Other forms: webs
A web is the silk trap a spider spins to catch flies. A spider's web, a web in the corner, spin a web.
The orb web is the classic wheel shape; other spiders make sheets, funnels or tangles. Not all spiders build webs at all. The word also means any network of connected things: a web of lies, a web of roads, a web of relationships. And the Web, with a capital letter, is the World Wide Web — website, web page, web browser. Note webbed feet, and what a tangled web we weave, from Walter Scott.
1nounwebThe silk trap a spider spins.
“There is a web across the whole gate every morning.”
2nounnetworkA network of connected things.
“It was a web of small lies rather than one large one.”
3nounsystemThe system of linked pages on the internet.
“The whole company runs on one web page and a spreadsheet.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
web is a woven or connected structure.
Old English webb comes from the verb behind weave, and a web was any woven thing. The World Wide Web is named on the spider metaphor, which is why the vocabulary is full of crawling, spinning and nets.
Middle English
web
English, today
web
From Middle English web. From Middle English web, webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-West Germanic wabi, from Proto-Germanic wabją (“web”), from Proto-Germanic webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European webʰ- (“to braid, weave”). 2-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA