Web vs Mesh - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between web and mesh

is that web is the silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb while mesh is a structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.

As verbs the difference between web and mesh

is that web is to construct or form a web while mesh is to fit in, to come together.

As a proper noun web

is alternative case form of Web: the World Wide Web.

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

* ----

mesh

English

Noun

(wikipedia mesh) (es)

A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.

* Shakespeare

a golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men

The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.

The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.

A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.

(computer graphics) A polygon mesh.

Synonyms

* (space and threads) lattice, network, net

Derived terms

* mesh number

Verb

(es)

To fit in, to come together.

The music meshed well with the visuals in that film.

To catch in a mesh.

(Surrey)

Anagrams

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