Noun

(en noun)

A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March–April

, author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps , diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}

(mathematics)   A function.

The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always maps.

(topology)   A continuous function.

A diagram of components of an item.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}

The butterfly .

(UK, old-fashioned)   Someone's face.

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter X , passage=And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught. He looked like Jack Dempsey at the conclusion of his first conference with Gene Tunney, the occasion, if you remember, when he forgot to duck.}}

(board games, computer games)   A predefined and confined imaginary area where a game session takes place.

"I don't want to play this map again!"

Noun

(en noun)

The silken structure 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 .

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

* Hawthorne

the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-colour or gold

* Washington Irving

Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.

Specifically , the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).

Let me search the web for that.

(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.

He caught the ball in the web .

A latticed or woven structure.

The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.

* George Bancroft

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.

The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.

(rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.

A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.

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.

(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.

(dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.

A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

* Fairfax

And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.

# The blade of a sword.

#* Fairfax

The sword, whereof the web was steel, / Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.

# The blade of a saw.

# The thin, sharp part of a colter.

# The bit of a key.