Web vs. Wed — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Web and Wed
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Web
A woven fabric, especially one on a loom or just removed from it.
Wed
To unite closely
A style that weds form and function.
Web
The structural part of cloth.
Wed
To take as a spouse; marry.
Web
A latticed or woven structure
A web of palm branches formed the roof of the hut.
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Wed
To perform the marriage ceremony for; join in matrimony.
Web
A structure of delicate, threadlike filaments characteristically spun by spiders or certain insect larvae.
Wed
To cause to adhere devotedly or stubbornly
He was wedded to the idea of building a new school.
Web
Something intricately contrived, especially something that ensnares or entangles
Caught in a web of lies.
Wed
To take a spouse; marry.
Web
A complex, interconnected structure or arrangement
A web of telephone wires.
Wed
(transitive) To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
The priest wed the couple.
Web
Often Web The World Wide Web.
Wed
(transitive) To take as one's spouse.
She wed her first love.
Web
A radio or television network.
Wed
(intransitive) To take a spouse.
Web
A membrane or fold of skin connecting the toes, as of certain amphibians, birds, and mammals.
Wed
(reciprocal) To take each other as a spouse.
They will wed in the summer.
Web
The barbs on each side of the shaft of a bird's feather; a vane.
Wed
To join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage.
I'm not wedded to this proposal; suggest an alternative.
Web
(Baseball) A piece of leather or leather mesh that fills the space between the thumb and forefinger of a baseball glove. Also called trap1, webbing.
Wed
To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
Web
(Architecture) A space or compartment between the ribs or groins of a vault. Also called cell.
Wed
To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.
I'd wed my head on that.
Web
A metal sheet or plate connecting the heavier sections, ribs, or flanges of a structural element.
Wed
A pledge; a pawn.
Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed [i. e., for a security].
Web
A thin metal plate or strip, as the bit of a key or the blade of a saw.
Wed
To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
With this ring I thee wed.
I saw thee first, and wedded thee.
Web
A large continuous roll of paper, such as newsprint, either in the process of manufacture or as it is fed into a web press.
Wed
To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.
And Adam, wedded to another Eve,Shall live with her.
Web
To provide with a web.
Wed
Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
Thou art wedded to calamity.
Men are wedded to their lusts.
[Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age.
Web
To cover or envelop with a web.
Wed
To take to one's self and support; to espouse.
They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.
Web
To ensnare in a web.
Wed
To contact matrimony; to marry.
Web
The silken structure which 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.
Wed
The fourth day of the week; the third working day
Web
(by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
Wed
Take in marriage
Web
(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
He caught the ball in the web.
Wed
Perform a marriage ceremony;
The minister married us on Saturday
We were wed the following week
The couple got spliced on Hawaii
Web
A latticed or woven structure.
The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
Wed
Having been taken in marriage
Web
(usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
Web
A plot or scheme.
Web
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
Web
(rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
Web
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
Web
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.
Web
(manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
Web
(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
Web
(dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
Web
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
Web
The blade of a sword.
Web
The blade of a saw.
Web
The thin, sharp part of a colter.
Web
The bit of a key.
Web
A major broadcasting network.
Web
(architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs. en
Web
A cataract of the eye.
Web
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I found it on the web.
Let me search the web for that.
Web
(intransitive) To construct or form a web.
Web
(transitive) To cover with a web or network.
Web
(transitive) To ensnare or entangle.
Web
(transitive) To provide with a web.
Web
To weave.
Web
A weaver.
Web
That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.
Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake,Devised a web her wooers to deceive.
Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile.
Web
A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
Web
The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
Web
Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color or gold.
Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.
Web
A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
Web
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
Web
The blade of a sword.
The sword, whereof the web was steel,Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
Web
A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.
Web
The blade of a saw.
Web
The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
Web
Pterygium; - called also webeye.
Web
The thin, sharp part of a colter.
Web
A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
Web
The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
Web
The bit of a key.
Web
The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
Web
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. See Feather.
Web
The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
Web
The world-wide web; - usually referred to as the web.
Web
To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
Web
An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving;
The trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn
Web
An intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
Web
The flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
Web
An interconnected system of things or people;
He owned a network of shops
Retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life
Tangled in a web of cloth
Web
Computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
Web
A fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)
Web
Membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals
Web
Construct or form a web, as if by weaving
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