web

1. (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.Examples: "The time of his birth, his birth-place, his parentage, are all involved in obscurity; and such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators, that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures with which it is interwoven."; "[T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love of sunshine, and would gladly gild all the world with it, if I knew where to find so much."; ""But THAT! Was the OLDEN TIMES! A massive, worldwide web of global information has ENTANGLED THE WORLD! People in Beijing can read about a magical incident in Moperville in seconds, and have video of it in minutes!""broadly

2. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.Examples: "He caught the ball in the web."

3. (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.Examples: "Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says."Synonyms: yarnusually

4. (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.

5. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.

6. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.