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Definition: Web |
WebNoun1. 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. 3. The flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft. 4. An intricately connected system of things or people; "a network of spies"; "a web of intrigue". 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. 6. A fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven). 7. Membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals. Verb1. Construct or form a web, as if by weaving. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "web" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | WEB |
Industry | After being carded, the fibres are in the form of webs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Aerospace | The wall of a grain or propellant with an internal cavity. (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | The expanded part of the leaf. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of webs, foretells deceitful friends will work you loss and displeasure. If the web is non-elastic, you will remain firm in withstanding the attacks of the envious persons who are seeking to obtain favors from you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Industry | The wide film of fibres delivered by a card(card web)or by a combing machine(comber web)or formed by air deposition. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Pulp, stock, paper or board in the form of a continuous mat or ribbon during manufacture or converting. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | Thickness of the web at the point unless another location is specified. The web is the central portion of the body that joins the lands, e. g. the web thickness enlarges towards the shank. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Referring to a liquid or doughy substance, fluidity is the reciprocal property of viscosity. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | The thickness of the slice of coal cut by a shearer as it passes down the coal face. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The distance by which the shearer advances at right angles to the line of face with every completed pass. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The slice or thickness of coal taken by a cutter loader when cutting along the face. The thickness of a web varies from a few inches with plow-type machines to up to about 6 ft (1.8 m) with the A.B. Meco-Moore. The term web tends to be restricted to thin or medium slices of coal.See also:buttock. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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E-marketing is the use of the Internet to advertise products. This is mainly done using web banners.
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simple:InternetIn the general sense, an internet (with a lowercase "i", a shortened form of the original inter-network) is a computer network that connects several networks. As a proper noun, the Internet is the publicly available internationally interconnected system of computers (plus the information and services they provide to their users) that uses the TCP/IP suite of packet switching communications protocols. Thus, the largest internet is called simply "the" Internet. The art of connecting networks in this way is called internetworking.
The creation of the Internet
Main article: History of the InternetThe core networks forming the Internet started out in 1969 as the ARPANET devised by the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
Some early research which contributed to ARPANET included work on decentralised networks (including damage survivability) , queueing theory and packet switching.
On January 1, 1983, the ARPANET changed its core networking protocols from NCP to the then-new TCP/IP, marking the start of the Internet as we know it today.
Another important step in the development was the National Science Foundation's (NSF) building of a university backbone, the NSFNet, in 1986. Important disparate networks that have successfully been accommodated within the Internet include Usenet, Fidonet, and Bitnet. See History of the Internet.
During the 1990s, the Internet successfully accommodated the majority of previously existing computer networks. This growth is often attributed to the lack of central administration, which allows organic growth of the network, as well as the non-proprietary nature of the internet protocols, which encourages vendor interoperability and prevents one company from exerting control over the network.
Today's Internet
The Internet is held together by bi- or multilateral commercial contracts (for example peering agreements) and by technical specifications or protocolss that describe how to exchange data over the network. These protocols are formed by discussion within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its working groups, which are open to public participation and review. These committees produce documents that are known as Requests For Comments (RFCs). Some RFCs are raised to the status of Internet Standard by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). Some of the most used protocols in the Internet protocol suite are IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, PPP, SLIP, ICMP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, and SSL.
Some of the popular services on the Internet that make use of these protocols are e-mail, Usenet newsgroups, file sharing, the World Wide Web, Gopher, session access, WAIS, finger, IRC, MUDs, and MUSHs. Of these, e-mail and the World Wide Web are clearly the most used, and many other services are built upon them, such as mailing lists and web logs. The internet makes it possible to provide real-time services such as web radio and webcasts that can be accessed from anywhere in the world.
Some other popular services of the Internet were not created this way, but were originally based on proprietary systems. These include ICQ, AIM, CDDB, and Gnutella.
There have been many analyses of the Internet and its structure. For example, it has been determined that the Internet IP routing structure and hypertext links of the World Wide Web are examples of scale-free networkss.
Internet culture
The Internet has a large and growing number of users that have created a distinct culture, Internet dynamics. see Netiquette, Internet friendship, Trolls and trolling, Flaming, Cybersex, Hacktivism or Hacker culture, Internet humor, Internet slang, and Internet art.
The most used language for communications on the Internet is English, due to the Internet's origins, to its use commonly in software programming, to the poor capability of early computers to handle characters other than western alphabets.
The net has grown enough in recent years, though, that sufficient native-language content for a worthwhile experience is available in most developed countries. However, some glitches such as mojibake still remain troublesome for Internet users.
Internet politics
The proliferation of the Internet caused vast impacts in the society. Instances include copyright issues, issues concerned with free speech such as pornography and hatred. In response to that situation, lately cyber laws have been created and enforced. Many discussions have raged over the question of how states should interact with telecommunication tools including the Internet.
Internet access
Countries with the best internet access include South Korea (50% of the population has broadband access) and Sweden, according to [1] "Web-savviest nation".
- Dial-up access
- Broadband access
Public places to use the Internet
Public places to use Internet include libraries and Internet cafes, where computers with internet connection are available. There are also internet access points in public places like airport halls, sometimes just for brief use while standing. Various terms are used, such as "public Internet kiosk", "public access terminal", "web payphone".Alternatively there are Wifi-cafes ("hotspots"), where one needs to bring one's own wifi-enabled notebook or PDA, for which the cafe provides wireless access to the Internet.
The services may be free (possibly in connection with paid services such as buying coffee) or for a fee (metered access or with a pass for e.g. a day or month).
A hotspot may also be larger, e.g. including the piece of street in front of the library, a whole street, a campus including outdoor areas, a town part or, as is under construction in some places, a whole town; see also Metropolitan area network, Wireless community network.
Advantages of using one's own computer include more upload and download possibilities, using one's favorite browser and browser settings (the preferences menu may be disabled in a public computer), and integrating activities on internet and on one's own computer, using one's own programs and data. (Using public computers one can use one's email box as storage area for data. For programs one may do the same, but the size of the mailbox and restrictions on the public computer limit the possibilities of running one's own programs.)
See also
- Catenet
- intranet
- extranet
- Internet2
- bogon filtering
- NANOG
- Minitel - French predecessor to the Internet
- Network Mapping
External links
- The Internet Society (ISOC)
- Internet Mapping Project
- TCP/IP switchover anniversary
- RFC 801, planning the TCP/IP switchover
- peepo a graphic portal for people with low literacy
- Internet-Chronic in German
- Web content by language
- Access and usage statistics: [1], [1], [1]
- Access at home, by native language
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Internet."
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A spider web is a device built by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets. The most familiar spider webs are those used for catching flying insects, but some are used to ensnare small vertebrates, and others only provide shelter. Webs typically contain multiple types of strands, including sticky and non-sticky ones. Some of these strands are stronger than steel strands of the same thickness; the microstructure of this material is under investigation for potential applications in industry.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spider web."
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simple:web
- Spider web - A mesh built by a spider, composed of spider silk and usually used for catching prey.
- World Wide Web - A Hypertext system that operates over the Internet, used for serving web pages.
- WEB - a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth to implement literate programming
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WEB is a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth as the first implementation of what he called "literate programming": the idea that one could create software as works of literature, by embedding bits of code inside descriptive text, rather than the reverse as is common practice in most programming languages.The WEB system consisted of two primary programs: tangle, which produced compilable Pascal code from the source texts, and weave, which produced nicely-formatted printable documentation using TeX.
A newer version of WEB is CWEB.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "WEB."
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simple:Website A website or web site is a collection of web pagess, that is, documents accessible via the World Wide Web on the Internet. The pages of a website will be accessed from a common root URL, the homepage, and usually reside on the same physical server. The URLs of the pages organize them into a hierarchy, although the hyperlinks between them control how the reader perceives the overall structure.
Overview
A website will often be the work of one person, one organization, or on a particular topic, or have a particular purpose. This is quite a blurry definition, given the hypertext nature of the web: the whole of Wikipedia forms a website, but whether the Meta-Wikipedia pages are part of the same website or a sister website is open to debate.
Web sites are written in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and are accessed using special software called web browsers. Plugins are available for browsers which allow them to show active content, such as Flash, Shockwave or applets written in Java. Some interactive content may also be generated with JavaScript, support for which is built-in for most browsers. An emerging standard called Dynamic HTML is starting to make an appearance, though no standard has been formally adopted yet.
Types of Websites
There are numerous types of websites, each specializing in a particualr service or use. A few types of websites include:
Many websites are a mixture of types. For example, a business web site may promote the business's products, but may also host informative documents, such as white papers. There are also numerous sub-categories to the ones listed above. For example, a porn site is a specific type of eCommerce site or business site (that is, it is trying to sell memberships for access to its site). A fan site may be a vanity site on which the administrator is paying homage to a celebrity.
- Business site: used for promoting a business or service
- Commerce site or eCommerce sites: for purchasing goods, such as Amazon.com
- Download site: strictly used for downloading electronic content, such as software, game demos or computer wallpaper
- Information site: contains content that is intended merely to inform visitors, but not necessarily for commercial purposes; such as: RateMyProfessors.com
- Shock site: includes images or other material that is intended to be offensive to most viewers
- Vanity site: run by an individual or a small group (such as a family) that contains information or any content that the individual wishes to include
- Wiki site: a site for people to contribute to material and exchange ideas (such as Wikipedia)
Many business websites, have all the appearance of brochures—that is an advertisement that can be strolled around. Some websites act as vehicles to communicate with other people: Webchat.
The content of a website is constrained by the hosting computer's power, and also legally, e.g. by copyright, pornography laws, etc.
See also: Web content management
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Website."
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simple:World Wide WebThe World Wide Web (the "Web" or "WWW" for short) is a hypertext system that operates over the Internet. Hypertext is browsed using a program called a web browser which retrieves pieces of information (called "documents" or "web pages") from web servers (or "web sites") and displays them on your screen. You can then follow hyperlinks on each page to other documents or even send information back to the server to interact with it. The act of following hyperlinks is often called "surfing" the web.
Origins
The Web can be traced back to a project at CERN in 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built ENQUIRE (short for Enquire Within Upon Everything, a book Berners-Lee recalled from his youth). While it was rather different from the Web we use today, it contained many of the same core ideas (and even some of the ideas of Berners-Lee's next project, the Semantic Web!). Tim Berners-Lee published a more formal proposal for the actual World Wide Web on November 12, 1990 [1] and wrote the first web page [1] on November 13. In Christmas of that year Berners-Lee built all the tools necessary for a working Web [1], the first actual web browser (which was a web-editor as well), and the first web server.
The three standards
The Web is made up of three standards: The Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which specifies how each page of information is given a unique "address" at which it can be found; Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which specifies how the browser and server send the information to each other, and Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), a method of encoding the information so it can be displayed on a variety of devices. Berners-Lee now heads the World Wide Web Consortium, which develops and maintains these standards and others that enable computers on the Web to effectively store and communicate all kinds of information.
Beyond text
The initial "www" program at CERN only displayed text, but later browsers such as Pei Wei's Viola (1992) added the ability to display graphics as well. Marc Andreessen of NCSA released a browser called "Mosaic for X" in 1993 that sparked a tremendous rise in the popularity of the Web among novice users. Andreesen went on to found Mosaic Communications Corporation (now Netscape Communications, a unit of Time Warner). Additional features such as dynamic content, music and animation can be found in modern browsers.Frequently, the technical capability of browsers and servers advances much faster than the standards bodies can keep up with, so it is not uncommon for these newer features to not work properly on all computers, and the web as seen by Netscape is not at all the same as the web seen by Internet Explorer. The ever-improving technical capability of the WWW has enabled the development of real-time web-based services such as webcasts, web radio and live web cams.
Java and Javascript
Another significant advance in the technology was Sun Microsystems' Java programming language, which enabled web servers to embed small programs (called applets) directly into the information being served that would run on the user's computer, allowing faster and richer user interaction.
The similarly named, but actually quite different, JavaScript is a scripting language developed for Web pages. In conjunction with the Document Object Model, JavaScript has become a much more powerful language than its creators originally envisioned.
Sociological Implications
The exponential growth of the Internet was primarily attributed to the emergence of the web browser Mosaic, followed by another, Netscape Navigator during the mid-1990s.
It brought unprecedented attention to the Internet from media, industries, policy makers, and the general public.
Eventually, it led to several visions of how our society might change, although some point out that those visions are not unique to the Internet, but repeated with many new technologies (especially information and communications technologies) of various era.
Because the web is global in scale, some suggested that it will nurture mutual understanding on a global scale.
Publishing web pages
The web is available to individuals outside mass media. In order to "publish" a web page, one does not have to go through a publisher or other media institution, and potential readers could be found in all corners of the globe. To some this represents an opportunity to enhance democracy by giving voice to alternative and minority views. Others took it as a path to anarchy and unrestrained freedom of expression. Yet others took it as a sign that a hierarchically organized society of which mass media is a symptomatic part, will be replaced by a so-called network society.
In addition, hypertext seemed to promote non-hierarchical and non-linear ways of expression and thinking. Unlike books and documents, hypertext does not have a linear order from beginning to end. It is not broken down into the hierarchy of chapters, sections, subsections, etc. This is reminiscent of the idea of Marshall McLuhan that new media change people's perception of the world, mentality, and way of thinking. While not unique to the web, hypertext in this sense is closely related to the notion of "death of author" and intertextuality in structuralist literary theory.
These bold visions are not fully realized yet. We can find both supporting and countering aspects of web usage.
First, regarding the increased global unity, it is true that many different kinds of information are now available on the web, and for those who wish to know other societies, their cultures and peoples, it became easier. When one travels to a foreign country or a remote town, s/he might be able to find some information about the place on the web, especially if the place is in one of developed countries. Local newspapers, government publications, and other materials are easier to access, and therefore the variety of information obtainable with the same effort may be said to have increased, for the users of the Internet.
At the same time, there are some obvious limitations. The web is so far a very text-centered medium, and those who are illiterate cannot make much use of it. Even among the literate, usage of a computer may or may not be easy enough. It has been known during the late 1990s, though with ample exceptions, that web users are dominantly young male in college or with a college degree. Now the trend has been changing and female and elderly are also using the web, level of education and income are related to the web use, some think (See also: Digital divide). Another significant obstacle is the language. Currently, only a limited number of languages are useable on the web, due to software and standard issues, and none would understand all the available languages. These factors would challenge the notion that the World Wide Web will bring a unity to the world.
Second, the increased opportunity to individuals are certainly observable in the countless personal pages, as well as other groups such as families, small shops, which are not among those who publish materials. The emergence of free web hosting services are perhaps an important factor in bringing this possibility into the reality. The activities of alternative media expanded into the web as well.
Yet not a small part of those pages seem to be either prematurely abandoned or one-time practice. Very few of those pages, even when they are well-developed, are popular. When it comes to the expression of ideas and provision of information, it seems that the major media organizations and those companies who became major organizations through their online operations are still favored by the dominant majority. In addition, the Web is not necessarily a tool for political self-education and deliberation. The most popular uses of the Web include searching and downloading of pornography, which perhaps have very limited effect in improving democracy. The most intensively accessed web pages include the document detailing the former President Bill Clinton's sexual misconduct with Monica Lewinsky, as well as the lingerie fashon show by Victoria's Secret. In sum, both in terms of writers and readers, the Web is not popularly used for democracy. While this is not enough to categorically reject the possibility of the Web as a tool for democracy, the effect so far seems to be smaller than some of the expectations for a quite simple reason, lack of interest and popularity. Anarchistic freedom of expression may be enjoyed by some, but many web hosting companies have developed their acceptable use policy over time, sometimes prohibiting some sensitive and potentially illegal expressions. And again, those expressions may not reach great many. The web is still largely a hierarchical place, some may argue.
Third, regarding non-linear and non-hierarchical structure of the Web, the effect of those on people's perception and psychology are still largely unknown. Some argue that our culture is changing to that of postmodernity, which is closely related to non-linear and non-hierarchical way of thinking, being, and even social organization. Yet the counter evidences are available as well. Among the most notable would be the existence of web directories and search engines. Those sites often provide navigations to most popular sites to the visitors. In addition, it is quite obvious that many web sites are organized according to a simple hierarchy, having the "home page" at the top. At least the present state of the Web and web users seem to suggest the change has not been as great as envisioned by some.
Statistics
By far the most Web content is in English: 56%; next are German (8%), French (6%) and Japanese (5%).
See also
- History of the Internet,
- Semantic Web.
External link
- Web content by language
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "World Wide Web."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WEB | English | World Equity Benchmark | Finance |
| WEB4GROUPS | English | Transfer of knowledge between research,education,business and public administration through world wide web extended for group communication | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WebSynonyms: entanglement (n), network (n), vane (n), world wide web (n), net (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Crossing | Net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace; wicker; mat, matting; plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron, tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle; tissue, netting, mokes; rivulation. |
Difficulty | Grope in the dark, lose one's way, weave a tangled web, walk among eggs. |
Texture | Texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap. (roughness); flatness (smoothness); fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is a really dumb plan, web brain (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) In all my years as a web surfer I don't think I've ever seen anybody do something so stupid (ReBoot; writing credit: Christy Marx; Mark Leiren-Young) The web of destiny carries your blood and soul back to the genesis of my lifeform (Lifeforce; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon) I am totally suing that Web site (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) Look! There's a giant spider web over there in the corner (Arachnophobia; writing credit: Don Jakoby; Al Williams) | |
Lyrics | A spider web and I'm caught in the middle (Trouble; performing artist: Coldplay) We didn't know about a World Wide Web (AM Radio; performing artist: Everclear) Caught up in a web of lies (Shattered Dreams; performing artist: Johnny Hates Jazz) And now I'm stuck in the web (Spiderwebs; performing artist: No Doubt) There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web (King Of Pain; performing artist: The Police) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Charlotte's Web (1973) The Web (1973) Spyder's Web (1972) A Tattered Web (1971) The Spider's Web (1960) | |
Song Titles | Web Surfin' (performing artist: Urban Tapestry) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Vincent Cheramie, monitoring manager for Point Au Fer, and Eric Web, monitoring supervisor, Thibodaux, Louisiana. The view is from the west to east at the breach. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | David Burkholder, project manager, Lake Chapeau; Eric Web, monitoring supervisor all projects; and Vincent Cheramie, monitoring manager. The view is from west to east at the breach, Point Au Fer. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Close-up of a Golden Silk female spider. The females of this species can range between 30 to 40 mm in length. The smaller males, two seen on the other side of the web in this photo, are only 4-6 mm long. These spiders feed primarily on flying insects. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Lt. Col. Mark Milardo, a missile officer with the North American Aerospace Command tracks Santa's journey. The "NORAD Tracks Santa" program features a six-language live-tracking Web site designed to bring a touch of the season to eager Santa wat. |
 | Spider web. Credit: Unknown. |  | Aerial photo used for conservation planning by the NRCS shows conservation practices already in place. Such maps are increasingly being made available on the Web. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Rogue River - Spider Web. Credit: Unknown. |  | [Witchcraft or spinning the web of fate] / Hans Weiditz. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | A big blue bottle fly in the web. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Don't talk, the web is spun for you with invisible threads, keep out of it, help to destroy it--spies are listening. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Dew spider web" by Jonas Funk Johannessen Commentary: "Dew weighed spider web spun on plant. Photographed an early morning." | "Spider in the Web" by Tjeerd Doosje Commentary: "This guy (or girl?) was sitting in his/her web while the sun was setting. I used available light only. Thanks for having a look!." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Julius Wilhelm Zincgref | Laws and police regulations can be compared to a spider's web that lets the big mosquitoes through and catches the small ones. |
William Shakespeare | The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When he reached the centre of the web, the fly was no longer there |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | ADAM is also available on commercial Web sites such as drkoop. (references) | |
Further information on the trial is available at the Web site indicated. (references) | ||
The following is the NLM's list plus hyperlinks to each library Web site. (references) | ||
Business | Wireless access to the Web is expected to exceed PC access in the coming years. (references) | |
Some companies are limited to the development of Web sites and company intranets. (references) | ||
Payment via the Web is a hurdle to electronic commerce growth and has to be overcome. (references) | ||
Children | Switzerland | To combat child pornography on the Internet, the Federal Office for Police provides an Internet monitoring service on its World Wide Web page. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Qatar | Web sites are monitored for political or religious content. (references) |
Kazakhstan | The new media law defines Kazakhstan-based Web sites as a media outlet. (references) | |
Economic History | Bahamas | The center will set-up and manage web sites. (references) |
Denmark | Advertising on the world wide web is increasing. (references) | |
Botswana | DOSFAN's World Wide Web site is at http://www.state.gov. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | The group organized conferences, hosted a web site, and staged other events to broadcast its opposition to the ISA. (references) |
Lebanon | In August 2000, government officials raided the office of an Internet service provider (ISP), based on allegations that the ISP was distributing pornographic materials through the operation of a Web site aimed at the homosexual community. (references) | |
Belarus | On June 11, on the Web site of the NGO Charter 97, Petrushkevich charged that Lukashenka fired Bozhelko approximately a week after Bozhelko sent a request to his Russian counterpart asking for machinery designed to search for human bodies that have been buried and that Lukashenka then sent a message to the Russian Procurator General canceling Bozhelko's request for technical assistance. (references) | |
Minorities | Brazil | Some of these groups maintain Web sites that espouse violence. (references) |
Spain | Through their web pages, these groups urged others to take violent action against all immigrants of North African descent. (references) | |
Switzerland | Federal penal law already prohibits racial discrimination, and police have used this law to monitor and close such web sites. (references) | |
Political Economy | HONG KONG | New Technologies: U.S. industry associations report that Hong Kong-based web sites are being used to sell and transmit pirate software and music. (references) |
Kazakhstan | In April the Parliament approved amendments to the media law that expand the liability of media outlets, treat Web sites as media outlets and limit direct rebroadcast of foreign media. (references) | |
China | Several new regulations regarding the Internet were issued, and many Web sites, including politically sensitive Web sites and foreign news Web sites, were shut down or blocked by the authorities. (references) | |
Trade | Slovak Rep | Their web site is www.eib.org. (references) |
Indonesia | See web home pages, including http://www.ita.doc.gov/mdbo for information on all development banks. (references) | |
Croatia | A complete list of banks with contact info is available on the web site of the Croatian National Bank - www.hnb.hr. (references) | |
Travel | Bulgaria | Other Department of State travel information publications are also available at the above web site. (references) |
Guatemala | Travelers can also find information on the Department of State's web site: http://travel.state.gov/. (references) | |
Poland | This information is available from the U.S. Department of State's web site (http://travel.state.gov/). (references) | |
Women | Argentina | The Council operates a Web site that provides information on the organization and on issues relevant to the organization's goals. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Weil | You get them in many health food stores. There is a product out there called Microsoft that I like, there's another product called Host Defense. Read the labels, go to my web site for more information about it. |
Heather Mills McCartney | If you go onto my Web site or e-mail Heather@heathermills.org we can give you all the information where you can get this prosthesis. |
Rosemary Altea | There are so many people out there who want to know more about this. So I'd just like to mention, if anybody wants to know anymore or some of the people that I've already spoken to, they can connect me on my Web site. |
Rush Limbaugh | The General Accounting Office, the official investigative arm of Congress, completed its final report and was releasing it on its Web site Tuesday afternoon. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | All this was overlaid by an ever-growing web of rules and regulations. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Web" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Web" is used about 587 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 587 | 10,802 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | Web Valley Services de L'E-mage | Germany | Web.de AG |
| USA | American Wireless Web Corp | ||
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "web": depth of web ♦ food web ♦ funnel web ♦ ladder web ♦ Lucent Personalized Web Assistant ♦ orb web ♦ pin and web ♦ Principia Cybernetica Web ♦ sheet web ♦ spar web ♦ spider web ♦ spider's web ♦ spider's web network ♦ the web ♦ To pace the web ♦ weave a tangled web ♦ web address ♦ web browser ♦ web EDI ♦ web electronic data interchange ♦ web eye ♦ web footed ♦ web member ♦ web of lies ♦ web of packing ♦ web of stowing ♦ web page ♦ web pointer ♦ web press ♦ web Request Broker ♦ web ring ♦ web server ♦ web site ♦ web smith ♦ web spinner ♦ web system ♦ web thickness ♦ web toaster ♦ world wide web ♦ world Wide Web Consortium ♦ worldwide web. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "web": web-builders, web-building, web-fed, Web-fingered, web-foot, Web-footed, web-footed bird, web-groups, web-like, web-making, web-offset, web-ordering, web-threads, Web-toed, web-toed salamander. | |
Ending with "web": crank-web, food-web, funnel-web, orb-web, scaffold-web, Sollner-web, sound-web, spider's-web, spider-web, tangle-web, World-wide-web. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
web design | 44,464 | search the web | 3,509 |
web md | 41,882 | web host directory | 3,466 |
web hosting | 34,097 | free web host | 3,134 |
web cam | 30,883 | web camera | 3,115 |
voyeur web | 30,484 | web page design | 3,017 |
web site | 18,883 | web shot | 2,905 |
web mail | 17,148 | free web background | 2,831 |
web | 11,716 | web browser | 2,793 |
web site design | 7,535 | earthlink web mail | 2,699 |
web site listing | 7,253 | web crawler | 2,668 |
free web site | 6,950 | web cam chat | 2,627 |
free web hosting | 6,353 | free web space | 2,509 |
free web cam | 5,767 | netscape web mail | 2,333 |
free web page | 5,662 | web development | 2,328 |
web site hosting | 4,858 | web master | 2,309 |
web service | 4,776 | address enter here keyword web | 2,301 |
live web cam | 4,399 | web tv | 2,296 |
web site promotion | 4,376 | company web site hosting | 2,235 |
web page | 4,370 | web server | 2,202 |
web tool | 4,206 | world wide web | 2,157 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "web"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | varg gënjeshtrash (pack), tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, withdraw), rrjetë merimange (spider web, spider's web), pëlhurë (caddis, cloth, drapery, fabric, weft), membranë mes gishtave, deng letre gazete, bëj pëlhurë. (various references) | |
Arabic | ملف ضخم من ورق الطباعة, نسيج النبات, نسيج العنكبوت (cobweb, spider web), نسيج (knitting, spun, textile, texture, weaving, weft, woof), وترات جلدية لكفي القدم, تنسج العنكبوت, تشابك (engage, entanglement, foul, interlock, ravel, snarl, tangle, texture), سير معدنية رقيقة, شبكة (connection, connexion, drag, fillet, grid, net, network, toil). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вплитам в мрежа, плавателна ципа, плета паяжина, плета мрежа (net), паяжина (cobweb, net, spider web, spider's web), преграда (baffle, barricade, bulkhead, compartment, division, hedge, hurdle, interception, obstruction, occlusion, partition, railing, screen, septum, stanchion, traverse), лист (leaf, page, plate, sheet), диск на колело, мрежа (grid, gridiron, lattice, mantle, meshes, meshwork, net, network, plexus, screen, snood, system), свързваща част, ветрило (fan), голяма рола печатарска хартия, клопка (ambush, booby trap, gin, net, pitfall, snare, toils, trap), капан (ambush, deadfall, death trap, man-trap, mousetrap, net, pit, pitfall, snare, trap, trepan), шийка на релса, тъкан (cloth, contexture, fabric, textile, tissue, weave, weft, woof), жп мрежа. (various references) | |
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