Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
Woven fabric or a spider structure.
Modern meaning
The World Wide Web or a networked digital environment.
Research lens
The archive uses this entry as a compact map, not a complete monograph.
Meaning trail
Root
woven thing
Thread and interconnection define the family.
Older sense
fabric or spider web
A visible mesh.
Now
digital network
The mesh metaphor scaled into technology.