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web

noun
/wɛb/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web From Middle English web, webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-West Germanic *wabi, from Proto-Germanic *wabją (“web”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wab (“web”), North Frisian wääb (“web”), Saterland Frisian Wäb (“web”), West Frisian and Dutch web (“web”), Danish væv (“web”), Faroese vevur (“web”), Icelandic vefur (“web”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vev (“web”), Swedish väv (“web”); also Cornish goghi (“wasps”), Irish foich, foiche, puch (“wasp”), Welsh gwchi (“drone”), Latin vespa (“wasp”), Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ, “web”), ὑφαίνω (huphaínō, “to weave”) (whence Greek ανυφαίνω (anyfaíno), υφαίνω (yfaíno, “to weave”)), Albanian vej (“to weave”), Latvian lapsene (“wasp”), Lithuanian vapsvà (“wasp”), Old Prussian wobse (“wasp”), Belarusian аса́ (asá, “wasp”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian оса́ (osá, “wasp”), Czech vosa (“wasp”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene osa (“wasp”), Serbo-Croatian о̀са, òsa (“wasp”), Armenian մոզ (moz, “a kind of fly that bites horses and cattle”), Northern Kurdish moz (“hornet; wasp”), Persian بافتن (bâftan, “to weave”), Tocharian A wäp- (“to weave”), Tocharian B wāp- (“to weave”), Sanskrit उभ्नाति (ubhnāti, “to hurt, kill; to cover; fill”).

  1. derived from *webʰ-✻ — “to braid, weave”
  2. inherited from *webaną✻ — “to weave”
  3. inherited from *wabją✻ — “web”
  4. inherited from *wabi✻
  5. inherited from webb
  6. inherited from web

Definitions

  1. The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the…

    The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

    • The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.

  2. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a…

    Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.

    • "But THAT! Was the OLDEN TIMES! A massive, worldwide web of global information has ENTANGLED THE WORLD! People in Beijing can read about a magical incident in Moperville in seconds, and have video of it in minutes!"

  3. The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.

    • He caught the ball in the web.
  4. ›+ 22 more definitions

    1. A latticed or woven structure.

      • The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
      • The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics ; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.

    2. A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.

      • Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
      • a tangled web of deception

    3. A plot or scheme.

    4. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever…

      The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.

    5. The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot)…

      The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.

    6. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.

    7. The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and…

      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.

    8. A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.

    9. A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to…

      A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.

    10. A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.

    11. A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.

    12. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

      • […] And there with ſtately pompe by heapes they wend, / And Chriſtians ſlaine rolle vp in webs of lead […]

    13. A major broadcasting network.

    14. A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.

    15. A cataract of the eye.

    16. Alternative letter-case form of Web

      Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.

      • Let me search the web for that.
      • No, the web probably isn't addictive in the sense that nicotine or heroin are; no, Facebook and Twitter aren't guilty of "killing conversation" or corroding real-life friendship or making children autistic.

    17. To construct or form a web.

    18. To cover with a web or network.

      • The canker worm has no shelter upon the tree, but lies out upon the leaf or branch ; this forms itself a house by webbing the corner of a leaf, into which it retreats on the first appearance of danger[…]
      • In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre[…]

    19. To ensnare or entangle.

    20. To provide with a web.

    21. To weave.

      • Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth shall weve werk[…]

    22. The World Wide Web.

      • Some of that content is now only available on the Web.
      • Web page
      • Content on the Web is divided into individual computer files called pages.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at web. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at web. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at web

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA