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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
- 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
- In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door.
- - 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.
- The fifth position went to a phishing activity, in which a university hacker stole Internet users' personal information by luring them to provide confidential data on disguised Web sites.
- All of which leads us to the world wide web. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- Whatever you think of Strandlof and the months he masqueraded as a brain-injured veteran, the simple truth two months after his web of lies came apart is that public disgrace seems to have changed him little. Heroes or Villains?
- 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.