spiderweb
[
spahy
-der-web]
/ˈspaɪ dərˌwɛb/
verb (used with object)
,
spiderwebbed,
spiderwebbing.
1.
to cover with a
spider web
or fine lines resembling a
spider web
.
Origin
1890-95;
v. use of
spider web
Examples from the web for
spiderweb
One way to get your mind around these extra dimensions is to visualize a single strand of a
spiderweb
.
Neither of these reasons explain why there is symmetry in a
spiderweb
.
At intervals the doe stretches forward, as if she's pushing her nose through a
spiderweb
.
Their branched frameworks of midribs create a weird
spiderweb
pattern after the leaflets drop off in early autumn.
Word Origin and History for
spiderweb
n.
1530s, from
spider
+
web
(n.).
spiderweb
in Technology
tool
A program for creating versions of
Knuth
's
WEB
self-documenting programs ("
literate programming
").
(ftp://princeton.edu/).
(1999-08-26)