web
Definitions
General English
- noun a set of events that cause problems
General Science
- noun a collection of the millions of websites and webpages that together form the part of the Internet that is most often seen by users.
Aviation
Cars & Driving
- noun an internal reinforcement between panels
Construction
- That part of a beam or truss between the flanges or chords, used mainly in resisting shear stresses.
- The walls connecting the face shells of a hollow concrete masonry unit.
Media Studies
- noun a roll of paper that is used on a rotary printing press
- verb to form or produce a web
Real Estate
- noun a ribbed surface within a vaulted structure such as an I-beam
Origin & History of “web”
A web is etymologically something ‘woven’. In common with Dutch web, Swedish väf, and Danish vœv, the word goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *wabjam. this was derived from the base *wab-, *web-, which also produced English weave ‘make cloth’. The derivative webster (OE) originally denoted a ‘female weaver’, but it now survives only as a surname.
