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webn.Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian -web (in gōdeweb precious fabric (see note); West Frisian web ), Old Saxon webbi (Middle Low German webbe ), Middle Dutch webbe (Dutch web ), Old High German webbi , weppi (Middle High German webbe , weppe , German Webe (now usually in Gewebe )), Old Icelandic vefr , Old Swedish väver (Swedish väv ), Old Danish wæff (Danish væv ) < a suffixed form (-ja -stem) of an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the Germanic base of weave v.1Form history. The β. forms show rounding between the labial consonants; for similar developments compare Old Frisian wob , Dutch regional (Zaan) wob ). Specific senses. Frequently used to translate classical Latin tēla web, cobweb (see telar adj.), which has a similar semantic range; significant developments of the meaning of this word in post-classical Latin include: membrane (from 12th cent. in British sources; compare sense 11), cataract (from 13th cent. in British sources; compare sense 12), breadth or quantity of woven cloth (1445 in a British source; 1476 in a continental source; compare sense 1c). With use with reference to lead sheeting (see sense 15) compare post-classical Latin tela plumbi (from 14th cent. in British sources). The early Middle English phrase gode webbe ‘fine or costly cloth’ in quot. c1275 at sense 1a apparently shows a reinterpretation (after gōd good adj.) of Old English godwebb (in the same sense); the latter is cognate with or formed similarly to Old Saxon godowebbi , Old High German gotawebbi , Old Icelandic guðvefr < the Germanic base of god n. + the Germanic base of web n., perhaps originally from the custom of wrapping holy relics in precious cloth; compare Old Frisian gōdeweb , which shows a similar reinterpretation. In sense 10 short for World Wide Web n. I. Senses relating to cloth or to the structure of woven fabric, including senses relating to structures woven by spiders, and thus internet-related senses. 1. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven OE (Tiber.) (2007) 319 Tela quicumque texerit & letitiam siue tristitiam uiderit bonum nuntium significat : webbu swa wilc swa wyfð & blisse oððe unrotnysse gesihð god ærende g[etacnað]. OE tr. Defensor (1969) lxxx. 411 Tela enim consummatur filis et uita hominis extollitur diebus singulis : webb soþlice byþ gefylled mid þrædum & lif mannes byþ upp ahafen on dagum syndrigum. OE Ælfric Homily (Hatton 114) in J. C. Pope (1968) II. 745 Ða het Aurelianus on hengenne afæstnien þone halgan wer, and aðenian his lima swa swa man webb tyht. a1225 (c1200) (1888) 39 Al swa nan webb ne mai bien iweuen wið-uten twa beames. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 240 Wule anweb beon anchere wel ibleached wið an water. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 9953 Iscrud mid gode webbe. a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job vii. 6 My daȝes swiftliere passiden than of the weuere the web [L. tela] is kut of. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. v. l. 92 Þenne I wussche hit [sc. a newe Cote] weore myn and al þe web aftur. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 175v (MED) At last be þe puluer put in And a cloþ be infused, i. depped þerin, as a cered web or cloþe is made. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Comm. on Canticles (Univ. Oxf. 64) in (1884) 496 The wefand that sheris down the web are it be fulfild. 1546 in J. Stuart (1844) I. 236 Ane vob of tartane, contenand x ellis. 1629 Orkney Witch Trial in (1903) 3 78 Christane Reid in Clett cam in ane maid errand, seiking woft to ane wob. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil 483 Her Hand the Web forsakes. 1749 Oct. 182/2 It is usual to range on both edges of the web a certain number of threads of either a different colour or substance, from those of the warp, which are called the selvage. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet I. 133 Common woollen stocking web. a1796 R. Burns (1968) I. 456 I gaed up to Dunse, To warp a wab o' plaiden. 1813 J. Thomson 283 Linen cloth is the web on which the plaster is commonly spread. 1815 J. Smith I. 81 A whole web or piece of calico is printed by them in three minutes. 1857 95 William Norton of York, Eng., has secured a patent for weaving two webs of cloth at once in one loom. 1909 R. Law xv. 312 The pattern of the cloth is more clearly displayed in the web than in the patch. 1973 S. E. Held 132/1 A web in which the warp yarns predominate is called a warp-face fabric. 1997 T. V. Kaufman-Osborn 277 Philomela weaves her story into a web of cloth. the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] > a complicated structure OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens (1974) 291 [Ostenso fallacis] pepli [ludibrio] : webbes. a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxv. 7 He shal stumble doun..the web [L. telam] that he hath weuede vp on alle nacyouns. a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) iii. l. 3659 (MED) O fatal sustren, which span the lyues threede..Ye wer to hasti to breken and ontwyne His web of knihtehod, that the word thoruh dide shyne. a1500 tr. A. Chartier (Rawl.) (1974) 74 (MED) His werke is like for to be wevid of my stuff and the leest of his webbe [Fr. tixture] was myghtily strengthid with beleve. 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Matius in 114 Should I..recant now in mine aged years,..and as it were begin a new webbe? 1599 A. Hume sig. B1v Skarse nature yet my face about, Hir virile wob had spun. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden To Rdr. sig. 4v Some there be who may obiect to the silly web of my stile. 1663 W. Charleton 28 Having thus, thread after thread, unravell'd Mr Jones his long Web of Reasons, which he thought so closely and artificially woven. 1700 D. Craufurd 95 To weave a long and tedious Web of Cares, which one thought, or kind word, was able to unravel. 1763 T. Percy 50 The web of spears went furiously forward; thro' the resounding ranks of shields. 1822 W. Hazlitt II. viii. 196 The web and texture of the universe..is a mystery to them. 1860 J. L. Motley I. i. 24 The web of diplomatic negotiation and court-intrigue which had been slowly spreading over the leading states of Christendom. 1917 O. Wildridge xx. 235 His cheeks had a web of criss-cross wrinkles. 1971 Aug. 116/2 Biological events are even more varied; they include oil spills and other major pollution events as imminent threats to the web of life. 2008 D. McCullough ii. 44 Given an elder's fraying web of well-being, instituting ill-considered testing, drugs, or medical procedures may pose a greater threat than taking no action at all. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > breadth of lOE Rec. Gifts of Bp. Æðelwold to Peterborough (Sawyer 1448) in S. E. Kelly (2009) 324 iii offrinc sceatas, & xviiii albæn [altered from alban], & iiii pælles, & ii linen web to albæn. 1433 in J. Raine (1855) II. 48 (MED) Unum par linthiaminum de tribus webbes. 1459 Inventory Fastolf's Wardrobe in (1904) III. 181 Item, ij. fustian blanketts, every of hem vj. webbys. 1465 M. Paston in (2004) I. 325 ij payre shytes of iij webbys, ij hedshytes of ij webbys, vj payre shytes of ij webbys. †2. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > collectively OE (2008) 995 Goldfag scinon web æfter wagum. c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine (1993) 43 Forþyȝ weron itealde on þam Godes itælde..þa alles endlyfæn wæbb betwyx þam oðrum webbum. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Otho) (1978) 11267 Þe king..caste on his rugge swiþe riche webbes [c1275 Calig. iweden]. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 1523 All þe wawis with-oute in webis of ynde. 1578 J. Rolland 19 The riche Badkins, the coistlie veluot wobbis. a1592 R. Greene (1594) sig. Ev If Phœbus tired in Latonas webs, Came courting. 1757 J. Dyer ii. 74 What nation did not seek, Of thy new-modell'd wool, the curious webs? 1852 W. M. Thackeray III. ix. 208 Kneeling down at the bedside and kissing the sheets out of respect for the web that was to hold the sacred person of a King. 1867 W. Morris vi. 118 With richest webs the marble walls were hung. 1883 R. Broughton II. ii. vii. 96 Costly fabrics and dainty webs. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > made from specific material 1825 T. Hook 2nd Ser. I. 48 Our tall friend in the webs. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for head or neck or body > [noun] > kerchief > types of 1843 T. Carlyle iv. iv. 369 The waste cotton-shrub,..have ye not..made it into beautiful bandana webs? 1850 ‘Sylvanus’ vi. 81 The flash, reared up fellow, in the light blue pantaloons and huge web of satin round his neck! 3. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > that spins cocoon > filmy textures spun by OE Aldhelm Glosses (Royal 12 C.xxiii) in A. S. Napier (1900) 194/1 [Annua dum redeunt texendi tempora] telas : i. webb. a1300 (c1275) (1991) 319 Ðe spinnere..Werpeð ðus hire web & weueð on hire wise. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in (1906) 19* Vn teile de filaundre sur vn perere, A web of gossomer. c1400 ( G. Chaucer (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §3. 4 Thi Riet s[h]apen in manere of a net or of a webbe of a loppe. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Vitell.) l. 23576 (MED) The place is not..Clenly kept with reuerence, for beforn and ek behynde Yraynes and webbes men may fynde. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxxix. §10. 328 As the erayn makes vayn webbes forto take fleghis with gile. 1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria f. 187 Spiders..full of that laune wherof they make their webbes. 1606 N. Baxter sig. G3b Th' admirable Silke-worme Whose daintie webbe doth cloath potentates. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil 133 Spiders in the Vault, their snary Webs have spred. 1718 Feb. A 5 b Cut Caterpillars Webbs from Tops Of Twigs. 1774 O. Goldsmith VIII. 22 Some [caterpillars] spin themselves a cone or web, in which they lie secure till they have arrived at maturity. 1823 Ld. Byron lxxxiv. 95 With a soft besom will I sweep your halls, And brush a web or two from off the walls. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in 106 A gilded summer fly Caught in a great old tyrant spider's web. 1869 J. J. Weir in i. 21 Larvæ which spin webs..are eaten by birds, but not with avidity; they appear very much to dislike the web sticking to their beaks. 1879 R. Jefferies xvii. 317 At the end of September..acres of furze may be seen covered with web in the morning. 1936 R. W. Doane et al. 305 The larvae of the members of the family Lyonetiidae are leaf miners or live in webs between the leaves. 1984 V. G. Dethier xiii. 107 Having found the web of a female, the male approaches cautiously and begins to pluck the strings. 2013 D. J. Fairbairn vi. 82 Garden spiders often build their webs in sunny locations in backyard gardens and old fields. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > [noun] > instance of c1400 (Laud) 8 (MED) A soule þat loueth propurte haþ gostly a corner þat þe deuel occupieþ with dust of erþely loue and spyners weuynge here webbis, þat is venymous þoȝtes..to chacche with flyes, þat ben wicked spirites. 1574 J. Higgins Elstride f. xxivv O wretched wight bewrapt in webbes of woe. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger I. i. i. sig. A.iij/2 They taught that man..by his owne faulte,..brought into the worlde death and damnation, together with a webbe of miseries, out of whiche it can not ridde it selfe. 1605 F. Bacon i. sig. E4v The Schoole-men..did out of no great quantitie of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out vnto vs those laborious webbes of Learning which are extant in their Bookes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1622) ii. i. 171 As little a webbe as this will ensnare as great a Flee as Cassio. View more context for this quotation 1672 J. Dryden ii. i. ii. 84 I..Silk-worm-like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own Webb of thought. 1737 Mar. 198 That [sect] of the Disciples of Lao Rien, which is nothing but a Web of Extravagance and Impiety. 1777 E. Pendleton Let. 13 Sept. in (1967) I. 224 I hope the web is made so strong for him as..to make him the governed in some strong hold of ours, instead of Governor of Fort William in North Britain. 1838 W. H. Prescott I. Introd. p. cx The law seemed only the web to ensnare the weak. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in 91 Who wove coarse webs to snare her purity, Grossly contriving their dear daughter's good. 1941 D. C. Peattie ii. 25 Thus is the web of life spun, on the desert as in cities. 1991 M. Ignatieff 125 Nick was being drawn into this web of sordid intrigue. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > [noun] > instrument for looking through > parts of society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > cobweb 1746 May 237/1 I reckon'd 20, 30, 40, &c. of these little squares, going forwards according to one and the same line of the micrometer, that is, this very fine web. 1828 (Royal Soc.) 118 194 The horizontal spider's web of the micrometer being moved above the centre, Mr. Gardner succeeded in lodging upon it a very minute particle of dust. 1877 Ld. Lindsay & D. Gill in II. 11 The webs a, b, c, d, and f are all attached to the frame which is moved by the micrometer screw. 1919 May 800/1 After having focused the eye-piece on the rule with the web spanning a line, the micrometer head should be set at zero. 1981 P. C. Sherrod & T. L. Koed iv. 74/2 The micrometer consists of a measuring screw, two fixed webs, and one movable web. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > band of c1312 in J. Raine (1835) I. 18 (MED) iiij bucles et webbes cingulorum, xiiij d. 1337–8 in J. T. Fowler (1898) I. 34 In emendacione..Wambtowes, vidz. 2 webbs pro cingulis. 1394–5 in J. C. Atkinson (1881) II. 614 iiii pese de waimto[w-] webs, xx d..ii dosan wamtow-schafts, ii s. 1794 in (1918) 7 The Coffin was..lowered down with Ropes and Webb. 1823 J. Badcock 115 Procure two yards, more or less, of web, of broad tape, or cloth listing. 1875 E. H. Knight Web 5. (Vehicle) Stout bands of textile fabric, used as straps to limit the extension of the hood. 1963 E. H. Edwards xiv. 99 Pre-strained webs are fastened tightly from the head (pommel) of the tree to the cantle to form a foundation, over which is stretched a piece of stretched canvas. 2012 C. Hill i. 20/2 Cotton web is the traditional longe material, as it is light, won't sag to the ground, and is easy to grip. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > threads in process of weaving > [noun] > warp a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xi. 1137 The venymous spyþur..sesseþ neuere of trauayle..for ofte his wefte and his webbe [L. tela] is ybroke wiþ blastes of wynde. 1538 T. Elyot Liciatorium, a weauers shyttel, or a sylke womans tauell, wheron sylke or threde beinge wounden, is shot through the web or lome. 1582 T. Bentley Seuenth Lampe Virginitie in 140 Hee awoke out of his sleepe, and went away with the pinne of the webbe and woofe. a1644 F. Quarles (1645) Soliloquy x. 51 How mungrell nature weaves Wisdome and Folly in the self-same Loome, Like webbe and woof. 1782 W. Cowper Expostulation in 120 He..Strikes the rough thread of error right athwart The web of ev'ry scheme they have at heart. 1862 E. M. Goulburn (1873) i. iv. 38 Service and prayer are the web and woof of the Christian life. 1883 Web, locally, the warp in a loom. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ (2010) I. 306 It is the web and woof and fibre of his mental and spiritual heredities and ineradicable. 1987 F. J. Swetz vii. 260 Finished thread was then warped (i.e., measured off to correct thread length to form the warp or web of a piece of cloth). 2007 (Nexis) 14 July 33 The web and woof of his being and the remorseless agony of making choices in a futile world fill him with nausea. the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other nets 1533–4 Act 25 Henry VIII c. 7 in (1963) III. 442 To take or distroye in or by meanes of any wele..lepe hyve crele rawe webbe lister syer..the yonge frye..of any kynde of Salmon. 7. In senses relating to the production of a continuous sheet of material. society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > wire bed 1807 Apr. 336/1 As fast as the moulds arrive beneath the cylinder, the felt web takes off the paper. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ 369 A horizontal frame,..furnished with a roller or cylinder at each end, over which is stretched an endless web of brass wire, of the requisite texture or fineness for the paper about to be manufactured... The web proceeds slowly forward with a tremulous motion, which arranges and disperses the pulp regularly over the whole surface of the web. 1861 217 The pulp flows from the vat in an even stream over a ledge, on to a web of wire gauze, the width of a sheet. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > sheet or roll in manufacture 1832 2nd Ser. 8 20 The entire length or web of paper made in a Fourdrinier's machine, is wound upon a reel placed on standards. 1853 C. Tomlinson (1854) II. 365/1 An endless wire-cloth.., over which the web of paper is formed. 1949 (Brit. Paper & Board Makers' Assoc.) (1950) viii. 136 After the last drying cylinder, the web usually contains 3–4 per cent. of moisture. 2016 P. Bajpai iii. 29 The web is guided by means of a highly absorbent, continuous felt cloth between rollers of steel, granite, or hard rubber. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > synthetic resins and plastics > [noun] > plastic > continuously moving sheet or film 1890 1/1 This invention has for its object to provide novel, efficient, and economical improvements in the process of manufacturing pyroxyline compounds—such as zylonite—in continuous sheets or webs preparatory to further manipulation. 1958 E. G. Fisher vii. 96 The sheet passes through one or two pairs of nip rolls which draw the web through the take-off. 1974 J. H. Briston xv. 191 The web of material is controlled at all stages of the wrapping operation and cut-off only takes place when the product has been fully enclosed. 2004 D. V. Rosato et al. ix. 369 A plastic bank is formed into a web in the nip between the first pair of rolls. 8. the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > structure resembling network 1851 May 573 Both points uniting with the web of roads diverging from Savannah, Charleston and Nashville. 1913 Sept. 121/1 A course which would result only in ‘a disgraceful botch, a broken web of highways bristling with dead ends’. 1978 Mar. 115/1 They moved to Oldham because it is at the hub of the northern motorway web. 1989 July 57/1 Organizing chunks of information into nonlinear webs also appears to be well suited for managing highly complex projects. 2015 (Nexis) 10 Mar. She created her first aerial view of a fantasy city—an abstract web of streets, bridges, and blocks. society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [noun] > broadcasting network 1932 30 Aug. 49/5 A chain, for instance, may sell a commercial, say a link of 25 stations. In this web there may be 15 stations that are regarded as having the class appeal in their communities. 1934 20 Oct. 30/3 Now king-pin of the nation's third largest air web, WMCA is out for bigger game. 1944 9 Sept. 55/2 Antonio was poco agitato when he had to work as pancake turner on the Green web. 1990 Nov. 95/1 Barely three weeks into the season, the webs—TV-speak for the broadcast networks—were pulling the rip cord on new shows. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > for specific purpose > snow shoe > snow shoes 1923 Jan. 145 It is said they still enjoy an occasional zestful tramp on the ‘webs’ over leagues of new Manitoba snow. 1939 K. Pinkerton ix. 103 After breakfast we went out to slip on our webs. 1966 M. E. Murie & O. Murie xviii. 223 Snowshoes, or ‘webs’ as the Jackson Hole people call them, were the tried and true aids. 1982 27 Oct. 21/4 Any snow accumulation deeper than a foot justifies the wearing of webs. 2008 31 Dec. 4/1 Learn how to walk on top of the snow with webs of wood and sinew. 10. 1991 T. Berners-Lee WorldWideWeb: Summary in comp.archives (Usenet newsgroup) 9 Aug. The WWW world consists of documents, and links... The web contains documents in many formats. 1993 (Nexis) 1 Jan. Developments with the Web are in a dynamic state of change. 1994 22 Jan. 86/2 The web employs a technology known in the trade as hypermedia. Hypermedia makes it easy to combine text, graphics, sound and even video into a single electronic document. 1997 J. Seabrook v. 163 In theory, surfing the Web was more mindful than watching MTV, because you were pulling content towards you. 2012 (National ed.) 23 Feb. b1/1 Your iPad can't play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can. 1999 D. DiNucci in July–Aug. 32/1 The Web, as we know it now, is a fleeting thing. Web 1.0...The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. 2006 (Nexis) 24 May 1 The mass of brains behind the World Wide Web is introducing pieces of what may end up being called Web 3.0. 2007 July 35/1 In the old days—ie before Web 2.0 and so-called ‘user-generated’ content—Googling oneself was a mildly entertaining, if narcissistic, business. 2011 L. Berube ii. 25 If Web 2.0 is the user-created web, then Web 1.0 is the information web. 2012 P. Anderson xv. 296 Perhaps ‘Web 3.0’ is some combination of some or all of these ideas and technologies. II. Senses relating to a film or membrane. 11. the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > web-like tissue or membrane c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 720 in C. Horstmann (1887) 320 A smal weob it [sc. the fetus] bi-cluppez al-a-boute, to holden it to-gadere faste. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. i. 167 Somtyme an ey haþ tweye ȝolkes þat beþ distigned atweye by one webbe and calle [L. una tela]. a1425 ( H. Daniel (Wellcome 225) 58 Þe duodene..is playn & smoth..be enchesoun of small skynnys (webbis), smale ryms, and buddy flesch þat is þare nere. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 11v (MED) Wondez persyng alle þe panne bene perilous, And more þai þat toucheþ þe webbez of þe brayn. ?1541 R. Copland ii. sig. Eiijv The sayde webbe or tunycle called Rethina. 1605 R. Underwood 14 The thin web which wrappeth in the Brayne. 1728 E. Chambers at Ear A delicate Web, that lines the Vestibulum, Cochlea, &c. 1807 J. E. Smith 324 The five filaments of the Celosia, Cock's-comb, are connected at their lower part by a membranous web. 1822 J. M. Good II. 931 When these sinuosities are first formed or scooped out, their walls are soft, irritable, and of the common cellular web. 1853 1 19/1 The fibrous web of the dura mater..presents many irregular interstices over which the arachnoid is stretched. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. IV. 812 Cicatricial web formations [in the larynx] should be divided by cutting dilators. 1967 16 Dec. 666/2 Webs, congenital, traumatic, or due to pemphigus, may occur elsewhere in the oesophagus and not give rise to symptoms until lumps of meat are eaten hastily. 2008 D. C. van der Zee & K. M. A. Bax in K. M. A. Bax et al. xxxix. 295/2 In case of a duodenal web, mobilization of the duodenum is easy. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of 1778 B. Bell iii. ii. 395 The web or omentum of a new killed sheep, or of any other animal, to be applied over all the diseased parts directly on being cut out of the animal. 1808 J. Jamieson Web, the covering of the entrails, the cawl, or omentum, apparently denominated from its resemblance to something that is woven. a1825 R. Forby (1830) (at cited word) ‘The web of the body’; the omentum. 1842 J. Aiton (1857) 212 Meal is understood to darken the flesh, web, and lights of the animal [sc. a calf]. 1864 R. Jennings 182 The kidneys become entirely covered, and the space between the intestines and the lumbar region, or loin, gradually filled up by the web and kidney fat. 1993 C. Vivian et al. 159 The web (caul) is the fatty, net-like membrane which covers the intestines of the pig. †12. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > film or web a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xvi. 361 Another euel of þe yȝen þat we clepiþ a webbe [L. maculam], and Constantinus clepiþ it albugo oþir pannus. a1425 Edward, Duke of York (Digby) xii. 58 Sometyme commeth to þe houndes sekenes in hir eyenn, for þer commeth a webbe vpon hem and waxynge flesshe. a1425 (c1395) (Royal) (1850) Tobit vi. 9 To anoynte iȝen, in whiche is a web. 1464 in (1841) 280 For a webbe and a pynne in the yhe. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in i. f. cccxxviii That hath caused my comynge in to this prison to voyde the webbes of thyne eyen, to make the clerely to se the errours thou hast ben in. 1538 T. Elyot Suffusio, a webbe in the eye. c1575 (1886) 31 Pyn or Web or other dymnes by strokes &c. must be spedely loked unto. ?1587 A. Hunton tr. J. Guillemeau (new ed.) vi. iii. 156 (heading) Of the webbe or cataract, called in greeke hypochyma, in latine suffusio, gutta, aqua, imaginatio. 1607 E. Topsell 28 If a horsse haue a web in his eye. a1638 J. Mede (1672) 645 Lord! that the whole strain of Scripture..should not cure this web, and take this filme from the eyes of men! 1725 R. Bradley Pearl, a Disease in an Horse's Eye, under which Head we shall comprehend Pins, Spots, Webs, &c. 1765 J. Wesley (ed. 12) 67 Drop a Drop or two at a Time into the Eye, and it takes away all..Spots, Webs, or any other Disorder whatever. 1822 J. M. Good III. 214 This filmy opacity [sc. caligo] was denominated a ‘web of the eye’. the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > thin a1475 Dis. Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 39, in (at cited word) Take þe grese of a fat hele whan it is rostyd Inow..& blow it in hyr narys & þat wyll breke þe webe in þe hede. 1594 H. Plat 61 [The candle] alwayes supporting it selfe aboue the water, by a thin crust or webbe, which it worketh about the flame in the nature of Camphire. 13. the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > web-foot > membrane connecting digits 1575 G. Gascoigne lxxiii. 201 They [sc. otters] are footed like a Goose: I meane they haue a webbe betweene theyr clawes. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby iii. 363 The Web of the Foot and the Claws of a deep black. 1768 T. Pennant (new ed.) II. ii. 420 The lower part of the toes and webs black. 1768 T. Pennant (new ed.) II. ii. 548 Mr. Ray calls this a cloven-footed gull; as the webs are depressed in the middle, and form a crescent. 1774 O. Goldsmith IV. 150 Each foot [of the otter] is furnished with five toes, connected by strong broad webs like those of water fowl. 1813 J. Thomson 77 The capillary vessels in the web of the foot of the frog. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in (new ed.) II. 16 Like some full-breasted swan That,..takes the flood With swarthy webs. 1894 S. R. Crockett xxvi. 226 My hands pricked at the thin fine skin between the fingers that we call the webs. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. VIII. 865 The burrows [of the itch insect] will generally be found in the webs between the fingers and toes. 1979 D. Attenborough (1981) vi. 140 The web of skin that unites their toes has become greatly enlarged so that each foot is, in effect, a small parachute. 1991 E. Goldfinger 295/1 The edge of the skin web between the thumb and index finger passes from the metacarpophalangeal joint of the thumb to that of the index finger. 2001 72 276 Gadwalls..exhibit two types of severe foot damage, one manifested by..necrosis, which results in deformed and eroded webs. the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > webbing of digits > web 1814 J. Adams 68 Haller quotes from Stahl the hereditary transmission of a web between the toes. 1876 T. Bryant (ed. 2) II. xxix. 300 When the fingers are well formed, the Surgeon should, if possible, divide the web. 2014 C. Simon et al. (ed. 4) xv. 487 Syndactyly. Digits may be joined by a web of skin or more firmly fused. the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > part of 1575 G. Turberville 331 The thirde kind of Teynt is knowne in Hawkes by the ryuing of their principal feathers throughout alongst the vpper side of the webbe of them. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby ii. 106 The number of beam-feathers in each Wing was twenty four; their interiour webs were spotted with round white spots. 1713 W. Derham vii. i. 375 The Mechanism of the Vanes or Webs of the Feathers. 1766 T. Pennant ii. 154 The greater quil feathers are black; the exterior webs of the next are of a fine green. 1828 J. Stark I. 216 First feather of the tail white, with a black square spot on the interior web. 1837 J. Gould V. Pl. 372 The shaft and the narrow inner web white; the outer web broad and deep bluish black. 1893 A. Newton et al. 239 The rami, radii, and cilia compose the inner and outer web, vane, or vexillum of the feather. a1933 J. A. Thomson (1934) I. xx. 532 The ordinary feather shows..the vane, consisting of a bilateral web, which in the case of the pinions serves to strike the air, and is built up of biserial barbs united by barbules and microscopic barbicels. 1999 Apr. 15/3 The underside of the longest primary (p10) had a long white tip, then a broad black band across its inner web. III. Senses relating to various building materials, tools, etc. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > lead > lead in specific form > sheet 1343 in L. F. Salzman (1992) xviii. 265 Four plumbers working lead in webbys for the roofing of the chamber. 1360 in J. Raine (1854) 153 (MED) Ij webbes plumbi novi. 1485 (Caxton) xxi. xi. sig. eeiv After she was put in a webbe of leed & than in a coffyn of marbyl. 1489 in F. Peck (1735) II. vii. 10 For the Balmynge, Fencyng and Scowering of the Corse, with the Webbe of Led and Chest. 1555 in (1897) 97 152 Leade. In the covering upon the same colledge MlDxiiij square yerdes of webbe. 1577 in (1866) 8 301 One webb of Lead liynge in the gutter within the said battlement cont. in lenght iijxx. yardes and in bredth one yarde. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso x. xxvi. 184 And there with stately pompe by heapes they wend, And Christians slaine rolle vp in webs of lead. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. xxxi. vi. 411 Those pipes be called properly in Latin Denariæ, the web or sheet whereof beareth ten fingers in breadth. 1660 in J. Barmby (1888) 197 For taking upp the high roofe of the leades and laying the webbs againe. 1730 J. Oldmixon 301/2 Two great Webs of Lead fell within 10 Foot of the General. 1807 B. Boothroyd xiv. 305 Sold unto Mr. John Skurr, one web of lead. 1852 R. Burn (ed. 2) ii. 312 Web of lead, feuille de plomb. 1907 F. B. T. Coutts-Nevill 202 She was wound in web of lead, Closed in a marble coffin, richly carved. 2010 20 66 Her burial in a cered cloth from Rennes, a web of lead, and a marble coffin. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > measure or quantity of 1558 Bk. Rates in (P.R.O.: C 66/920) m. 16v Glasse the waye or wabe cont. lx bunches. 1582 (new ed.) sig. Ciij Glasses Reinish the way or web containing lx. bunches. 1669 110 Glass for windows called..Rhenish the way or web containing 60 bunches. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > horseshoe > iron forming 1566 T. Blundeville True Arte Paring & Shooyng f. 7v, in Make a trim lyght shooe, with a broade webbe, and let the sponges be so brode as they may almost mete together. 1587 L. Mascall ii. 156 Make your shooes, with a broade webbe. 1639 T. de Gray ii. vi. 111 That no Gravell be remaining betwixt the Web of the Shoo and the Sole. 1697 A. S. 8 For the true making of the Shooe, all the Web should be strait and plain, not drawn in at the Heels and Quarter narrow. 1725 R. Bradley at Shoeing The Shoe must be made of Spanish Iron, with a broad Web, fitting it to the Hoof. 1793 W. Taplin (ed. 3) II. 170 The inconsistent method of forming the web of the shoe too wide for the foot of the horse. 1831 W. Youatt xvii. 312 The inside part of the web is bevelled off, or rendered concave, that it may not press upon the sole. 1874 (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Sept. 942/2 A horseshoe having a flat upper surface extending partly across the web of the shoe to sustain the crust of the hoof. 1908 (War Office) 227 The whole of the substance of the shoe is called the ‘web’. 1997 61 252 The web of the shoe is wide with remains of a rectangular nail hole and a slight calkin. 18. society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun] > cutting part of society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > axe > [noun] > head of axe 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso ii. xciii. 38 A sword, whereof the web was steele. [No corresponding clause in It. original.] 1676 in J. Raine (1861) 223 This informant got hold of the head or web of the ax. 1747 W. Hooson sig. R3b This [Rudder] we use to let in the ends of Sliders, or Headtrees, where the Web of the Hack is too short for the purpose. 1812 P. Nicholson 204 Web of an Iron, is the broad part of it which comes to the sole of the plane, the upper edge or end of the web has generally one shoulder, and sometimes two, where it joins the tang. 1822 R. Nares Web, of a sword. The blade of it. the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > coulter > web 1784 J. Small 13 The web may be three inches broad at the broadest, and taper from a foot down all the way to the point. 1819 A. Rees XXXVIII Web of a Coulter,..that part of it which is drawn out thin and sharp, in order to cut and separate the ground... In the sock, too, any thin sharp part has the name of web or wing. 1878 W. Dickinson (ed. 2) Supp. Fleukk, the web of the plough sock. society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > detachable blade 1831 J. Holland I. 330 It [sc. the Grecian saw] consists of a square frame, having in the middle a blade or web, the teeth of which stand perpendicular to the plane of the frame. 1866 VIII. 508/1 The Ribbon-saw..consists of a very long band—or web, as it is called—of steel, usually very narrow, and with finely-cut teeth. 1946 1/1 This invention relates to a combination anvil and magnetic clamp designed and adapted for use in realigning and properly dimensioning the web or body portion of a band saw. 2008 R. Underhill ii. 21 Intended for crosscutting greenwood ranging up to about 9 inches in diameter, the blade, or web, may have simple peg teeth. society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > key > parts of key > bit 1754 W. Emerson 311 Web, the thin broad part of an instrument, as the web of a key. 1800 18 241 So that the webs or bits of the Key may clear the Tumblers in the lock. 1856 12 125 This key has a solid or blank web. 1862 II. xxxi. §6105 The ‘bits’ or steps on the ‘web’ of the key, that act on the levers inside the lock. society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > working face or place 1767 Session Papers: Earl of Abercorn v. Hope 14 July 7 in (1965) VI. at Wab There is no less than 56 fathom of web of whole coal in the Gillespie seam. 1820 (1830) XIV. 346/1 The mine..is either carried in a line directly to the pit-bottom, or it is carried at right angles to the backs or web of the coal. 1883 W. S. Gresley Web, the face or wall of a long-wall stall in course of being holed and broken down for removal.:The web varies in thickness (according to the height of the seam) from 2 or 3 to 7 feet. Fig. 135 shows a cross-section of a long-wall with a web of coals after drawing the timber. 1957 11 Apr. 11/3 It was cutting and loading a web of coal 6ft. 6in. wide with apparent ease. 2013 C. J. Bise xii. 516/2 The shearing machine travels to the tailgate and back to cut the full 1-m (39-in.) web. 21. society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > tackle > pulley > parts of 1794 D. Steel I. 153 Web, the thin partition on the inside of the rim, and between the spokes of an iron sheave. 1860 6 July 7/1 For a smaller size of sheave, the web between the boss and the grooved ring is preferred to be solid. 2008 A. Singh xxiv. 492 The solid disk is sometimes provided with a web between hub and rim with holes to reduce weight of the pulley. society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > other parts 1828 14 237 In the web of the wheel m, a small bevel pinion o, is mounted upon an axle standing at right angles to the shaft g. 1875 E. H. Knight Web 3. That portion of a car-wheel which extends between the hub and the rim. 1976 Aug. 392/2 The cast-iron brake discs are bolted on each side of the wheel web. 2006 M. F. Ashby & D. R. H. Jones II. (ed. 3) xxviii. 341 In place of spokes, the area between the hub and the rim can be made a solid web to give even flow of polymer to the rim and to avoid weld lines. society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails 1835 P. Barlow 20 It will be seen..that by introducing what is called a lower web, that weight for weight, a parallel rail may be made as strong as the fish-bellied, with only an additional depth in the chair of three-quarters of an inch. 1838 1 169/1 The lower web is, in some examples, not so wide as the upper web by nearly half an inch. 1840 H. S. Tanner 264 Web, the outer projection of a rail, intended to prevent the wheels of carriages from running off the track. 1886 XX. 225/1 There was a waste of metal in these early rails..owing to the excessive thickness of the vertical web. 1960 Railway World in P. B. Whitehouse (1965) iii. 67 The condition of the permanent way was even more depressing. The original wrought-iron rails had worn to such an extent that they were collapsing in the web. 2000 J. S. Mundrey (ed. 3) ii. 31 The thick, sturdy web of the rail is designed to give the rail adequate shear strength to guard against failure. society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > converters > cranks > part of 1843 Mar. 70/2 We prefer the plan of using one large square key, sunk half into the shaft, and half into the web of the crank. 1884 27 Aug. 4/7 Cranks having the additional strength provided by an increase of metal in the webs of the crank itself. 1953 216/3 (caption) It is not necessary to pin the force-fitted webs to the shaft, but driving pins in undersize holes is extra insurance. 2016 K. Hoag & B. Dondlinger (ed. 2) xvi. 330 A crankshaft that has little or no pin overlap will require a thicker web to gain stiffness. society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > beams or supports society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > structural framework > specific members of 1845 Nov. 29/2 Make the thickness of the web of the beam rather more than half the thickness of the bottom flange, for the beam when cast, but the pattern may be made somewhat thinner. 1862 S. Smiles III. 409 Cast-iron girders, with their lower webs considerably larger than their upper, were ordinarily employed where the span was moderate. 1877 W. H. White ix. 333 So long as the beam is in one piece, or so long as the pieces forming its web are well connected together edgewise, there is no difficulty in meeting this racking strain. 1909 11 Sept. 553/2 The rib for a double-surfaced deck [sc. wing] is more elaborate in construction, and is itself stiffened with ‘webs’. 1977 Dec. 92/1 Wood I-beams have been around for a while, but to avoid shearing where the chords met the web, chords formerly had to be of expensive laminate construction. 2010 D. Blockley vi. 211 So the maximum limit on a shear force on an I-beam may be when the local shear stress at the centre of its web is at a maximum. society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > anvil > part between head and base a1875 E. H. Knight I. 120/2 Body or web of the anvil. 2012 L. F. Jeffus xii. 286 Put the anvil web in the center of the baseplate. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > oar > part between blade shaft 1885 H. Paasch 108/1 Oar web (the part of an oar between the rowlock and blade). society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > gabions or fascines > components of 1834 J. S. Macaulay 62 Striking down the web from time to time with a stick, in order to give the basket-work as much solidity as possible. 1859 F. A. Griffiths (ed. 8) xii. 234 Gabions are..2 feet 9 inches high, in the web. 1892 F. Irwin (ed. 2) 60 To make a Wickerwork Gabion... Wale the web by passing each rod in succession over the other two..till the waling is 2-ft. 6-in. high. the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > sets or groups of points 1909 at Net But if [represented] in line coördinates, the net is tangential or a web. CompoundseOE (1890) 74/2 Linea, waebtaeg. OE (Julius) 21 Jan. (2013) 54 Hire brohte Godes engel swylcne gerelan swylcne næfre nænig fulwa, þæt is nænig webwyrhta, þæt mihte don on eorðan. c1200 ( Latin-Old Eng. Gloss. (Bodl. 730) in (1981) 62 204/2 Textrina, webhus. 1317 in R. R. Sharpe (1889) I. 273 (MED) [A tenement called] le Webbeloft. 1376 in (1878) 23 12 In filis emptis ad Webethrede ad cereos sacramentales et alia iij d. a1500 (?a1425) tr. (Lamb.) 99 (MED) Some..assemblyd yn a toune & herberd hem yn a webbe hous. 1783 T. Ware Let. 6 Jan. in M. C. Hibbert Ware (1882) xvi. 98 Irish web yarn is best for the Blackburn manufacture. 1866 Aug. 185/2 Their uniform was a white tunic, and blue web pantaloons fitting tight to the leg. 2003 P. J. O'Connor iv. 80 Cowhides sold by the hundredweight;..web linen and flannel by the yard. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > woven > made of 1528 in J. S. Brewer (1872) (modernized text) IV. ii. 1678 A web bridle for my Lord's great horse. 1818 2nd Ser. 33 261 Such lines I arrange in pairs.., applying them to the wheel after the manner of leather or web girths. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ x. 93 Have you no..breaking-bit, or web surcingle? 1915 ‘I. Hay’ viii. 90 Sam Browne belts have been wisely discarded by the officers in favour of web-equipment. 2000 C. Hill vi. 61 The advantages of a web halter with a snap-on lead rope..are that the lead rope can be removed quickly and easily. C3. 1823 ‘J. Bee’ 63 They [sc. dandies] were charged with wearing stays—a mistake easily fallen into, their wide web-belts having that appearance. 1878 10 Aug. 12/3 The uniform consists of U.S. full dress, white web belts and shakos. 1915 P. MacGill 100 Web-belts were cleaned, and every speck of mud and grease removed. 2014 (Nexis) 28 Nov. I checked to make sure the Beretta 9 mm and tactical baton were still firmly strapped to my web belt before taking a step outside. society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [adjective] > using reeled paper 1920 1/1 Referring to a rotary web fed printing press I will explain that the paper web is gripped between the printing and impression cylinders and the reel thus unwound as they are rotated. 1949 D. Melcher & N. Larrick 358/1 Newspapers are printed on web-fed rotary presses. 2000 11 Feb. 14/2 Three new product lines will be shown: the Publisher line for web-fed commercial colour; UltraStream sheet-fed commercial colour; and the web-fed WebStream range for label production. the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > webbed digits 1745 Dec. 663/2 Such vermin won't live long on this side the Firth, As web-finger'd Charles, Tullibardin and Perth. 1781 R. Bland in (Royal Soc.) 71 362 Of these [children] 1 was web-fingered. 1815 S. L. Mitchill in 1 431 Web-fingered Gurnard. (Trigla palmipes.) With bright yellow fringes on the fingers. 1844 47 59 Prionotus Carolinus, Cuv., Web-fingered Grunter. 1851 H. Mayhew II. 137/1 He was, it is said, web-footed, naturally, and partially web-fingered. 1873 T. Gill 21 Prionotus carolinus..Web-fingered sea-robin; Carolina robin. 2001 T. Earnshaw 118 New Zealand-born Solon's dark eyes and thin smile made him the perfect choice for Stapleton, the web-fingered killer in Hammer's Hound. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > for weaving ?c1440 in M. Sellers (1912) I. 78 Noon of the said craft shal make no capez of webb garn nother blew ne meld nor noon other collour. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > other types of 1795 W. Felton II. (Gloss.) 238 Webb Lace, a thick course kind of lace mostly used for footman holders. 1865 Intro. cii. The census of 1810 reported 743,090 yards of web lace and fringe, worth $109,540, made in the United States. 1871 S. H. Browne v. 127 The process of making the web-lace is very difference from that by which the costly edgings and trimmings are produced. 1968 11 July e5/6 A dress made of spring green crepe and web lace was worn by Mrs. Organ for her daughter's wedding. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > lead > lead in specific form 1686 Contract 6 Nov. in (1990) XI. 315 To help to carie the webe leid to the rooffes. 1894 14 Apr. 482/3 The casting of web lead for roofs. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom 1338 in (1819) II. 585/2 Pro weblomes emptis xxs. 1404 in W. H. Stevenson (1883) II. 22 Appretiatores unius wollyn weblome cum uno cam et j. slay. 1699 J. Clark i. 4 My dayes are swifter than a weavers shuttle, which flyeth in the twinkling of an eye, from the one end of the Web-Loom to the other. 1847 29 Mar. A single web loom can weave a fabric of three and a half yards wide. 2007 H. R. John iii. 59 She pulls spindled threads like silk, Intertwining them through the web-loom. society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > automatically supplied with paper 1871 14 Apr. 258/2 This consists, first, in an improved arrangement of the cutting knives for dividing the paper as delivered from web machines. 1936 4 Dec. 9/3 We saw the web machine which does the actual printing, cutting and folding of a paper. 2004 M. Gatter ii. 22 Web machines can be frightening not only in terms of size and noise level..but also in terms of how fast the hapless designer who is proofing the job on-press has to make decisions. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > covering > tissue enclosing group the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > hyphantria cunea (web-worm) > filmy tissue enclosing the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > margarodes quadristigmalis (privet web-worm) > filmy tissue enclosing the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Oecophoridae > depressaria heraclina (web-worm) > filmy tissue enclosing 1841 June 85/1 In the orchard were a few nests of these pestiferous vermin collected under the cover of a web nest upon a crotch between the branches of the tree. 1895 W. R. Fisher IV. 279 The caterpillars, enclosed in the common web-nest, first gnaw the upper side of the leaves. 1903 4 100 They [sc. Embiidæ] still spin their web-nests. 2006 J. T. Costa xx. 670 The most spectacular of these cooperative spiders can form colonies of up to thousands of adults and juveniles occupying a communal web-nest that in some cases cover an entire tree. society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [noun] > printing on continuous roll of paper 1925 1/1 This invention relates to means for clamping and stretching flexible plates on printing press cylinders, and although especially applicable for use in connection with the plate cylinders of web offset litho rotary presses, it can be used in connection with other types of press. 1959 15 May 296/3 America, the land of newspapers on the giant scale,..is making great strides..with web-offset colour on newsprint. 1967 E. Chambers xv. 238 Web offset can be defined as a method of lithographic printing in..one or more colours on one or both sides of a web of paper in a single operation. 2012 A. Bullock ii. 59 Web offset is used for long-run printing, and produces excellent results for both monochrome and colour. 1875 21 May 2/2 The Cincinnati Commercial..has just put in two of the celebrated ‘Hoe’ web Perfecting Presses. 1959 12 Feb. 1/6 The new format is made possible by adding to the newspaper's equipment a Goss Cox-O-Type—the most efficient flat-bed web perfecting press on the market. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > plating > a plate > broad and thick plate 1864 2 Sept. 4/6 The longitudinal frames are formed of a strong web-plate. 1908 H. Paasch (ed. 4) 103 Web-plate. Term given to a plate of great breadth and thickness, as for instance to one forming a shifting-beam in a hatchway. 2014 K. M. Ghosh (ed. 2) iii. 33 The behaviour of stress distribution within the thin web plate is very complex. society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > automatically supplied with paper 1873 30 June 3/4 Sigl of Berlin (the same firm as that in Vienna) has a web press on the Marinoni system..working every day in the Pavilion of the Neue Freie Presse. 1933 20 Mar. 4/5 Web presses are usually rotary machines. They are employed in all large newspaper offices. 2002 P. Baines & A. Haslam iii. 69/3 Types used for printing onto newsprint on very high-speed web presses need to have carefully opened-out counters and ink traps at junctions. society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [noun] > printing on continuous roll of paper 1870 9 Dec. 5714/1 To George Duncan of Liverpool.., Engineer, and William Ashley Wilson, of the same place, Engineer, for the invention of ‘improved machinery or apparatus for doubling, cutting off, separating and folding paper as delivered from rotary web-printing machines’. 1948 (U.S. Govt. Printing Office) xl. 243 Web printing was delayed because the sheets offset on the second impression, inferior paper was used in the rolls, and delivery of the printed sheet was inadequate. 2006 K. W. Bender x. 232 In other words, web printing not only causes high additional costs; it can also make a royal mess of the time schedules. society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > other saws 1799 P. A. Nemnich (Dutch Dict. section) Spanzaag, web, frame saw. 1889 Jan. 418/2 The web-saw, the glue-pot, the plane, and the hammer are the principal tools used. 1970 30 Jan. 13/4 A web or turning saw is for cutting irregularly curved shapes. a1915 J. Joyce (1968) 7 I hold the websoft edges of her gown. 1919 2 July (advt.) Fascinating, distinctive Butterfly Talc—a Babcock inspiration, web-soft and impalpably fine. 1996 J. Peck (1999) 296 A scarf it was, existence, that fell over my throat. Web-soft yet inseparable, a harness woven from seed-piths. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > web-spinning or sedentary the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order embioptera > member of (web-spinner) 1825 ‘E. Hardcastle’ I. ix. 272 The wily web-spinner—he is more fiendish than a hairy spider. 1923 9 i. 61 The Order Embioptera, or Web-spinners, is a small but very distinct and isolated group of insects. 1941 J. S. Huxley ix. 193 In the spiders, we find a very interesting difference between the hunters and the web-spinners. 1944 94 401 (title) A revision of the Embioptera, or web-spinners, of the New World. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp vi. 85 Embiids or Webspinners..occur mostly in the tropics and subtropics. 2001 G. C. McGavin 133 Web spinners are pale or dark-coloured, gregarious or subsocial insects. 1712 (Royal Soc.) 27 352 A web-spinning Spider, with Silver, yellow and black girdles, with its white, flat, Silk Bag, in which Fattier Kamel believes there were 2000 Eggs. 1869 A. R. Wallace II. xxx. 204 The web-spinning species were also more numerous. 1946 2 Nov. 630/2 The web-spinning Tineid caterpillar..is usually an inhabitant of hawthorn bushes. 2015 (Nexis) 5 Apr. Web-spinning spiders detect their prey through vibration and visual signals when an insect gets trapped in their web. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > tray, tray-stand, or trolley table 1837 15 435 A large tray of glasses..stood in the room on a web stand. the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > web-footed 1805 J. T. H. Des Carrières (rev. ed.) II. sig. H/2 Artenna, a web-toed water-fowl. 1855 18 Aug. 173/1 Some cases were then mentioned of families who had been web-fingered and web-toed for several successive generations. 1884 E. Coues (ed. 2) iii. iv. 622 Macrorhamphus. Web-toed Snipe. 1954 M. Land (2005) 96 Folk on the bayou say that a band of blue geese lingers behind each season to estimate the next year's food supply before joining their web-toed brethren back up north. 2006 3 196/1 Passive rolling organisms include the Tumbleweed plant, the Web-toed Salamander, Namib Golden Wheel Spider, and the Woodlouse. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) 1534 G. Joye in tr. Pref. sig. A. iiii.v These dirtye deluers ye Prophete Isaye calleth also web weauers agenste ye mynde of ye lorde. ?1550 J. Bale 15 b It hath bene so handeled and tosed amonge the spyders webbe weuers of Babylon..that it is become moche larger both in length and bredthe than afore. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence IV. xxxvii. 31 The instinct of a crippled spider so completely changed, that from a sedentary web-weaver it became a hunter. 2008 (Nexis) 27 Dec. He checks out the real web-weavers in nature. Photographing spiders has been a hobby for six years now. society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > with plate instead of spokes 1875 E. H. Knight III. 2752/2 Web-wheel, a wheel in which the hub and rim are connected by a web or plate, which is sometimes intact and sometimes perforated... The term is applied in contradistinction to one with spokes. 1859 Rep. Investigating Comm. Affairs State-prison 40 in 3 pieces Web-wire. 1887 26 Oct. Harve Cochran is putting up a half mile of substantial web-wire picket fence along the gravel road. 1907 19 Sept. 3 acres in garden fenced with web wire, 20 pear trees and good peach orchard, $15.00 per acre. 1994 D. Mullins 187 ‘Are you Teed Cornfield?’ the apparent leader of the group asked as he leaned on the web-wire fence. 2015 (Nexis) 27 Nov. White's farm has several out-of-use hog enclosures... The rabbits fooled the beagles repeatedly by running through the web-wire squares to areas the dogs could not follow. the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > structure resembling network c1175 ( Nativity of Virgin (Bodl.) in B. Assmann (1889) 127 Heo wolde beon fram þare æreste tyde þæs dæges on hire halig beden wuniende oð ðet þa ðridde tyde, on þa nigoðæn tide emben hire webweorc [OE Hatton webbgeweorc]. 1664 H. Power viii. 12 She hath eight legs, four on each side, split into small oblong fingers at the ends, by which she makes her curious Web-work. 1790 R. Merry 10 A web-work of despair, a mass of woes. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton II. xxix. 199 The tyro who dissects the webwork of tissues and nerves in the dead. 2005 (Nexis) 14 Aug. t10 He..opened his water-logged folder and saw that his speech had been reduced to a fine webwork of inky rivulets—unreadable. the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > like a net or network > like cobweb > made of cobweb 1866 25 Oct. 1/3 A glutinized, web-worked purse, about three inches long. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > web-spinning or sedentary 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in (rev. ed.) 1071 All Net-workers, and Web-workers [L. telarios] amongst Spiders. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > hyphantria cunea (web-worm) the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > margarodes quadristigmalis (privet web-worm) the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Oecophoridae > depressaria heraclina (web-worm) 1757 L. Carter 18 July (1965) I. 162 Abundance of Hornworm, Ground worm, Web worm and bud worm. 1802 1st Ser. VIII. 190 The first [corn-pest] is the web-worm, a small taper worm of a gray colour, about a half an inch in length. 1841 T. W. Harris 254 The little caterpillars known by the name of fall web-worms, whose large webs..may be seen on our native elms, and also on apple and other fruit trees, in the latter part of summer. 1885 14 July 4/5 The webworm..did considerable damage to the stands. 1926 C. A. Weigel & W. Middleton (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1495) 15/2 The fall webworm [Hyphantria cunea] feeds upon geranium, clematis, castor-bean, rose, honeysuckle, laurel, and wistaria, and the spotted beet webworm [Hymenia perspectalis] on alternanthera. 2003 Fall 4 One of the worst infestations of ‘fall webworm’ that many of the islanders had ever seen. C4. 1993 Making Gateway? in comp.infosystems.www (Usenet newsgroup) 21 June One of the first things I saw in Web documents was referring to how ‘easy’ it is to write ‘simple shell scripts’ to gateway the web to local information resources. 1994 (Nexis) July 30 Cultivating a Web presence was a major pain. 1996 26 Feb. 82/1 A program called Jasmine..uses object-oriented software to create custom Web applications. 1997 Jan. 22/4 If I was a new user wanting Web space with my own domain name, Pipex would ask £180 per year for the dial-up account. 1999 Sept. bs4/2 Web access makes it possible for clients, brand managers, and designers to interact electronically. 2000 (Electronic ed.) 21 Feb. It is certainly an interesting phenomenon for a 40-year-old cramnotes brand to take on web publishing. 2012 S. Townsend xlii. 272 I'll show you downstairs, give you some internet basics and the web address. 2013 D. J. Leonard xi. 219 Before the initial episode of LeBron James's new Web show..begins, viewers get a clear glimpse of the show's purpose: advertising. 2016 26 Sept. Responsively-designed web interfaces that adjust to a wide range of devices. b. With reference to the World Wide Web. See also webcam n., webcast v., etc. 1998 P. Cabena 36 Web analytics bring together two of the biggest focus areas in computing today—the Internet and data mining. 2004 J. McConnell viii. 159 The integrity of web pages can also be evaluated by web analytics tools. 2012 21 May 28/3 (advt.) You'll..implement the strategy, owning, specifying, and configuring our web analytics platform. 1995 27 Mar. 25/2 (heading) Seybold caught up in Web apps. 2010 (U.K. ed.) Dec. 59/1 It is better to build a Web app that will also run on smartphone browsers. 2012 B. X. Chen v. 107 Google..released a lightweight PC operating system called Chrome, which is a modified browser that runs web apps. 1994 Opportunity: Mosaic App's Developer & Server Manager in chi.jobs (Usenet newsgroup) 27 Sept. Opportunity for a young, energetic, multitalented web author to join a recently formed team of professionals. 1998 8/1 (advt.) We require a web author to update our pages, help teach other people how to make web pages, and to help maintain our computer systems. 2007 G. Williams in M. J. Cormack & N. Hourigan vi. 101 XML enables all web authors to create their own tags or hidden labels that annotate web pages or sections of text. 1994 WWW Service Provider List in comp.infosystems.www.providers (Usenet newsgroup) 31 Aug. Setup Cost: Hourly cost for web authoring: $50. No setup cost for pre-authored pages. 1997 S. H. Budman & B. N. Steenbarger v. 181 It should be noted that Web authoring tools have become quite user-friendly and are now built into several major word processing programs. 2003 54 651 Students can then create their own graphics and import them into a Web authoring program. 2007 (Nexis) 11 Aug. (Information section) 3 Simplicity is key and the program sets up your website without any knowledge of web authoring. 1993 WEB & Newsgroups from Xmosaic in bionet.software (Usenet newsgroup) 29 June This is liable to annoy those who don't have web-aware newsreaders and who don't like reading raw html. 1995 Dec. 43/1 Web-aware people who might part with a few extra bucks a month for an information fix. 2001 22 Apr. 65/2 Laptops and Internet connections and Web-aware mobile phones. 2008 E. G. Frankel 33 Customers and suppliers are increasingly Web aware. 1993 Re: Why we need New Math Notation in comp.text.sgml (Usenet newsgroup) 28 Sept. A Web-based literate programming system might work this way. 1994 (Nexis) 3 Apr. 1 [He] displayed a Web-based magazine created by a student in Japan. 1998 Apr. 102/2 Web-based streaming-media technologies already make possible live telecasts to audiences as big as 50,000. 2010 May 145/2 Java and other web-based languages. 1993 Telecom Arch. & World-Wide Web in comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Mar. I would recommend the ‘xmosaic’ X-windows web browser available by anon ftp. 2000 7 Aug. (Interface section) 7/1 I am living proof of how easy it is for the independent traveller, with a web-browser to hand, to arrange a last-minute holiday in August. 2015 14 Aug. 13/1 These links open up content in an external web browser. 1994 (Nexis) 24 Apr. Because Netscape offers the most widely used Web-browsing software, its site is one of the most frequently visited on the Web. 1999 J. Naughton (2001) Gloss. 311 Client , a computer program..which provides services (e-mail, Web browsing, etc.) to its user by interacting with another computer on the network called a server. 2013 (National ed.) 7 Feb. b7/2 If you see an ad on the right rail of your Facebook page based on your Web browsing history, you can..opt out directly on Facebook. 1999 (Nexis) 13 Nov. (Financial section) e1/1 The tool, known as a ‘Web bug’, lets advertising services companies fetch data from multiple Web sites without computer users' knowledge and send it to databases for analysis and storage. 2004 (Nexis) 16 June c2 A new service..uses tiny, transparent graphic files known as ‘web bugs’ that are embedded in an e-mail message to clandestinely track when and where an e-mail is read and for how long. 2014 (Nexis) 31 May It sees the ‘invisible’ web, detecting trackers and web bugs placed on websites like Facebook and Google Analytics. 1995 Swap LIVE Scanner Audio Over Net with Iphone in rec.radio.scanner (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Aug. Have you seen the Web camera that lets you look at the Hollywood sign? 2000 Nov. 138/3 The images are better than average for a web camera. 2011 (Univ. of Glasgow) June 13/2 Thanks to the Chapel web cameras Commemoration Day can now be watched online. 1995 9 Feb. (OnLine section) 5/5 Webchat lets anyone with a forms-capable Web browser talk to other people at the same Web page.] 1997 (Nexis) 21 Feb. The Webchat with the company's staff was so productive that he plans to host one every month. 2007 (Midwest ed.) 14 Dec. i. 1/3 Submit questions now to reporters..then watch a live video Web chat at 2:30 p.m. Friday. 2013 R. Mackinnon iii. 43 Since President Hu made those remarks and conducted his first public web chat, Chinese leaders at all levels have been holding regular online chats with the public. 1995 Announce: WebComics Daily in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet newsgroup) 6 Apr. Webcomics Daily is a collection of nearly all daily/weekly comics that are continuably [sic] updated on the Web. 2010 15 Feb. 100/2 Axe Cop, a webcomic illustrated by 29-year-old Ethan Nicolle—and written by his 5-year-old brother. 2012 J. Gardner v. 149 Comics readers have been making and distributing their own comics—in the form of 'zines, fanart, and now webcomics—for generations. 1995 (Nexis) 30 Jan. The WELL [sc. Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link] has an active web conference, which includes topics ranging from upcoming HTML courses to a list of freelance web designers. 2002 P. Augar & J. Palmer x. 214 We'll hold a web conference at the end of next week. 2014 16 Feb. d5/1 In an online web conference..about poaching, Sutton said this week that California's wildlife faces other more serious threats. 1995 3 Apr. 64/1 (heading) Ubique boasts on-line Web conferencing tool. 2001 3 Dec. iv. 4 (advt.) You can easily initiate audio, video, web conferencing and streaming events with anyone, anywhere, anytime. 2012 A. Barlow & R. Leston v. 159 What will web conferencing, email, chat, and so on, in replacing face-to-face discussion, also send to the junk pile? 1996 Mar. 22/2 AT&T..is not the only Internet Content Provider getting nipped in the rear by improved Web content. 2002 Apr. 10/3 Extending the reach of Web content to visually impaired users. 2013 Jan. a2/2 The former Google executive said Yahoo! was working on technology that will personalise web content. 1994 Re: Managing Growing History File in comp.infosystems.www.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 14 July As an addicted web-crawler, I'm approaching a megabyte-sized history file. 1994 Re: Sun WWW server? in comp.sys.sun.admin (Usenet newsgroup) 4 Aug. I have heard of ‘web crawlers’ which are systematically traversing the links they find at W3 sites. 2003 (Nexis) 27 Jan. f1 The vast website..has become a magnet for young web crawlers. 2014 C. Seife vii. 124 At the heart of a search engine has to be a ‘web crawler’ that visits and indexes webpages automatically. 1994 Re: Forthcoming HTML Bks. in comp.infosystems.www.users (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Nov. John December and Neil Randall are the authors of ‘The World Wide Web Unleashed’ (which also covers HTML and Web design—among many other things). 2002 (Electronic text) 3 Sept. A consulting practice focused on estrategy, Web design and development, and content management. 2014 Mar. 86/2 It's clear that this is how web design should be handled in the new, multiscreen world. 1994 comp.infosystems.www (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Apr. (title of posting) Situation vacant: HTML/Web designer. 2002 (Glasgow & Edinb. Events Guide) 4 July 42/3 On the rebound from a long-term relationship, a San Francisco web-designer gives up sex for Lent. 2008 Dec. 69/1 To web designers, chrome refers to the menus and borders of a browser window; an annoyance that must be accommodated when designing pages. 1994 Call for User-auth Progress! in comp.infosystems.www (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Mar. Okay web-developers, let's hear what you're working on for user-authentication security on web-servers. 1995 12 Jan. b2/2 GIF is the standard format for online graphics... Web developers are looking for alternatives. 2002 22 Oct. 5/1 The woman, a web developer, continued to feel ill. 1993 Displaying Columns of Text in comp.infosystems.www (Usenet newsgroup) 15 Nov. If you plow through the ‘Web development’ parts.., the info is waiting in one of the links there. 2002 (Electronic text) 3 Sept. A consulting practice focused on estrategy, Web design and development, and content management. 2016 (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Business section) 8 I took an optional web development module, which got me excited about the internet. 1995 (Nexis) 4 Dec. 72/3 The university is using IBM's CICS Internet gateway..to Web-enable data from a variety of applications and sources. 2002 D. Verton viii. 176 Being a child of the Internet, H.D. Web-enabled his application. 2014 N. Prabhu vi. 104 A relatively simple plug-and-play capability to web-enable wireless devices. 1994 Re: Gnus & NOV? in gnu.emacs.gnus (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Mar. Aphrodite.nectar.cs.cmu.edu:pub/gnus-4.1/gnus, or, for the web-enabled, ftp://aphrodite.nectar.cs.cmu.edu/pub/gnus-4.1/gnus. 1994 Re: What are Sales going to be like in Weeks to Come? in talk.politics.guns (Usenet newsgroup) 11 May For all the Web-enabled concerned folk: [etc.]. 1995 8 May 4/1 Common Ground Software..has introduced an Internet publishing kit... The kit counters Adobe's announcement of a Web-enabled version of Acrobat. 1998 10 Feb. 67/2 Though each of these three companies is Web-enabled, their online business has yet to overtake their more traditional customers. 2012 M. T. Jones & K. Barta i. 5 Customers use their web-enabled smartphones while shopping in physical stores to look up price comparisons and read shopper reviews. 1994 WWW Implementing Large Lect. in comp.infosystems.www.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 29 June The entire class will run from a Web host supplemented by a closed Bitnet list. 2004 10 Apr. 32/4 Some of the ‘spamvertised’ sites have already been taken offline by their web hosts. 2014 R. Hastings iv. 19 Contracting with an outside vendor as a web host is actually hosting in the cloud most of the time. 1995 23 Jan. 20/4 LAN Workgroup..will be souped up and renamed InfoServer to function as a Web hosting server. 2005 Oct. 37/4 The first thing you have to do is make a list of all business outgoings—utility bills, hardware and software, rent, rates, decent Internet connections and Web-hosting costs, [etc.] 2011 A. Bhidé 325 The United States leads in terms of overall IT consumption, just as it does in web hosting and the purchases of operating systems. 1994 21 Nov. 62/3 You can spend hours browsing up and down Gopher menus or Web links without ever finding a specific piece of information. 2007 July 96/2 Full of information, tips, and web links, The New Green Consumer Guide can lead you through..choosing everything from a carpet to a laptop. 2011 27 Jan. (Viewspaper section) 11/4 Social media can provoke feelings of anxiety in those who feel that they aren't ‘good at it’—ie, they don't collect friends.., post endless streams of weblinks [etc.] 2012 (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Business section) 17 The Web link is: www.foodlogistics.com. 1995 3 Apr. 68/1 Luca Manunza's WebMail, a POP3 (Post Office Protocol) electronic-mail client. 2007 Apr. 121/1 Webmail is mounting a challenge to traditional email programs. 2013 26 May d5/6 If you prefer to use webmail, that's OK, but someone has to pay for the service, so you can choose either to pay money, or accept ads. 1998 16 Nov. 8/2 The Webpad provides a Windows-compatible computer based on the highly integrated Cyrix processor that is capable of being carried around the house while connected to the internet. 2006 28 Oct. (Weekend Mag.) 8/3 I am therefore the ideal target for a relatively new class of computing devices variously called UMPCs (for ultra mobile PCs), internet tablets or web pads. 2009 Q. Wells ii. 50 Web pads have gained some acceptance in the marketplace, but their single-function use and relatively high cost..has limited their sales. 1993 Usenet News meets Web: Ideas for Future in comp.infosystems.www (Usenet newsgroup) 29 June For public annotations of regular web pages, the annotation is sent out on the special group. 2000 16 Mar. (Online section) 13/3 WebSphere Everyplace provides ‘transcoding’—translation between standard web pages written in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and Wap's WML (Wireless Markup Language). 2014 E. R. Leggett xiii. 170 The host is required by law to take down the offending web page and to notify the owner of the violation. 1996 Netcom Users, your Problems may be over, I hope... in alt.crackers (Usenet newsgroup) 25 June Eternal's Web Portal—http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3515/index.html. 2003 23 Oct. i. 9/1 A poll of 1,000 television viewers, conducted by the web portal Yahoo! 2016 (Nexis) 7 June 8 Treasurer Scott Morrison was in Adelaide to announce a web portal to help unemployed youth connect with businesses looking for staff. 1994 Re: Stuck behind Firewall in comp.infosystems.www (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Mar. Frustrated Web publisher. 2004 15 Nov. (Central ed.) b6/4 But the Internet's share of advertisers' total spending remains just 3%. Web publishers want more. 2014 27 Mar. a3/8 PageFair said its technology was used by more than 1,000 web publishers to monitor and counteract the software, which removes advertising from web pages. 1994 Re: Internet Marketing in alt.internet.services (Usenet newsgroup) 7 June Corporate materials must be ‘Web-ready’, that is, ready to serve in HTML format—this is analogous to the camera-ready copy required by print publications. 2001 15 Mar. 49/1 Web-ready devices like pocket PCs, screen phones, tablet PCs, TV sets, and wireless home networks with universal plug-and-play that link everything from cars to stereos and refrigerators..are in the works. 2011 12 Nov. b1/4 The free service..allows people to buy a movie once and watch it anywhere—on a computer, mobile device, or Web-ready television. 2016 L. Ulrich Fuller & K. Cook xi. 184 Graphics software can help you create web-ready images. 1996 Read this if you've got Windsurfing Web Page in rec.windsurfing (Usenet newsgroup) 16 Apr. If you have ever come across the WebRing or heard of it, Forward Loop is based on that. It is simply made up of pre-existing web pages relating to windsurfing linked together in a loop by the Forward Loop home page. 2001 Jan. 56/2 We also discovered a Militaria webring listing hundreds of sites, not only those concerned with aeronautica. 2015 (Nexis) 15 Nov. e5 This, the pre-search era, was the height of the webring: Internet alliances that funneled people to sites they wouldn't otherwise see. 1997 J. Seabrook vii. 238 Imagining these Web-savvy youngsters going about their work, I thought of the Tony Curtis character in Sweet Smell of Success. 2003 A. Greenwald ii. x. 168 Nolan and Lazarra are young and web-savvy enough to understand the way kids connect to music these days. 2014 Apr. 85/2 You'll need to show us you are web-savvy and social network-friendly. 1994 A. Gunn iii. 29 The WebCrawler does a very simple search. Other search programs are more sophisticated, and if the Web search doesn't pan out she'll use one of those. 2008 (Nexis) 12 Sept. 6 Hit return and Google will do a web search. 2015 Oct. 52/2 Do a web search for ‘foliage reports’ to find..resources to help you to monitor the changing leaves. 1993 Apr. 701/1 For now, WEB remains mostly potential. The WEB server is only available by telneting to info.cern.ch or nxo01.cern.ch. Its full hypertext informational resources are limited at this time, but they are growing. 1994 30 June 26/2 Web servers are accessed via client applications called browsers. 2007 Z. Markov & D. T. Larose i. 6 These programs are clients that connect to web servers that hold actual web documents and send those documents to the browsers by request. 2010 (Nexis) 22 Dec. Amazon, which kicked WikiLeaks off of its web server this month, was unaffected by DDoS attacks. 1993 Complexity Internat. (Fwd) in bit.listserv.frac-l (Usenet newsgroup) 22 Sept. Papers may either be of conventional form or else written as hypertext documents conforming to the World Wide Web standards.] 1994 Ethics of Incorporating Links into Page in comp.infosystems.www.providers (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Dec. Future Web standards should support even better ways of getting information about the origin of some information chunk. 1999 1 Feb. 68/3 A Web standard for formatting data, XML helps structure information in a document to make it ‘smart’. 2006 D. Addison iv. 81 Prepare for lengthy validation reports that point out line by line where your web page code falls short of web standards. 2010 15 Sept. 25/5 Microsoft has added support for a number of advanced web standards in IE9. 1994 18 July 20/4 PLS' Home page lets Web surfers test PLServer. 2002 11 Feb. 46/2 A test case that will determine whether the British company will be able to charge royalties every time a Web surfer uses an illuminated hyperlink to jump from one Internet page to another. 2012 29 Dec. 11/1 Beijing says the regulations are aimed at protecting web surfers' personal information. 1996 Capturing Video for Internet in bit.listserv.toolb-l (Usenet newsgroup) 21 Sept. I am not sure of the optimal settings for WEB streaming. 2013 29 Apr. b4/6 Stations could..deliver..content for which the stations have Web-streaming rights. 1998 (Nexis) 10 Dec. The proliferation of Internet-ready devices, including cheap PCs, Web tablets, handheld devices and set-top boxes..are the catalysts that will drive this trend even faster over the next few years. 2006 D. Briere et al. (ed. 2) xiv. 227 Other devices—namely, Web tablets and stand-alone touch-screens, are sporting IR interfaces and can become remotes for your whole home. 1996 27 Jan. Table of Contents 3/3 Webtoons. 2006 May 126/1 Snotty kid Homestar Runner headlines these webtoons. 2013 Y. Chie in J. Berndt & B. Kümmerling-Meibauer v. 94 Instead of books and magazines, online manhwa, or webtoons, have begun to attract attention. 2014 (Nexis) 21 Apr. (Media section) 1 Natasha Allegri..saw hundreds of fans of her webtoon series ‘Bee and PuppyCat’, an animated show targeted toward an older audience. 1993 Interesting Statistics in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet newsgroup) 21 Dec. Annual rate of growth for World-Wide Web traffic: 341,634%.] 1994 WWW Sites in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet newsgroup) 5 Feb. Web traffic grows at twice the rate of internet traffic as a whole. 1998 Jan. 27/1 Log analysis is another method of measuring Web traffic. As a Web server provides requested information to Web site visitors, it is logging information about each transaction into a log file. 2005 N. Barkakati vi. iii. 509 A dedicated proxy server can be used to secure less time-sensitive services, such as e-mail and most Web traffic. 2016 (Nexis) 30 June Measured by web traffic, ad revenue and influence over the way the rest of the media makes money, Facebook has grown into the most powerful force in the news industry. 1994 Space FAQ in sci.answers (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Mar. Web users, note that this is a VMS site and Mosaic does not get along with their server. 2005 J. Smith xiii. 59 For the experienced web user, rolling a mouse over a word or image will reveal whether something is clickable. 2012 12 July 5/5 Nearly a quarter of web users were..using the web for banking, grocery shopping and other essential services. 1995 FCCM'95 Program in comp.arch.fpga (Usenet newsgroup) 13 Mar. Below is the preliminary program for FCCM '95. For the web-wise it's also available through: [etc.] 2006 No. 8. 11/1 If you are web-wise then you can email jpeg images to us. 2014 (Nexis) 20 Oct. Keep pace with new ways to stay safe online..and share with friends, family, and colleagues to encourage them to be web wise. 2015 (Nexis) 25 Mar. 3 Some doctors may feel..threatened by web-wise patients arriving at their practice armed with a dossier of medical information. Derivatives 1675 C. Cotton 87 As to Caterpillars, you are to have an especial care during the winter season, to take away all the Kells, or web-like receptacles that hang upon the Trees, wherein the seed of this pernitious vermine is concealed. 1768 A. Tucker II. ii. 29 This web-like expansion of the ethereal strings. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence I. ii. 32 The web-like nests [of the larva of Bombyx chrysorrhœa] which so often deform our fruit trees. 1902 29 Dec. 3/3 The silk Chantilly laces..are..very pretty and weblike. 2002 July 31/1 The molecules of thermoset plastics are tightly bonded in web-like structures. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). webv.Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: web n. Etymology: < web n. Compare weave v.1 In sense 4 after webbed adj. 2.The word is attested earliest in figurative use. Compare also the Old English evidence discussed at webbing n. OE (1932) 672 Huscworde ongan þurh inwitðanc ealdorsacerd herme hyspan, hordlocan onspeon, wroht webbade. OE Cynewulf 309 Swa ge modblinde mengan ongunnon lige wið soðe.., æfst wið are, inwitþancum wroht webbedan. OE 109 Ne bregda to full, ne inwit to leof, ne wrohtas to webgenne, ne searo to renigenne. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > weave fabric a1325 [implied in: (Cambr.) (1929) 452 Purveier coveint de une lame [glossed] a webbyng szaly [a1333 BL Add. the weving slay]. (at webbing n. 1)]. (Harl. 221) 519 Webbon, or webbe clothe of lynnyne, linifico. 1449 in J. C. Tingey (1910) II. 285 Providinge alwey that the cloþinge be webbed be the avyse of the said wardeyns. 1511–12 Act 3 Henry VIII c. 6 §1 in (1963) III. 28 The Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth. 1530 J. Palsgrave iii. f. ccccvi I webbe a clothe... I haue nat yerne ynough to webbe my clothe with all. 1616 J. Deacon 127 Can they possibly make webs of cloath without any wooll? Or can they haue wooll to web, but by breeding abundance of sheepe? 1807 J. Barlow ii. 84 Her sprightly mind A vesture white had for the prince design'd; And here she seeks the wool to web the fleece. 1894 Gloss. Terms Evid. Royal Comm. Labour 86/1 in (C. 7063–VC) XXXVIII. 411 Web, to weave. 3. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [verb (intransitive)] > spin web a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 97 in J. Ware (1633) The roofe of Westminster Hall, where no English Spider webbeth or breedeth to this day. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [verb (transitive)] > spin web > cover with web the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [verb (transitive)] > cover with caterpillar's web 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in II. xvi. 368 Leaving untenanted Ulysses' bed To be by noisome spiders webb'd around. 1853 11 4044 The canker-worm..forms itself a house by webbing the corner of a leaf. 1908 16 175 The material sent by C. E. P. consisted of..several pupæ inclosed in cocoons made by webbing the leaves together. 1977 R. L. Furniss & V. M. Carolin ii. 138 The young larvae web the leaves together and feed on them gregariously. 2007 Winter 111 A spider webbed the cellar doorway the morning of my cleaning spree. the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)] > as in specific place the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [verb (transitive)] > catch fly in web 1864 Web v.t.,..to envelop; to entangle. 1901 20 Apr. 189/2 A peasant kills a giant spider who has webbed a fly. 1907 June 26 The girl was ready when again they webbed her round, each trumpet-mouthed with his own hunting cry. 2008 70 179 The cavalcade of relatives that had webbed her and her family into a slave-holding dynasty of extraordinary scale and scope. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > net > cover with 1876 T. G. Hake 63 He could not see the angel there, But rose and swept away in scorn The films of dream that webbed the air. 1895 Jan. Continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires. 1905 P. Landon I. 361 An exquisite head-dress in which the high aureole..was barely recognisable under the strings and riggings of pearls which webbed the whole thing. 1955 W. de la Mare 181 A sneer webbed over Aubrey's cold stiff features. 1961 J. Carew 8 Premature age and drink webbed her face with wrinkles. 2010 J. Cargill iii. 66 Rail tracks webbing the landscape carried trains loaded with processed sugar for export. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical skills and techniques > use optical skills and techniques [verb (transitive)] > use other techniques 1883 XVI. 248/1 Method of Webbing the Filar Micrometer. The webbing of a micrometer is a process that should be familiar to all practical astronomers. 1890 W. F. Stanley 100 The diaphragm of the telescope of the Y-level is generally webbed with plain cross webs. 4. the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [verb (transitive)] > web 1688 R. Holme ii. xi. 261/2 It hath four Toes in each Foot all webbed together by a broad black Membrane. 1712 J. Morton 429 Fowls of the Fin-toed Tribe, that is, such as have their Toes welted or Finn'd..but not webb'd together, by an intervening Skin, as are those of Ducks. 1774 O. Goldsmith VI. 45 Nature..by broad skins, has webbed their toes together. 1809 Mar. 234 If nature webbed their feet for them to live on dry land, she has done something in vain. 1890 W. P. Ball 147 Use-inheritance..aids in webbing the feet of water-dogs, but fails to web the feet of the water-hen. 1906 H. H. Johnson II. xxv. 823 Fingers as well as toes webbed and terminated with discs. 2000 F. Ankel-Simons (ed. 2) viii. 301 In species of Propithecus digits three and four are webbed together by a small skin fold on the bases of the fingers. 2012 Z. Parsons xiii. 116 Gideon cleaned himself of the slop that clung to his limbs and webbed his fingers and toes. society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [verb (transitive)] > mark with footprint 1866 W. D. Howells xiv. 203 The ground was webbed with the feet of geese. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOEv.OE |