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Cobwebby

Definition: Cobwebby

Cobwebby

Adjective

1. 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: Cobwebby

Synonyms: diaphanous (adj), filmy (adj), gauzy (adj), gossamer (adj), see-through (adj), sheer (adj), transparent (adj), vaporous (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cobwebby

English words defined with "cobwebby": cortina, Cortinariusgenus Cortinarius. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Cobwebby

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cobwebby

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

   

Russian 

  

затянутый паутиной. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

paučinast (arachnid, spidery). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

spindelnät-. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

örümcek ağı ile kaplanmış (cobwebbed). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đầy mạng nhện giống mạng nhện. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Cobwebby"

Words rhyming with "cobwebby" (pronounced 'Cob"web`by'): Forthby. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Cobwebby

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Cobwebby


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 62 77 65 62 62 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    -...    .--.    .    -...    -...    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100010 01110111 01100101 01100010 01100010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#98 &#119 &#101 &#98 &#98 &#121

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3781688971686891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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