Tern vs Web - What's the difference?
tern | web |
Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.
That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together.
(dated) A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.
* Mrs Browning
threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate
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.
#* Fairfax
# 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 tern
is any of various sea birds of the family sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail or tern can be that which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together.As an adjective tern
is threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.As a proper noun web is
(possibly|informal|outside|attributive use) the world wide web.tern
English
Etymology 1
From a Scandinavian language, related to Danish terne'', Swedish '' , ultimately from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* arctic tern * black tern * common tern * crested tern * greater crested tern * hooded tern * lesser crested tern * marsh tern * river tern * roseate tern * sooty tern * swift ternSee also
* sea swallow * (wikipedia) * (Sternidae) * (Sternidae)Etymology 2
(etyl) terne. See (tern) (adjective).Noun
(en noun)- She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery.
Adjective
(-)- tern''' flowers; '''tern leaves
- a tern schooner, one with three masts
Anagrams
* *web
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 .