Term vs Web - What's the difference?
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Limitation, restriction or regulation. (rfex)
Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
* Francis Bacon
(geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
Relations among people.
* , chapter=22
, title= Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
(mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
(logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
* Sir W. Hamilton
(architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
(computing) A terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal.
(of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
(astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
(archaic) A menstrual period.
* 1660 , (Samuel Pepys), Diary
(nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
* Hawthorne
* Washington Irving
Specifically , the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).
(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
A latticed or woven structure.
* George Bancroft
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
# The blade of a sword.
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# The blade of a saw.
# The thin, sharp part of a colter.
# The bit of a key.
: the World Wide Web.
to construct or form a web
to cover with a web or network
to ensnare or entangle
to provide with a web
As a noun term
is term.As a proper noun web is
(possibly|informal|outside|attributive use) the world wide web.term
English
(wikipedia term)Noun
(en noun)- Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms , or boundaries.
- A line is the term''' of a superficies, and a superficies is the '''term of a solid.
- "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
- The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
- My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again.
Derived terms
{{der3, at term , blanket term , collective term , come to terms , long-term , midterm , short-term , term limit , term logic , term of art , terms and conditions , umbrella term}}See also
* idiom * lexeme * listeme * wordVerb
(en verb)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
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English
(wikipedia web)Noun
(en noun)- The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web .
- the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-colour or gold
- Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.
- Let me search the web for that.
- He caught the ball in the web .
- 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.
- And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
- The sword, whereof the web was steel, / Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
Derived terms
* cobweb * spiderweb * webbed * webbingProper noun
- I found it on the web .