cobweb

1 filaments from a cobweb [syn: gossamer]

2 a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web

English

Etymology

From the Middle English coppeweb. From coppe (spider), from attercoppe, from Old English āttercoppe, from ātor (poison) + copp (head); + web (web).

Noun

1. A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
2. One of its filaments; gossamer
3. An intricate plot
4. a web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited

Translations

Cobweb can refer to:

• A spider web - cobweb is an alternate word, derived from the Middle English coppeweb (from coppe, meaning "spider", a word that was introduced to England by Dutch invaders and originally pronounced 'kab').
• Cobweb Spider, a group of spiders, also known as Tangle web spiders.
• Cobweb, a comic book heroine.
• The Cobweb, a 1955 film starring Richard Widmark.
• The Cobweb, a 1996 novel by Stephen Bury.
• The cobweb model refers to an economic model of cyclical supply and demand.
• COBWEB is a well-known incremental system for hierarchical conceptual clustering.
• In mathematics, a web diagram, also called a cobweb plot, is a graph that can be used to visualize successive iterations of a function y==f(x).http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WebDiagram.html
• Cobweb (fairy), a character in A Midsummer Night's Dream - a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare

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