cobweb

(kŏb'wĕb')
n.

1. 1. The web spun by a spider to catch its prey.
   2. A single thread spun by a spider.
2. Something resembling the web of a spider in gauziness or flimsiness.
3. An intricate plot; a snare: caught in a cobweb of espionage and intrigue.
4. cobwebs Confusion; disorder: cobwebs on the brain.

tr.v., -webbed, -web·bing, -webs.
To cover with or as if with cobwebs.

[Middle English coppeweb : coppe, spider (short for attercoppe , from Old English āttercoppe : ātor, poison + copp, head) + web, web; see web.]

cobwebby cob'web'by adj.

(1) A Web page that has not been updated in a long time.

(2) A Web page that is rarely downloaded because the references to it are obscure or the subject is simply uninteresting.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: filaments from a cobweb
  Synonym: gossamer

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

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - fælde, spindelvæv, sammenfiltring
v. tr. - dække med spindelvæv

Nederlands (Dutch)
spinnenweb, valstrik, (mv) luiheid/mufheid

Français (French)
n. - toile d'araignée
v. tr. - se couvrir de toile d'araignée

Deutsch (German)
n. - Spinnengewebe, Spinnennetz, Spinnenfaden
v. - mit Spinnengewebe decken, jmdn. verwirren

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αραχνιά, ιστός αράχνης

Italiano (Italian)
ragnatela, tela di ragno

Português (Portuguese)
n. - teia (f) de aranha

idioms:

• blow away the cobwebs    tirar as teias

Русский (Russian)
паутина

idioms:

• blow away the cobwebs    проветрить мозги

Español (Spanish)
n. - telaraña, red, tejido
v. tr. - tejer una telaraña, cubrir de telarañas, confundir

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - spindelnät

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
蜘蛛网, 混乱, 蛛丝, 布满蛛网

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 蜘蛛網, 混亂, 蛛絲
v. tr. - 佈滿蛛網

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 거미줄, 낡은 것, 올가미
v. tr. - 거미줄로 덮다, 혼란케 하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - クモの巣, クモの糸, わな

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نسيج العنكبوت‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קורי עכביש‬
v. tr. - ‮כיסה ברשת (עכביש), בלבל‬

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