What's the difference between cobweb and spidered?

Cobweb


Definition:

  • (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.

Spidered


Definition:

  • (a.) Infested by spiders; cobwebbed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
  • (2) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
  • (3) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
  • (4) Venom is attractive because the character can exist without Spider-Man and has embarked on its own adventures when in sync with Brock.
  • (5) Giant spiders from Mars This is particularly handy later, when we encounter the mid-level boss, a giant spider-like vehicle known as a Fallen Walker.
  • (6) A 4-year-old girl was admitted 30 hours after being bitten by a black widow spider.
  • (7) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.
  • (8) "I was in a squatted house that was falling down, with spiders everywhere.
  • (9) Electron micrographs of protein 4.1-labelled colloidal gold particles incubated at 4 degrees C with spectrin dimers reveal that 1-5 spectrin dimers attach to each protein 4.1-labelled colloidal gold particle yielding a spider-like appearance of these complexes.
  • (10) Necrotic arachnidism was seen only in areas where populations of Tegenaria agrestis spiders were well established and did not occur where Tegenaria agrestis was absent.
  • (11) Thirty-eight spider phobics completed the Questionnaire on Mental Imagery (QMI) and the Spider Questionnaire (SPQ).
  • (12) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
  • (13) The availability of selective drugs (such as dihydropyridines) and natural toxins (such as omega-Conotoxin, omega-agatoxin, and funnel-web spider toxins), which bind to specific channel subtypes, has greatly helped in channel classification.
  • (14) A high number of spiders in the pastures (3-4 specimens per sq.
  • (15) • The Wall Street Journal uncovers communications between Sony and Marvel discussing a Spider-Man crossover and speaking disparagingly about Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield.
  • (16) It was like a superhero's origin story: Peter Parker's bedroom before he became Spider-Man.
  • (17) The replication becomes impossible to hold back because any time a web server gains a new file and is queried by the search engines' "spiders" – which go out looking to see what has changed on the web – the cache of the web is updated, with the location of the new file.
  • (18) What made this so troubling he said, is that digital spiders could then crawl the web and find every picture in the public domain and match it with an identity.
  • (19) Last Saturday a man dressed as Spider-Man was arrested and charged with hitting a police officer who tried to intervene during a dispute with a woman who offered him $1 (59p).
  • (20) Bowie’s first US tour saw him play as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

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