Word Finder - webs

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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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• yarn

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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.

The result is that no trace of " fiddling " exists, and the movable and fixed webs come sharply together in focus with the highest powers.

I've been thinking about rigging up something on the front to catch the webs.

It didn't spin webs and looked more to Evelyn like a mutated cat, but the moment she recalled Kiera's fear, she also realized that the cat-like creature would easily pass as a large spider.

One of the most essential points in a good micrometer is that all the webs shall be so nearly in the same plane as to be well in focus together under the highest powers used, and at the same time absolutely free from " fiddling."

To avoid such error Dawes used double wires, not spider webs, placing the image of the star symmetrically between these wires, as in fig.

Other astronomers use the two distance-measuring webs, placed at a convenient distance apart, for position wires.

I, 2 and 3), used to bolt the head of one of the screws, and the instrument was provided with a slipping piece, giving motion to the micrometer by screws acting on two slides, one in right ascension, the other in declination, so that " either of the, webs can be placed upon either component of a double star with ease and certainty (Mem.

But in OS measures index error can be eliminated by bisecting both stars with the same web (or different webs of known interval fixed on the same frame), and not employing the fixed web at all.

The five fixed webs are attached to the table which is secured to the bottom of the box by the screws p. The three movable webs are attached to the projections XX on the frame aa.

These furrows have apparently been cut in situ with a very accurate engine; for not the slightest departure from parallelism can be detected in any of the movable webs relative to the fixed webs.

The varnish to fix the webs is applied, not on the surface T as is usual, but on a bevel for the purpose,' the position of the webs depending on their tension to keep them in their furrows.

The electric lamp a gives illumination of the webs in a dark field, nearly in the manner described for the Cape transit circle micrometer; the intensity of illumination is regulated by a carbon-resistance controlled by the screw b.

If the reading for coincidence of the movable with the fixed webs is known, we then obtain from the single reading of S the difference from coincidence of the divisions of the two scales.

The object glass of the micrometer-microscope is placed midway between the plane of the photographic plate and the plane of the micrometer webs.

The double webs composing the sides of the fixed square shall be strictly parallel, and shall form a true square of exactly ten revolutions of the screw on the side.

The micrometer readings for coincidence of the movable webs with the webs of the fixed square shall be exactly 0 000R and io-000R.

The image of a normal reseau-square, as viewed in the microscope, shall exactly coincide with the square formed by the fixed webs - that is to say, the image of the sides of a normal reseau-square shall measure exactly io screw-revolutions.

By means of the quick rack motions A and B move the plate so as to bring the reseau-square into the centre of the field of the micrometer; then, by means of the screw heads o, p, perfect the coincidence of the " fixed square " of webs, with the image of the reseau-square.

Estimate the diameter of the star's image in terms of the 4" intervals of the movable webs.

In the members of the typical genus Lemur, as well as in the allied Hapalemur and Lepidolemur, none of the toes or fingers are connected by webs, and all have the hind-limbs of moderate length, and the tail long.

These webs, which are typically subcircular in form, consist of a system of threads radiating from a common centre and crossed at intervals, and approximately at right angles, by a series of concentric lines, the whole being suspended in a triangular, quadrangular or polygonal framework formed of so-called foundation lines, attached to the branches or leaves of trees or other firm objects in the neighbourhood.

Perfect orbicular webs are made by many genera of Argyopidae (Zilla, Meta, Gasteracantha), the best-known example being that of the common garden spider of England, Aranea or Epeira diademata; but these webs are not associated with any tubular retreat except such as are made under an adjoining leaf or in some nook hard by.

It was formerly supposed that this custom was peculiar to a single species, which was called the "gossamer" spider from the fact that the floating webs, when brought to the earth by rain or intercepted by bushes and trees, coat the foliage or grass with a sheeting of gossamer-like silk; but the habit is now known to be practised by the newly-hatched young of a great variety of species belonging to several distinct families.

Males of the Argyopidae hang on the outskirt s of the webs of the females and signal their presence to her by jerking the radial threads in a peculiar manner.

Sometimes the shape of the spider combines with the colour to produce the same effect, as in the species of Uloborus, which as they hang in thin shabby-looking webs exactly resemble fragments of wind-blown rubbish.

The fore-limbs have four toes and a rudimentary thumb, all with claws; the hind limbs are larger, with five distinct toes, united by short webs at their bases.

For an account of the courtship and dancing of spiders, of their webs and floating lines, the reader is referred to the works of M'Cook (30) and the Peckhams (31), whilst an excellent account of the nests of trap-door spiders is given by Moggridge (32).

This micrometer is provided with two pairs of parallel webs.

It was he who compared laws to spiders' webs, which catch small flies and allow bigger ones to escape.

The two centre tail feathers attain a length of 34 in., and, being destitute of webs, have a thin wire-like appearance.

In the red bird of paradise (Paradisea rubra) the same feathers are greatly elongated and destitute of webs, but differ from those in the other species, in being flattened out like ribbons.

Itl ' At first girders had soli or plate webs, but for spans o 9 over ioo ft.

The Embiidae live in warm countries, and are very retiring in their habits, hiding under stones where they spin webs formed of silk produced by glands in the basal segments of the fore-feet.

The webs and nests, &c., formed by spiders are also of silk.

It is now generally accepted that these sounds are produced by the vibration of the webs of the outer tail-feathers, the webs of which are modified.

The males are without these protective spines and are exposed to special dangers as they wander in search of the webs of the females.

The almucantar was therefore used only to observe the vertical transits of stars in different azimuths over fixed horizontal webs, without touching the telescope.

These straps shall be made of wrought-iron or steel, and shall be riveted or bolted to the flanges or to the webs of the beams or girders.

Sometimes the beams rest upon the girders, and are riveted through the flanges to it; in this case the abutting ends of beams are spliced by scarf plates placed on each side of the webs and secured by rivets.

The outer lanceolate scapulars have one-half of their webs pure white, forming a conspicuous stripe along the side of the back.

The otter has an elongated, low body, short limbs, short broad feet, with five toes on each, connected together by webs, and all with short, moderately strong, compressed, curved, pointed claws.

Other spiders weave these beautiful, symmetrical, ethereal webs whose designs have been the inspiration for art and mythology for as long as there were spiders, he explained.

Imagine trying to monitor zillions of these webs.

As the dominant marine arthropods, crustaceans occupy a central and essential position in aquatic food webs.

The spiders and I have a truce, but if their webs become too blatant I start wielding my feather duster with a vengeance!

Scanner 8 tracks here, all of which are intriguing & rather convoluted webs of sound.

I rode a trout today, and drank the dew from spiders ' webs.

Initially the bottom slab and webs including the diaphragms were cast, with the top slab cast in a second stage.

I always found baby palmettos tangled in the webs when I dusted periodically.

By varying the compilation parameters, different webs may be produced over similar material for different audiences.