different between filament vs cobweb

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin f?l?mentum, from Late Latin f?l? (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin f?lum (“thread”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?m?nt/

Noun

filament (plural filaments)

1. A fine thread or wire.
2. Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
3. (physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.

   solar filament

   galaxy filament

   the Ursa Major Filament

4. (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
5. (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

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Danish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.

Noun

filament n (singular definite filamentet, plural indefinite filamenter)

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Declension

References

• “filament” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.

Noun

filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament or filamenter, definite plural filamenta or filamentene)

1. a filament

References

• “filament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.

Noun

filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament, definite plural filamenta)

1. a filament

Romanian

Etymology

From French filament, from Latin filamentum.

Noun

filament n (plural filamente)

1. filament

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English copweb, coppeweb, equivalent to cop (“spider”) +? web. Compare Middle Dutch kopwebbe, German Low German Kobbenwebbe (Westphalian).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?bw?b/
• Hyphenation: cob?web

Noun

cobweb (plural cobwebs)

1. A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
   • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter X. "Provincetown", page 200.

     […] there was stretched across his gateway a circular cobweb of the largest kind and quite entire. This looked so ominous that I actually turned aside and went in the back way.
2. One of its filaments; gossamer.
3. (figuratively) Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.
   • c. 1579, Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy

     The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age.
4. An intricate plot to catch the unwary.

   • Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools.

5. (Internet slang, rare) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.
6. The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
7. (informal, usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories.
   • 2008 Burlan Eugene Ellison The Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood Novel page 98

     I washed my face, trying to get the cobwebs of hard sex and an alcohol-induced sleep out of my head

   • 2012 Stanley M. Bierman Napoleon's Penis: Plus Other Engaging and Outrageous Tales page 16

     Veyz mir, meaning something like “Oh . . . my!,” was a Yiddish expression that I had not employed for a long, long time. Yet in the cobwebs of my memory, that expression was still lurking inside. How interesting!

Hypernyms

• web

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