webwork

Examples

• All

• A mountain of jagged boulders sloped down to the Serpent, covered over by a webwork of wooden walkways and stairs that made safe descent, if strenuous, possible.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The room was large and spacious, its high ceiling translucent and crisscrossed by a webwork of carved rafters.

  Fiction book (1991)

• He saw Case and smiled, his teeth a webwork of East European steel and brown decay.

  No Maps for These Territories (2000)

• The chill blue fae began to build once more, a slender webwork of death that wove itself about the boy's skin.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Yuki looked away from them at the webwork of branches above her, the sky so far behind them like an endless pit she could fall into backwards.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The music sighed and he was in space again, drifting on the tether, with Jupiter and the Sun at his back and the webwork of Ganymede Outpost glittering at his feet.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The room was large and spacious, its high ceiling translucent and crisscrossed by a webwork of carved rafters.

• These enormous webworks float through the oceans, efficiently gathering up food fish but also killing dolphins and other marine mammals.

Synonyms

S

spiderweb

vswebwork

3 3.3

A tangled network of people or things that is hard to escape

is a more neutral, regular pattern rather than a tangled network

M

meshwork

vswebwork

1 7.9

An open structure of threads or wires woven like a net

is a less regular, more natural pattern

How Interconnected

webwork

1 6.5

mesh

31 3.7

tangle

22 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology