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 co
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mes 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
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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 ensnare or entrap. | –verb (used without object) | 19. | to make or form a web. | |
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Development Definition–noun | 1. | the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development. | | 2. | a significant consequence or event: recent developments in the field of science. | | 3. | a developed state or form: Drama reached its highest development in the plays of Shakespeare. | | 4. | Music. the part of a movement or composition in which a theme or themes are developed. | | 5. | a large group of private houses or of apartment houses, often of similar design, constructed as a unified community, esp. by a real-estate developer or government organization. | | 6. | Chess. the act or process of develop
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ing chess pieces. | | 7. | Mining. the work of digging openings, as tunnels, raises, and winzes, to give access to new workings, and of erecting necessary structures. | |
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Design Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), esp. to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge. | | 2. | to plan and fashion artistically or skillfully. | | 3. | to intend for a definite purpose: a scholarship designed for foreign students. | | 4. | to form or conceive in the mind; contrive; plan: The prisoner designed an intricate escape. | | 5. | to assign in thought or intention; purpose: He designed to be a doctor. | | 6. | Obsolete. to mark out, as by a sign; indicate. | –verb (used without object) | 7. | to make drawings, preliminary sketches, or plans. | | 8. | to plan and fashion the form and structure of an object, work of art, decorative scheme, etc. | –noun | 9. | an outline, sketch, or plan, as of the form and structure of a work of art, an edifice, or a machine to be executed or constructed. | | 10. | organization or structure of formal elements in a work of art; composition. | | 11. | the combination of details or features of a picture, building, etc.; the pattern or
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motif of artistic work: the design on a bracelet. | | 12. | the art of designing: a school of design. | | 13. | a plan or project: a design for a new process. | | 14. | a plot or intrigue, esp. an underhand, deceitful, or treacherous one: His political rivals formulated a design to unseat him. | | 15. | designs, a hostile or aggressive project or scheme having evil or selfish motives: He had designs on his partner's stock. | | 16. | intention; purpose; end. | | 17. | adaptation of means to a preconceived end. | |
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