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 theweb of conjectures with which it is interwoven.
[T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove theirweb of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love of sunshine, and would gladly gild all the world with it, if I knew where to find so much.
"But THAT! Was the OLDEN TIMES! Amassive, worldwideweb ofglobal information hasENTANGLED THE WORLD! People inBeijing can read about a magical incident in Moperville inseconds, and havevideo of it inminutes!"
(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, thewebbing.
He caught the ball in theweb.
A latticed or woven structure.
The gazebo’s roof was aweb made of thin strips of wood.
1866,George Bancroft, “New Netherland”, inHistory of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent, 21st edition, volume II, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company,page281:
The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics ; not aweb might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.
A fold oftissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
The series ofbarbs implanted on each side of theshaft of afeather, whether stiff and united together bybarbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
(manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
Argant a ſword, whereof theweb was ſteele, / Pommell, rich ſtone ; hilts, gold, approu’d by tuch, / With rareſt workmanſhip all forged weele, / The curious art exceld the ſubſtance much.
[…] the first big move toward a contract for television performers was made Friday (20) when thewebs agreed to pay them according to the length of the show.[…] Altho the major TVwebs — NBC and CBS — may fall in line soon, an agreement may possibly be held up by the opposition of DuMont[…]
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2013 May 13,Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, inThe Guardian[1]:
No, theweb probably isn't addictive in the sense that nicotine or heroin are; no, Facebook and Twitter aren't guilty of "killing conversation" or corroding real-life friendship or making children autistic.
1853 June 21, R. C. Stone, “A New Insect”, in Simon Brown, editor,The New England Farmer, volume V, Boston: Raynolds & Nourse,page362:
The canker worm has no shelter upon the tree, but lies out upon the leaf or branch ; this forms itself a house bywebbing the corner of a leaf, into which it retreats on the first appearance of danger[…]
1895, “Has Gold Risen?”, inThe Forum, volume XVIII, New York: The Forum Publishing Co.,page577:
In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was beingwebbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre[…]
1511–12, “An Act agaynst deceyptfull making of Wollen Cloth”, inThe Statures of the Realm, volume III, London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, published1963,page28:
Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to bewebbed into cloth shall weve werk[…]
[paraphrase] Likewise, that the weaver who is to weave any woollen yarn to bewoven into cloth shall weave it well.
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2022 February 25, Manuel G. Pascual, “La ciberguerra de Rusia contra Ucrania nunca ha acabado [Russia's cyberwar against Ukraine never ended]”, inEl País[2]:
La semana pasada se registraron también ciberataques dirigidos a laswebs del Ministerio de Defensa ucranio, a la del ejército y a las de bancos estatales.
Last week cyberattacks on thewebsites of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the army, and state banks were also recorded.
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