A baseball glove, with a web between the thumb and forefinger
    He caught the ball in the web.
  5. A latticed or woven structure.
    The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
    • George Bancroft
      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.
  6. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
  7. (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
    Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the web
  8. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
  9. 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.
  10. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
  11. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
  12. (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
  13. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
    • Fairfax
      And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
    1. The blade of a sword.
      • Fairfax
        The sword, whereof the web was steel, / Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
    2. The blade of a saw.
    3. The thin, sharp part of a colter.
    4. The bit of a key.

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

Proper noun

the web

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
    I found it on the web.

Verb

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
  3. (transitive) to ensnare or entangle
  4. (transitive) to provide with a web

Translations

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from English web.

Noun

web m ‎(plural webs)

  1. web, net, internet

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ʋɛp/
  • (Limburg) IPA(key): /wɛp/, /wɛb/
  • (Belgium) IPA(key): /wɛp/, /β̞ɛp/
  • (Suriname) IPA(key): /wɛp/

Etymology

From Old Dutch *web, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- ‎(“weave”).

Noun

web n ‎(plural webben, diminutive webje n)

  1. web
  2. the World Wide Web

German

Verb

web

  1. Imperative singular of weben.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of weben.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from English web.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛb]

Noun

web ‎(plural webek)

  1. (computing) web (Internet)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative web webek
accusative webet webeket
dative webnek webeknek
instrumental webbel webekkel
causal-final webért webekért
translative webbé webekké
terminative webig webekig
essive-formal webként webekként
essive-modal — —
inessive webben webekben
superessive weben webeken
adessive webnél webeknél
illative webbe webekbe
sublative webre webekre
allative webhez webekhez
elative webből webekből
delative webről webekről
ablative webtől webektől
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

Derived terms

(Compound words):

References

  1. ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English web.

Noun

web m ‎(invariable)

  1. (computing) web (Internet)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English web.

Noun

web f (uncountable)

  1. the World Wide Web

Synonyms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English web.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /(ɡ)web/

Noun

web f ‎(uncountable)

  1. (computing) web (Internet)
  2. (computing) webpage, website

Derived terms

References

Etymology

Capitalized form of web. From Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- ‎(“weave”).

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