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Definition: Cobweb |
CobwebNoun1. Filaments from a cobweb. 2. A dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cobweb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Note: Cobweb \Cob"web`\, noun. [Cob spider web.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cobweb Cob, Teutonic for "spider." Dutch, spinnckop; Saxon, attercop (poisonous spider); Chaldee, kopi (spider's web). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CobwebSynonym: gossamer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house. |
Levity | Feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air. |
Uncleanness | Dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle. |
Unimportance | Trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; " leather or prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse; (inutility); scum; (dirt). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cobweb |
| English words defined with "cobweb": Araneous ♦ Cobweb lawn, Cobweb micrometer ♦ Feather ore ♦ gossamer ♦ Imbrangle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cobweb": cobweb site. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cobweb": Imbrangle. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | On a cobweb afternoon (Like A Stone; performing artist: AUDIOSLAVE) Cobweb strange (MOONCHILD; performing artist: King Crimson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Cobweb (1955) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cobweb / Edith R. Wilson. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | You may often detect a yet smoother and darker water, separated from the rest as if by an invisible cobweb, boom of the water nymphs, resting on it. |
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| "Cobweb" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cobweb" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 51 | 47,619 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cobweb": Cobweb lawn ♦ Cobweb micrometer ♦ cobweb site. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cobweb": cobweb-like, cobweb-pattern. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cobweb | 113 |
cobweb spider | 20 |
cobweb design | 6 |
cobweb eliminator | 4 |
cobweb picture | 4 |
cobweb picture spider | 3 |
cobweb corner | 2 |
chick cobweb hen | 2 |
cobweb strange | 2 |
cobweb theorem | 2 |
antique cobweb | 2 |
cluster cobweb hierarchy | 2 |
cobweb dr eliminator ts | 2 |
cobweb weaver | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cobweb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pëlhurë merimenge, grackë (booby trap, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, rat-trap, snare, springe, trap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كل ما هو رقيق أو واه الصنع, نسيج العنكبوت (spider web, web), خيوط العنكبوت, بيت العنكبوت (spider's web). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лека и прозрачна материя, паяжина (net, spider web, spider's web, web). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蜘蛛网, 蜘蛛網 (spider web). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pavuèina (spider web, spider's web, spider-work, web). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kunstigt spindelvæv (artificial cobweb), dactylium (cobweb disease, dactylium mildew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spinnewebziekte (cobweb disease, dactylium mildew), spinnewebschimmel (cobweb disease, dactylium mildew), imitatiespinneweb (artificial cobweb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تارعنکبوت (Net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seitti (web), hämähäkinseitti (gossamer, spider's web). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | toile d'araignée, araignée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | spinngewebe (cobwebs, spider's web, spiderweb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιστόσ αράχνησ (gossamer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קורי עכביש (gossamer, spider's web). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pókháló (cob-web, spider web, spider's web, web). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sarang laba-laba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ragnatela (web). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 巣 (beehive, breeding place, den, haunt, nest, rookery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | す (beehive, breeding place, den, haunt, nest, rookery, sandbank, vinegar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sneeuane (gossamer, spider's web), lhieen doo-oallee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | spindelvev. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obwebcay teia-de-aranha, tecido fino (delicate fabric), artimanhas. (various references) pãienjeniş, pânzã de pãianjen (spider's web), împãienjenit. (various references) паутина (gossamer, net, spider web, spider's web, spiderweb, spider-web, web). (various references) paučina (arachnid, web). (various references) telaraña (gossamer, spider's web, spiderweb, web). (various references) spindelväv (spiderweb). (various references) ใยแมงมุม (spiderweb), สิ่งที่คล้ายใยแมงมุม. (various references) tuzak (a warm corner, ambuscade, ambush, catch, come on, complot, decoy, gin, hook, lure, net, noose, snare, springe, toil, toilets, toils, trap, wire), temizlenmesi gereken pislik, kuruntu (chimera, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fears, hip, hypochondria, imagination, misgiving, phantasy, shyness, specter, spectre, the dismals, unfounded suspicion, vapor, vapour, vision), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), dayanıksız şey, ağ (dragnet, filet, fishnet, gin, graticule, mesh, net, netting, network, plexus, reticular, spider's web, spiderweb, system, tissue), örümcek ağının teli, örümcek ağı (gossamer, spider web, spider's web, web). (various references) kerep (spiderweb). (various references) мереживо (binche, lace, point), легка прозора тканина, павутиння, павутина (net, spider web, tissue, web), плести павутину. (various references) sợi tơ nhện vải mỏng như tơ nhện, mạng nhện (spider-web), bẫy ra ngo i vận động cho sảng khoái tinh thần khô cổ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aranea, araneae, araneam, aranearum, Dactylium dendroides, Hypomyces rosellus stat. con.Cladobotryum dendroides. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cobweb": cobwebbed, cobwebbier, cobwebbiest, cobwebbing, cobwebby, cobwebs. (additional references) | |
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"Cobweb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cobaea, cobseo, cobwey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-e-o-w" | |
-2 letters: cobb. | |
-3 letters: bob, bow, cob, cow, ebb, obe, owe, web, woe. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, oe, ow, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-e-o-w" | |
+1 letter: cobwebs. | |
+2 letters: cobwebby. | |
+3 letters: cobwebbed. | |
+4 letters: cobwebbier, cobwebbing. | |
+5 letters: cabbageworm, cobwebbiest, jabberwocky. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 62 77 65 62 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- -... .--. . -... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100010 01110111 01100101 01100010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o b w e b |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0062 0077 0065 0062 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)378168897168 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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