web
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
web (plural webs)
- 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.
- (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!"
- (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
- He caught the ball in the web.
- 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.
- (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 plot or scheme.
- The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
- (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
- A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
- 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.
- (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
- (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
- A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Tenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 26, page 184:
- […] And there with ſtately pompe by heapes they wend, / And Chriſtians ſlaine rolle vp in webs of lead […]
- The blade of a sword.
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Second Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 93, page 38:
- Argant a ſword, whereof the web was ſteele, / Pommell, rich ſtone ; hilts, gold, approu’d by tuch, / With rareſt workmanſhip all forged weele, / The curious art exceld the ſubſtance much.
- The blade of a saw.
- The thin, sharp part of a colter.
- The bit of a key.
- (dated, US, radio, television) A major broadcasting network.
- 1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 43, page 9:
- […] the first big move toward a contract for television performers was made Friday (20) when the webs agreed to pay them according to the length of the show. […] Altho the major TV webs — NBC and CBS — may fall in line soon, an agreement may possibly be held up by the opposition of DuMont […]
- (architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
- (medicine, archaic) A cataract of the eye.
- Synonyms: pin and web, web and pin
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- webathon
- webbed
- webber
- webbing
- webbook
- webby
- webcam
- webcammer
- webcap
- webcast
- webcasting
- webchat
- webcomic
- webconference
- WebDAV
- webform
- webhead
- webify
- webinar
- webisode
- webize
- webless
- weblication
- weblike
- weblink
- webliography
- weblish
- Weblish
- weblog
- weblogger
- weblogging
- webmag
- webmail
- webmaster
- webmeister
- webmistress
- webocracy
- webography
- webpage
- webphone
- webphone
- webpreneur
- webring
- webroot
- webserver
- webshop
- website
- webspinner
- webster
- websurfer
- webtoon
- webtop
- webumentary
- webutation
- webwinkel
- webwork
- webworm
- webzine
TranslationsEdit
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Proper nounEdit
the web
- Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
- I found it on the 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[1]:
- 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.
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VerbEdit
web (third-person singular simple present webs, present participle webbing, simple past and past participle webbed)
- (intransitive) To construct or form a web.
- (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 […]
- (transitive) To ensnare or entangle.
- (transitive) To provide with a web.
- (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 […]
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Further readingEdit
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
web m (plural webs)
NounEdit
web f (plural webs)
- Clipping of pàgina web.
Further readingEdit
- “web” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
web m inan (related adjective webový)
- the World Wide Web, the Internet
- web page
- Synonym: webová stránka
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- web in Internetová jazyková příručka
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch webbe, from Old Dutch *web, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
web n (plural webben, diminutive webje n)
- web
- the World Wide Web
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Afrikaans: web
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
web m
- Alternative letter-case form of Web
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
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web
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
web (plural webek)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | web | webek |
accusative | webet | webeket |
dative | webnek | webeknek |
instrumental | webbel | webekkel |
causal-final | webért | webekért |
translative | webbé | webekké |
terminative | webig | webekig |
essive-formal | webként | webekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | webben | webekben |
superessive | weben | webeken |
adessive | webnél | webeknél |
illative | webbe | webekbe |
sublative | webre | webekre |
allative | webhez | webekhez |
elative | webből | webekből |
delative | webről | webekről |
ablative | webtől | webektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
webé | webeké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
webéi | webekéi |
Possessive forms of web | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | webem | webjeim |
2nd person sing. | webed | webjeid |
3rd person sing. | webje | webjei |
1st person plural | webünk | webjeink |
2nd person plural | webetek | webjeitek |
3rd person plural | webjük | webjeik |
Derived termsEdit
(Compound words):
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English web, from Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
web (first-person possessive webku, second-person possessive webmu, third-person possessive webnya)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “web” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English web.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
web m (invariable)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ web in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
JapaneseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
- the Internet
- web上で公開された
- webu-jō de kōkai sareta
- made public online
- web番組
- webu-bangumi
- online program
- web上で公開された
Usage notesEdit
- Capitalization may follow English conventions.
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English webb.
NounEdit
web
- Alternative form of webbe (“woven fabric, web”)
Etymology 2Edit
From Old English webba.
NounEdit
web
- Alternative form of webbe (“weaver”)
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English web.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
web f (uncountable)
- the World Wide Web
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
web f (countable and uncountable, plural webs)
- (Internet) web (Internet)
- (Internet, 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[2]:
- 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.
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “web”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Frisian webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
web n (plural webben, diminutive webke)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “web”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011