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Gravity-defying death trap, engineered nightly by something with eight legs and zero blueprints.
means A net of silk threads that a spider spins to trap insects for food.
from 'Spider' comes from Old English 'spiðra,' literally 'the spinner,' from a root meaning 'to spin' — so a spider is, by name, just a professional thread-maker. 'Web' traces to Old English 'webb,' related to 'weave,' the same root that gives us 'weft' and 'woven.' Put them together and the phrase is almost embarrassingly literal: the spinner's woven thing.
- material strength
- stronger by weight than steel
- stretch factor
- can stretch 30 percent without snapping
- daily rebuild
- many spiders eat and rebuild webs each day
- sticky design
- only some threads are glue coated, spider knows which