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单词 web
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webn.

Brit. /wɛb/, U.S. /wɛb/
Forms:

α. early Old English uueb, early Old English waeb (in compounds), Old English–1700s (1800s–1900s English regional (northern)) webb, Old English– web, early Middle English wæbb, early Middle English weob (south-western and south-west midlands), Middle English vebbis (northern, plural), Middle English weeb (East Anglian), Middle English–1500s webe, Middle English–1600s webbe; also Scottish pre-1700 veb (Scottish), pre-1700 webe, 1700s–1800s webb.

β. 1500s wabe, 1800s wob (English regional (northern and Leicestershire)); Scottish pre-1700 vob, pre-1700 vobe, pre-1700 wabe, pre-1700 woabe, pre-1700 woeb, pre-1700 woib, pre-1700 wolb, pre-1700 woob, pre-1700 1700s wobb, pre-1700 1700s– wab, pre-1700 1700s– wob, pre-1700 1800s– wobe, 1800s– wub.

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.
a. Woven fabric, cloth. Also: a piece of woven fabric; a piece of fabric in the process of being woven (also occasionally in web of cloth in same sense). Also in figurative contexts.In quot. c1275 gode webbe has the sense ‘fine or costly cloth’. It is apparently to be taken as two words here, but reflects reanalysis of an earlier compound; see discussion in etymology.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven
webOE
webOE
wefta1398
stuff1462
tissue1565
weave1581
contexture1603
textile1626
texturea1656
woof1674
webbing1739
fabric1753
mail net1875
OE Prognostics (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 Liber Scintillarum (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 Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 745 Ða het Aurelianus on hengenne afæstnien þone halgan wer, and aðenian his lima swa swa man webb tyht.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 39 Al swa nan webb ne mai bien iweuen wið-uten twa beames.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 240 Wule anweb beon anchere wel ibleached wið an water.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9953 Iscrud mid gode webbe.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (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 Piers Plowman (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 Grande Chirurgie (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 Psalter (1884) 496 The wefand that sheris down the web are it be fulfild.
1546 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 236 Ane vob of tartane, contenand x ellis.
1629 Orkney Witch Trial in County Folk-lore (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 Wks. 483 Her Hand the Web forsakes.
1749 Universal Mag. 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 Elements Art of Dyeing I. 133 Common woollen stocking web.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 456 I gaed up to Dunse, To warp a wab o' plaiden.
1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 283 Linen cloth is the web on which the plaster is commonly spread.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 81 A whole web or piece of calico is printed by them in three minutes.
1857 Ann. Sci. Discov. 95 William Norton of York, Eng., has secured a patent for weaving two webs of cloth at once in one loom.
1909 R. Law Tests of Life xv. 312 The pattern of the cloth is more clearly displayed in the web than in the patch.
1973 S. E. Held Weaving 132/1 A web in which the warp yarns predominate is called a warp-face fabric.
1997 T. V. Kaufman-Osborn Creatures of Prometheus 277 Philomela weaves her story into a web of cloth.
b. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something likened to a woven fabric, esp. in having a complex or intricate structure, or requiring particular skill to produce.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 3b, which covers figurative uses of ‘cobweb’; see note at that sense. In later use sometimes passing into sense 8a.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] > a complicated structure
web1822
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 291 [Ostenso fallacis] pepli [ludibrio] : webbes.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (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 Fall of Princes (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 Traité de l'Esperance (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 Panoplie Epist. 114 Should I..recant now in mine aged years,..and as it were begin a new webbe?
1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. B1v Skarse nature yet my face about, Hir virile wob had spun.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. To Rdr. sig. 4v Some there be who may obiect to the silly web of my stile.
1663 W. Charleton Chorea Gigantum 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 Several Lett. 95 To weave a long and tedious Web of Cares, which one thought, or kind word, was able to unravel.
1763 T. Percy Five Pieces Runic Poetry 50 The web of spears went furiously forward; thro' the resounding ranks of shields.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 196 The web and texture of the universe..is a mystery to them.
1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands 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 Captains & Co. xx. 235 His cheeks had a web of criss-cross wrinkles.
1971 Sci. Amer. 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 My Mother, your Mother 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.
c. A particular quantity of woven cloth; esp. this quantity as a unit of measurement. Obsolete.
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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
weblOE
lOE Rec. Gifts of Bp. Æðelwold to Peterborough (Sawyer 1448) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Peterborough Abbey (2009) 324 iii offrinc sceatas, & xviiii albæn [altered from alban], & iiii pælles, & ii linen web to albæn.
1433 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 48 (MED) Unum par linthiaminum de tribus webbes.
1459 Inventory Fastolf's Wardrobe in Paston Lett. (1904) III. 181 Item, ij. fustian blanketts, every of hem vj. webbys.
1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 325 ij payre shytes of iij webbys, ij hedshytes of ij webbys, vj payre shytes of ij webbys.
2.
a. An article made from woven fabric (as an item of clothing, tapestry, shroud, etc.). In early use also with plural reference: a number of such articles; tapestries, garments, etc. Obsolete (archaic in later use).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven
webOE
webOE
wefta1398
stuff1462
tissue1565
weave1581
contexture1603
textile1626
texturea1656
woof1674
webbing1739
fabric1753
mail net1875
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
webOE
stuff1462
webstery1588
OE Beowulf (2008) 995 Goldfag scinon web æfter wagum.
c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 43 Forþyȝ weron itealde on þam Godes itælde..þa alles endlyfæn wæbb betwyx þam oðrum webbum.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) 11267 Þe king..caste on his rugge swiþe riche webbes [c1275 Calig. iweden].
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1523 All þe wawis with-oute in webis of ynde.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 19 The riche Badkins, the coistlie veluot wobbis.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. Ev If Phœbus tired in Latonas webs, Came courting.
1757 J. Dyer Fleece ii. 74 What nation did not seek, Of thy new-modell'd wool, the curious webs?
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond 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 Life & Death of Jason vi. 118 With richest webs the marble walls were hung.
1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. ii. vii. 96 Costly fabrics and dainty webs.
b. In plural. Stockinet pantaloons or breeches. Obsolete. rare.
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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
shiverines1663
nankeen1770
overall1782
corduroys1791
ducks1825
webs1825
kerseys1833
moleskin1836
cord1837
kerseymeres1840
blue jeans1842
grey1860
mole trousers1860
chaparreras1861
Bedford cord1862
velveteens1862
dungarees1872
moles1879
chaps1884
chaparejos1887
oiler1889
greyers1900
flannels1911
Levi's1926
denim1932
chino1943
wrangler1947
Bedfords1954
sweats1956
sweatpants1957
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 48 Our tall friend in the webs.
c. A bandana or large handkerchief. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for head or neck or body > [noun] > kerchief > types of
rumal1622
bandana1732
Barcelona1761
pulicat1768
fogle1811
kora1833
shawl-handkerchief1838
web1843
foulard1856
waterman1860
Malabar1882
Monteith1882
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. iv. 369 The waste cotton-shrub,..have ye not..made it into beautiful bandana webs?
1850 ‘Sylvanus’ Bye-lanes & Downs vi. 81 The flash, reared up fellow, in the light blue pantaloons and huge web of satin round his neck!
3.
a. A fine network or tangle of silk filaments spun by a spider to catch prey; a cobweb. Also: any of various similar structures made by other animals, notably silkworms and other insect larvae, typically for protection. As a mass noun: such webs collectively; the substance of which they are made.funnel web, orb web, purse-web, sheet web: see the first element. Cf. spider-web n. 1.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web
webOE
netOE
cobweb1323
lop-webc1400
wevet1499
attercop1530
spider-web1535
caul1548
mouseweb1556
spider coba1571
twail1608
spider's cloth1638
cockweba1642
texturea1774
worm-web1822
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > that spins cocoon > filmy textures spun by
webOE
kell1612
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Royal 12 C.xxiii) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 194/1 [Annua dum redeunt texendi tempora] telas : i. webb.
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 319 Ðe spinnere..Werpeð ðus hire web & weueð on hire wise.
c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 19* Vn teile de filaundre sur vn perere, A web of gossomer.
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (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 Pilgrimage Life Man (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 Psalter (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 Decades of Newe Worlde f. 187 Spiders..full of that laune wherof they make their webbes.
1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. G3b Th' admirable Silke-worme Whose daintie webbe doth cloath potentates.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 133 Spiders in the Vault, their snary Webs have spred.
1718 Poor Robin Feb. A 5 b Cut Caterpillars Webbs from Tops Of Twigs.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 22 Some [caterpillars] spin themselves a cone or web, in which they lie secure till they have arrived at maturity.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto X 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 Idylls of King 106 A gilded summer fly Caught in a great old tyrant spider's web.
1869 J. J. Weir in Trans. Entom. Soc. 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 Wild Life 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. Forest Insects 305 The larvae of the members of the family Lyonetiidae are leaf miners or live in webs between the leaves.
1984 V. G. Dethier Ecol. Summer House xiii. 107 Having found the web of a female, the male approaches cautiously and begins to pluck the strings.
2013 D. J. Fairbairn Odd Couples vi. 82 Garden spiders often build their webs in sunny locations in backyard gardens and old fields.
b. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something likened to a cobweb, esp. in being a snare or means of entanglement, or in being delicate, intricate, or insubstantial. Cf. cobweb n. 3, spider-web n. 1, 2a.It is often difficult to distinguish this sense from sense 1b when a spider is not mentioned or alluded to in the context.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun]
neteOE
angleOE
grinc1000
trapc1175
caltropa1300
lacec1330
girnc1375
espyc1380
webc1400
hook1430
settingc1430
lure1463
stall?a1500
stalea1529
toil1548
intrap1550
hose-net1554
gudgeon1577
mousetrap1577
trapfall1596
ensnarementa1617
decoy1655
cobweba1657
trepan1665
snap1844
deadfall1860
Judas1907
tanglefoot1908
catch-221963
trip-wire1971
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance
breathc1275
winda1382
vapour1382
cloudc1384
gossamer?a1400
webc1400
comedown1583
bubble1598
anatomy1605
carcass1612
intentional1658
blank1678
ethereality1819
breath bubble1835
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > [noun] > instance of
curiosityc1380
syllogism1387
webc1400
cobweb1579
refinement1692
refinery1746
pilpul1966
c1400 Bk. to Mother (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 1st Pt. Mirour for Magistrates Elstride f. xxivv O wretched wight bewrapt in webbes of woe.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. 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 Of Aduancem. Learning 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 Othello (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 Conquest Granada ii. i. ii. 84 I..Silk-worm-like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own Webb of thought.
1737 Hist. Wks. Learned 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 Lett. & Papers (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 Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. Introd. p. cx The law seemed only the web to ensnare the weak.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 91 Who wove coarse webs to snare her purity, Grossly contriving their dear daughter's good.
1941 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist ii. 25 Thus is the web of life spun, on the desert as in cities.
1991 M. Ignatieff Asya 125 Nick was being drawn into this web of sordid intrigue.
c. In a filar micrometer: (originally) any of several lengths of spider silk used to measure distances or mark the position of an object being viewed; (in later use) a thin wire or thread used for this purpose. Now rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > [noun] > instrument for looking through > parts of
sight-hole1559
aperture1665
diaphragm1665
reticule1728
reticle1731
wire1737
web1746
screena1764
eye cap1822
spider-line1829
cobweb1837
slit1863
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > cobweb
web1746
spider-line1829
cobweb1837
cross-wire1866
1746 Gentleman's Mag. 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 Philos. Trans. (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 Dun Echt Observ. Publ. II. 11 The webs a, b, c, d, and f are all attached to the frame which is moved by the micrometer screw.
1919 Machinery 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 Compl. Man. Amateur Astron. iv. 74/2 The micrometer consists of a measuring screw, two fixed webs, and one movable web.
4. A strap or band woven strongly and without a pile (pile n.5 2a). Also: woven fabric in the form of a strong, wide band; cf. webbing n. 2b.
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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
webc1312
filleting1639
webbing1761
c1312 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 18 (MED) iiij bucles et webbes cingulorum, xiiij d.
1337–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 34 In emendacione..Wambtowes, vidz. 2 webbs pro cingulis.
1394–5 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby (1881) II. 614 iiii pese de waimto[w-] webs, xx d..ii dosan wamtow-schafts, ii s.
1794 in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1918) 7 The Coffin was..lowered down with Ropes and Webb.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 115 Procure two yards, more or less, of web, of broad tape, or cloth listing.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Web 5. (Vehicle) Stout bands of textile fabric, used as straps to limit the extension of the hood.
1963 E. H. Edwards Saddlery 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 101 Ground Training Exercises 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.
5. The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom and crossed with the weft or woof in order to produce woven fabric; = warp n.1 1a. Also figurative and in figurative contexts (in quot. a1398 with reference to a cobweb; cf. sense 3a).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > threads in process of weaving > [noun] > warp
warpc725
abbeOE
weba1398
warping1684
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (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 Dict. 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 Sixt Lampe Virginitie 140 Hee awoke out of his sleepe, and went away with the pinne of the webbe and woofe.
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (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 Poems 120 He..Strikes the rough thread of error right athwart The web of ev'ry scheme they have at heart.
1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. (1873) i. iv. 38 Service and prayer are the web and woof of the Christian life.
1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. Web, locally, the warp in a loom.
a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (2010) I. 306 It is the web and woof and fibre of his mental and spiritual heredities and ineradicable.
1987 F. J. Swetz Capitalism & Arithm. 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 Guardian (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.
6. Perhaps: a kind of net for catching fish. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other nets
Peter netc1280
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shove-net1418
trod-net1523
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basket-net1652
landing-net1653
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wolf1725
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gill net1795
wolf-net1819
trap-net1856
forewheel1861
stow-net1871
lave net1875
kettle-bail1881
beating-net1883
keeve-net1883
net basin1883
wing-neta1884
trap-seine1891
lead-net1910
ghost net1959
1533–4 Act 25 Henry VIII c. 7 in Statutes of Realm (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.
a. A continuous belt used for conveying material; esp. a belt of this kind used in papermaking for conveying the pulp, typically consisting of a wire mesh or absorbent material. More fully endless web. Cf. endless adj. 4b. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > wire bed
web1807
wire1825
wire bed1962
1807 Universal Mag. Apr. 336/1 As fast as the moulds arrive beneath the cylinder, the felt web takes off the paper.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 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 Fireside Philos. 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.
b. A long, continuous sheet or roll of paper made in this way.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > sheet or roll in manufacture
web1832
1832 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 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 Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 365/1 An endless wire-cloth.., over which the web of paper is formed.
1949 Paper Making (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 Pulp & Paper Industry iii. 29 The web is guided by means of a highly absorbent, continuous felt cloth between rollers of steel, granite, or hard rubber.
c. A continuous sheet or film of plastic used in the manufacture of plastic goods or items.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > synthetic resins and plastics > [noun] > plastic > continuously moving sheet or film
web1958
1890 U. S. Patent 434,287 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 Extrusion of Plastics 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 Plastics Films 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. Plastic Product Material & Process Select. Handbk. ix. 369 A plastic bank is formed into a web in the nip between the first pair of rolls.
8.
a. Originally U.S. A complex system or network consisting of structurally interconnected component parts.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > structure resembling network
netOE
webworkc1175
network1590
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spider-web1699
mesh1712
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chainwork1864
ribwork1892
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1851 De Bow's Rev. May 573 Both points uniting with the web of roads diverging from Savannah, Charleston and Nashville.
1913 Motordom Sept. 121/1 A course which would result only in ‘a disgraceful botch, a broken web of highways bristling with dead ends’.
1978 Lancs. Life Mar. 115/1 They moved to Oldham because it is at the hub of the northern motorway web.
1989 Sci. Amer. July 57/1 Organizing chunks of information into nonlinear webs also appears to be well suited for managing highly complex projects.
2015 Atlantic Cities (Nexis) 10 Mar. She created her first aerial view of a fantasy city—an abstract web of streets, bridges, and blocks.
b. U.S. A radio or television broadcasting network. Now rare.
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society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [noun] > broadcasting network
network1914
web1932
net1959
1932 Variety 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 News-week 20 Oct. 30/3 Now king-pin of the nation's third largest air web, WMCA is out for bigger game.
1944 Collier's 9 Sept. 55/2 Antonio was poco agitato when he had to work as pancake turner on the Green web.
1990 Fortune 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.
9. North American. In plural. Snowshoes.
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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
web1923
1923 Beaver Jan. 145 It is said they still enjoy an occasional zestful tramp on the ‘webs’ over leagues of new Manitoba snow.
1939 K. Pinkerton Wilderness Wife ix. 103 After breakfast we went out to slip on our webs.
1966 M. E. Murie & O. Murie Wapiti Wilderness xviii. 223 Snowshoes, or ‘webs’ as the Jackson Hole people call them, were the tried and true aids.
1982 Courier-Express (DuBois, Pa.) 27 Oct. 21/4 Any snow accumulation deeper than a foot justifies the wearing of webs.
2008 Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 31 Dec. 4/1 Learn how to walk on top of the snow with webs of wood and sinew.
10.
a. With the. Also with capital initial. The World Wide Web. Also more loosely: the internet; online sources regarded collectively.
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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 Online Libraries & Microcomputers (Nexis) 1 Jan. Developments with the Web are in a dynamic state of change.
1994 Economist 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 Deeper v. 163 In theory, surfing the Web was more mindful than watching MTV, because you were pulling content towards you.
2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Feb. b1/1 Your iPad can't play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can.
b. With capital initial. With following ordinal number in the form 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, after the usual way of specifying versions of software: a particular major stage of development of the World Wide Web; the World Wide Web at one of these stages of development. Web 1.0: the earliest stage of development of the World Wide Web, characterized by the predominance of websites featuring little in the way of interactive content (now historical). Web 2.0: the stage of development characterized by a marked increase in the ability to interact with websites, resulting in the emergence of social media websites and the proliferation of user-generated content. Web 3.0: a (predicted) third stage of development, typically characterized as a resulting largely from the development of the semantic web (semantic web n. (b) at semantic adj. Compounds).
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1999 D. DiNucci in Print 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 Internat. Herald Tribune (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 Esquire 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 Do you Web 2.0 ii. 25 If Web 2.0 is the user-created web, then Web 1.0 is the information web.
2012 P. Anderson Web 2.0 & Beyond 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.
a. A membrane or thin sheet of tissue in an animal or human body, either natural or (now more commonly) resulting from disease.
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the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > web-like tissue or membrane
webc1300
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 720 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (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 De Proprietatibus Rerum (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 Liber Uricrisiarum (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 Grande Chirurgie (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 Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Eiijv The sayde webbe or tunycle called Rethina.
1605 R. Underwood New Anatomie 14 The thin web which wrappeth in the Brayne.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Ear A delicate Web, that lines the Vestibulum, Cochlea, &c.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 324 The five filaments of the Celosia, Cock's-comb, are connected at their lower part by a membranous web.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 931 When these sinuosities are first formed or scooped out, their walls are soft, irritable, and of the common cellular web.
1853 Assoc. Med. Jrnl. 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. Syst. Med. IV. 812 Cicatricial web formations [in the larynx] should be divided by cutting dilators.
1967 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 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. Endoscopic Surg. Infants & Children xxxix. 295/2 In case of a duodenal web, mobilization of the duodenum is easy.
b. spec. The omentum or caul around the intestines of a farm animal. Now rare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of
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oxblood?1440
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ox-hoof1601
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razorback1844
1778 B. Bell Treat. Theory & Managem. Ulcers 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 Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Web, the covering of the entrails, the cawl, or omentum, apparently denominated from its resemblance to something that is woven.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) ‘The web of the body’; the omentum.
1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 212 Meal is understood to darken the flesh, web, and lights of the animal [sc. a calf].
1864 R. Jennings Sheep, Swine, & Poultry 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. Immigrant's Kitchen, Italian 159 The web (caul) is the fatty, net-like membrane which covers the intestines of the pig.
12.
a. An opacity or clouding of the cornea of the eye; an albugo or pterygium; (perhaps also) a cataract. Often in combination with pin: see pin and web n. at pin n.1 4a. Also figurative. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > film or web
filmOE
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nebula1661
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (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 Master of Game (Digby) xii. 58 Sometyme commeth to þe houndes sekenes in hir eyenn, for þer commeth a webbe vpon hem and waxynge flesshe.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Tobit vi. 9 To anoynte iȝen, in whiche is a web.
1464 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 280 For a webbe and a pynne in the yhe.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer 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 Dict. Suffusio, a webbe in the eye.
c1575 Perfect Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes (1886) 31 Pyn or Web or other dymnes by strokes &c. must be spedely loked unto.
?1587 A. Hunton tr. J. Guillemeau Worthy Treat. Eyes (new ed.) vi. iii. 156 (heading) Of the webbe or cataract, called in greeke hypochyma, in latine suffusio, gutta, aqua, imaginatio.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 28 If a horsse haue a web in his eye.
a1638 J. Mede Wks. (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 Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Pearl, a Disease in an Horse's Eye, under which Head we shall comprehend Pins, Spots, Webs, &c.
1765 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (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 Study Med. III. 214 This filmy opacity [sc. caligo] was denominated a ‘web of the eye’.
b. gen. A crust or film. Obsolete. rare.In quot. a1475 with reference to a crust of mucus in a hawk's head formed as the result of respiratory illness.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > thin
skina1475
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cuticle1658
cuticula1662
surface film1841
skim1951
a1475 Dis. Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 39, in Middle Eng. Dict. (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 Jewell House 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.
a. A membrane or fold of skin connecting the fingers or toes, or the digits of an animal; esp. that which connects the toes of an aquatic bird, mammal, amphibian, etc., forming a palmate foot. Cf. webbed adj. 2.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > web-foot > membrane connecting digits
web1575
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie 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 Ornithol. iii. 363 The Web of the Foot and the Claws of a deep black.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 420 The lower part of the toes and webs black.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (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 Hist. Earth 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 Lect. Inflammation 77 The capillary vessels in the web of the foot of the frog.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 16 Like some full-breasted swan That,..takes the flood With swarthy webs.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xxvi. 226 My hands pricked at the thin fine skin between the fingers that we call the webs.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 865 The burrows [of the itch insect] will generally be found in the webs between the fingers and toes.
1979 D. Attenborough Life on Earth (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 Human Anat. for Artists 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 Jrnl. Field Ornithol. 72 276 Gadwalls..exhibit two types of severe foot damage, one manifested by..necrosis, which results in deformed and eroded webs.
b. Medicine. An extension of the normal fold of skin between fingers or toes, as a congenital malformation in the human hand or foot.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > webbing of digits > web
web1814
1814 J. Adams Treat. Supposed Hereditary Properties Dis. 68 Haller quotes from Stahl the hereditary transmission of a web between the toes.
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) II. xxix. 300 When the fingers are well formed, the Surgeon should, if possible, divide the web.
2014 C. Simon et al. Oxf. Handbk. Gen. Pract. (ed. 4) xv. 487 Syndactyly. Digits may be joined by a web of skin or more firmly fused.
14. The series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a bird's feather; the vane or vexillum.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > part of
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dowlc1535
rib1545
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barbule1835
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aftershaft1867
barbicel1869
filament1870
vexillum1871
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radius1882
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1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 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 Ornithol. 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 Physico-theol. vii. i. 375 The Mechanism of the Vanes or Webs of the Feathers.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 154 The greater quil feathers are black; the exterior webs of the next are of a fine green.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 216 First feather of the tail white, with a black square spot on the interior web.
1837 J. Gould Birds Europe V. Pl. 372 The shaft and the narrow inner web white; the outer web broad and deep bluish black.
1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 239 The rami, radii, and cilia compose the inner and outer web, vane, or vexillum of the feather.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (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 Birdwatch 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.
15. A lead sheet, typically used for roofing or for wrapping a corpse within a coffin. Also: lead sheeting of this kind.In later use rare and only in echoes of Malory's description of Guinevere's burial (see quot. 1485).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > lead > lead in specific form > sheet
web1343
table1809
soaker1895
1343 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) xviii. 265 Four plumbers working lead in webbys for the roofing of the chamber.
1360 in J. Raine Inventories & Acct. Rolls Benedictine Houses Jarrow & Monk-Wearmouth (1854) 153 (MED) Ij webbes plumbi novi.
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) xxi. xi. sig. eeiv After she was put in a webbe of leed & than in a coffyn of marbyl.
1489 in F. Peck Desiderata Curiosa (1735) II. vii. 10 For the Balmynge, Fencyng and Scowering of the Corse, with the Webbe of Led and Chest.
1555 in Publ. Surtees Soc. (1897) 97 152 Leade. In the covering upon the same colledge MlDxiiij square yerdes of webbe.
1577 in Assoc. Archit. Soc. Rep. & Papers (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 Godfrey of Bulloigne 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 Hist. World 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 Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 197 For taking upp the high roofe of the leades and laying the webbs againe.
1730 J. Oldmixon Hist. Eng.: House of Stuart 301/2 Two great Webs of Lead fell within 10 Foot of the General.
1807 B. Boothroyd Hist. Pontefract xiv. 305 Sold unto Mr. John Skurr, one web of lead.
1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 312 Web of lead, feuille de plomb.
1907 F. B. T. Coutts-Nevill Romance of King Arthur 202 She was wound in web of lead, Closed in a marble coffin, richly carved.
2010 Arthuriana 20 66 Her burial in a cered cloth from Rennes, a web of lead, and a marble coffin.
16. A particular quantity of glass. Cf. way n.2 Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > measure or quantity of
sheaf1402
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crate1823
1558 Bk. Rates in Patent Roll, 4 & 5 Philip & Mary, Part 3 (P.R.O.: C 66/920) m. 16v Glasse the waye or wabe cont. lx bunches.
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Ciij Glasses Reinish the way or web containing lx. bunches.
1669 Act for Setling of Excize 110 Glass for windows called..Rhenish the way or web containing 60 bunches.
17. The piece of bent iron which forms a horseshoe. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > horseshoe > iron forming
web1566
1566 T. Blundeville True Arte Paring & Shooyng f. 7v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe 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 First Bk. Cattell ii. 156 Make your shooes, with a broade webbe.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. vi. 111 That no Gravell be remaining betwixt the Web of the Shoo and the Sole.
1697 A. S. Gentleman's Compl. Jockey 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 Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Shoeing The Shoe must be made of Spanish Iron, with a broad Web, fitting it to the Hoof.
1793 W. Taplin Gentleman's Stable Directory (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 Horse xvii. 312 The inside part of the web is bevelled off, or rendered concave, that it may not press upon the sole.
1874 Specif. & Drawings of Patents (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 Animal Managem. (War Office) 227 The whole of the substance of the shoe is called the ‘web’.
1997 Oxoniensia 61 252 The web of the shoe is wide with remains of a rectangular nail hole and a slight calkin.
18.
a. The blade of a sword or of a carpenter's plane (plane n.2 2). Also: the iron head of an axe or hatchet. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun] > cutting part of
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web1600
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > axe > [noun] > head of axe
web1600
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ii. xciii. 38 A sword, whereof the web was steele. [No corresponding clause in It. original.]
1676 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 223 This informant got hold of the head or web of the ax.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. 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 Mech. Exercises 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 Gloss. Web, of a sword. The blade of it.
b. A sharp, tapering blade attached to the coulter (coulter n. 1) or ploughshare (ploughshare n. 1) of a plough. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > coulter > web
web1784
1784 J. Small Ploughs 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 Cycl. 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 Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Supp. Fleukk, the web of the plough sock.
c. A long narrow blade held between two ends of a frame or apparatus to form any of several types of saw, esp. a frame saw or bandsaw. Cf. web saw n. at Compounds 3. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > detachable blade
web1831
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal 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 Chambers's Encycl. 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 U.S. Patent 2,393,300 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 Woodwright's Guide ii. 21 Intended for crosscutting greenwood ranging up to about 9 inches in diameter, the blade, or web, may have simple peg teeth.
19. The part of a key that engages with the lock lever; = bit n.1 7. Also: each of the teeth or notches in this (rare). Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > key > parts of key > bit
bit1644
key bit1699
web1754
1754 W. Emerson Princ. Mech. 311 Web, the thin broad part of an instrument, as the web of a key.
1800 Trans. Soc. Arts 18 241 So that the webs or bits of the Key may clear the Tumblers in the lock.
1856 Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. 12 125 This key has a solid or blank web.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxxi. §6105 The ‘bits’ or steps on the ‘web’ of the key, that act on the levers inside the lock.
20. Coal Mining. Originally: a coal face. In later use: a sheet of coal cut parallel to the coal face.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > working face or place
witchet1677
face1708
front1717
stope1747
wall1750
web1767
working place1827
wall-face1839
offset1872
wicket1881
upset1883
1767 Session Papers: Earl of Abercorn v. Hope 14 July 7 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. at Wab There is no less than 56 fathom of web of whole coal in the Gillespie seam.
1820 Edinb. Encycl. (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 Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 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 New Scientist 11 Apr. 11/3 It was cutting and loading a web of coal 6ft. 6in. wide with apparent ease.
2013 C. J. Bise Mod. Amer. Coal Mining xii. 516/2 The shearing machine travels to the tailgate and back to cut the full 1-m (39-in.) web.
21.
a. In a pulley: a disc connecting the hub and the rim of a sheave; the panels between the spokes of a sheave, each forming a segment of such a disc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > tackle > pulley > parts of
shell1769
web1794
gorge1815
swallowc1860
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 153 Web, the thin partition on the inside of the rim, and between the spokes of an iron sheave.
1860 Mechanics' Mag. 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 Machine Drawing xxiv. 492 The solid disk is sometimes provided with a web between hub and rim with holes to reduce weight of the pulley.
b. A solid or perforated disc connecting the hub and rim of a wheel. Sometimes contrasted with spokes. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > other parts
vane1815
web1828
offset1850
wheel-guard1860
spade1862
pulley cone1903
1828 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 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 Pract. Dict. Mech. Web 3. That portion of a car-wheel which extends between the hub and the rim.
1976 Railway Mag. 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 Engin. Materials 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.
c. Railways. The narrow, upright portion of a rail between its head and the foot. Formerly also: †the head or foot of a rail (more fully upper web and lower web respectively) (obsolete).
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails
string-piece1789
carriage1816
chair1816
pedestal1816
surface plate1822
web1835
frog1837
switch-bar1837
snake-head1845
fish1847
fish-joint1849
plate nail1849
fishing-key1852
fish-plate1855
joint-chair1856
rail chair1864
railhead1868
lead1871
fish-bar1872
splice-piece1875
fish-plating1881
splice-jointa1884
splice-bar1894
1835 P. Barlow Exper. Transverse Strength Malleable Iron 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 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 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 Canals & Rail Roads U.S. 264 Web, the outer projection of a rail, intended to prevent the wheels of carriages from running off the track.
1886 Encycl. Brit. 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 Railway Anthol. (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 Railway Track Engin. (ed. 3) ii. 31 The thick, sturdy web of the rail is designed to give the rail adequate shear strength to guard against failure.
d. In a crank or crankshaft: each of the arms or plates connecting a crank pin to the main part of the shaft.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > converters > cranks > part of
web1843
gable1879
1843 Artizan 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 Manch. Examiner 27 Aug. 4/7 Cranks having the additional strength provided by an increase of metal in the webs of the crank itself.
1953 Pop. Sci. 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 Vehicular Engine Design (ed. 2) xvi. 330 A crankshaft that has little or no pin overlap will require a thicker web to gain stiffness.
e. One or more thick panels connecting the load-bearing flanges of a girder, beam, or other structural support; (occasionally also) †each of the flanges of a support of this kind (obsolete).
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > beams or supports
sillc897
sole-tree1527
spur1529
brace1530
rance1574
strut1587
ground pin1632
ground-plate1663
strut-beam1668
wale-piece1739
strutting-beam1753
wale1754
stretcher1774
tie1793
tie-beam1823
strutting1833
lattice frame1838
tie-bolt1838
tie rod1839
brace-rod1844
web1845
box girder1849
plate girder1849
lattice beam1850
lattice girder1852
girder1853
twister1875
under-girder1875
truss-beam1877
raker1880
wind-bracing1890
portal strut1894
stirrup1909
knee-brace1912
tee-beam1930
tee section1963
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > structural framework > specific members of
web1909
frame1911
stringer1918
former1919
1845 Pract. Mechanic 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 Lives Engineers 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 Man. Naval Archit. 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 Flight 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 Pop. Sci. 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 Bridges 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.
f. The thinner part of an anvil, connecting the head and the base. rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > anvil > part between head and base
weba1875
a1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 120/2 Body or web of the anvil.
2012 L. F. Jeffus Welding & Metal Fabrication xii. 286 Put the anvil web in the center of the baseplate.
g. The part of an oar between the blade and the rowlock. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > oar > part between blade shaft
web1885
1885 H. Paasch From Keel to Truck 108/1 Oar web (the part of an oar between the rowlock and blade).
22. Fortification. The basketwork of a gabion (gabion n. 1a). Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > gabions or fascines > components of
faggot1408
randing1829
web1834
1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 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 Artillerist's Man. (ed. 8) xii. 234 Gabions are..2 feet 9 inches high, in the web.
1892 F. Irwin Notes on Fortification (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.
23. Mathematics. The set of lines consisting of tangents to a system of conic sections. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > sets or groups of points
umbilic point1586
involution1847
triad1850
range1859
point group1887
tetrad1889
tristigm1889
neighbourhood1891
trinode1891
trigraphy1895
Cantor set1902
web1909
limit cycle1918
Leech lattice1968
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Net But if [represented] in line coördinates, the net is tangential or a web.

Compounds

C1. General attributive in senses 1 and 2. Cf. web-beam n. Now chiefly historical. [Some early compounds could alternatively be interpreted as compounds of webbe n.
With quots. c1200 and a1500 compare e.g. Middle Dutch wevehuus (Dutch weefhuis ), Old High German webahūs (Middle High German webehūs , early modern German webhaus ), both in sense ‘weavers' workshop, loom shed’, although these are formed slightly differently ( < the respective cognates of weave v.1 + the respective cognates of house n.1).]
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eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 74/2 Linea, waebtaeg.
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (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 Eng. Stud. (1981) 62 204/2 Textrina, webhus.
1317 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1889) I. 273 (MED) [A tenement called] le Webbeloft.
1376 in Proc. Somerset Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1878) 23 12 In filis emptis ad Webethrede ad cereos sacramentales et alia iij d.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (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 Life & Corr. S. Hibbert Ware (1882) xvi. 98 Irish web yarn is best for the Blackburn manufacture.
1866 Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 185/2 Their uniform was a white tunic, and blue web pantaloons fitting tight to the leg.
2003 P. J. O'Connor Fairs & Markets of Ireland iv. 80 Cowhides sold by the hundredweight;..web linen and flannel by the yard.
C2. attributive with the sense ‘made of webbing (webbing n. 2b)’. Cf. sense 4.
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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
web1528
1528 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1872) (modernized text) IV. ii. 1678 A web bridle for my Lord's great horse.
1818 Repertory of Arts 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’ Colonial Reformer x. 93 Have you no..breaking-bit, or web surcingle?
1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand viii. 90 Sam Browne belts have been wisely discarded by the officers in favour of web-equipment.
2000 C. Hill Trailering your Horse 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.
web belt n. a belt made of strong, closely woven fabric; esp. such a belt used to carry ammunition, equipment, etc., as part of a soldier's uniform; cf. webbing n. 2c.
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1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 63 They [sc. dandies] were charged with wearing stays—a mistake easily fallen into, their wide web-belts having that appearance.
1878 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 10 Aug. 12/3 The uniform consists of U.S. full dress, white web belts and shakos.
1915 P. MacGill Amateur Army 100 Web-belts were cleaned, and every speck of mud and grease removed.
2014 U.S. Fed News (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.
web-fed adj. Printing designating a printing process or machine that is fed paper from a continuous reel; = reel-fed adj. at reel n.1 Compounds 2; cf. sense 7b.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [adjective] > using reeled paper
web-fed1920
reel-fed1926
1920 U.S. Patent 1,353,401 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 Printing & Promotion Handbk. 358/1 Newspapers are printed on web-fed rotary presses.
2000 PrintWeek 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.
web-fingered adj. [compare earlier web-footed adj.] (a) having the fingers joined for a considerable part of their length by a fold of skin; (b) U.S. designating a fish, the northern sea robin, Prionotus carolinus, in allusion to its finger-like pelvic fin rays (obsolete).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > webbed digits
web-fingered1745
webbed1751
syndactylized1908
1745 Gentleman's Mag. 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 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 362 Of these [children] 1 was web-fingered.
1815 S. L. Mitchill in Trans. Lit. & Philos. Soc. N.Y. 1 431 Web-fingered Gurnard. (Trigla palmipes.) With bright yellow fringes on the fingers.
1844 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 47 59 Prionotus Carolinus, Cuv., Web-fingered Grunter.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 137/1 He was, it is said, web-footed, naturally, and partially web-fingered.
1873 T. Gill Catal. Fishes East Coast N. Amer. 21 Prionotus carolinus..Web-fingered sea-robin; Carolina robin.
2001 T. Earnshaw Actor, & Rare One 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.
web garn n. [garn n.] Obsolete yarn used for weaving.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > for weaving
web garn?c1440
?c1440 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 78 Noon of the said craft shal make no capez of webb garn nother blew ne meld nor noon other collour.
web lace n. (a) a kind of coarse lace used to make straps by which footmen hold on to the back of a carriage (obsolete); (b) a kind of inexpensive lace, made of woven cotton, used for trimming clothes.
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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
masclea1425
pomet1582
loop-lace1632
colbertinea1685
coxcomb1693
trolly-lolly1693
trolly1699
piece lace1702
mignonette1751
web lace1795
guard-lace1804
Antwerp lace1811
warp-lace1812
cardinal lace1842
guipure1843
run lace1843
Shetland lace1848
lacis1865
pot lace1865
reticella1865
tape guipure1865
quadrille1884
reticello1895
tambour-lace1899
rosaline1900
ring net1901
tracing-lace1901
shadow lace1914
1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 238 Webb Lace, a thick course kind of lace mostly used for footman holders.
1865 Manufacturers U.S. 1860 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 Man. Commerce v. 127 The process of making the web-lace is very difference from that by which the costly edgings and trimmings are produced.
1968 Park Forest (Illinois) Star 11 July e5/6 A dress made of spring green crepe and web lace was worn by Mrs. Organ for her daughter's wedding.
web lead n. Obsolete rare sheet lead.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > lead > lead in specific form
base bulliona1593
web lead1686
pig lead1736
lead bullion1905
lead wool1908
1686 Contract 6 Nov. in Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. (1990) XI. 315 To help to carie the webe leid to the rooffes.
1894 Athenæum 14 Apr. 482/3 The casting of web lead for roofs.
web-loom n. now historical and rare a weaver's loom. [Compare Middle English webanlam , lit. ‘weaver's loom’ (see quot. 1346 at webbe n. and the discussion at that entry).]
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom
web-loom1338
loom1404
weaving-loom1496
weaving-frame1530
1338 in Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum (1819) II. 585/2 Pro weblomes emptis xxs.
1404 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 22 Appretiatores unius wollyn weblome cum uno cam et j. slay.
1699 J. Clark Memento Mori 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 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 29 Mar. A single web loom can weave a fabric of three and a half yards wide.
2007 H. R. John I Swallow Turquoise for Courage iii. 59 She pulls spindled threads like silk, Intertwining them through the web-loom.
web machine n. a printing press supplied by a continuous roll of paper; cf. sense 7b.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > automatically supplied with paper
web machine1871
web press1873
1871 Mechanics' Mag. 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 Arlington Heights (Illinois) Herald 4 Dec. 9/3 We saw the web machine which does the actual printing, cutting and folding of a paper.
2004 M. Gatter Getting it Right in Print 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.
web-nest n. a large protective structure of tangled silk threads secreted by a group of spiders, web-spinners, moth caterpillars (webworms), etc., typically in the foliage of a tree.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > covering > tissue enclosing group
web-nest1841
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > hyphantria cunea (web-worm) > filmy tissue enclosing
web-nest1841
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > margarodes quadristigmalis (privet web-worm) > filmy tissue enclosing
web-nest1841
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Oecophoridae > depressaria heraclina (web-worm) > filmy tissue enclosing
web-nest1841
1841 Farmer's Monthly Visitor 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 Schlich's Man. Forestry IV. 279 The caterpillars, enclosed in the common web-nest, first gnaw the upper side of the leaves.
1903 Biol. Bull. 4 100 They [sc. Embiidæ] still spin their web-nests.
2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies 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.
web offset n. offset printing in which the press is fed by a continuous roll of paper; cf. sense 7b; frequently attributive.
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society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [noun] > printing on continuous roll of paper
web printing1870
reel-printing1890
web offset1925
1925 U.S. Patent 1,550,452 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 Times Lit. Suppl. 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 Photolitho-offset 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 Bk. Production ii. 59 Web offset is used for long-run printing, and produces excellent results for both monochrome and colour.
web perfecting press n. now rare a printing press fed by a continuous roll of paper; a web press; cf. perfecting machine n. at perfecting n. Compounds.
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1875 New Castle (Indiana) Courier 21 May 2/2 The Cincinnati Commercial..has just put in two of the celebrated ‘Hoe’ web Perfecting Presses.
1959 Casa Grande (Arizona) Dispatch 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.
web plate n. a web for a structural support (see sense 21e) used in shipbuilding or (in later use) in steel structures.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > plating > a plate > broad and thick plate
web plate1864
1864 Glasgow Herald 2 Sept. 4/6 The longitudinal frames are formed of a strong web-plate.
1908 H. Paasch Dict. Naval Terms (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 Anal. & Design Pract. Steel Structures (ed. 2) iii. 33 The behaviour of stress distribution within the thin web plate is very complex.
web press n. a printing press fed by a continuous roll of paper; cf. sense 7b.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > automatically supplied with paper
web machine1871
web press1873
1873 Scotsman 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 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 20 Mar. 4/5 Web presses are usually rotary machines. They are employed in all large newspaper offices.
2002 P. Baines & A. Haslam Type & Typogr. 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.
web printing n. printing in which the press is fed by a continuous roll of paper; cf. sense 7b; frequently attributive.
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society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [noun] > printing on continuous roll of paper
web printing1870
reel-printing1890
web offset1925
1870 London Gaz. 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 Theory & Pract. Presswork (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 Moneymakers x. 232 In other words, web printing not only causes high additional costs; it can also make a royal mess of the time schedules.
web saw n. now rare any of several types of saw consisting of a thin, flexible blade held taut within a rectangular frame.Such a saw is also called a frame saw when the blade is held in the middle of the frame, and a bow saw or turning saw when held at the bottom.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > other saws
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Swede saw1934
1799 P. A. Nemnich Universal European Dict. Merchandise (Dutch Dict. section) Spanzaag, web, frame saw.
1889 Cent. Mag. Jan. 418/2 The web-saw, the glue-pot, the plane, and the hammer are the principal tools used.
1970 Hamilton (Ohio) Jrnl. 30 Jan. 13/4 A web or turning saw is for cutting irregularly curved shapes.
web-soft adj. as soft as a cobweb; soft and fine or gauzy.
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a1915 J. Joyce Giacomo Joyce (1968) 7 I hold the websoft edges of her gown.
1919 Boston Globe 2 July (advt.) Fascinating, distinctive Butterfly Talc—a Babcock inspiration, web-soft and impalpably fine.
1996 J. Peck Coll. Shorter Poems (1999) 296 A scarf it was, existence, that fell over my throat. Web-soft yet inseparable, a harness woven from seed-piths.
web-spinner n. (a) a web-spinning spider; (b) any of the gregarious insects constituting the small mainly tropical order Embioptera, having a narrow flexible body and living in tunnels and chambers of silk fastened to rocks, trees, or leaf litter.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > web-spinning or sedentary
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order embioptera > member of (web-spinner)
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1825 ‘E. Hardcastle’ 29th May I. ix. 272 The wily web-spinner—he is more fiendish than a hairy spider.
1923 Jrnl. & Proc. Royal Soc. Western Austral. 9 i. 61 The Order Embioptera, or Web-spinners, is a small but very distinct and isolated group of insects.
1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ix. 193 In the spiders, we find a very interesting difference between the hunters and the web-spinners.
1944 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 94 401 (title) A revision of the Embioptera, or web-spinners, of the New World.
1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. vi. 85 Embiids or Webspinners..occur mostly in the tropics and subtropics.
2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 133 Web spinners are pale or dark-coloured, gregarious or subsocial insects.
web-spinning adj. that spins or is able to spin a web.
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1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (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 Malay Archipel. II. xxx. 204 The web-spinning species were also more numerous.
1946 Nature 2 Nov. 630/2 The web-spinning Tineid caterpillar..is usually an inhabitant of hawthorn bushes.
2015 Pittsburgh Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 5 Apr. Web-spinning spiders detect their prey through vibration and visual signals when an insect gets trapped in their web.
web stand n. Obsolete rare a folding stand with a top made of strips of webbing.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > tray, tray-stand, or trolley table
tea-tray1773
lay-board1790
web stand1837
lap-board1840
tray top1934
traymobile1948
1837 Fraser's Mag. 15 435 A large tray of glasses..stood in the room on a web stand.
web-toed adj. having webs between the toes; web-footed.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > web-footed
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1805 J. T. H. Des Carrières Chambaud's Nouveau Dict. (rev. ed.) II. sig. H/2 Artenna, a web-toed water-fowl.
1855 Med. Times & Gaz. 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 Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) iii. iv. 622 Macrorhamphus. Web-toed Snipe.
1954 M. Land Louisiana Cookery (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 Jrnl. Bionic Engin. 3 196/1 Passive rolling organisms include the Tumbleweed plant, the Web-toed Salamander, Namib Golden Wheel Spider, and the Woodlouse.
web-weaver n. a weaver of cobwebs; a spider; also figurative.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider)
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1534 G. Joye in tr. Jeremy Prophete Pref. sig. A. iiii.v These dirtye deluers ye Prophete Isaye calleth also web weauers agenste ye mynde of ye lorde.
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 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 Introd. Entomol. IV. xxxvii. 31 The instinct of a crippled spider so completely changed, that from a sedentary web-weaver it became a hunter.
2008 Business Times Singapore (Nexis) 27 Dec. He checks out the real web-weavers in nature. Photographing spiders has been a hobby for six years now.
web-wheel n. Obsolete rare a wheel in which the centre and rim are connected by a solid or perforated disc, as opposed to spokes; cf. sense 21b.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > with plate instead of spokes
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web-wheel1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. 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.
web wire n. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) (a piece of) strong wire mesh used for fencing; frequently attributive (usually hyphenated), esp. in web-wire fence.
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1859 Rep. Investigating Comm. Affairs State-prison 40 in App. Jrnls. Senate 10th Session Calif. 3 pieces Web-wire.
1887 Jrnl.-Dispatch (Crawfordsville, Indiana) 26 Oct. Harve Cochran is putting up a half mile of substantial web-wire picket fence along the gravel road.
1907 Lockhart (Texas) Weekly Post 19 Sept. 3 acres in garden fenced with web wire, 20 pear trees and good peach orchard, $15.00 per acre.
1994 D. Mullins Echoes of Appalachia 187 ‘Are you Teed Cornfield?’ the apparent leader of the group asked as he leaned on the web-wire fence.
2015 Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (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.
webwork n. (a) the work of weaving (obsolete); (b) a cobweb; something likened to a cobweb or to woven fabric in having an intricate or complex structure.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > structure resembling network
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c1175 ( Nativity of Virgin (Bodl.) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (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 Exper. Philos. 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 Laurel of Liberty 10 A web-work of despair, a mass of woes.
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xxix. 199 The tyro who dissects the webwork of tissues and nerves in the dead.
2005 Washington Post (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.
web-worked adj. Obsolete rare made of cobweb.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > like a net or network > like cobweb > made of cobweb
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1866 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 25 Oct. 1/3 A glutinized, web-worked purse, about three inches long.
web-worker n. Obsolete rare a spider that spins a web.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > web-spinning or sedentary
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1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1071 All Net-workers, and Web-workers [L. telarios] amongst Spiders.
webworm n. chiefly U.S. any of various moth caterpillars which spin webs on foliage in which they feed or rest, often in large assemblages, and cause damage to crop and garden plants; frequently with distinguishing word.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > hyphantria cunea (web-worm)
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > margarodes quadristigmalis (privet web-worm)
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Oecophoridae > depressaria heraclina (web-worm)
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1757 L. Carter Diary 18 July (1965) I. 162 Abundance of Hornworm, Ground worm, Web worm and bud worm.
1802 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 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 Rep. Insects Massachusetts 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 Manch. Examiner 14 July 4/5 The webworm..did considerable damage to the stands.
1926 C. A. Weigel & W. Middleton Insect Enemies of Flower Garden (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 Nat. New Eng. Fall 4 One of the worst infestations of ‘fall webworm’ that many of the islanders had ever seen.
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a. attributive in sense 10, as web access, web address, web publishing, etc. Some of the more common compounds of this type are treated separately in this entry (see Compounds 4b), or as headwords (see webcam n., webcast n., website n., webzine n., etc.). [Compare earlier internet address n., internet gateway n. at internet n. Compounds 3, etc.]
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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 PC Mag. (Nexis) July 30 Cultivating a Web presence was a major pain.
1996 Business Week 26 Feb. 82/1 A program called Jasmine..uses object-oriented software to create custom Web applications.
1997 Internet Mag. 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 NewMedia Sept. bs4/2 Web access makes it possible for clients, brand managers, and designers to interact electronically.
2000 Irish Times (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 Woman who went to Bed for Year xlii. 272 I'll show you downstairs, give you some internet basics and the web address.
2013 D. J. Leonard Afr. Amer. on Television 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 National Real Estate Investor 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.
web analytics n. the electronic collation and analysis of data relating to the behaviour of web users, esp. their browsing and spending habits; (also) the data that results from this; frequently attributive.
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1998 P. Cabena Discovering Data Mining 36 Web analytics bring together two of the biggest focus areas in computing today—the Internet and data mining.
2004 J. McConnell Pract. Service Level Managem. viii. 159 The integrity of web pages can also be evaluated by web analytics tools.
2012 Guardian 21 May 28/3 (advt.) You'll..implement the strategy, owning, specifying, and configuring our web analytics platform.
web app n. (a) an application that creates content for websites (rare and now disused); (b) an application that is designed to be accessed over the internet using a web browser.
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1995 InfoWorld 27 Mar. 25/2 (heading) Seybold caught up in Web apps.
2010 Sci. Amer. (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 Always On v. 107 Google..released a lightweight PC operating system called Chrome, which is a modified browser that runs web apps.
web author n. a person who designs, creates, or maintains a website or websites.
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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 Watt's On Freshers 98 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 Minority Lang. Media vi. 101 XML enables all web authors to create their own tags or hidden labels that annotate web pages or sections of text.
web authoring n. the process of designing, creating, and maintaining a website or websites; often attributive, designating software used in this process.
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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 Essent. Guide Group Pract. in Mental Health 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 College Composition & Communication 54 651 Students can then create their own graphics and import them into a Web authoring program.
2007 Independent (Nexis) 11 Aug. (Information section) 3 Simplicity is key and the program sets up your website without any knowledge of web authoring.
web aware adj. (a) designating an application, device, etc., capable of accessing or interacting with websites independently of a web browser; (b) having an up-to-date or thorough understanding of the web.
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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 Database Dec. 43/1 Web-aware people who might part with a few extra bucks a month for an information fix.
2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Apr. 65/2 Laptops and Internet connections and Web-aware mobile phones.
2008 E. G. Frankel Quality Decision Managem. 33 Customers and suppliers are increasingly Web aware.
web-based adj. that uses, is designed for, or is accessed through the web. [Compare earlier internet-based at internet n. Compounds 2.]
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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 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 3 Apr. 1 [He] displayed a Web-based magazine created by a student in Japan.
1998 Wired Apr. 102/2 Web-based streaming-media technologies already make possible live telecasts to audiences as big as 50,000.
2010 PC Pro May 145/2 Java and other web-based languages.
web browser n. a piece of software used to view and interact with web pages; cf. browser n. 4.
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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 Times 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 Church Times 14 Aug. 13/1 These links open up content in an external web browser.
web browsing n. the action or practice of browsing the web; frequently attributive; cf. browse v. 6.
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1994 Adweek (U.S.) (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 Brief Hist. Future (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 N.Y. Times (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.
web bug n. a tiny transparent image or other file embedded unobtrusively in a web page or email, designed to allow a third party to collect information about the user and their browsing habits.
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1999 Washington Post (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 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (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 Friday Times (Karachi) (Nexis) 31 May It sees the ‘invisible’ web, detecting trackers and web bugs placed on websites like Facebook and Google Analytics.
web camera n. a video camera which is connected to (or integrated in) a computer so that its output may be viewed (esp. live) online; = webcam n.
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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 Personal Computer World Nov. 138/3 The images are better than average for a web camera.
2011 Avenue (Univ. of Glasgow) June 13/2 Thanks to the Chapel web cameras Commemoration Day can now be watched online.
web chat n. an online chat that takes place via a website or other web interface; cf. online chat n. at online adj. and adv. Compounds.In quot. 1995 as the name of an application supporting this type of online chat.
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1995 Guardian 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 Newsbytes (Nexis) 21 Feb. The Webchat with the company's staff was so productive that he plans to host one every month.
2007 Chicago Tribune (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 Consent of Networked 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.
webcomic n. a comic (comic n. 4b) published online.
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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 N.Y. Mag. 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 Projections v. 149 Comics readers have been making and distributing their own comics—in the form of 'zines, fanart, and now webcomics—for generations.
web conference n. a teleconference, seminar, etc., that takes place online, esp. (in early use) via a website.
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1995 Business Wire (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 Rise Player Manager x. 214 We'll hold a web conference at the end of next week.
2014 Press Disp. (Victorville, Calif.) 16 Feb. d5/1 In an online web conference..about poaching, Sutton said this week that California's wildlife faces other more serious threats.
web conferencing n. the action or practice of holding or participating in a web conference.
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1995 Computerworld 3 Apr. 64/1 (heading) Ubique boasts on-line Web conferencing tool.
2001 Chicago Tribune 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 Beyond Blogosphere v. 159 What will web conferencing, email, chat, and so on, in replacing face-to-face discussion, also send to the junk pile?
web content n. content or material available on the web; esp. content that has been designed specifically to be accessed using the web.
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1996 Internet Underground Mar. 22/2 AT&T..is not the only Internet Content Provider getting nipped in the rear by improved Web content.
2002 Computer User Philadelphia Apr. 10/3 Extending the reach of Web content to visually impaired users.
2013 Irish Times Jan. a2/2 The former Google executive said Yahoo! was working on technology that will personalise web content.
web crawler n. (a) a person who habitually browses the web; a web surfer; (b) a program that systematically accesses and collects information from web pages, navigating by following links from one web page to another; = spider n. Additions.
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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 Denver Post (Nexis) 27 Jan. f1 The vast website..has become a magnet for young web crawlers.
2014 C. Seife Virtual Unreality vii. 124 At the heart of a search engine has to be a ‘web crawler’ that visits and indexes webpages automatically.
web design n. the practice of designing and creating a website or websites, esp. with a focus on aesthetics, content, and ease of use; frequently contrasted with web development n.
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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 NewsScan Daily (Electronic text) 3 Sept. A consulting practice focused on estrategy, Web design and development, and content management.
2014 PC Pro Mar. 86/2 It's clear that this is how web design should be handled in the new, multiscreen world.
web designer n. a person who designs websites, esp. with a focus on aesthetics, content, and ease of use.
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1994 comp.infosystems.www (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Apr. (title of posting) Situation vacant: HTML/Web designer.
2002 List (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 Personal Computer World 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.
web developer n. a person who develops websites and online applications, esp. with a focus on functionality and the practical aspects of implementing a design or brief.
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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 Guardian 12 Jan. b2/2 GIF is the standard format for online graphics... Web developers are looking for alternatives.
2002 Daily Tel. 22 Oct. 5/1 The woman, a web developer, continued to feel ill.
web development n. the development of websites and online applications, esp. with a focus on functionality and practical aspects of implementing a design or brief; frequently contrasted with web design n.
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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 NewsScan Daily (Electronic text) 3 Sept. A consulting practice focused on estrategy, Web design and development, and content management.
2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Business section) 8 I took an optional web development module, which got me excited about the internet.
web-enable v. to adapt (a device, software, data, etc.) for use with the web.
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1995 InfoWorld (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 Hacker Diaries viii. 176 Being a child of the Internet, H.D. Web-enabled his application.
2014 N. Prabhu Design & Constr. RFID-enabled Infrastructure vi. 104 A relatively simple plug-and-play capability to web-enable wireless devices.
web-enabled adj. (and n.) (a) designating a person, group, or organization that uses the web; also as n. (with the and plural agreement); (b) designating a device, software, data, etc., designed or adapted for use with the web.
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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 Seybold Rep. on Desktop Publishing 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 NewMedia 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 PayPal Official Insider Guide Mobile Profits i. 5 Customers use their web-enabled smartphones while shopping in physical stores to look up price comparisons and read shopper reviews.
web host n. a company or organization that provides storage space on a server for the purpose of storing websites and making them available online; (in early use also) a computer used for this purpose (now rare); cf. host n.2 Additions.
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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 New Scientist 10 Apr. 32/4 Some of the ‘spamvertised’ sites have already been taken offline by their web hosts.
2014 R. Hastings Making Most of Cloud iv. 19 Contracting with an outside vendor as a web host is actually hosting in the cloud most of the time.
web hosting n. the activity or practice of providing storage space on a server for the purpose of storing websites and making them available online; frequently attributive; cf. host v.2 Additions.
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1995 InfoWorld 23 Jan. 20/4 LAN Workgroup..will be souped up and renamed InfoServer to function as a Web hosting server.
2005 Digit 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 Venturesome Econ. 325 The United States leads in terms of overall IT consumption, just as it does in web hosting and the purchases of operating systems.
web link n. (a) = hyperlink n.; (b) = internet address n. at internet n. Compounds 3.
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1994 InfoWorld 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 Ecologist 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 Independent 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 State Jrnl.-Reg. (Springfield, Illinois) (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Business section) 17 The Web link is: www.foodlogistics.com.
webmail n. a system that allows a user to access emails via a web browser, as opposed to downloading them to his or her own computer; (in early use) a piece of software used to enable such a system.
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1995 InformationWeek 3 Apr. 68/1 Luca Manunza's WebMail, a POP3 (Post Office Protocol) electronic-mail client.
2007 Wired Apr. 121/1 Webmail is mounting a challenge to traditional email programs.
2013 Sunday N.W. Florida Daily News 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.
web pad n. now rare a tablet computer designed primarily for accessing the web.Webpad was originally a brand name for a device of this kind.
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1998 Electronic News 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 Financial Times 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 Guide Digital Home Technol. Integration ii. 50 Web pads have gained some acceptance in the marketplace, but their single-function use and relatively high cost..has limited their sales.
web page n. a hypertext document accessible via the web, typically consisting of text, image files, and other content, as well as links to other web pages; cf. website n.
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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 Guardian 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 Digitization & Digital Archiving xiii. 170 The host is required by law to take down the offending web page and to notify the owner of the violation.
web portal n. a website that provides links or access to a range of content, services, etc., esp. from a number of different sources; cf. portal n.1 5.
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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 Independent 23 Oct. i. 9/1 A poll of 1,000 television viewers, conducted by the web portal Yahoo!
2016 Advertiser (Austral.) (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.
web publisher n. a person or organization that produces original content for a website; a person or organization that manages a website featuring such content.
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1994 Re: Stuck behind Firewall in comp.infosystems.www (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Mar. Frustrated Web publisher.
2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Nov. (Central ed.) b6/4 But the Internet's share of advertisers' total spending remains just 3%. Web publishers want more.
2014 Irish Times 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.
web-ready adj. (a) (of a document, file, etc.) in a form or format suitable for being made available online; (b) (of a device or software) capable of accessing the web.
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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 Internet World 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 N.Y. Times 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 Access 2016 for Dummies xi. 184 Graphics software can help you create web-ready images.
webring n. a number of websites with related content, offering links to one another in such a way that a user may view each of them in turn rather than repeatedly returning to a single website.
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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 Collect It! Jan. 56/2 We also discovered a Militaria webring listing hundreds of sites, not only those concerned with aeronautica.
2015 Washington Post (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.
web-savvy adj. knowledgeable about or conversant with matters relating to the web.
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1997 J. Seabrook Deeper 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 Nothing feels Good ii. x. 168 Nolan and Lazarra are young and web-savvy enough to understand the way kids connect to music these days.
2014 Good Housek. Apr. 85/2 You'll need to show us you are web-savvy and social network-friendly.
web search n. a search for information, images, etc., on the web; esp. a search using a particular string of words or characters entered into a search engine; cf. internet search n. at internet n. Compounds 3.
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1994 A. Gunn Plug-n-play Mosaic for Windows 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 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 12 Sept. 6 Hit return and Google will do a web search.
2015 Pop. Photogr. Oct. 52/2 Do a web search for ‘foliage reports’ to find..resources to help you to monitor the changing leaves.
web server n. a program that provides and manages access over the web to a collection of websites; (also) a computer or computer system running a program of this kind, esp. one on which the websites themselves are stored.
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1993 Computer Shopper 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 Computer Weekly 30 June 26/2 Web servers are accessed via client applications called browsers.
2007 Z. Markov & D. T. Larose Data Mining Web 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 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 22 Dec. Amazon, which kicked WikiLeaks off of its web server this month, was unaffected by DDoS attacks.
web standard n. any of a set of non-proprietary guidelines and specifications intended to encourage interoperability and accessibility across the web, esp. those developed by the World Wide Web Consortium; (also) a markup language, file format, etc., endorsed by or compliant with such guidelines and specifications.
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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 Computerworld 1 Feb. 68/3 A Web standard for formatting data, XML helps structure information in a document to make it ‘smart’.
2006 D. Addison Web Site Cookbk. iv. 81 Prepare for lengthy validation reports that point out line by line where your web page code falls short of web standards.
2010 Financial Times 15 Sept. 25/5 Microsoft has added support for a number of advanced web standards in IE9.
web surfer n. a person who surfs the web (cf. surf v. 4).
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1994 InfoWorld 18 July 20/4 PLS' Home page lets Web surfers test PLServer.
2002 Times 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 Irish Times 29 Dec. 11/1 Beijing says the regulations are aimed at protecting web surfers' personal information.
web streaming n. the streaming of video or audio material via the web; see streaming n. Additions g.
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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 Wall St. Jrnl. 29 Apr. b4/6 Stations could..deliver..content for which the stations have Web-streaming rights.
web tablet n. rare a tablet computer designed primarily for accessing the web.
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1998 Business Wire (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. Wireless Home Networking for Dummies (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.
webtoon n. an animated cartoon or a series of comic strips published on the web. Sometimes used with reference to a specific style of Korean webcomic; cf. quot. 2013. [With use with reference to Korean-style webcomics compare Korean wep-t'un (1994; < English elements).]
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1996 Economist 27 Jan. Table of Contents 3/3 Webtoons.
2006 Wired May 126/1 Snotty kid Homestar Runner headlines these webtoons.
2013 Y. Chie in J. Berndt & B. Kümmerling-Meibauer Manga's Cultural Crossroads v. 94 Instead of books and magazines, online manhwa, or webtoons, have begun to attract attention.
2014 Daily Trojan (Univ. S. Calif.) (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.
web traffic n. (originally) data transmitted over the web; (in later use also) the number of visits received by a website or web page.
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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 Managing Office Technol. 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 Linux All-in-One Desk Ref. for Dummies 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 N.Y. Times (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.
web user n. a person who uses the web.
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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 Web sites that Work xiii. 59 For the experienced web user, rolling a mouse over a word or image will reveal whether something is clickable.
2012 Daily Tel. 12 July 5/5 Nearly a quarter of web users were..using the web for banking, grocery shopping and other essential services.
web-wise adj. (and n.) knowledgeable about or experienced in the use of the web; (sometimes) spec. sensitive to the risks posed by sharing personal information online.Also occasionally (and in earliest use) as n.: (with the and plural agreement) web-wise people regarded collectively.
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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 Papercraft Essent. No. 8. 11/1 If you are web-wise then you can email jpeg images to us.
2014 Woodinville (Washington) Weekly (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 Herald (Glasgow) (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

web-like adj. resembling a cobweb.
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1675 C. Cotton Planters Man. 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 Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 29 This web-like expansion of the ethereal strings.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. ii. 32 The web-like nests [of the larva of Bombyx chrysorrhœa] which so often deform our fruit trees.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 3/3 The silk Chantilly laces..are..very pretty and weblike.
2002 Nat. Home 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.

Brit. /wɛb/, U.S. /wɛb/
Forms: see web n.; also Old English webbian.
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.
1. transitive. To devise or contrive (a false accusation). Obsolete.Attested only with Old English wrōht false accusation, slander (see wray v.1) as object.
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OE Andreas (1932) 672 Huscworde ongan þurh inwitðanc ealdorsacerd herme hyspan, hordlocan onspeon, wroht webbade.
OE Cynewulf Elene 309 Swa ge modblinde mengan ongunnon lige wið soðe.., æfst wið are, inwitþancum wroht webbedan.
OE Blickling Homilies 109 Ne bregda to full, ne inwit to leof, ne wrohtas to webgenne, ne searo to renigenne.
2. transitive. To weave (cloth or a piece of cloth) on a loom. Also: to weave (yarn, wool, etc.) into cloth. Obsolete.
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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
weavec900
weba1325
warpc1430
loom?1549
tissuea1851
a1325 [implied in: Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 452 Purveier coveint de une lame [glossed] a webbyng szaly [a1333 BL Add. the weving slay]. (at webbing n. 1)].
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 519 Webbon, or webbe clothe of lynnyne, linifico.
1449 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (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 Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 28 The Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. ccccvi I webbe a clothe... I haue nat yerne ynough to webbe my clothe with all.
1616 J. Deacon Tobacco Tortured 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 Columbiad 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 Parl. Papers 1893–4 (C. 7063–VC) XXXVIII. 411 Web, to weave.
3.
a. intransitive. Of a spider: to spin a web. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [verb (intransitive)] > spin web
weba1604
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 97 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The roofe of Westminster Hall, where no English Spider webbeth or breedeth to this day.
b. transitive. Of a spider, caterpillar, etc.: to cover with a web or webs; to weave a web on; to attach with a web. Also with around, together.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [verb (transitive)] > spin web > cover with web
web1791
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [verb (transitive)] > cover with caterpillar's web
web1791
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvi. 368 Leaving untenanted Ulysses' bed To be by noisome spiders webb'd around.
1853 Zoologist 11 4044 The canker-worm..forms itself a house by webbing the corner of a leaf.
1908 Jrnl. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 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 Western Forest Insects ii. 138 The young larvae web the leaves together and feed on them gregariously.
2007 Ploughshares Winter 111 A spider webbed the cellar doorway the morning of my cleaning spree.
c. transitive. To catch in a spider's web. Frequently figurative: to ensnare or entangle as if in a spider's web. Also with round.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)] > as in specific place
box1551
encagea1586
bung1592
cell1592
oven1596
pew1609
enfold?1611
stya1616
incabinate1672
web1864
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [verb (transitive)] > catch fly in web
web1901
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Web v.t.,..to envelop; to entangle.
1901 Fun 20 Apr. 189/2 A peasant kills a giant spider who has webbed a fly.
1907 Black Cat June 26 The girl was ready when again they webbed her round, each trumpet-mouthed with his own hunting cry.
2008 Jrnl. Mississippi Hist. 70 179 The cavalcade of relatives that had webbed her and her family into a slave-holding dynasty of extraordinary scale and scope.
d. transitive. To cover with a fine network or interlacing structure resembling a spider's web. Also occasionally intransitive.
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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
quilt?1611
spider-web1823
enlace1850
web1876
1876 T. G. Hake New Symbols 63 He could not see the angel there, But rose and swept away in scorn The films of dream that webbed the air.
1895 Forum (N.Y.) Jan. Continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires.
1905 P. Landon Lhasa 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 Beginning 181 A sneer webbed over Aubrey's cold stiff features.
1961 J. Carew Last Barbarian 8 Premature age and drink webbed her face with wrinkles.
2010 J. Cargill Trick or Treat iii. 66 Rail tracks webbing the landscape carried trains loaded with processed sugar for export.
e. transitive. To equip (an optical instrument, as a filar micrometer, telescope, etc., or a component thereof) with threads of spider's web for use in marking the position of objects being observed or in measuring distances. Cf. web n. 3c. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical skills and techniques > use optical skills and techniques [verb (transitive)] > use other techniques
project1865
collimate1868
web1883
vignette1945
track1950
1883 Encycl. Brit. 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 Surveying Instruments 100 The diaphragm of the telescope of the Y-level is generally webbed with plain cross webs.
4.
a. transitive. To connect (fingers, toes, etc.) with a web or membrane. Frequently with together. Also figurative. Cf. webbed adj. 2.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [verb (transitive)] > web
web1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 261/2 It hath four Toes in each Foot all webbed together by a broad black Membrane.
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 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 Hist. Earth VI. 45 Nature..by broad skins, has webbed their toes together.
1809 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Mar. 234 If nature webbed their feet for them to live on dry land, she has done something in vain.
1890 W. P. Ball Effects Use & Disuse 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 Liberia II. xxv. 823 Fingers as well as toes webbed and terminated with discs.
2000 F. Ankel-Simons Primate Anat. (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 Liminal States xiii. 116 Gideon cleaned himself of the slop that clung to his limbs and webbed his fingers and toes.
b. transitive. To imprint with the marks of webbed feet. Obsolete. rare.
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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [verb (transitive)] > mark with footprint
print1637
footmark1821
footprint1850
web1866
1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xiv. 203 The ground was webbed with the feet of geese.
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