web

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɛb/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛb

Noun

web (plural webs)

1. The silken structure 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.

Derived terms

• cobweb
• spiderweb
• webbed
• webbing

Translations

spiderweb — see spiderweb

any interconnected set of persons, places, or things

• Afrikaans: web
• Catalan: xarxa f
• Finnish: verkosto
• French: réseau (fr) m

• Greek: ιστός (el) m (istós)
• Italian: rete (it)
• Polish: sieć (pl) f
• Vietnamese: mạng (vi)

the World Wide Web (also spelled Web)

• Afrikaans: web
• Dutch: net (nl) n, web (nl) n
• Finnish: verkko (fi)
• French: Web (fr) m, Toile (fr) f
• Greek: Διαδίκτυο n (Diadíktyo)
• Ido: reto (io)
• Italian: Web m, Rete f
• Japanese: ウェブ (ja) (webu)

• Macedonian: пајажина f (pajážina), веб (veb)
• Polish: sieć (pl) f
• Swedish: webb (sv) n, webb (sv) c
• Turkish: Web
• Vietnamese: mạng (vi)
• Welsh: Gwe fyd-eang (cy)
• Yiddish: וועב m (veb)

the part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing

• Afrikaans: web
• Finnish: verkko (fi)

• French: panier (fr) m, poche (fr) f

a latticed or woven structure

• Finnish: ristikko (fi), punos

• Greek: ιστός (el) m (istós), πλέγμα (el) n (plégma), δίχτυ (el) n (díchty)

interconnection between flanges

• French: âme (fr) f

the thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top and bottom of the rail

• Finnish: varsi (fi)

• French: âme (fr) f (de rail)

a fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds

• Afrikaans: web
• Finnish: räpylä (fi)
• French: palmure (fr) f

• Greek: νηκτική μεμβράνη f (niktikí memvráni)
• Irish: scamall m
• Polish: błona pławna f

a continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing

• Finnish: nauha (fi)

• French: bobine (fr) f, bande (fr) f

a long sheet of paper

• Finnish: nauha (fi)

• French: bande (fr) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Azeri: tor
• Cebuano: lawâ
• Chinese: 网 (wăng)
• Estonian: võrk
• German: Netz (de) n

• Norwegian: nett (no) n, vev n
• Persian: تار عنکبوت
• Russian: сеть (set')
• Turkish: ağ (tr)
• Ukrainian: мережа (merezha)

Proper noun

the web

1. Alternative capitalization 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

Translations

• Norwegian: nettverke

Anagrams

• WBE

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ʋɛp/

  • Audio

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

Noun

web n (plural webben, diminutive webje n)

1. web
2. the World Wide Web

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German

Verb

web

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

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

web m (invariable)

1. (computing) web (Internet)

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Spanish

Etymology

From English web.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(g)web/

Noun

web f (uncountable)

1. (computing) web (Internet)

Derived terms

• página web

References

• "web" in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima segunda edición (Dictionary of the Spanish Language, Twenty-Second Edition), Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), 2001.