web
/wɛb/ noun A2- 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.
- Any of several similar materials, such as that created by tent caterpillars.
- Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
- A scheme. · web of lies· She got lost in a web of international intrigue.
- The Internet; the World Wide Web.
- A major broadcasting network.
- A latticed or woven structure. · The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
- The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing. · He caught the ball in the web.
Plural webs
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The bottle was covered with spiders’ webs, and all the other signs which indicate the age of wine more truly than do wrinkles on a man’s face.
Of course I have other reasons for thinking so—dozens of exiguous threads which lead vaguely up towards the centre of the web where the poisonous, motionless creature is lurking.
Often it was only the smallest trace, Watson, the faintest indication, and yet it was enough to tell me that the great malignant brain was there, as the gentlest tremors of the edges of the web remind one of the foul spider which lurks in the centre.
It would not rest him to lie down, and he could not close his eyes; so he remained all night staring at a little spider which was weaving its web in a corner of the room, just as if it were not one of the most wonderful rooms in the world.
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