webwork

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
20
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈwɛbˌwɜːk/
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/ˈwɛbˌwɜːk/ · /ˈwɛbˌwɝk/

Definition of webwork

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)A net or web; something structured or interlinked in a weblike manner.
    “Most frequently, the three make up the webwork of his literary fabric.”
    “Very quickly it becomes evident that these webworks are part of an unaccountably large lair of thousands of spiders.”
    “In some sense, the entire webwork of space-time would dissolve into myriad unconnected points in the spaceless and timeless Void with no communication between them.”
    “If museums are to assist their users to explore and develop what they know, they must invite the avalanche of questions and create the webwork of connections that configure a learning life.”
    “Delicate fingers of frost reached up from the floor and extended down from the ceiling; the bottles were covered with a lacy webwork so fine that it looked like cobwebs.”

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Etymology

From web + work.

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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