WEB SITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does web site mean? 

• WEB SITE (noun)
  The noun WEB SITE has 1 sense:

1. a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web

  Familiarity information: WEB SITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEB SITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

internet site; site; web site; website

Context example:

the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers

Hypernyms ("web site" is a kind of...):

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "web site"):

chat room; chatroom (a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic))

portal; portal site (a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet)

 Context examples 

There are quizzes, games and lots of cool web sites for you to explore.

(Children's Page, NIH)

Can be used to probe tertiary structure and non-covalent interactions (from NCSU Mass Spectrometry Facility web site)

(Electrospray Ionization, NCI Thesaurus)

A web site (http://cancertrials.nci.nih.gov/) which acts as NCI's online gateway to clinical trials resources.

(CancerTrials, NCI Thesaurus)

A web site (http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/) which hosts NCI's searchable clinical trials database containing information on over 1,800 active clinical trials.

(CancerNet, NCI Thesaurus)

The BioCarta web site serves as an interactive web-based resource for life scientists.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)

Users' browsers and other clients sent requests to Dyn to resolve the respective web sites' domain names to an IP, but did not get a reply within the time required.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)

It presents information on official nomenclature, aliases, sequence accessions, phenotypes, EC numbers, MIM numbers, UniGene clusters, homology, map locations, and related web sites.

(LocusLink, NCI Thesaurus)

Their web site provides immediate access to existing life science research and integrates new data as it emerges.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)