Definitions for Web

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IPA: /wɛb/

Web is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in Web (bew).

Definitions for Web

noun

1. something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
2. a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars; cobweb.
3. Textiles. a woven fabric, especially a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom. the flat woven strip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug.
4. something resembling woven material, especially something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance:
5. an intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.:
6. something that snares or entangles; a trap:
7. webbing.
8. Zoology. a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds.
9. Ornithology. the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather. the series on both sides, collectively.
10. an integral or separate part of a beam, rail, truss, or the like, that forms a continuous, flat, narrow, rigid connection between two stronger, broader parallel parts, as the flanges of a structural shape, the head and foot of a rail, or the upper and lower chords of a truss.
11. Machinery. an arm of a crank, usually one of a pair, holding one end of a crankpin at its outer end.
12. Architecture. (in a vault) any surface framed by ribbing.
13. a large roll of paper, as for continuous feeding of a web press.
14. a network of interlinked stations, services, communications, etc., covering a region or country.
15. Informal. a network of radio or television broadcasting stations.
16. (sometimes initial capital letter) Computers. World Wide Web. (usually preceded by the).

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as if with a web; envelop.
2. to ensnare or entrap.

verb (used without object)

1. to make or form a web.

Origin of Web

before 900; Middle English (noun), Old English; cognate with Dutch, Low German webbe, Old Norse vefr; akin to weave

Examples for Web

The reality star bared her infamous behind on the cover of Paper magazine, and the web went wild.

The information on web pages, etc. is correct as of 21 May 1997.

White-bread ISIS recruits, culled from the wastelands of web 2.0, call that tidy division into terrible question.

The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week.

And then one day the web of that particular convention broke.

Have patience, therefore, till I shall have finished the web that I am weaving.

The caller mentioned my work, which focused primarily on consumer products, mobile apps, emerging start-ups, and web trends.

He was referring to web censorship behind the Great Firewall.

As well try to mend a spider's web when you have put your boot through it.

She pointed to the web of beautifully-woven cloth in the loom.