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web

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1. web - Noun

2. web - Verb

3. Web - Proper noun

Meaning

A weaver.

That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.

A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.

The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.

Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.

A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.

A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

The blade of a sword.

A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.

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.

A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.

The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.

The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.

Pterygium; -- called also webeye.

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.

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.

To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! Walter Scott

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. Pablo Picasso

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. Ogden Nash

Big flies break the spider's web. Italian Proverb

There is no escape from heaven's web. Japanese Proverb

What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. English Proverb

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