Cobweb
['kɒbweb] or ['kɑb'wɛb]
Definition
(noun.) a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web.
(noun.) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider.
(noun.) a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider.
Inputed by Byron--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spider's web.
Typist: Zamenhof
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trifle, cipher, moonshine, prejudice, bugbear, phantasy, caprice
ANT:Substance, verity, axiom, law, reality, perpetuity, institution, truth
Typist: Martha
Definition
n. the spider's web or net: any snare or device intended to entrap: anything flimsy or easily broken: anything that obscures.—n. Cobweb′bery.—adj. Cob′webby.
Typist: Nigel
Examples
- Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I sweep your cobweb projects from my path, that I may pass on unsullied. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Over all the legal neighbourhood there hangs, like some great veil of rust or gigantic cobweb, the idleness and pensiveness of the long vacation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Hearts confined by cobwebs would burst at last, and then Love was avenged. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Who of any dignity would take the trouble to clear cobwebs from a wild man's mind after such language as this? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Clocks tick so loud, too, when you are sitting up alone, and you seem as if you had an under-garment of cobwebs on. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It brushes the Newgate cobwebs away, and pleases the Aged. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I have come to clean away these cobwebs, said Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She was brown with the dust and draped with the cobwebs which had come from the walls of her hiding-place. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I went into another room, where the walls and ceiling were all hung round with cobwebs, except a narrow passage for the artist to go in and out. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And I have a liking for rust and must and cobwebs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Boxes and lumber filled it; old dresses draped its unstained wall--cobwebs its unswept ceiling. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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