web : Idioms & Phrases

• noun (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
  food cycle.
  

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• noun a funnel-shaped spider web; the funnel-web spider perches in the center of the web
  

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• noun a circular spider web
  

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• (Med.), two diseases of the eye, caligo and pterygium; sometimes wrongly explained as one disease. See Pin, n., 8, and Web, n., 8. "He never yet had pinne or webbe, his sight for to decay." Gascoigne.

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• noun an irregular spider web woven in a single plane and looking like flattened hammocks
  

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• noun a web resembling the webs spun by spiders
  spider web.
  
• noun a web spun by spiders to trap insect prey
  spider web.
  

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Spi"der web", Spi"der's web" (Also<

• Spider web
• Spider's web

)

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1. (Zoöl.) The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle. = cobweb

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• noun a web resembling the webs spun by spiders
  spider web.
  
• noun a web spun by spiders to trap insect prey
  spider web.
  

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Spi"der web", Spi"der's web" (Also<

• Spider web
• Spider's web

)

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle. = cobweb

Webster 1913

• noun a program used to view HTML documents
  browser.
  

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• noun a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies
  blog.
  
  • postings on a blog are usually in chronological order

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• noun a computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information
  Web Map Server.
  

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• noun a computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information
  Web Map Server.
  

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• (Engin.), one of the braces in a web system.

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• noun a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser
  webpage.
  

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• a printing press which takes paper from a roll instead of being fed with sheets.

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• noun a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web
  website; internet site; site.
  
  • the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers

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• noun any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin
  

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• (Engin.), the system of braces connecting the flanges of a lattice girder, post, or the like.

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Web"-fin`gered adjective

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1. Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

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• adjective satellite having feet with webbed toes
  web-footed.
  

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Web"-foot`ed adjective

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1. Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl.

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• noun a mite that spins a web
  

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• adjective satellite having feet with webbed toes
  web-footed.
  

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Web"-toed` adjective

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1. Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

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• noun any of several salamanders with webbed toes and very long extensile tongues; excellent climbers that move with ease over smooth rock surfaces
  

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• noun a bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes
  

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• noun moth that forms a web in which it lives
  webbing clothes moth; Tineola bisselliella.
  

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• noun moth that forms a web in which it lives
  webbing clothes moth; Tineola bisselliella.
  

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• noun computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
  web; WWW.
  

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