OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10421

web

/wɛb/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
red
Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
The time of his birth, his birth-place, his parentage, are all involved in obscurity; and such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators, that it is difficult to extricate…
[T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love o…
alma
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
alma
The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
membrana
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
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