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A spider's web (noun sense 1)

A baseball glove, with a web (noun sense 3) between the thumb and forefinger

Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the web (noun sense 8)

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”).

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web (plural webs)

  1. 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. (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
    • 1828, Washington Irving, “Birth, Parentage, and Education of Columbus”, in A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: G. & C. Carvill, […], →OCLC, book I, page 3:
      The time of his birth, his birth-place, his parentage, are all involved in obscurity; and such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators, that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures with which it is interwoven.
    • 1851 (indicated as 1852), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Main-Street”, in The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 96:
      [T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love of sunshine, and would gladly gild all the world with it, if I knew where to find so much.
    • 2018 February 14, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Feb 14, 2018:
      "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. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
    He caught the ball in the web.
  4. A latticed or woven structure.
    The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
    • 1866, George Bancroft, “New Netherland”, in History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent, 21st edition, volume II, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 281:
      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.
  5. (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
    Synonym: yarn
    Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
    a tangled web of deception
  6. A plot or scheme.
  7. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
  8. (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
    Coordinate terms: head, foot
  9. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
  10. 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.
  11. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
  12. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
  13. (glassblowing, obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
    Synonym: way
  14. (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
  15. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
  1. The blade of a sword.
  2. The blade of a saw.
  3. The thin, sharp part of a colter.
  4. The bit of a key.
  5. (dated, US, radio, television) A major broadcasting network.
  1. (architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
  2. (medicine, archaic) A cataract of the eye.
    Synonyms: pin and web, web and pin

any interconnected set of persons, places, or things

a latticed or woven structure

a continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing

Translations to be checked

the web

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
    Let me search the web for that.
    • 2013 May 13, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      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.

the World Wide Web (also spelled Web)

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web (third-person singular simple present webs, present participle webbing, simple past and past participle webbed)

  1. (intransitive) To construct or form a web.
  2. (transitive) To cover with a web or network.
    • 1853 June 21, R. C. Stone, “A New Insect”, in Simon Brown, editor, The New England Farmer, volume V, Boston: Raynolds & Nourse, page 362:
      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 […]
    • 1895, “Has Gold Risen?”, in The Forum, volume XVIII, New York: The Forum Publishing Co., page 577:
      In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre […]
  3. (transitive) To ensnare or entangle.
  4. (transitive) To provide with a web.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To weave.
    • 1511–12, “An Act agaynst deceyptfull making of Wollen Cloth”, in The Statures of the Realm, volume III, London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, published 1963, page 28:
      Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth shall weve werk […]

Borrowed from English web.

web m (plural webs)

  1. web, net, internet
  2. clipping of lloc web

web f (plural webs)

  1. ellipsis of pàgina web

Borrowed from English web.

web m inan (relational adjective webový)

  1. the World Wide Web, the Internet
  2. web page
    Synonym: webová stránka

From Middle Dutch webbe, from Old Dutch *web, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

web n (plural webben, diminutive webje n or webbetje n)

  1. web (spiderweb)

Borrowed from English Web.

web n (uncountable, diminutive webje n)

  1. (Internet) the Web, the World Wide Web

< English web

web

  1. synonym of verkko (“web, www”)

web m

  1. alternative letter-case form of Web

Borrowed from English web. The sense of "webpage" may be influenced by Spanish web.

web f (countable and uncountable, plural webs) (Internet)

  1. web (Internet)
  2. (countable) webpage, website
    Synonyms: páxina, páxina web

web

  1. singular imperative of weben
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of weben

Unadapted borrowing from English web.[1]

web (plural webek)

  1. (computing) web (Internet)

(Compound words):

  1. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

From English web, from Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

web (plural **web-web)

  1. (computing) web, the Web
  2. (computing) network
    Synonyms: jejaring, jaringan

Unadapted borrowing from English web.

web m (invariable)

  1. (computing) web (Internet)

  2. ^ web in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Borrowed from English web.

web(ウェブ) • (webu)

  1. the Internet
    **web(ウェブ)**上(じょう)で公(こう)開(かい)された
    webu-jō de kōkai sareta
    made public online
    **web(ウェブ)**番(ばん)組(ぐみ)
    webu-bangumi
    online program

From Old English webb,[1] from Proto-West Germanic *wabi, from Proto-Germanic *wabją.

The Southwest Midland form weob shows a development of /ɛ/ into /œ/ under the influence of the preceding /w/ and the following labial (like hweolp, tweolf, weopmon).[2]

web (plural webbes)

  1. Woven fabric; fabric manufactured by weaving.
  2. A woven garment or belt.
  3. A spiderweb (net created by a spider)
  4. (by extension) A thin layer of material or tissue.
  5. An opaque growth caused by disease or illness.
  1. ^ “web, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 June 2018.
  2. ^ Jordan, Richard (1974), Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 218)‎[1], The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., →DOI, § 34, page 59.

web

  1. alternative form of webbe (“weaver”)

Unadapted borrowing from English web.

web f (uncountable)

  1. the World Wide Web
    Synonyms: rede, Internet, net

Borrowed from English web.

web f (countable and uncountable, plural webs) (Internet)

  1. web (Internet)
  2. (countable) webpage, website
    Synonyms: página, página web
    • 2022 February 25, Manuel G. Pascual, “La ciberguerra de Rusia contra Ucrania nunca ha acabado [Russia's cyberwar against Ukraine never ended]”, in El País‎[4]:
      La semana pasada se registraron también ciberataques dirigidos a las webs del Ministerio de Defensa ucranio, a la del ejército y a las de bancos estatales.
      Last week cyberattacks on the websites of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the army, and state banks were also recorded.

From English web.

(classifier cái, con) web

  1. website
    tạo một con web
    to create a website

From Old Frisian webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją.

web n (plural webben, diminutive webke)

  1. web
  2. World Wide Web