Cobweb

Word COBWEB
Character 6
Hyphenation cob web
Pronunciations /ˈkɒbwɛb/

Definitions and meanings of "Cobweb"

What do we mean by cobweb?

The web spun by a spider to catch its prey. noun

A single thread spun by a spider. noun

Something resembling the web of a spider in gauziness or flimsiness. noun

An intricate plot; a snare. noun

Confusion; disorder. noun

To cover with or as if with cobwebs. transitive verb

To cover with a filmy net, as of cobweb.

To clear of cobwebs.

The net spun by a spider to catch its prey; a spider's web. noun

Figuratively, a network of plot or intrigue; an insidious snare; a contrivance for entangling the weak or unwary: as, the cobwebs of the law. noun

Something flimsy and easily rent, broken through, or destroyed. noun

Plural The neglected accumulations of time; old musty rubbish. noun

Made of or resembling cobweb; hence, flimsy; slight.

The network spread by a spider to catch its prey. noun

A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary. noun

That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish. noun

The European spotted flycatcher. noun

A fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. noun

A micrometer in which threads of cobweb are substituted for wires. noun

A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.

One of its filaments; gossamer

Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.

An intricate plot to catch the unwary

A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited

The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.

(usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories

Synonyms and Antonyms for Cobweb

The word "cobweb" in example sentences

As for Flush's verses, they are what I call cobweb verses, thin and light enough; and Arabel was mistaken in telling you that ❋ Unknown (1907)

As for Flush's verses, they are what I call cobweb verses, thin and light enough; and Arabel was mistaken in telling you that Miss Mitford gave the prize to them. ❋ Kenyon, Frederic G (1898)

"Last time, we felt what we call the cobweb effect," Rice said.

In the full size photo, you can see that a spider has made a cobweb from the tip of the bud to the leaves down the stem. ❋ ScienceWoman (2006)

His letter "To the Stocking-Weavers" extended a radical boycott of taxed commodities to paper money, urging workers to keep their savings close at hand "in metal money": "Put it into no funds, no saving banks, no societies, no common stock; for, all these must, at last, rest upon the Paper System, than which a cobweb is not more fragile" ❋ Unknown (1997)

All are held together by cobweb, which is the favourite cement of bird masons. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The cobweb was the magic clue by which mankind was to be rescued from all its errors, and guided safely back to the right. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

How busy and perplexed a cobweb is the happiness of man here, that must be made up with a watchfulness to lay hold upon occasion, which is but a little piece of that which is nothing, time? and yet the best things are nothing without that. ❋ John Donne (1601)

The diseases that chiefly attack prosperous hives are first of all the clerus-this consists in a growth of little worms on the floor, from which, as they develop, a kind of cobweb grows over the entire hive, and the combs decay; another diseased condition is indicated in a lassitude on the part of the bees and in malodorousness of the hive. ❋ Unknown (2002)

They worked rapidly around the slope, cutting a clean smooth groove to which the 'cobweb' could be anchored and sealed. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1967)

By 'cobweb' she meant metastases to the brain, which had appeared seventeen years after a bout of breast cancer had been discovered in time and treated successfully. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his identifying vernacular, a part of the goal net is the "cobweb", and a player who celebrates a goal by sliding belly-first on the grass is a "lawnmower". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet phone book ads, glossy brochures, and static "cobweb" sites still make up the bulk of many small and medium sized company marketing budgets. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For in one corner of my room I boast of a prize dusty "cobweb," as yet spared from the household broom, a gossamer arena of two years 'standing, which makes a dense span of a length of about two feet from a clump of dried hydrangea blossoms to the sill of a transom-window, and which, of course, somewhere in its dusty spread, tapers off into a dark tunnel, where lurks the eight-eyed schemer, "o'erlooking all his waving snares around." ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)

a kind of cobweb on her head which she called a "bunnet." ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)

Looking more closely I noticed he was caught up in the silk from a spider web or perhaps a massive cobweb. ❋ Maggie Sergio (2011)

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