Web Definition–noun | 1. | something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving. | | 2. | a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars; cobweb. | | 3. | Textiles. | a. | a woven fabric, esp. a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom. | | b. | the flat woven strip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug. | | | 4. | something resembling woven material, esp. something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance: He looked up at the web of branches of the old tree. | | 5. | an intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.: The thief was convicted by a web of evidence. Who can understand the web of life? | | 6. | something that snares or entangles; a trap: innocent travelers caught in the web of international terrorism. | | 8. | Zoology. a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds. | | 9. | Ornithology. | a. | the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather. | | b. | the series on both sides, collectively. | | | 10. | an integral or separate part of a beam, rail, truss, or the like, that forms a continuous, flat, narrow, rigid connection between two stronger, broader parallel parts, as the flanges of a structural shape, the head and foot of a rail, or the upper and lower chords of a truss. | | 11. | Machinery. an arm of a crank, usually one of a pair, holding one end of a crankpin at its outer end. | | 12. | Architecture. (in a vault) any surface framed by ribbing. | | 13. | a large roll of paper, as for continuous feeding of a web press. | | 14. | a network of interlinked stations, services, communications, etc., covering a region or country. | | 15. | Informal. a network of radio or television broadcasting stations. | –verb (used with object) | 17. | to cover with or as if with a web; envelop. | | 18. | to ens
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Cam Definition–noun | 1. | Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion. | –verb (used with object) | 3. | to provide (a machine part or mechanism) with a cam or cams. | |
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Site Definition–noun | 1. | the position or location of a town, building, etc., esp. as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin. | | 2. | the area or exact plot of ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located: the site of ancient Troy. | –verb (used with object) | 4. | to place in or provide with a site; locate. | | 5. | to put in position for operation, as artillery: to site a cannon. | |
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Local 6 - Found Dec. 1, 2008
... from Texas called early Friday to report that a girl on a Web cam in Naples was threatening ... An investigator was able to find the Web site ...
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Business First of Louisville - Found Nov. 24, 2008
The Louisville Arena Authority has put up a Web cam so that the public can watch ongoing ... to zoom in and out to see various details at the site.
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Softpedia - Found Nov. 23, 2008
The 19-year-old boy used a web cam connected to the Internet, and posted links on various ... viewer reported the abuse to the site managers, who
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SF Couple's Puppy-Cam Becomes Web Sensation
BayInsider - Found Nov. 20, 2008
... ago, the couple began using a public Web site Ustream ... to see it about a week after the puppy cam stream was posted on the free site, shared ...
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