What is "web"

web \web\ (w[e^]b), n. The world-wide web; -- usually referred to as the web.

Old English webb "woven fabric, woven work, tapestry," from Proto-Germanic *wabjam "fabric, web" (cognates: Old Saxon webbi, Old Norse vefr, Dutch webbe, Old High German weppi, German gewebe "web"), from PIE *webh- "to weave" (see weave (v.)).\n

\nMeaning "spider's web" is first recorded early 13c. Applied to the membranes between the toes of ducks and other aquatic birds from 1570s. Internet sense is from 1992, shortened from World Wide Web (1990). Web browser, web page both also attested 1990.

n. 1 The silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.Image:Spinnennetz im Gegenlicht.jpg 2 Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. 3 ''Specifically'', the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web). 4 (context baseball English) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing. File:Baseball glove.png 5 A latticed or woven structure. 6 The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member. 7 (context rail transport English) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail. image:rail profile.svg 8 A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals. 9 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. 10 (context manufacturing English) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing. 11 (context lithography English) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper. 12 (context dated English) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage. 13 A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. 14 # The blade of a sword. 15 # The blade of a saw. 16 # The thin, sharp part of a colter. 17 # The bit of a key. n. (alternative case form of Web nodot=1 English): the World Wide Web. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to construct or form a web 2 (context transitive English) to cover with a web or network 3 (context transitive English) to ensnare or entangle 4 (context transitive English) to provide with a web

1. n. 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

8. [also: webbing, webbed]

1. v. construct or form a web, as if by weaving [syn: net]

2. [also: webbing, webbed]

WEB is a computer programming system created by Donald E. Knuth as the first implementation of what he called " literate programming": the idea that one could create software as works of literature, by embedding source code inside descriptive text, rather than the reverse (as is common practice in most programming languages), in an order that is convenient for exposition to human readers, rather than in the order demanded by the compiler.

WEB consists of two secondary programs: TANGLE, which produces compilable Pascal code from the source texts, and WEAVE, which produces nicely-formatted, printable documentation using TeX.

CWEB is a version of WEB for the C programming language, while noweb is a separate literate programming tool, which is inspired by WEB (as reflected in the name) and which is language agnostic.

The most significant programs written in WEB are TeX and Metafont. Modern TeX distributions use another program Web2C to convert WEB source to C.

The Web is a fictional character, a superhero created by MLJ Comics' in 1942 by artist John Cassone and an unknown writer.

Web is a science fiction novel written by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. The novel was published by the estate of John Wyndham in 1979, ten years after his death.

In mathematics, a web permits an intrinsic characterization in terms of Riemannian geometry of the additive separation of variables in the Hamilton–Jacobi equation.

Web is a 2013 documentary film directed by Michael Kleiman.

The documentary follows several Peruvian families as they gain computer and Internet access for the first time through the One Laptop per Child program as well as interviews with people such as author Clay Shirky, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, Dennis Crowley of Foursquare, Scott Heiferman of Meetup and One Laptop founder Nicholas Negroponte . Kleiman spent ten months living in Peru, dividing his time in the towns of Antuyo in the mountains and Palestina in the Amazon rainforest .

Web is a collaborative album by Bill Laswell and Terre Thaemlitz, released on January 24, 1995 by Subharmonic.

Web (originally called Epiphany from 2003 to 2012) is a free software web browser for the GNOME desktop environment.

The browser was forked from Galeon, after developers' disagreements about Galeon's growing complexity. Since then Web has been developed as part of the GNOME project and uses most of GNOME's technology and settings when applicable. It is part of the GNOME Core Applications. As required by the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), Web maintains the clean and simple graphical user interface with only a required minimum number of features exposed to users by default. The browser's functionality and configurability can be extended with official and third-party extensions.

Instead of developing a custom web browser engine Epiphany originally used the Gecko layout engine until version 2.28 and WebKitGTK+ starting with version 2.20. This approach allows the relatively small developer community to maintain a sufficient level of modern web standards support. The features of Web include reuse of GNOME configuration settings, smart bookmarks and web application integration into user desktop. Web extensions add support for ad filtering, Greasemonkey user scripts support and other smaller, yet useful, options.

Web's source code is available under the GNU General Public License from the GNOME project. The binary builds of the browser are available in the package repositories of most Linux distributions and BSD releases.

A web is a long, thin, and flexible material. Common webs include foil, metal, paper, textile, plastic film, and wire. Common processes carried out on webs include coating, plating, and laminating.

A web is generally processed by moving over rollers. Between processing stages, webs are stored and transported as rolls also known as coils, packages and doffs. The end result or use of web manufacturing is usually sheets. The primary motivation to work with webs instead of sheets is economics. Webs, being continuous, can be made at far higher speeds and do not have the start-stop issues of discrete sheet processing. The size of the web-handling industries is unknown.