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web | current |

As a proper noun web

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

As a noun current is

the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.

As an adjective current is

existing or occurring at the moment.

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

    * ----

    current

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
  • (electricity) The time rate of flow of electric charge.
  • :* Symbol': '''''I (inclined upper case letter "I")
  • :* Units:
  • :: SI: ampere (A)
  • :: CGS: esu/second (esu/s)
  • A tendency or a course of events.

    • Synonyms

    * (part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction ): flow, stream * (time rate of flow of electric charge ): electric current * (tendency or course of events ): flow, stream, tendency

    Derived terms

    * undercurrent

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Existing or occurring at the moment.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
  • Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
  • (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
  • * Gower
    • Like the current fire, that renneth / Upon a cord.
  • * Tennyson
    • To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

    Synonyms

    * (existing or occurring at the moment ): present * (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment ): fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date

    Antonyms

    * (existing or occurring at the moment ): future, past * (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment ): out-of-date, unfashionable

    Related terms

    * current account * current events * currently ----