| web |
| 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. | |
| texture |
| 1. n. The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something. | |
| The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth. | |
| 2. n. (arts) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts. | |
| The piece of music had a mainly smooth texture. | |
| 3. n. (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) The act or art of weaving. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web. | |
| 6. n. (biology, obsolete) A tissue. | |
| 7. v. to create or apply a texture | |
| Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall. | |
| complicated |
| 1. adj. Difficult or convoluted. | |
| It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon. | |
| 2. adj. (biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects). | |
| 3. v. simple past tense and past participle of complicate | |
| The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools. | |
| complicate |
| 1. v. To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult. | |
| 2. v. to expose involvement in a convoluted matter. | |
| Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding. | |
| John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced. | |
| The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal. | |
| 3. adj. (obsolete) Intertwined. | |
| 4. adj. (now rare, poetic) Complex, complicated. | |
| fabrication |
| 1. n. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture | |
| the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government | |
| 2. n. That which is fabricated; a falsehood | |
| The story is doubtless a fabrication. | |
| 3. n. (cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery. | |
| connected |
| 1. adj. (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity. | |
| 2. adj. Having relationships; involved with others. | |
| 3. adj. Intimate; Having bonds of affection. | |
| 4. adj. (mathematics, topology, of a topological space) That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets. | |
| 5. adj. (mathematics, graph theory, of a graph) Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices. | |
| 6. adj. Having or supporting connections, especially when through technology such as networking software or a transportation network. | |
| 7. v. simple past tense and past participle of connect | |
| connect |
| 1. v. (intransitive, of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. | |
| I think this piece connects to that piece over there. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive, of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other. | |
| Both roads have the same name, but they don't connect: they're on opposite sides of the river, and there's no bridge there. | |
| 3. v. (transitive, of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other. | |
| The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part. | |
| 4. v. (transitive, of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another. | |
| I connected the printer to the computer, but I couldn't get it work. | |
| 5. v. To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network. | |
| When the technician connects my house, I'll be able to access the internet. | |
| 6. v. To associate; to establish a relation between. | |
| I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me. | |
| 7. v. To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip. | |
| I'm flying to London where I connect with a flight heading to Hungary. | |
| series |
| 1. n. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other. | |
| A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company. | |
| 2. n. (broadcasting, US, Canada) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals | |
| “Friends” was one of the most successful television series in recent years. | |
| 3. n. (broadcasting, British) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each. | |
| The third series of “Friends” aired from 1996 to 1997. | |
| 4. n. (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums \sum_i=1^na_i of a given sequence ai. | |
| The harmonic series has been much studied. | |
| 5. n. (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition. | |
| The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series. | |
| 6. n. (zoology) An unranked taxon. | |
| 7. n. (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species. | |
| 8. n. (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities. | |
| 9. n. (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature. | |
| 10. adj. (electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit. | |
| You have to connect the lights in series for them to work properly. | |
