cobweb

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
    — […] there was stretched across his gateway a circular cobweb of the largest kind and quite entire. This looked so ominous that I actually turned aside and went in the back way.
  2. One of its filaments; gossamer.
  3. Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder. figuratively
    — blow the cobwebs away
  4. An intricate plot to catch the unwary.
    — Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools.
  5. A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited. Internet,rare
  6. The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
  7. fuzzy inexact memories. informal,plural-normally
    — I washed my face, trying to get the cobwebs of hard sex and an alcohol-induced sleep out of my head

词形变化

cobwebs plural copweb alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

上位词
web
衍生词
cobwebbed cobwebbery cobwebbing cobweb brush cobwebby cobweb chart cobweblike cobweb model cobweb site cobweb spider cobweb theory dwarf cobweb weaver spider

词源

From Middle English copweb, coppeweb. Compare Middle Dutch kopwebbe, German Low German Kobbenwebbe (Westphalian). By surface analysis, cob (“spider”, obsolete) + web.
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