Patterning and Web

Noun

• (n.) web (an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving) "the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn"
• (n.) web, entanglement (an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim)
• (n.) vane, web (the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft)
• (n.) network, web (an interconnected system of things or people) "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth"
• (n.) World Wide Web, WWW, web (computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol)
• (n.) web (a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven))
• (n.) web (membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals)

Verb

• (v.) web, net (construct or form a web, as if by weaving).

• (n.) The blade of a saw.
• (n.) A weaver.
• (n.) A thin metal sheet, plate or strip, as of lead.
• (n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
• (n.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges or other parts of an object.
• (n.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
• (n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
• (n.) The blade of a sword.
• (n.) The bit of a key.
• (n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
• (n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
• (n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
• (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam or railroad rail.
• (n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
• (v.t.) To unite or surround with a web or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
• (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
• (n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; especially, something woven in a loom.
• (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.
• (n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
• (n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter.