web
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- noun
- /wɛb/
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telaraña
- Moonlight silvers the spider web, and for a moment its strands seem to fill the room.
- spider web
- spin webs
- build a web
They can sense a creature that has landed on their web just by the vibrations.
- They can sense a creature that has landed on their web just by the vibrations.
- And I looked down at this spider web with this black dot in the middle of it.
- Now spider mites, you can tell by kind of their webby webs, their webby webs all over the plan.
- Spiders make a number of different kinds of silk to wrap their eggs, to create their webs, to drop from.
- Yeah, really, really looks like a little spider web.
- But sites are trained and vines espaliade splayed, still shivering in the web.
Examples
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Looks like the spider has entered the web.
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The spider carefully spun its web between two branches in the garden.
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It's kind of like a spider web, right?
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And I looked down at this spider web with this black dot in the middle of it.
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Just like a fly in a spider's web.
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Spiders build their webs... ...facing south.
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As with all successful traps, the spider web is practically invisible and imponderable.
Academic text (1991) -
Spiders make a number of different kinds of silk to wrap their eggs, to create their webs, to drop from.
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Lace as delicate as a spider's web decorated the collar and sleeves.
Fiction book (1993) -
She admired the intricate design of the web that glistened with dew in the morning light.
Synonyms
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A dusty net spiders make that hangs in old unused places
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A fine silk net that a spider makes to catch insects
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The flat part of a feather made of thin strands on each side of the middle
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Skin between the toes of birds or amphibians that helps them swim
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A net of thin sticky threads made by a spider to catch insects
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A fine net of silk that a spider makes to catch insects
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A web shaped like a funnel that spiders make to catch insects
A round spider net with straight lines from the center and rings of sticky thread
A flat net of spider silk that hangs like a small hammock
A piece of woven cloth like silk for covering or decorating things
Compounds
- Texting
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A computer or program that stores and sends website pages to people on the internet
- Specialized
A round spider net with straight lines from the center and rings of sticky thread
- Specialized
A slender tropical insect that lives in colonies and spins silk tunnels for nests
- Specialized
A small water-and-land animal with webbed toes and a long tongue used to catch insects and climb smooth rocks
How Fine
Surface Forms
Etymology
Web comes from an old English word meaning 'woven cloth' and is the same root as weave, so imagine many threads joined together — that is why a spider's net, the flat part of a feather, or the skin between toes are all called a 'web'.