webs

• ambushes
• artifices
• booby traps
• catches
• cheats
• cobwebs
• deceptions
• double-dealings
• duplicities
• enmeshments
• entanglements
• entrapments
• envelopments
• hazards
• knots
• labyrinths
• land mines
• mazes
• meshes
• morasses
• nets
• nooses
• pitfalls
• ploys
• quagmires
• quicksands
• ruses
• snags
• snares
• snarls
• spiderwebs
• subterfuges
• tanglements
• tangles
• toils
• traps
• tricks

• noun
  1. The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
  2. (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
  3. (sometimes capitalized) Specifically, the World Wide Web.
  4. The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
  5. A latticed or woven structure.
  6. (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
  7. A plot or scheme.
  8. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
  9. The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
  10. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
  11. 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.
  12. A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
  13. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
  14. A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
  15. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
  16. A major broadcasting network.
• verb
  1. To construct or form a web.
  2. To cover with a web or network.
  3. To ensnare or entangle.
  4. To provide with a web.
  5. To weave.

• Spiders spun intricate webs between the garden plants.
• Morning dew sparkled on the delicate webs.
• Ancient legends speak of magical webs woven from moonlight.
• The abandoned house was full of dusty webs.
• Different spider species create webs of unique patterns.

jokers

nets

nettings

• Brussels laces
• bobbinets
• filigrees
• fishnets
• grilles
• grills
• laces
• lattices
• marquisettes
• meshes
• nets
• networks
• screenings
• screens
• tulles
• webbings
• webs
• wireworks

networks

jumbles

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