{
    "term": "web",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/ar/arachnids.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a system for finding information on the internet, in which documents are connected to other documents",
            "sensetop": "on the Web",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **surf/browse/search the web**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The service is available to anyone with access to the web."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I found the information on the Web.",
                    "contextForm": "on the Web"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I did a Web search to find the best price."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **web browser/server**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A Web search brought up 900 hits."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I found this survey on the Web."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many people use the Web to make their travel plans."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a broadband Web connection"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + the Web": ["access", "browse", "search"],
                "web + noun": ["page", "address", "link"],
                "preposition": ["on the web"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a fine net of thread made by a spider to catch insects",
            "labels": "especially in British Englishespecially in North American English",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A spider had spun a perfect web outside the window."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Insects, worms, etc."],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["spider", "spider’s"],
                "verb + web": ["build", "make", "spin"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a complicated pattern of things that are closely connected to each other",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a web of streets"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were caught in a **tangled web** of relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She discovered a web of intrigue in the company."
                },
                {
                    "text": "More and more people were drawn into his web of deceit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The mass media form a web of communications."
                },
                {
                    "text": "An increasingly complex web of legislation has been considered."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Investigations have begun into a web of corruption within the government."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a web of deceit/​lies"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["complex", "complicated", "dense"],
                "verb + web": ["create", "form", "weave"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a web of deceit",
                    "a web of deception",
                    "a web of intrigue"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a piece of skin that joins the toes of some birds and animals that swim, for example ducks and frogs",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/web/",
                "audio": "we/web/web__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/web/",
                "audio": "we/web/web__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English web(b) ‘woven fabric’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch web, also to weave."
}