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webwork

n. A net or web; something structured or interlinked in a weblike manner.

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Webwork

webwork can refer to:

  • A webwork plot, a type of literary form defined and practiced by Harry Stephen Keeler
  • WeBWorK, a web-based homework system by the University of Rochester
  • WebWork, a Java web application development framework developed by OpenSymphony
  • WebWorks, a platform for BlackBerry

Usage examples of "webwork".

He could feel the webwork of linkages, now, coursing out from the altar.

From great brass censers, swinging low by exquisite Venetian chainwork, fragrant smoke curled upward, crossing with slender rays of blue the gold webwork of the sunlight.

He saw the central, softly rainbowlike dome, towers like lances and towers like webwork, argent nets and ardent globes, the bulks and shapes everywhere around, the little flyers that flitted aglow, and more and more, all half veiled and ashimmer, aripple, apulse, while the life-beat of it went through him to make a bell of his skull, and it was too strange, his eyes did not know how to see it, he gaped as if blinded and shuddered as if pierced.

Its bleary northern hemisphere, smudged with extended dune drifts and heavily mantled rocksheets, breaks below the equator into scorched basins and a webwork of ancient cratered highlands.

Then the crane stood idle and the operator waited as the workers circled cables around the next cargo container and fastened the webwork of cables to the crane hook.

THE WOMAN SAT on one side of the narrow drop table and picked up the empty cup one more time, studying the webwork of lines underneath the porcelain-smooth glaze.

It’s about friendships and enemyhood, a webwork of who is known to be trustworthy and who not.

She froze stock still, cursed to herself and swayed to the motion of the water that was pushing on that floating body too, taking it and her loose boat the same way, beside the webwork of Fishmarket, in the shifting glimmer of the moon and Moghi's reflected porchlight.

The webworks stretched, then contracted, pulling away from her body, pulling out of her body.

But it had been amazed from the beginning at the openness of the radio spectrum and the wealth of information webworks that laced the chaotic human culture.

Losing her connection with the webworks was like losing a limb- Its phantom remained, perceptible but use less.

Delicate webworks, sinuous twinings, leaves and vines and wildlife ornaments so delicate that he feared to touch them.