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Antonyms for web

Grammar : Noun
Spell : web
Phonetic Transcription : wɛb

Definition of web

Origin :
  • Old English webb "woven fabric," from Proto-Germanic *wabjam "fabric, web" (cf. Old Saxon webbi, Old Norse vefr, Dutch webbe, Old High German weppi, German gewebe "web"), from PIE *webh- "to weave" (see weave (v.)).
  • Meaning "spider's web" is first recorded early 13c. Applied to the membranes between the toes of ducks and other aquatic birds from 1570s. Internet sense is from 1992, shortened from World Wide Web (1990). Web browser, web page both also attested 1990.
  • noun netting
Example sentences :
  • The information on Web pages, etc. is correct as of 21 May 1997.
  • Extract from : « A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion » by William Dobein James
  • She pointed to the web of beautifully-woven cloth in the loom.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Have patience, therefore, till I shall have finished the web that I am weaving.
  • Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
  • As well try to mend a spider's web when you have put your boot through it.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • And then one day the web of that particular convention broke.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • The point is that the web should be eternally remade and eternally unraveled.
  • Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • She was floating, floating in the web of this beautiful unreality.
  • Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • Sometimes it resembles a spider's web when it is called arachnoid.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • A web of spectral blue light had enveloped the abandoned scout.
  • Extract from : « Raiders Invisible » by Desmond Winter Hall
  • The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Synonyms for web

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