webs

Noun

web (plural webs)

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.

   Synonyms:

   cobweb, spiderweb

   1. Any of several similar materials, such as that created by tent caterpillars.
2. (broadly) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
   • The time of his birth, his birth-place, his parentage, are all involved in obscurity; and such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators, that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures with which it is interwoven.1828, Washington Irving, “Birth, Parentage, and Education of Columbus”, in A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: G. & C. Carvill, […], →OCLC, book...

   Synonyms:

   spiderweb

   1. (broadly, figuratively) A scheme.
      • web of lies
   2. (Internet, broadly) The Internet; the World Wide Web.
   3. (US, broadly, dated) A major broadcasting network.
      • […] the first big move toward a contract for television performers was made Friday (20) when the webs agreed to pay them according to the length of the show. […] Altho the major TV webs — NBC and CBS — may fall in line soon, an agreement may possibly be held up by the opposition of DuMont […]1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 43, page 9

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