web

Noun

web (plural webs)

1. The silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb

   The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.

2. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider"s web.
   1. By extension, abbreviation for World Wide Web.

   Let me search the web for that.

3. (baseball)The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing

   He caught the ball in the web.

4. A latticed or woven structure

   The gazebo"s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.

5. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member
6. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds

   A duck paddles with its webbed feet.

7. In manufacturing, a web is a continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing. The use of web in lithography is related, referring to the long sheet of paper which moves through a printing press fed from a roll rather than individual sheets.

3 letters in word "web": B E W.

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