Technology / A2

WEB/web/

The web often means the internet: on the web, search the web, a web page. Internet is the wider system; website is one place on it. A spider’s web is the other A2 picture. Uncountable in “on the web”. Do not write wed (get married) for web.

Meaning

The internet; also the net a spider makes.

Examples

• “Look the times up on the web.”
• “She found the opening times on the web.”
• “A spider had built a web in the garden shed.”

Good to know

on the web / a web page. Wider: internet. Place: website. Other sense: spider’s web.

Near in meaning

internet

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