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web | backup |

As a proper noun web

is (possibly|informal|outside|attributive use) the world wide web.

As a noun backup is

a reserve or substitute.

As an adjective backup is

standby, reserve or extra.

web

English

(wikipedia web)

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.
  • Derived terms

    * cobweb * spiderweb * webbed * webbing

    Proper noun

  • : the World Wide Web.
  • I found it on the web .

    Verb

    (webb)
  • to construct or form a web
  • to cover with a web or network
  • to ensnare or entangle
  • to provide with a web
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    backup

    English

    Alternative forms

    * back-up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reserve or substitute.
  • If the goalkeeper is injured, we have a backup .
  • (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is destroyed or damaged.
  • After the power failure, we had to restore the database from backup .
  • An accumulation of material that halts the flow or movement of something.
  • The blockage caused a backup in the plumbing.
  • (law enforcement) reinforcements
  • He's got a gun - you better send for backup .

    Synonyms

    * (reserve ): reserve, stand-in, spare, substitute * (computing: copy of a file or record ): * (accumulation of material that halts flow ): block, blockage

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Standby, reserve or extra.
  • I am only a backup player.
  • (computing) That is intended as a backup.
  • Make a backup copy of that file.

    Synonyms

    * (reserve) extra, reserve, spare, standby

    Usage notes

    Back-up'' is an alternative spelling of backup. Both spellings are used as either a noun or an adjective. The verb ''back up is always spelled as two words and never with a hyphen.