Web
English
Etymology
Capitalized form of web. From Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɛb/
Proper noun
the Web
- (possibly informal outside attributive use) The World Wide Web.
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing" […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
- Some of that content is now only available on the Web.
- Web page. Web portal. (attributive use)
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Derived terms
See also
- Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wɛb/
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛp/
- Hyphenation: Web
Japanese
Alternative forms
- ウェブ (webu)
Noun
Web (katakana ウェブ, rōmaji webu)
- the Web; the World Wide Web
- Web上の情報
- webu-jō no jōhō
- online information
- Web上の情報
Pennsylvania German
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈveb/
- Hyphenation: Web
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