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webbing

ˈwɛbɪŋ
WordNet
Silk web with a pattern of alternating flowers, flowers against a grid, hare next to hexagon and birds in a circle in blue, brown, pink, white, purple, green and red on an orange background. Oriental textiles.
Silk web with a pattern of alternating flowers, flowers against a grid, hare next to hexagon and birds in a circle in blue, brown, pink, white, purple, green and red on an orange background. Oriental textiles.
  1. (n) webbing
    a strong fabric woven in strips
  2. (n) webbing
    a narrow closely woven tape; used in upholstery or for seat belts
  3. (n) webbing
    something forming a web (as between the toes of birds)
Illustrations
Actor in the role of Tsuchigumo (a spider-like monster), disguised as a hermit, throws a web over three attackers with drawn swords. The white frame covered with cobwebs and leaves, in which Tsuchigumo sits, represents the cave in which he hides.
Actor in the role of Tsuchigumo (a spider-like monster), disguised as a hermit, throws a web over three attackers with drawn swords. The white frame covered with cobwebs and leaves, in which Tsuchigumo sits, represents the cave in which he hides.
Buffalo Shrike on tree branch, to the left, looking at spider in web. A falling leaf at the bottom right.
Buffalo Shrike on tree branch, to the left, looking at spider in web. A falling leaf at the bottom right.
Cartoon on Dutch politics. Dark forest with a large spider web. On the floor a sugar loaf and some ministerial wallets. Plate published by the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 17, April 27, 1861.
Cartoon on Dutch politics. Dark forest with a large spider web. On the floor a sugar loaf and some ministerial wallets. Plate published by the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 17, April 27, 1861.
An emblem with two representations. Above a wooden structure or house. Under a spider web. The wind blows against it. These are currencies of Edward I and Edward II of England.
An emblem with two representations. Above a wooden structure or house. Under a spider web. The wind blows against it. These are currencies of Edward I and Edward II of England.
Silk web in satin weave with locally woven damask pattern. Design of a square frame of whimsical C-volutes within which two mirrored birds and (lotus) flowers and two radiant suns, also mirrored, woven in pairs and repeating over the length of the fabric in purple / gray against an even brown background. Oriental textiles.
Silk web in satin weave with locally woven damask pattern. Design of a square frame of whimsical C-volutes within which two mirrored birds and (lotus) flowers and two radiant suns, also mirrored, woven in pairs and repeating over the length of the fabric in purple / gray against an even brown background. Oriental textiles.
A fragment of silk fabric with a ground covered with winding webs within which fine flower tendrils. The ground is striped between the winding strips on which multicolored flower sprays.
A fragment of silk fabric with a ground covered with winding webs within which fine flower tendrils. The ground is striped between the winding strips on which multicolored flower sprays.
A swallow takes a web with a spider attached to it in its beak. Illustration from a fable of Aesop.
A swallow takes a web with a spider attached to it in its beak. Illustration from a fable of Aesop.
Various insects such as grasshoppers, beetles, centipedes, butterflies and spiders. Behind right a spider web and beehive.
Various insects such as grasshoppers, beetles, centipedes, butterflies and spiders. Behind right a spider web and beehive.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The search engine "Lycos" is named for Lycosidae, the Latin name for the wolf spider family. Unlike other spiders that sit passively in their web, wolf spiders are hunters, actively stalking their prey.
  1. Webbing
    A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Unique animals. Hippopotami cannot swim (ppl have said that a hippo can swim, but i dont think its classified as swimming. I'll check), whales can't swim backwards, tarantulas can't spin webs, crocodiles can't chew and hummingbirds can't walk
  1. (n) webbing
    plural Reins.
  2. (n) webbing
    A woven material, especially one woven without pile, plainly and strongly. The term is applied to material or pieces of material which are intended for strength, to bear a weight, to be drawn tight, or the like, as a belt or surcingle, and also for that which serves to protect and cover the edge of a piece of more delicate fabric: thus, Eastern rugs are often made with several inches of webbing projecting beyond the part that is covered with pile.
  3. (n) webbing
    In printing, the broad tapes used to conduct webs or sheets of paper in a printing-machine, or the broad straps or girths attached to the rounce of the hand-press.
  4. (n) webbing
    In zoology, the webs of the digits collectively: as, the webbing is extensive or complete; the webbed state of the digits, or the formation of their webs; palmation. See web, n., 10.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The largest web-footed bird is the albatross.
  1. (n) Webbing
    a narrow woven fabric of hemp, used for chairs, &c.: :
  2. (n) Webbing
    (zool.) the webs of the digits
  3. (n) Webbing
    (print.) tapes conducting webs of paper in a printing machine
Quotations
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
Edwin Way Teale
Sir Walter Scott
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
Sir Walter Scott
Stephen King
Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf
William Shakespeare
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
William Shakespeare
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. webb; Ice. vefr, Ger. gewebe; from root of weave.

Usage in the news

Technology Chumby and the Ambient Web Daniel Lyons 02.28.08, 6:00 PM ET Forbes Magazine dated March 24, 2008. forbes.com

Additional Web and Print Resources. pbs.org

I came across this link in my daily web travels. tucsoncitizen.com

Cat Marnell, the drug-addicted beauty columnist for Jane Pratt's Web site xoJane.com, has parted ways from the site after refusing to get clean. nypost.com

My apple tree developed a weird web. sacbee.com

Reader Jeannine Esposito of Somerset became alarmed when caterpillars invaded her apple tree , covering a branch with webbing. sacbee.com

Web-only retailers grew their combined web sales in 2011 to $73.39 billion. internetretailer.com

This is why the company in 2009 launched its free Google Public DNS system, part of its plan to " speed up the Web" and "make the Web faster. eweek.com

This is an important step for highly interactive Web applications to become mainstream, and its part of a wider W3C initiative to standardize Web APIs. eweek.com

The latest numbers from Dow Jones VentureSource seem to confirm that venture funding of Web 2.0 startups is slowing down and perhaps has even peaked VCs put a record $1.34 billion into 178 Web companies last year. businessweek.com

Security vendor Tripwire (www.tripwire.com) has released Tripwire for Web Pages 1.0, a product designed to protect Web sites from vandalism. eweek.com

Security vendor Tripwire (www. tripwire .com) has released Tripwire for Web Pages 1.0, a product designed to protect Web sites from vandalism. eweek.com

Web services are an evolving set of protocols and standards that let you easily build Web-based applications. indowsitpro.com

It's "Web site," not "website, "Website," "website" or "web-site. ecmpostreview.com

Web Only Web Features The True Cost of Offshoring. valvemagazine.com

Usage in scientific papers

Lemma 6.18 (Equivalent definitions of left-right Brownian web) A pair of Brownian webs (W l , W r ) is a left-right Brownian web with drifts β− , β+ as defined in Section 4.1 if and only if (W l , W r ) is a pair of sticky Brownian webs with drifts β− , β+ and coupling parameter κ = 0, as defined in Section 3.3.
Stochastic flows in the Brownian web and net

Let (W0 , M), with M = {(z , ωz ) : z ∈ M }, be a marked reference web as in Theorem 3.7 and conditional on (W0 , M), let (Wi )i≥1 be independent sample webs constructed as in (3.19).
Stochastic flows in the Brownian web and net

Let (W0 , M), with M = {(z , ωz ) : z ∈ M }, be a marked reference web as in Theorem 3.7 and conditional on (W0 , M), let (Wi )i≥1 be independent sample webs constructed as in (3.19).
Stochastic flows in the Brownian web and net

Lemma 8.8 (Support of quenched laws on the space of paths) Conditional on a marked reference Brownian web (W0 , M), let (Wi )i≥1 be an i.i.d. sequence of sample Brownian webs as in (7.3), and let N∞ be the generalized Brownian net associated with (W0 , M) defined in Lemma 8.1.
Stochastic flows in the Brownian web and net

Let (W l , W r ) be the left-right Brownian web associated with N , and let ( ˆW l , ˆW r ) be the corresponding dual left-right Brownian web.
Stochastic flows in the Brownian web and net

Usage in literature

Several beams were built identical in every respect except in the size of wire used for web reinforcement. "Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design" by Edward Godfrey

I have heard it maintained that the spider goes round her web and places these beads there afterward. "Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889" by Various

I shall tear through his web of lies. "The Story of Bawn" by Katharine Tynan

He had expected more of an outburst, more of a rebuff; the absolute snapping of the web he had spun surprised him. "Visionaries" by James Huneker

They got webs from the larger manufacturers and the weaving was done at home. "Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie" by Andrew Carnegie

And how if today I undo it, that work of your fashioning, If the web of the world run backward, and the high heavens lack a King? "The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs" by William Morris

They work on the "wrong" side, the under side of the web. "Quiet Talks on Following the Christ" by S. D. Gordon

More, yet more, most exemplary of listeners; and a web or webs of very various texture. "The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper" by Martin Farquhar Tupper

We have only to take a look at the map to perceive that this town stands like a spider in its web. "From Pole to Pole" by Sven Anders Hedin

Little piles of webbing or silk may be seen attached to the top of the hive, or sides of boxes. "Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained" by M. Quinby

Usage in poetry
For in the time we know not of
Did fate begin
Weaving the web of days that wove
Your doom, Faustine.
"Faustine" by Algernon Charles Swinburne Author object (28)
Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar;
Break but one
Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar
Through all will run.
"My Soul And I" by John Greenleaf Whittier Author object (377)
For there, I knew, in silence sat,
With breasts slow-heaving,
Illusion’s Queen Rabesquerat,
Her web a-weaving.
"The River Maiden" by Victor James Daley Author object (668)
The web and woof of life,
With hands that have no hearts,
Thro' calmness and thro' strife,
Despite all human arts.
"Inevitable" by Abram Joseph Ryan Author object (8)
It shall be, I said, for eternity
'Twixt you and me!
Dear friend, those times are over and done,
Love's web is spun.
"Her Voice" by Oscar Wilde Author object (520)
Daphnis dearest, wherefore weave me
Webs of lies lest truth should grieve me?
I could pardon much, believe me:
Dower me, Daphnis, or bereave me,
Kiss me, kill me, love me, leave me,-
Damn me, dear, but don't deceive me!
"Appeal" by Edith Nesbit Author object (157)