cobweb Definition
cob·web (käb′web′)
noun
- a web spun by a spider, esp. one spun indoors that has gathered dust
- a single thread of such a web
- anything flimsy, gauzy, or ensnaring, like the web of a spider
Etymology: ME copweb < coppe, spider (< OE -coppe, in atorcoppe < ator, poison + -coppe, spider; prob. akin to cop, cop) + web
transitive verb -·webbed′, -·web′·bing
to cover with or as with cobwebs
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cobweb Usage Examples
Converse of object
- remove: Have your furniture and carpets professionally cleaned, remove cobwebs from the ceiling corners, remove dust from under the bed.
- blow: The Special Session is also blowing cobwebs off outdated UN ways of doing business.
- have: This also means the shore fishing has been a bit neglected - I think my rock rods have cobwebs on at the moment.
- weave: Bare boughs from the trees weave a cobweb of branches against the pale wintry sky.
- clean: He said the hose extension knocked him down his stairs as he tried to clean cobwebs.
- gather: Dust and cobwebs gathered in the kitchen, and darkness fell over the farm as the money ran out in the meters.
Adjective modifier
- old: Drive away old cobwebs with gray hairs turning white on my scalp.
- dusty: But alas, by the time they had finished climbing through the tree, it was completely draped with their dusty, gray cobwebs.
- huge: The public areas of the house are distinctly shabby and threadbare, with huge cobwebs and dust everywhere.
- vast: According to Simon Jenkins in the Times, Gordon Brown and I sit at the heart of a " vast cobweb " of targets.
Modifies a noun
- theory: Specifically, the student will be able to: Acquire knowledge of the cobweb theory.
- solution: Cobweb Solutions Limited was formed in 1996 to provide hosted services to small and medium sized businesses.
- effect: I also had this cobweb effect in front of my vision.
- theorem: An example of a dynamic model is the cobweb theorem.
- scarves: Beautifully designed cobweb lace scarves for the most discerning customers - featuring all-over Shetland lace patterns.
- lace: Beautifully designed cobweb lace scarves for the most discerning customers - featuring all-over Shetland lace patterns.
Noun used with modifier
morning: He saw from the unbroken early morning cobwebs across the roads east and west, that no one had passed along there.
Possessives
spider: It looks like the beginning of a spider's cobweb, hence the name of this approach.
Preposition: from
ceiling: Remove cobwebs from the ceiling, wipe down walls and skirting boards, clean cupboards inside and out, leave no area untouched.
Browse dictionary entries near cobweb
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- ‹ cobnut
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- ‹ coble
- ‹ cobia
- ‹ Cobham
- ‹ cobelligerent
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