how to pronounce web

/ˈwɛb/

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web is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of web in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… food chain this food web is changing now …”

meanings of web

noun:

The thin, sharp part of a colter.
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
A major broadcasting network.
A plot or scheme.
A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
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.
A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
The bit of a key.
The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
The blade of a saw.
The blade of a sword.
The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
A latticed or woven structure.

verb:

To construct or form a web.
To provide with a web.
To weave.
To ensnare or entangle.
To cover with a web or network.

name:

Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
The World Wide Web.

web frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word web occurs in english on average 55.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics web can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that web can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;