noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spider spins/weaves a web (= makes a network of threads )
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A spider had spun a web between the bars of the gate.
a spider's web (= the network of threads a spider makes )
a Web designer (= for websites )
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The software allows Web designers to embed small programs into their webpages.
a web/website address
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Just type in the web address.
deep Web
tangled web
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the tangled web of local politics
web address
web browser
web crawler
web designer
web of intrigue (= complicated set of secret plans )
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a web of intrigue
web ring
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a classical music web ring
web traffic
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complex
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This may lead to the whole group moving, tugged along by a complex web of bonds.
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Gradually, though, hierarchy is giving way to more horizontal structures with complex yet flexible webs of interconnection.
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Unhindered by the country's lax competition rules, they built up complex webs of cross-shareholdings across an astonishing array of businesses.
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The international sector Our economy is deeply enmeshed in a complex web of economic relationships with the rest of the world.
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A Healthy Community Any community is held together by a complex web of achievement, responsibility and loyalty.
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Human beings, according to these accounts, are located in a complex and intricate web of cosmic factors and relations.
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Historically, this was driven by a complex web of lineage lines in which one set of loyalties was hedged against another.
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Ingrid's designs have a complex web of influences.
tangled
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The whole tangled web of each other's relationships was getting to breaking-point.
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Would you have put on your disapproving hat and talked about tangled webs and reaping what you sow?
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Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged.
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The tangled web of their past and present balled against the rage of Ruth's emotions.
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Almost inevitably the issue had become caught up in a tangled web of local education politics.
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Six more joined it, slowly screwing out of nothing, until they suddenly stretched together into a tangled web of pulsating tendrils.
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With so many weapons to hand, some cancel out others in a tangled web of incentives and disincentives.
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The Conservatives also promised to: reform the tangled web of income-related benefits which had grown up piecemeal over forty years.
vast
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Tiny, beautiful spiders, infused with an inner light, spinning their vast webs across the endless darkness.
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All matter, big and small, will be linked into vast webs of networks at many levels.
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Receptive reading of mythology can open up our perceptions of reality so that a vast web of interconnections becomes evident.
wide
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In two years it has become the most spectacularly successful phenomenon in the brief history of the world wide web .
■ NOUN
browser
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But to participate, you need something called a web browser .
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Companies that make web browser software can purchase the Stonehand viewer and build it into their programs.
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And yet, a good web browser will let you access just about everything on the Internet.
food
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Despite their differences, the two oceans support basically similar food webs , with high seasonal productivity from small overwintering standing crops.
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The creatures are wired together in various degrees of connectance by food webs and by smells and vision.
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One approach the ecologists favored was building redundancy of pathways into the food webs .
page
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I check out your web page everyday as apart from a decent cup of tea I miss my Sun newspaper badly!
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Microsoft already makes a product called Internet Assistant for use in designing individual web pages .
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Its teachers are being trained, for example, to download information from the web , or design web pages .
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The best-known example is Java, a programming language from Sun Microsystems that can bring web pages to life.
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All this is possible because the protocols for formatting, requesting and transmitting web pages have been standardised.
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This allows an activist to observe and modify all web pages sent to a target's computer.
site
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I know that you have invested a great deal of your time in developing a very important web site .
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Angiletta said the primary purpose of the web site was to keep the public informed about legislation to protect children from predators.
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And I have recently started using my web site for posting brief responses to papers that discuss my work.
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The web site proved to be a bit bulky and tough to maneuver during a weeknight trial run....
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Microsoft is also offering its web software to help its partner banks set up their own web sites .
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He even has a child-privacy web site , which recently attracted 156, 000 visits in a single week.
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There are koi web sites , koi magazines, koi competitions and koi auctions.
spider
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Dawn brings a gift of spider webs flashing diamonds on sea-grey gorse.
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Like a spider web or a caddis house, a beaver dam is among the true wonders of the world.
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The third task was to get the five members of our group through a large spider web .
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It was small but typically eighteenth-century in origin, with an Adam doorway and spider web fanlight.
■ VERB
catch
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But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after, the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics.
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The state also is caught in the web and can not seem to extricate itself.
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According to her, Rick Lawrence is caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.
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After that, like any clumsy criminal caught in a thickening web of deception, he had panicked.
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It's like being caught in huge sticky web - the more you struggle, the more entangled you get.
spin
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Tiny, beautiful spiders, infused with an inner light, spinning their vast webs across the endless darkness.
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And when they could, they bought me what I needed to spin my web .
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Campbell was arrogant and weak and he spun a web of desperate lies around himself and both women.
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He hid in an abandoned dwelling, where a spider spun its web across the entrance, fooling the mob.
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He spun his web and ran there and here in scummy clothes with bloodshot eyeballs.
tangle
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The tangled web of life ultimately complements the finished weave of art.
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It was a tangled web of paths, roads, and tracks through wilderness.
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The extraordinary thing about these life-and-death medical ethics cases is that they knit a tangled web of contradictory principles.
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Set in San Diego, the play examines the tangled web woven by those who conceal certain truths from others.
weave
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Textrix weaves a sheet web composed of extremely fine and closely woven silk.
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He trained them to store supplies, to weave a secret communications web and to eradicate spies and informers.
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Some of us weave small tight webs .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Net/Internet/Web surfer
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Netscape hooked millions of web surfers on Navigator by letting them have it for free.
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Online newspapers: Web surfers are showing strong interest in online news.
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Relatively few sites are so compelling that Web surfers make it a point to visit every day.
crawl the Net/web
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In reality any organization will be involved in a web of relationships, which vary in character and intensity according to the issue.
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My concern has been to specify as clearly as possible the Orphic strand of the web .
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Netscape hooked millions of web surfers on Navigator by letting them have it for free.
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The webs which are woven are many and varied.
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The larger facilities will be used to provide all types of web and application hosting as well as co-location services.
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The whole tangled web of each other's relationships was getting to breaking-point.
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Throw some small insects into the web and find out what prevents them getting out before the spider can catch them.
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Yank on one filament in the web , and the other filaments had to move, too.