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# cobweb

«cobweb» in Mova's school dictionary: **the fine sticky thread net that a spider spins to catch…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cobweb, cobwebs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cobweb is the fine sticky thread net that a spider spins to catch insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobweb/#m1)

2) In talk, «cobwebs» can mean old, silly ideas that are not true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobweb/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, the sticky web a spider uses to trap a fly; «moontalk and cobwebs» means foolish, old-fashioned nonsense

### examples

- The fly was caught in the cobweb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobweb/#x1)
- The attic was full of dusty cobwebs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobweb/#x2)
- Are all these tales just cobwebs and moontalk? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobweb/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cobweb» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobweb/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.