| 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. | |
