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The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web. | |
1. n. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. | |
2. n. Specifically, the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web). | |
Let me search the web for that. | |
3. n. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing. | |
He caught the ball in the web. | |
4. n. A latticed or woven structure. | |
The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood. | |
5. n. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member. | |
6. n. (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 | |
7. n. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals. | |
8. n. 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. | |
9. n. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing. | |
10. n. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper. | |
11. n. (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage. | |
12. n. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. | |
13. n. The blade of a sword. | |
14. n. The blade of a saw. | |
15. n. The thin, sharp part of a colter. | |
16. n. The bit of a key. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To construct or form a web. | |
18. v. To cover with a web or network. | |
19. v. To ensnare or entangle. | |
20. v. To provide with a web. | |
21. v. (transitive, obsolete) To weave. | |