web

CEFRA1

/wɛb/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A net made by a spider to catch insects.

  2. 02

    noun

    The system of websites and information connected through the internet.

Examples

  • More than 90 percent of visits to a web page are from search engines.

  • The popularity of a web site depends on its content.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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5
Parts of speech
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Citations
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.

  2. The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.

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

More examples

In context

  • He caught the ball in the web.

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

  • The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English web, webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-West Germanic *wabi, from Proto-Germanic *wabją (“web”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wab (“web”), North Frisian wääb (“web”), Saterland Frisian Wäb (“web”), West Frisian and Dutch web (“web”), Danish væv (“web”), Faroese vevur (“web”), Icelandic vefur (“web”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vev (“web”), Swedish väv (“web”); also Cornish goghi (“wasps”), Irish foich, foiche, puch (“wasp”), Welsh gwchi (“drone”), Latin vespa (“wasp”), Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ, “web”), ὑφαίνω (huphaínō, “to weave”) (whence Greek ανυφαίνω (anyfa...