web

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web /web/ S2 W2 noun

1 the Web the system on the Internet that allows you to find and use information that is held on computers all over the world 网络 SYN the World Wide Web

on the Web

a guide to the best education-related sites on the Web

最佳教育类网站指南

n Grammar

✗ Don’t say: in the Web/on Web

Examples from the Corpus

on the Web• Some of these new technologies are already appearing on the Web.• The bikes are so exclusive that they will only be available on the Web.• It also has one of the best sports information centers on the Web.• Like everything else on the Web, these things move and evolve fast.• And few, if any, of these publications are making money by offering their news for free on the Web.• Unless your son catches on to the research potential on the Web, surfing can be pretty passive.• Anyone who's serious about their presence on the Web has their own domain name.• The other usage refers to the front door to a set of documents that represents some one or something on the Web.

HBI[countableC] a net of thin threads made by a spider to catch insects 蜘蛛网

He watched a spider spinning its web.

他观察一只蜘蛛织网。

→ cobweb

3 COMPLICATED[countableC usually singular] a closely related set of things that can be very complicated 错综复杂的一套

a web of intrigue/deceit/deception/lies etc 一套错综复杂的阴谋/骗术/谎言等

a tangled web of relationships

复杂的关系

4. HBB[countableC] a piece of skin that connects the toes of ducks and some other birds, and helps them to swim well 〔鸭子等禽鸟的〕蹼

Examples from the Corpus

web• In reality any organization will be involved in a web of relationships, which vary in character and intensity according to the issue.• Netscape hooked millions of web surfers on Navigator by letting them have it for free.• The larger facilities will be used to provide all types of web and application hosting as well as co-location services.• The whole tangled web of each other's relationships was getting to breaking-point.• Yank on one filament in the web, and the other filaments had to move, too.• Throw some small insects into the web and find out what prevents them getting out before the spider can catch them.• My concern has been to specify as clearly as possible the Orphic strand of the web.• The webs which are woven are many and varied.

spinning ... web• Tiny, beautiful spiders, infused with an inner light, spinning their vast webs across the endless darkness.

tangled web• Almost inevitably the issue had become caught up in a tangled web of local education politics.• It was a tangled web of paths, roads, and tracks through wilderness.• Would you have put on your disapproving hat and talked about tangled webs and reaping what you sow?• Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged.• Set in San Diego, the play examines the tangled web woven by those who conceal certain truths from others.• The tangled web of life ultimately complements the finished weave of art.• The tangled web of their past and present balled against the rage of Ruth's emotions.• The whole tangled web of each other's relationships was getting to breaking-point.

From Longman Business Dictionary

webweb /web/ noun

the (Worldwide) Web abbreviation WWWCOMPUTING a system of millions of computers all over the world connected to the Internet, which allows people to create and look at websites

Origin web

Old English

web noun →n GRAMMAR1

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