Web vs Service - What's the difference?
web | service |
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
An act of being of assistance to someone.
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, title= (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
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, title= (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
The military.
A set of dishes or utensils.
(sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
A religious rite or ritual.
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, title= (legal) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
(Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, West Bank) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
A musical composition for use in churches.
(obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
* Shakespeare
(nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
To serve.
To perform maintenance.
(transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse
(vulgar) To perform a sexual act.
As a proper noun web
is (possibly|informal|outside|attributive use) the world wide web.As a noun service is
service (eg in a restaurant) or service can be service, set.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 .
Verb
(webb)Anagrams
* ----service
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m) (French: (m)), from the verb (m) < (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)- I say I did him a service by ending our relationship - now he can freely pursue his career.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
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- He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service , which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner.
- Pray, do my service to his majesty.
Usage notes
In British English, the indefinite article “a” is often used with “good service”, as in “A good service is operating on all London Underground lines,” while this is not used in American English.Antonyms
* (action or work that is produced and consumed) good * capitalDerived terms
* accept service * advisory service * all-up service * answering service * bond service * church service * civil service * client service * community service * curb service * customer service * debt service * denial of service * denture service * dinner service * diplomatic service * disservice * divine service * ecological service * emergency service * escort service * extension service * eyeservice * fanservice * fee-for-service * food service * foreign service * full-service * health service * ill service * in service * lip service * memorial service * military service * multiservice * national service * online service * out of service * personal service * postal service * power service * prayer service * public service * quality of service * room service * secret service * Secret Service * selective service * self-service * service area * service book * service break * service bureau * service call * service cap * service ceiling * service center * service charge * service club * service contract * service court * service dog * service door * service elevator * service line * service loop * service mark * service module * service of process * service pipe * service plaza * service provider * service road * service station * service stripe * serviceman * servicewoman * shared service * silent service * silver service * social service * substituted service * table service * tea service * unservice * unserviced * web service * wire service * yeoman's serviceVerb
(servic)- They service the customer base.
- He is going to service the car.
- He was going to service her.