Meaning & use
web gem
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Meanings
nouncountableinformalAmericansport
A spectacular fielding play in baseball, especially one shown on a sports highlights program.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'a web gem' or 'three web gems'.
Patterns
- a web gem by someone
- make a web gem
The shortstop made a web gem to end the inning.
That diving catch was the web gem of the night on SportsCenter.
Fans voted his leaping grab the best web gem of the season.
nouncountableinformalcomputing
An outstanding or clever piece of work done on the internet, such as a website or online tool.
Grammar: Countable and mostly used in informal writing about technology.
Patterns
- a web gem of a website
- find a web gem
Her tiny recipe blog is a real web gem.
The newsletter collects web gems that most people have never heard of.
Word forms
| plural | web gems |
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Common combinations
- make a web gem
- The rookie made a web gem in the ninth inning.
- a real web gem
- Their new mapping tool is a real web gem.
- the web gem of the night
- That catch was the web gem of the night.
- pull off a web gem
- He pulled off a web gem at second base.
Synonyms and how they differ
- highlight
- A highlight is any memorable moment; a web gem is specifically a great defensive play, usually in baseball.
- spectacular
- As a noun, 'spectacular' means a big show; it does not name a single fielding play the way 'web gem' does.
Opposites
Commonly confused: web gem or gem?
web gem vs gem
A gem is a jewel or, figuratively, something excellent; 'web gem' is a fixed sports phrase, not just any excellent thing.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'web gem' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Web gem' means a spectacular fielding play, so it fits the baseball sentence. The others treat it as a jewel or a message, which it never means.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “web gem”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.