“web”在英语中的释义

noun

1. The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

   • The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.

2. (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.

3. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.

   • He caught the ball in the web.

4. A latticed or woven structure.

   • The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.

5. (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.

   • Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.

6. A plot or scheme.

7. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.

8. (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.

9. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.

10. The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.

11. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.

12. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.

13. (glassblowing, obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.

14. (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.

15. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

16. (dated, US, radio, television) A major broadcasting network.

17. (architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.

18. (medicine, archaic) A cataract of the eye.

name

1. Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.

   • Let me search the web for that.

verb

1. (intransitive) To construct or form a web.

2. (transitive) To cover with a web or network.

3. (transitive) To ensnare or entangle.

4. (transitive) To provide with a web.