1. something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
2. a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars; cobweb.
3. Textiles.
• a woven fabric, especially a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom.
• the flat woven strip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug.
4. something resembling woven material, especially something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance: He looked up at the web of branches of the old tree.
5. an intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.: The thief was convicted by a web of evidence. Who can understand the web of life?
6. something that snares or entangles; a trap: innocent travelers caught in the web of international terrorism.
7. webbing.
8. a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds.
9. Ornithology.
• the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather.
• the series on both sides, collectively.
10. an integral or separate part of a beam, rail, truss, or the like, that forms a continuous, flat, narrow, rigid connection between two stronger, broader parallel parts, as the flanges of a structural shape, the head and foot of a rail, or the upper and lower chords of a truss.
11. an arm of a crank, usually one of a pair, holding one end of a crankpin at its outer end.
12. (in a vault) any surface framed by ribbing.
13. a large roll of paper, as for continuous feeding of a web press.
14. a network of interlinked stations, services, communications, etc., covering a region or country.
15. a network of radio or television broadcasting stations.
16. World Wide Web (preceded by the, except when used before a noun).

17. to cover with or as if with a web; envelop.
18. to ensnare or entrap.

19. to make or form a web.

1. any structure, construction, fabric, etc, formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving
2. a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects
3. a similar network of threads spun by certain insect larvae, such as the silkworm
4. a fabric, esp one in the process of being woven
5. a membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds or the digits of such aquatic mammals as the otter
6. the vane of a bird's feather
7. the surface of a ribbed vault that lies between the ribs
8. the central section of an I-beam or H-beam that joins the two flanges of the beam
9. any web-shaped part of a casting used for reinforcement
10. the radial portion of a crank that connects the crankpin to the crankshaft
11. a thin piece of superfluous material left attached to a forging; fin
• a continuous strip of paper as formed on a paper machine or fed from a reel into some printing presses
• (as modifier)
13. the woven edge, without pile, of some carpets
• the web (often capital) short for World Wide Web
• (as modifier)
15. any structure, construction, etc, that is intricately formed or complex

16. to cover with or as if with a web
17. to entangle or ensnare
18. to construct a web

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