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webbed

How to use webbed in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for webbed.

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Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck, as they say. It's an interstate commerce tax.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(of the feet of some animals) having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of webbed gathered in one view.

adjective

(of the feet of some animals) having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin

adjective

having open interstices or resembling a web

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for webbed.

adjective

(of the feet of some animals) having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin

Example sentences

1

Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck, as they say. It's an interstate commerce tax.

2

I have never webbed my way to Reddit, nor desire to; I welcome this.

3

Other signs include webbed feet and hands, and extra nipples.

4

Funny, I don’t think I’ve ever sat on one of those webbed chairs. There’s two of the folding camp chairs in the garage, though.

5

Org results, not the often misleading webbed CF results.

6

The other most painful hit I took was right in the "webbed" part on the hand in between fingers - my hand locked up in pain!

7

I used webbed cage traps to trap some 6 FBs, one made of fire iirc. Give me enough land and enough cage traps and webs, and I'll trap almost everything that can move.

8

I'm planning on picking up a pair and just slitting open the material to make room for my webbed toes. I figure it'll be fine so long as I stay away from gravel.

9

The order all bats are part of, Chiroptera, translates to hand-wing because of this webbed hand wing structure.

10

For the sand dunes issue, they’ve come up with a webbed system that’s fairly easy to deploy. The material is cheap and it’s easy for unskilled labor to deploy.

11

Sometimes such third party code is even deeply webbed in and legal review is a pain as you have to figure out the origin of essentially each line of code. This can be a lot of work.

12

Mammals have mostly the same sets of bones attached the same way--a bat's wings are just gigantic hands with webbed fingers in skeletal terms.

13

Things that used to be done with levers and cams and gears are now done with bills and feathers and webbed feet. There's nothing special about mechanical embodiments of control systems that should make them patentable, and the duck equivalent not."

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If people are likely to go with IRC in the future, they're not going to know that they're on IRC. It's going to be some webbed up interface. I've met countless people who think "nerd" or "geek" when hearing the word IRC because it's all text and no pictures, so the only way to actually get them on it is with a pretty interface.

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Human embryos, for instance, develop, then lose, gills, webbed feet and rudimentary tails, reflecting their ancient aquatic life styles. That is wrong, it has been know to be wrong for a hundred years at least and basing a theory on it is ridiculous.

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Human embryos, for instance, develop, then lose, gills, webbed feet and rudimentary tails, reflecting their ancient aquatic life styles. Of course this is total pseudoscience and I'm floored someone is receiving money for coming up with this.

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Or maybe you could use one of NYU's robotic geese to insert a USB key into an airgap'd PC and have it use it's webbed foot to hold lower keys down then peck type a command to copy files.

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Poodles have webbed feet for one, or just consider how some breeds have floppy and others pointed ears. It’s reasonably likely the muscles that are universal among dogs existed among wolves at very low frequency and just exploded in frequency once they started hanging around humans.

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If a child has some physical mutation such as webbed feet, an extra finger, or some other physical difference that they wouldn't affect their health, you're telling me a doctor shouldn't ask if a parent would like to have something done about it and instead the child should grow up with that until they are old enough to give consent? When is a proper age for consent?

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To me the entire requirement of 'consideration' falls flat on its face where they've essentially webbed a case of ruining someone's livelihood by preventing them from finding work after termination all the while giving a plainly inadequate severance.

21

That's not to say that a hierarchy can't be dysfunctional, but I do think that well constructed hierarchies without tyrants are preferable to their "webbed" equivalent, since webs are almost always inefficient and serve to mask a lot of the power for the sake of a superficial form of equality or equity. I won't name names, but a company that I worked for was very web-like, which felt good at first because it seems more "fair" or democratic, but it lead to constant confusion, infighting, communication failures, etc.

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Although the theory is speculative, human evolution taking place in a semi-aquatic rather than plains environment explains our upright posture to stay above the water, our near hairless bodies to make us streamlined while swimming, our webbed fingers and toes, the ability of human babies having the innate ability to swim.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use webbed in a sentence?

Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck, as they say. It's an interstate commerce tax.

What does webbed mean?

(of the feet of some animals) having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin

What part of speech is webbed?

webbed is commonly used as adjective.