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/wɛb/ · noun
The silken structure which 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.
The time of his birth, his birth-place, his parentage, are all involved in obscurity; and such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators, that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures with which it is interwoven.
[T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love of sunshine, and would gladly gild all the world with it, if I knew where to find so much.
"But THAT! Was the OLDEN TIMES! A massive, worldwide web of global information has ENTANGLED THE WORLD! People in Beijing can read about a magical incident in Moperville in seconds, and have video of it in minutes!"
He caught the ball in the web.
The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics ; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.
Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
Use web when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Web means The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb..
Common synonyms include yarn, way, pin and web, web and pin.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
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