# webbed

Pronunciation: say "WEBD" /ˈwɛbd/

## Adjective

1. Having the toes or fingers joined by a thin membrane of skin.
   - Simple: Having toes or fingers joined together by a thin piece of skin.
   - _Otters use their webbed paws to glide effortlessly through the water._
   - _The newborn had slightly webbed fingers, a minor condition surgeons later corrected._
2. Resembling a web, with a network of fine intersecting lines or strands.
   - Simple: Looking like a spider's web, with many thin lines crossing each other.
   - _A webbed lattice of veins spread across the leaf's surface._
   - _The artist painted a webbed network of fine lines over the canvas._
4. Connected to or available through the World Wide Web.
   - Simple: Connected to the internet, so you can reach it online.
   - _The factory's webbed sensors report performance data to a central server._
   - _Once the thermostat is webbed, you can adjust the heat from anywhere._

## Verb

3. Simple past and past participle of web. — simple past and past participle of web
   - Simple: Past tense of web. Use this when talking about something that already happened.
   - _Dust and silk had webbed the old chandelier over the years._
   - _The engineer webbed the metal frame with thin cables for extra support._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/webbed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).