(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.
Unwary
Definition:
(a.) Not vigilant against danger; not wary or cautious; unguarded; precipitate; heedless; careless.
(a.) Unexpected; unforeseen; unware.
Example Sentences:
(1) The heat is getting oppressive but we stay alert and try to move with the flow, sticking to the left as much as possible and keeping an eye out for potholes and drain covers whose grilles face the direction of travel – lying in wait to trap unwary bike tyres.
(2) This uncommon, benign skin lesion has a bizarre histological appearance, which may frequently be misdiagnosed as milignant by the unwary.
(3) We wish to report on a design fault in the lid of a deep fat fryer which may lead to the unwary sustaining scalds of the hand.
(4) Fat within the fibroadipose layer anterior to the orbital septum may be mistaken for the preaponeurotic fat pad by the unwary surgeon and may lead to surgical error.
(5) Normally, cross-examination of a non-expert witness is a contest between a professional expert who is familiar with every detail of the case and a relatively unwary member of the public who is not.
(6) There are numerous potential pitfalls and traps for the unwary, but our experience has thus far been gratifyingly positive, and we endorse the further provision, observation, and documentation of this controversial approach to the care of the infertile couple.
(7) Evaluation and treatment of patients with ventricular arrhythmias are full of pitfalls for the unwary.
(8) Such charges have often caught out unwary travellers, landing some with bills running into thousands of pounds.
(9) Unwary pathologists have sometimes mistaken CETC for endocervical adenocarcinoma or interpreted them as "adenomatous hyperplasia."
(10) We welcome this opportunity to clarify their questions about our data, and to use their re-analysis of our material as a basis for a wider discussion of certain general aspects of the statistical analysis and interpretation of data and the pitfalls which await the unwary.
(11) The unwary and unprepared holiday-maker can be at risk of serious injury from a number of common sea creatures.
(12) However, the unwary traveler may encounter unexpected tropical diseases, many of which are preventable.
(13) These differences are significant at the 0.001 level and may give rise to a wrong interpretation by the unwary investigator.
(14) To the unwary, the resulting configuration can lead to an erroneous diagnosis of a mediastinal mass.
(15) It seems that in its efforts to reassure buyers, eBay has stacked the odds against unwary sellers.
(16) The author notes that two fallacies await the unwary psychiatrist: the fallacy of reductionism which defines the mystical experience in pathological terms only; and the fallacy of speculation without adequate philosophical or theological tools.
(17) This technology is less proven for other media, such as hair, saliva, or meconium, leaving potential pitfalls for the unwary researcher.
(18) On the basis of our results attention is pointed on the possible lesions of the enamel dependent from an unwary fluoride administration, particularly when decidual teeth are still present.
(19) Many pitfalls await the unwary, but with experience and care, most can be overcome or circumvented.
(20) His article in the Daily Mail last Friday, attacking "leftwing academics all too happy to feed the myths" of Blackadder and The Monocled Mutineer , was clever but unwary journalism.