Cobweb

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The web spun by a spider to catch its prey.
  • n. A single thread spun by a spider.
  • n. Something resembling the web of a spider in gauziness or flimsiness.
  • n. An intricate plot; a snare: caught in a cobweb of espionage and intrigue.
  • n. Confusion; disorder: cobwebs on the brain.
  • v. To cover with or as if with cobwebs.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
  • n. One of its filaments; gossamer
  • n. Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.
  • n. An intricate plot to catch the unwary
  • n. a web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited
  • n. The European spotted flycatcher.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
  • n. A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.
  • n. That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.
  • n. The European spotted flycatcher.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The net spun by a spider to catch its prey; a spider's web.
  • n. Figuratively, a network of plot or intrigue; an insidious snare; a contrivance for entangling the weak or unwary: as, the cobwebs of the law.
  • n. Something flimsy and easily rent, broken through, or destroyed.
  • n. plural The neglected accumulations of time; old musty rubbish.
  • Made of or resembling cobweb; hence, flimsy; slight.
  • To cover with a filmy net, as of cobweb.
  • To clear of cobwebs.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
  • n. a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
  • n. a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
    • Verb Form
    cobwebbed    cobwebbing    cobwebs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    strand    fibril    filament    spider's web    spider web   
    Cross Reference
    cobweb lawn   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rubbish    network    filament   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gauze    spider    rubbish    moss    moth   
     
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