web \web\, n. oe. webbe, as. webba. see weave.
   a weaver. obs. --chaucer.
   1913 webster
see also:
weave 

web \web\, n. oe. web, as. webb; akin to d. web, webbe, ohg.
   weppi, g. gewebe, icel. vefr, sw. vaumf, dan. vaev. see
   weave.
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   1. that which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp.,
      something woven in a loom.
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            penelope, for her ulysses' sake,
            devised a web her wooers to deceive.  --spenser.
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            not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or
            penalty of exile.                     --bancroft.
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   2. a whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
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   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.
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   4. fig.: tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
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            the somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their
            web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color
            or gold.                              --hawthorne.
      1913 webster

            such has been the perplexing ingenuity of
            commentators that it is difficult to extricate the
            truth from the web of conjectures.    --w. irving.
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   5. carriages a band of webbing used to regulate the
      extension of the hood.
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   6. a thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
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            and christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
                                                  --fairfax.
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      a the blade of a sword. obs.
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                the sword, whereof the web was steel,
                pommel rich stone, hilt gold.     --fairfax.
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      b the blade of a saw.
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      c the thin, sharp part of a colter.
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      d the bit of a key.
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   7. mach.  engin. a plate or thin portion, continuous or
      perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or
      other parts of an object. specifically: 
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      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.
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      b a disk or solid construction serving, instead of
          spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds
          of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
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      c the arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
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      d the part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and
          the foot.
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   8. med. pterygium; -- called also webeye. --shak.
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   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.
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   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.
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   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." --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.
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see also:
weave webeye feather pin and web pin web 
web member web press web system 

web \web\ we^b, n.
   the world-wide web; -- usually referred to as the web.
   pjc
see also:
world-wide web the web 

web \web\ we^b, v. 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.
   1913 webster
see also:
webbed webbing 

web
     n 1: an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by
          weaving or interweaving; "the trees cast a delicate web
          of shadows over the lawn"
     2: an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
        syn: entanglement
     3: the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a
        series of barbs on either side of the shaft syn: vane
     4: an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a
        network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a
        whole network of people who had been part of my life";
        "tangled in a web of cloth" syn: network
     5: computer network consisting of a collection of internet
        sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation
        resources through the hypertext transfer protocol syn: world
        wide web, www
     6: a fabric especially a fabric in the process of being woven
     7: membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and
        mammals
     v : construct or form a web, as if by weaving syn: net
     also: webbing, webbed
see also:
entanglement vane network world wide web www net 
webbing webbed 

206 moby thesaurus words for "web":
   anatomy, animal fiber, arabesque, architectonics, architecture,
   arrangement, artificial fiber, basketry, basketwork, bed, braid,
   braiding, build, building, cancellation, capillament, cilium,
   cirrus, cloth, cobweb, complexity, complication, composition,
   conformation, constitution, construction, creation, cross-hatching,
   crossing-out, cylinder press, denier, drapery, embroilment, enlace,
   enlacement, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment,
   entwine, entwinement, entwining, etoffe, fabric, fabrication,
   fashion, fashioning, felt, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule,
   filigree, flagellum, flatbed cylinder press, forging, form, format,
   formation, frame, fret, fretwork, getup, goods, gossamer, grate,
   grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hair, hank,
   hatching, interknit, interknitting, interlace, interlacement,
   interlacery, interlacing, intertexture, interthreading, intertie,
   intertieing, intertissue, intertwine, intertwinement, intertwining,
   intertwist, intertwisting, interweave, interweavement,
   interweaving, intort, involvement, jungle, knit, knitting, knot,
   labyrinth, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework,
   loom, loop, make, makeready, makeup, making, manufacture, mat,
   material, maze, mesh, meshes, meshwork, mold, molding, morass,
   napery, net, netting, network, noose, organic structure, organism,
   organization, pattern, patterning, physique, plait, plaiting, plan,
   platen, platen press, pleach, plexure, plexus, press, presswork,
   printing machine, printing press, production, raddle, rag, reticle,
   reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, rotary press,
   rotogravure press, screen, screening, setup, shape, shaping, sieve,
   silk, skein, snarl, splice, strand, structure, structuring, stuff,
   suture, tangle, tectonics, tendril, textile, textile fabric,
   texture, thread, threadlet, tissu, tissue, toils, tracery, trellis,
   trelliswork, twill, twine, twining, twist, twisting, warp and woof,
   warpage, wattle, weave, weaving, web press, webbing, webwork, weft,
   weftage, wicker, wickerwork, woof, wool, wreathe, wreathing

web
     
         donald knuth's self-documenting literate
        programming, with algorithms and documentation intermixed
        in one file.  they can be separated using weave and
        tangle.  versions exist for pascal and c.  spiderweb
        can be used to create versions for other languages.
        funnelweb is a production-quality literate-programming tool.
     
        ftp://princeton.edu/, ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/.
     
        "literate programming", d.e. knuth, computer j 272:97-111,
        may 1984.
     
        1996-05-10
     
     
see also:
donald knuth literate programming algorithm documentation weave tangle 
pascal c spiderweb funnelweb lt;ftp://princeton.edu/gt; lt;ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/gt; 

web
     
         "the web" is the world-wide web.  "a web"
        is part of it on some specific web site.
     
        1996-05-10
     
     
see also:
world-wide web web site