(n.) The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
(n.) A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.
(n.) That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.
(n.) The European spotted flycatcher.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dream has allowed us to ignore that our social safety net has been shredded into cobwebs, because the dream tells us that if we work hard enough, we won’t ever need a net.
(2) Outside, the ancient trees provide a habitat for several rare insect species, including the cobweb beetle, and many bats, such as the noctule, that like to eat them.
(3) This article also suggests some defences in the event that physicians get involved in the legal cobweb.
(4) That was in March 2012, more than six years after the offence, by which time this particular scandal had cobwebs on it, and Harper had won two more elections, in November 2008 and May 2011.
(5) There’s no better way to shed the cobwebs from the night before than with a blast of rain-fresh Dublin air and a stretch of the legs.
(6) Tottenham’s Denmark playmaker had not completed 90 minutes since 15 August, a knee injury hampering his early-season form, but two free-kick equalisers blew away the cobwebs here and ensured deserved parity for his team in a vibrant game characterised by swagger on the ball and defensive jitters off it.
(7) Formation of inner protein nidus in the form of a cobweb is the first stage, then calcite is deposited on this fibrous network as tiny crystals.
(8) Our sonographic examination showed a large multilocular cyst with a cluster of honeycomb cysts revealing a cobweb appearance, which correlated with the pathologic specimen, and revealed characteristics of the disease.
(9) The SEM showed that admixed with normal-looking portions, there were abnormal portions of the elastic fibers which were composed of many unusual fine fibers (5-22 nm in diameter), and had a cobweb-like appearance.
(10) Lovely as it is, on a sunny summer's day Plockton can start to feel crowded and there's nothing like this hike to the summit of the crags which loom over the village to blow the cobwebs from your hair, taking in the view of the village and its stunning coastal setting.
(11) Now, once again, people mostly understand the complex cobweb of social interactions.
(12) Awareness of these CT findings, including early equivalent enhancement of the inferior vena cava and aorta; enlarged, poorly functioning kidney; and perirenal "cobwebs," will lead to the appropriate confirmatory angiographic studies.
(13) Director Steve McQueen's determined appreciation of the sedate, haunted beauty of the landscape, with ghostly cobwebs of Spanish moss trailing over shimmering bayous, throws the evils of violence and slavery into even sharper relief.
(14) No matter how they rage against injustice, his team-mates should appreciate in some cobwebbed corner of their minds that they were outplayed.
(15) Cobwebs, heavy with dead flies, hung above our heads.
(16) I am sure many people find it difficult to settle down to watch a DVD with a cobweb hanging behind the TV.
(17) Minnelli's many neuroses are freely at play in these movies, and never more so than in the mental hospital melodrama The Cobweb, in which a range of now-defunct pathologies – ah, frigidity and nymphomania, where have you gone?
(18) Police say the room used as an operating theatre was hung with cobwebs, and that the fast turnover of operations meant there was no time to change bloodied sheets.
(19) The Dracula Experience ( adults £3, kids £2.50), with its trailing cobwebs and dangling rubber bats is the ultimate, slightly rubbish rainy day seaside attraction.
(20) Fecal specimens and soil or cobweb samples were collected from each farm and cultured on selective media.
Rubbish
Definition:
(n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.
(a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my form teacher said I’d worked well in every subject except geography, I made her change the bit that said I’d not tried to say, instead, that I was rubbish at it.
(2) His report was widely rubbished at the time for lack of supporting evidence, and the addition of Osborne's sweeteners (or nudges, perhaps?)
(3) Therefore this gesture is actually a tribute to the country - they are saying, 'you are rubbish but our rubbish is as good as everyone else's best'.
(4) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
(5) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
(6) Water is no longer chlorinated, rubbish isn't collected anymore.
(7) Eaton Square is one of the poshest addresses in London – the rubbish left outside the six-storey houses include empty Pol Roger bottles; one or two buildings have flags (not British) or blue plaques detailing how the likes of Neville Chamberlain once lived there.
(8) I don’t even think about [Isis] – I look at the news and I’m like OK they’re just talking rubbish, and I turn it off.
(9) And, nearly as famously, he actually threw his only draft of it away at one point, until his wife convinced him to rescue it from the rubbish.
(10) "The only musical tradition then was heavy metal, rubbish cover bands and crooners like Tony Christie."
(11) W hat do you think happens to the rubbish when you throw it out into the street?” asks the Mighty Boosh ’s great realist Howard Moon.
(12) Around 200,000 still live in flimsy shelters on rubbish-strewn wastelands.
(13) But still, you know that when Manchester United is coming, we have to pay much more than another club, so that’s also an analysis, and it is not rubbish what I am saying.” Gill was also critical of the playing style.
(14) The march in the capital came in direct response to the government’s announcement on Friday that its investigation has established that dozens of young people were massacred in a rubbish dump outside the town of Cocula, that borders Iguala.
(15) Lauren Eyles, MCS Beachwatch officer, said: "Despite last summer being seen as a washout by many with heavy rain in many places, it appears those people that did visit our beaches left behind a lot of personal litter – sweet wrappers, ice cream wrappers and plastic drinks bottles failed to find their way into rubbish bins and ended up being dropped and left behind.
(16) To examine how mimicry was influenced by a person's power and the status of those around them, Carr asked 55 volunteers to watch videos of high-status people (such as a doctor or business leader) or low-status people (a worker in a fast food restaurant, say, or a rubbish collector) either being happy or angry.
(17) On 7 November Murillo announced that the authorities had collected badly burned human bone fragments from a rubbish tip outside of a neighbouring town called Cocula.
(18) I have to read so much rubbish here that I'm impressed with any missive that shows even a modicum of intelligence.
(19) We are constantly faced with others forcing their rubbish on us.
(20) They would take a rubbish bag but they would still leave stuff behind," said Tshering Tenzing Sherpa, an official of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, the NGO charged with overseeing the Everest cleanup.