<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.</li><li>a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars; cobweb.</li><li>Textiles: a woven fabric, especially a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom.</li><li>the flat woven strip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug.</li><li>something resembling woven material, especially something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance: He looked up at the web of branches of the old tree.</li><li>an intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.: The thief was convicted by a web of evidence. Who can understand the web of life?</li><li>Synonyms: snare, maze, tangle, tissue, network.</li><li>something that snares or entangles; a trap: innocent travelers caught in the web of international terrorism.</li><li>webbing.</li><li>Zoology: a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds.</li><li>Ornithology: the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather.</li><li>the series on both sides, collectively.</li><li>an integral or separate part of a beam, rail, truss, or the like, that forms a continuous, flat, narrow, rigid connection between two stronger, broader parallel parts, as the flanges of a structural shape, the head and foot of a rail, or the upper and lower chords of a truss.</li><li>Machinery: an arm of a crank, usually one of a pair, holding one end of a crankpin at its outer end.</li><li>Architecture: (in a vault) any surface framed by ribbing.</li><li>a large roll of paper, as for continuous feeding of a web press.</li><li>a network of interlinked stations, services, communications, etc., covering a region or country.</li><li>Informal: a network of radio or television broadcasting stations.</li><li>Sometimes Web.</li><li>Digital Technology: World Wide Web (preceded by the, except when used before a noun).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to cover with or as if with a web; envelop.</li><li>to ensnare or entrap.</li><li>(used without object) to make or form a web.</li></ul>