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The World Wide Web.
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Some of that content is now only available on the Web.
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The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
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The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
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(by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
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(sometimes capitalized) Specifically, the World Wide Web.
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Let me search the web for that.
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The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
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He caught the ball in the web.
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A latticed or woven structure.
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The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
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(usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
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Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
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A plot or scheme.
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The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
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The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
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A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
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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.
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A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
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(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
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A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
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A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
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A major broadcasting network.
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To construct or form a web.
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To cover with a web or network.
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To ensnare or entangle.
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To provide with a web.
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To weave.
Examples of web in a Sentence
Betsy spotted the web site and began monitoring it daily.
I been busy surfing the web.
Mosquitoes are rarely troublesome; gadflies, and a large spider (hangeyu), which spins a web resembling golden silk, are common, as are scorpions and centipeces.
Why not try that web site bablefish.com?
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The American mathematical Society has much mathematical information and links to many other web pages of interest to mathematicians.
I check the web site of After occasionally but have refrained from direct contact.
In both cases two eyepieces are employed, one to view each separate web.
Public opinion is a powerful force, and if it is generally a force for peace, then the web magnifies it.
Elastic web weaving by power looms is carried on to a great extent, and the manufacture of lace and net curtains, gimp trimmings, braids and cords.
The union of the index and middle fingers by means of a web extending as far as the terminal joints is the distinctive feature of the siamang, which is the largest of the group, and black in colour with a white frontal band.
A very similar sheet is spun by a species of Linyphia, one of the Argyopidae, but in this case there is no tube connected with the web and the spider hangs suspended beneath the horizontal netting.
Snares of another type consisting of a tangled mass of threads amongst which the spiders pick their way with ease, but which are impassable to insects, are spun by members of the Theridiidae and Pholcidae; but by common consent the so-called orbicular web, so characteristic of the Argyopidae but by no means confined to them, is regarded as manifesting the greatest perfection of instinct in snare-spinning.
Other webspinning spiders (Tegenaria) have somewhat similar habits; and the male of the park-web spider (Atypus), one of the Mygalomorphae, taps the walls of the tubular web of the female before daring to bite a hole in it and descend into her burrow.
As a permanent home the spider makes beneath the surface a thimble-shaped web, with inverted mouth, anchoring it to the weeds.
The river is not deep and can be forded in many places; the banks are fringed with thick bush and dom-palms. At the junction of the Ganale and the Web the river is swift-flowing and 85 yards across; just below the Daua confluence it is 200 yds.
On the hind foot the nails are long, curved and pointed, and the web extends only to their base.
These were the two men who enmeshed the king in a web of Rosicrucian mystery and intrigue, which hampered whatever healthy development of his policy might have been possible, and led ultimately to disaster.
As a substitute for timber props at the face, pieces of steel joists, with the web cut out for a short distance on either end, with the flanges turned back to give a square bearing surface, have been introduced.
The stresses in the web are greatest at the ends of the span.
On account of its delicacy no web is more difficult to see than one of the orbicular type above described.
Some tropical members of the family belonging to the genus Nephela, however, spin a web which is intermediate in structure between that of Aranea and the complete sheet-like web of Agalena.
One genus of Thomisidae (Phognarachne), which inhabits the Oriental region, adopts the clever device of spinning on the surface of a leaf a sheet of web resembling the fluid portions of a splash of bird's dung, the more solid central portions being represented by the spider itself, which waits in the middle of the patch to seize the butterflies or other insects that habitually feed on birds' excrement and are attracted to the patch mistaking it for their natural food.
Of the three headstreams, the Web, the Ganale and the Daua, the Ganale (or Ganana) is the central river and the true upper course of the Juba.
But girders may have curved chords and then the stresses in the web are diminished.
Wrought iron and, later, steel plate web girders were largely?
It would be economical, therefore, to make the girder very deep. This, however, involves a much heavier web, and therefore for any type of girder there must be a ratio of depth to span which is most economical.
On the other hand a framed or braced web afforded opportunity for much better arrangement of material, and it very soon became apparent that open web or lattice or braced girders were more economical of material than solid web girders, except for small spans.
Now plate web girders are only used for spans of less than ioo ft.
Three types of bracing for the web very early developed the.
By curving the top boom of a girder to form an arch and the bottom boom to form a suspension chain, the need of web except for non-uniform loading is obviated.
A main girder consists of an upper and lower flange, boom or chord and a vertical web.
For practical purposes it is accurate enough to consider the booms or chords as carrying exclusively the horizontal tension and compression and the web as resisting the whole of the vertical and, in a plate web, the equal horizontal shearing forces.
If A is the area of the plate web in a vertical section, the intensity of shearing stress is fs = S/A and the intensity on horizontal sections is the same.
A constant difficulty in studying works on metrology is the need of distinguishing the absolute facts of the case from the web of theory into which each writer has woven them -- often the names used, and sometimes the very existence of the units in question, being entirely an assumption of the writer.
But into the figure of Arthur as we know him, other elements have entered; he is not merely an historic personality, but at the same time a survival of pre-historic myth, a hero of romance, and a fairy king; and all these threads are woven together in one fascinating but bewildering web.
The essence of the raising-cloth is a weft that will provide plenty of nap and yet have sufficient fibre to maintain the strength of the web.
Fifteen plants are known to furnish dyes, and eight are sources of fibre - the caraguatay especially being employed in the manufacture of the exquisite nanduty or spider web lace of the natives.
Any use of any LoveToKnow Corp. web site after the date of such notice is deemed acceptance of the new terms.
All the states of western Europe were being brought within the web of his diplomacy.
When the star enters the field of view its image is approximately bisected by the spider web of the micrometer n, the exact bisection being completed in the immediate neighbourhood of the meridian.
Lotze again wove together many threads of earlier thought, though the web was assuredly his own.
Bullock (1813-1867) of Philadelphia who in 1865 invented the first machine to print from a continuous web of paper.
This drum has a series of small cogs which move the web or tapes in the same direction.
For example, there are the drop-bar, the web and the gripper methods of feeding these presses.
The web arrangement consists of a series the high over-feedboard, and the taking-off apparatus is automatic but on a different plan from that of the ordinary Wharfedale, the sheets being carried over tapes with the freshly-printed side uppermost, thus preventing smearing; they are then carried on to the heap or pile by the frame or long arms placed at the end of the machine.
It printed from the web, and had a folder attached.
From this point the long sheet is carried overhead to the left-hand side of the machine, where it is cut longitudinally and divided, and then associated with the other web similarly printed by the other half of the press.
It used to be said that, if this narrow passage were blocked up, escape would be impossible; but an intricate web of fissures, called the Corkscrew, has been discovered, by means of which a good climber, ascending only a few hundred feet, lands 1000 yds.
The situation of Berlin, midway between the Elbe and the Oder, with which rivers it is connected by a web of waterways, at the crossing of the main roads from Silesia and Poland to the North Sea ports and from Saxony, Bohemia and Thuringia to the Baltic, made it in medieval days a place of considerable commercial importance.