Cobweb

  • 11cobweb — noun Etymology: Middle English coppeweb, from coppe spider (from Old English ātorcoppe) + web; akin to Middle Dutch coppe spider Date: 14th century 1. a. the network spread by a spider ; spiderweb b. tangles of the silk …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 12cobweb — /kob web /, n., v., cobwebbed, cobwebbing. n. 1. a web spun by a spider to entrap its prey. 2. a single thread spun by a spider. 3. something resembling a cobweb; anything finespun, flimsy, or insubstantial. 4. a network of plot or intrigue; an… …

    Universalium

  • 13cobweb — [14] A cobweb was originally literally a web woven by a cop, a Middle English word for ‘spider’. It was short for attercop ‘spider’, a compound of Old English origin which had largely died out by the 17th century. This seems to have meant… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 14cobweb — [[t]kɒ̱bweb[/t]] cobwebs 1) N COUNT A cobweb is the net which a spider makes for catching insects. 2) PHRASE: V inflects If something blows or clears away the cobwebs, it makes you feel more mentally alert and lively when you had previously been… …

    English dictionary

  • 15cobweb — voratinklis statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Vorų rezgamas tinklas. Vorų pilvelyje yra voratinklinės liaukos, kurios išskiria ore stingstančią baltyminę medžiagą – voratinklinį šilką, iš kurio daromas voratinklis. atitikmenys …

    Ekologijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas

  • 16cobweb — [14] A cobweb was originally literally a web woven by a cop, a Middle English word for ‘spider’. It was short for attercop ‘spider’, a compound of Old English origin which had largely died out by the 17th century. This seems to have meant… …

    Word origins

  • 17cobweb — n. 1 a a fine network of threads spun by a spider from a liquid secreted by it, used to trap insects etc. b the thread of this. 2 anything compared with a cobweb, esp. in flimsiness of texture. 3 a trap or insidious entanglement. 4 (in pl.) a… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 18Cobweb (clustering) — COBWEB is an incremental system for hierarchical conceptual clustering. COBWEB incrementally organizes observations into a classification tree. Each node in a classification tree represents a class (concept) and is labeled by a probabilistic… …

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  • 19Cobweb lawn — Cobweb Cob web , n. [Cob a spider + web.] 1. The network spread by a spider to catch its prey. [1913 Webster] 2. A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary. [1913 Webster] I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 20Cobweb micrometer — Cobweb Cob web , n. [Cob a spider + web.] 1. The network spread by a spider to catch its prey. [1913 Webster] 2. A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary. [1913 Webster] I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English