How to say "web" in Japanese

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ウェブCommon
nounThe loanword for the World Wide Web sense of 'web': internet pages, sites and online activity. It is not used for a physical web such as a spider's web.
妹いもうとの趣味しゅみはウェブ用ようのアイコンのデザインで、暇ひまを見みつけて作つくっては自分じぶんのサイトで無料むりょうで配布はいふしている。↗
My little sister's hobby is designing icons on the web, and she distributes them free of charge on her website whenever she finds the free time to do so.
網あみJLPT N1approx.Common
nounThe native word for a physical web: a woven net or mesh, most familiar as a spider's web. It does not cover the World Wide Web; that sense calls for ウェブ.

Use 「ウェブ」 for the World Wide Web and internet-related senses of 'web', and 網 for the physical sense — a woven net or mesh, such as a spider's web.

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