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Definition: Cobwebby |
CobwebbyAdjective1. So thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cobwebby" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1892. (references) |
Synonyms: CobwebbySynonyms: diaphanous (adj), filmy (adj), gauzy (adj), gossamer (adj), see-through (adj), sheer (adj), transparent (adj), vaporous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cobwebby |
| English words defined with "cobwebby": cortina, Cortinarius ♦ genus Cortinarius. (references) |
| "Cobwebby" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cobwebby" is used about 5 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cobwebby"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i mbuluar me përlhurë merimange. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شرك (booby trap, catch, decoy, entanglement, gin, hook, let smb. into, mantrap, morass, net, paneling, pitfall, polytheism, snare, trammel, trap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тънък (acute, fine, gauzy, hairsplitting, high pitched, jimp, lightweight, liny, neat, nice, niggling, reedy, sheer, shrewd, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, subulate, tenuous, thin, threadlike, thready, willowy), покрит с паяжини. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pavuèinový. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trappe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mit Spinngeweben bedeckt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pókhálós. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obwebbycay затянутый паутиной. (various references) paučinast (arachnid, spidery). (various references) spindelnät-. (various references) örümcek ağı ile kaplanmış (cobwebbed). (various references) đầy mạng nhện giống mạng nhện. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "cobwebby" (pronounced 'Cob"web`by'): Forthby. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-b-c-e-o-w-y" | |
-2 letters: cobweb. | |
-3 letters: bobby, cobby, webby. | |
-4 letters: cobb, cowy, obey, yowe. | |
-5 letters: bey, bob, bow, boy, bye, cob, cow, coy, ebb, obe, owe, web, woe, wye, yew, yob, yow. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 62 77 65 62 62 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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 01100010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o b w e b b y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0062 0077 0065 0062 0062 0079 |
| 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)3781688971686891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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