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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Web \Web\, n. [OE. webbe, AS webba. See {Weave}.] A weaver. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Web \Web\, n. [OE. web, AS webb; akin to D. web, webbe, OHG. weppi G. gewebe Icel. vefr, Sw v["a]f, Dan. v[ae]v. See {Weave}.] 1. That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom. Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive. --Spenser. Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile. --Bancroft. 2. A whole piece of linen cloth as woven. 3. The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. ``The smallest spider's web.'' --Shak. 4. Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication. The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color or gold. --Hawthorne. Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures. --W. Irving. 5. (Carriages) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood. 6. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead. --Fairfax. Specifically: a The blade of a sword. [Obs.] The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel rich stone, hilt gold. --Fairfax. b The blade of a saw. c The thin, sharp part of a colter. d The bit of a key. 7. (Mach. & Engin.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object. Specifically: a The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail. b A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc c The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist. d The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot. 8. (Med.) Pterygium; -- called also {webeye}. --Shak. 9. (Anat.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians. 10. (Zo["o]l.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See {Feather}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Web \Web\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Webbed}; p. pr & vb n. {Webbing}.] To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: web n 1: an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving; "the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn" 2: an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim [syn: {entanglement}] 3: the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft [syn: {vane}] 4: an intricately connected system of things or people; "a network of spies" or "a web of intrigue" [syn: {network}] 5: a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol [syn: {world wide web}, {WWW}] 6: a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven) 7: membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals v : construct or form a web, as if by weaving [syn: {net}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Web"The Web" is the {World-Wide Web}. "A web" is part of it on some specific {web site}. (1996-05-10) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: WEB {Donald Knuth}'s self-documenting {literate programming}, with {algorithm}s and {documentation} intermixed in one file. They can be separated using {Weave} and {Tangle}. Versions exist for {Pascal} and {C}. {Spiderweb} can be used to create versions for other languages. {FunnelWeb} is a production-quality literate-programming tool. {(ftp://princeton.edu/)}, {(ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/)}. ["Literate Programming", D.E. Knuth, Computer J 27(2):97-111, May 1984]. (1996-05-10)
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