webwork
Syllables: web·workUK/ˈwɛbˌwɜːk/US/ˈwɛbˌwɝk/
webwork noun: a net or web; something structured or interlinked in a weblike manner.
Noun
webwork (usually uncountable, plural webworks)
- A net or web; something structured or interlinked in a weblike manner.
- Most frequently, the three make up the webwork of his literary fabric.1946, William Allison Shimer, editor, The American Scholar, volume XV, page 87
- Very quickly it becomes evident that these webworks are part of an unaccountably large lair of thousands of spiders.1990, Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart, New York: Routledge
Examples of webwork in a sentence
- In some sense, the entire webwork of space-time would dissolve into myriad unconnected points in the spaceless and timeless Void with no communication between them.2002, Sten Odenwald, “Gravity’s Web”, in Patterns in the Void: Why Nothing Is Important, 1st edition, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 111:
- If museums are to assist their users to explore and develop what they know, they must invite the avalanche of questions and create the webwork of connections that configure a learning life.2003, David Carr, “Museums, Educative: An Encyclopedia Entry”, in The Promise of Cultural Institutions, Rowman Altamira, →ISBN, page 35:
- Delicate fingers of frost reached up from the floor and extended down from the ceiling; the bottles were covered with a lacy webwork so fine that it looked like cobwebs.2003, Ben Jones, chapter XIII, in The Rope Eater, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 185:
Synonyms of webwork
Forms of webwork
| plural | webworks |
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Origin of webwork
From web + work.
Questions about webwork
- What does webwork mean?
- Webwork means a net or web; something structured or interlinked in a weblike manner.
- How do you use webwork in a sentence?
- In some sense, the entire webwork of space-time would dissolve into myriad unconnected points in the spaceless and timeless Void with no communication between them.
- What part of speech is webwork?
- Webwork is a noun.
- How do you pronounce webwork?
- Webwork is pronounced /ˈwɛbˌwɜːk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of webwork?
- The plural of webwork is webworks.
Words near webwork in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: webwork (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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