Picture a spider's web: many fine threads crossing each other into one connected net that catches whatever flies into it. The threads are separate, yet they form a single fabric you can't easily pull apart. That image of fine strands woven into one connected whole is the picture the rest of the word grows from.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料31 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Webname/wɛb/
- 1
The World Wide Web.
- Some of that content is now only available on the Web.
- Web page
webnoun/wɛb/
- 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.
- 2
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.
- [T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web 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.
- 3
ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
- He caught the ball in the web.
- 4
A latticed or woven structure.
- The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
- The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics ; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.
- 5
A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
- Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
- a tangled web of deception
- 6
A plot or scheme.
- 7
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
- 8
rail-transportrailwaystransportThe thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
另外 16 個記錄的用法
- 9
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
- 10
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
- 11
businessmanufacturingA continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
- 12
lithographymediaprintingA long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- 13
obsoleteartscraftsglassblowingA seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
- 14
datedA band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
- 15
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- […] And there with ſtately pompe by heapes they wend, / And Chriſtians ſlaine rolle vp in webs of lead […]
- 16
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- Argant a ſword, whereof the web was ſteele, / Pommell, rich ſtone ; hilts, gold, approu’d by tuch, / With rareſt workmanſhip all forged weele, / The curious art exceld the ſubſtance much.
- 17
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- 18
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- 19
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- 20
datedbroadcastingmediaradioA 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 […]
- ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.
- 21
architectureA section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
- 22
archaicmedicinesciencesA cataract of the eye.
- 23
obsoleteWoven cloth or material.
- 24
obsoleteA piece of cloth or fabric, as off the loom.
- She was presented with webs of the finest cloth, and with boxes of precious ointments.
webverb/wɛb/
- 1
To construct or form a web.
- 2
To cover with a web or network.
- The canker worm has no shelter upon the tree, but lies out upon the leaf or branch ; this forms itself a house by webbing the corner of a leaf, into which it retreats on the first appearance of danger[…]
- In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre[…]
- 3
To ensnare or entangle.
- 4
To provide with a web.
- 5
obsoleteTo weave.
- Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth shall weve werk[…]
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。