different between visit vs cobweb

English

Etymology

From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin v?sit?, frequentative of v?s? (“behold, survey”), from vide? (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon w?s?n (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?t/
• Rhymes: -?z?t
• Hyphenation: vis?it

Verb

visit (third-person singular simple present visits, present participle visiting, simple past and past participle visited)

1. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]
2. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability. [from 14th c.]

3. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]

   • [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.

   • Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.

4. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something). [from 14th c.]
   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 68:

     Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.

5. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone). [from 14th c.]
   • 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:

     There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.

6. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone. [from 14th c.]
   • 2011, John Mullan, The Guardian, 2 Dec 2011:

     If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.

7. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 14th c.]
8. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc. [from 15th c.]
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (go and meet):: call on

Translations

Noun

visit (plural visits)

1. A single act of visiting.
2. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

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Related terms

• unvisited
• visitation
• visitor

Latin

Verb

v?sit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of v?s?
2. third-person singular perfect active indicative of v?s?

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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