world wide web

IPA/wˈɜːld wˈaɪd wˈɛb/
IPA/wˈɜːld wˈaɪd wˈɛb/

world wide web — idiom

1. A worldwide collection of websites and online content that you can view through

1.慣用語A2
釋義

A worldwide collection of websites and online content that you can view through a browser, where pages and media are connected by clickable links, forming a large information network that runs on the Internet.

例句

Wei-Cheng used the World Wide Web to find photos of planets for his science homework.

collocation: used the World Wide Web to find

The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist.

同義詞
  • the Web

    shorter, everyday form of the same term

用法筆記

Often abbreviated as 'the Web'. Always capitalized. Frequently preceded by 'the'.

常見錯誤

I found it on World Wide Web.
I found it on the World Wide Web.
💡This proper noun normally takes the definite article 'the'.