web

1. web (noun) — sense 1

Definition: The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

Example: The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.

2. web (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.: Any of several similar materials, such as that created by tent caterpillars.

3. web (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.

Example: 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.

4. web (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To construct or form a web.

5. web (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To cover with a web or network.

Example: 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[…]

6. web (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To ensnare or entangle.