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[ UK /wˈɛb/ ]
[ UK /wˈɛb/ ]
NOUN
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an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn -
an interconnected system of things or people
tangled in a web of cloth
retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life
he owned a network of shops - the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
- membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals
- an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
- computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
- a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)
VERB
- construct or form a web, as if by weaving
How To Use web In A Sentence
- Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
- - PBL Media and ninemsn jointly purchased 35% of 3P the owner of Mathletics, a subscription driven website that has 400K students in Aust + NZ using it. 400K Mathletics X $99 Per Annum = 35% ninemsn.
- Over this long weekend in Melbourne I've been researching Indian mid-tier (50-1000 employees skewed towards 5yrs+ comp sci education/experience), good at open source, B2C, web2: Not the big BPO/B2B focused Satyams, Wipros and Tatas, or the elance $1000 dodgey script dudes. How Will the Indians Fare at The Web 2.0 World Cup Cricket ?
- This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ... Curious Virtual Community Procurement - NASA Watch
- If you are a Nature subscriber, or willing to pay the weregild, my short story "Annie Webber" is live there today. Anonymous moves into the real world, calling for flash-crowd style protests on February 10th.
- In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door.
- The site aims to find you the best real-time prices on airfares by trawling 35 airlines and travel websites.
- Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
- The diploma course would offer remote access to course materials via the Internet's world wide web.
- And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
