資料來源 : pyDict
網,蛛絲,蹼,織物,圈套,捲筒紙生蹼,形成網織蜘蛛網於,使落入圈套
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Web \Web\, n. [OE. webbe, AS. webba. See {Weave}.]
A weaver. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Web \Web\, n. [OE. web, AS. webb; akin to D. web, webbe, OHG.
weppi, G. gewebe, Icel. vefr, Sw. v["a]f, Dan. v[ae]v. See
{Weave}.]
1. That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp.,
something woven in a loom.
Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her
wooers to deceive. --Spenser.
Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or
penalty of exile. --Bancroft.
2. A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
3. The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for
catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. ``The smallest
spider's web.'' --Shak.
4. Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their
web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color
or gold. --Hawthorne.
Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of
commentators that it is difficult to extricate the
truth from the web of conjectures. --W. Irving.
5. (Carriages) A band of webbing used to regulate the
extension of the hood.
6. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
--Fairfax.
Specifically:
(a) The blade of a sword. [Obs.]
The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel
rich stone, hilt gold. --Fairfax.
(b) The blade of a saw.
(c) The thin, sharp part of a colter.
(d) The bit of a key.
7. (Mach. & Engin.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or
perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or
other parts of an object. Specifically:
(a) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the
upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron
girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
(b) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of
spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds
of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
(c) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
(d) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and
the foot.
8. (Med.) Pterygium; -- called also {webeye}. --Shak.
9. (Anat.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes,
either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of
their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
10. (Zo["o]l.) 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. See {Feather}.
Web \Web\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Webbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Webbing}.]
To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to
envelop; to entangle.
資料來源 : WordNet®
web
n 1: an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by
weaving or interweaving; "the trees cast a delicate web
of shadows over the lawn"
2: an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
[syn: {entanglement}]
3: the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a
series of barbs on either side of the shaft [syn: {vane}]
4: an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a
network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a
whole network of people who had been part of my life";
"tangled in a web of cloth" [syn: {network}]
5: computer network consisting of a collection of internet
sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation
resources through the hypertext transfer protocol [syn: {World
Wide Web}, {WWW}]
6: a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)
7: membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and
mammals
[also: {webbing}, {webbed}]
web
v : construct or form a web, as if by weaving [syn: {net}]
[also: {webbing}, {webbed}]
資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
WEB
{Donald Knuth}'s self-documenting {literate
programming}, with {algorithm}s and {documentation} intermixed
in one file. They can be separated using {Weave} and
{Tangle}. Versions exist for {Pascal} and {C}. {Spiderweb}
can be used to create versions for other languages.
{FunnelWeb} is a production-quality literate-programming tool.
{(ftp://princeton.edu/)}, {(ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/)}.
["Literate Programming", D.E. Knuth, Computer J 27(2):97-111,
May 1984].
(1996-05-10)
Web
"The Web" is the {World-Wide Web}. "A web"
is part of it on some specific {web site}.
(1996-05-10)