web

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Noun

1. {{senseid|en|spiderweb}} The [[silk]]en structure which a [[spider]] builds using silk secreted from the [[spinneret]]s at the [[caudal]] tip of its abdomen; a [[spiderweb]].
2. {{lb|en|by extension}} Any [[interconnect]]ed [[set]] of [[person]]s, [[place]]s, or [[thing]]s, which, when [[diagram]]med, [[resemble]]s a [[spider]]'s web.
3. A latticed or woven structure.
4. ''Senses related to an invented narrative''
5. Any of several components that connect other components.
6. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
7. {{senseid|en|glass}} {{lb|en|glassblowing|obsolete}} A seventeenth-century unit of [[Rhenish]] glass containing 60 [[bunch#English: glass|bunches]].
8. {{lb|en|ornithology}} The series of [[barb]]s implanted on each side of the [[shaft]] of a [[feather]], whether stiff and united together by [[barbule]]s, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
9. {{lb|en|medicine|archaic}} A [[cataract]] of the [[eye]].
10. {{lb|en|obsolete}} Woven [[cloth]] or [[material]].

Proper noun

1. {{senseid|en|the Web}} {{alternative case form of|en|Web}}: the [[World Wide Web]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To construct or form a web.
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To cover with a web or network.
3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[ensnare]] or [[entangle]].
4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To provide with a web.
5. {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To [[weave]].

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