nɛtwɜːk nɛtwɝk veɪn wɛb wɛb construct or form a web, as if by weaving the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven) computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol an interconnected system of things or people he owned a network of shops retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life tangled in a web of cloth an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn