Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Web \Web\, n. [OE. webbe, AS. webba. See {Weave}.]
   A weaver. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Web \Web\, n. [OE. web, AS. webb; akin to D. web, webbe, OHG.
   weppi, G. gewebe, Icel. vefr, Sw. v["a]f, Dan. v[ae]v. See
   {Weave}.]
   1. 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.                    --Spenser.

            Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or
            penalty of exile.                     --Bancroft.

   2. A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.

   3. The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for
      catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. ``The smallest
      spider's web.'' --Shak.

   4. 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.                              --Hawthorne.

            Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of
            commentators that it is difficult to extricate the
            truth from the web of conjectures.    --W. Irving.

   5. (Carriages) A band of webbing used to regulate the
      extension of the hood.

   6. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

            And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
                                                  --Fairfax.
      Specifically: 
      (a) The blade of a sword. [Obs.]

                The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel
                rich stone, hilt gold.            --Fairfax.
      (b) The blade of a saw.
      (c) The thin, sharp part of a colter.
      (d) The bit of a key.

   7. (Mach. & Engin.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or
      perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or
      other parts of an object. Specifically:
      (a) 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.
      (b) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of
          spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds
          of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
      (c) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
      (d) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and
          the foot.

   8. (Med.) Pterygium; -- called also {webeye}. --Shak.

   9. (Anat.) 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.

   10. (Zo["o]l.) 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 \Web\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Webbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Webbing}.]
   To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to
   envelop; to entangle.

Source : WordNet®

web
     n 1: an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by
          weaving or interweaving; "the trees cast a delicate web
          of shadows over the lawn"
     2: an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
        [syn: {entanglement}]
     3: the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a
        series of barbs on either side of the shaft [syn: {vane}]
     4: 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" [syn: {network}]
     5: computer network consisting of a collection of internet
        sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation
        resources through the hypertext transfer protocol [syn: {World
        Wide Web}, {WWW}]
     6: a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)
     7: membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and
        mammals
     [also: {webbing}, {webbed}]

web
     v : construct or form a web, as if by weaving [syn: {net}]
     [also: {webbing}, {webbed}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

WEB
     
         {Donald Knuth}'s self-documenting {literate
        programming}, with {algorithm}s and {documentation} intermixed
        in one file.  They can be separated using {Weave} and
        {Tangle}.  Versions exist for {Pascal} and {C}.  {Spiderweb}
        can be used to create versions for other languages.
        {FunnelWeb} is a production-quality literate-programming tool.
     
        {(ftp://princeton.edu/)}, {(ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/)}.
     
        ["Literate Programming", D.E. Knuth, Computer J 27(2):97-111,
        May 1984].
     
        (1996-05-10)

Web
     
         "The Web" is the {World-Wide Web}.  "A web"
        is part of it on some specific {web site}.
     
        (1996-05-10)