spider
IPA: spˈaɪdɝ
noun
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
- (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- (Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
- (slang) A spindly person.
- (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
- (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
- (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
- (obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
- (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- (bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
- The 29th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
verb
- To move like a spider.
- To cover a surface like a cobweb.
- (Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
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Examples of "spider" in Sentences
- A spider crawls.
- The symbol of weaver is a spider.
- He found a spider web in his room.
- He is webbed by Spider Man in the end.
- The spider is nocturnal and lives in forests.
- The spiders provide the seeds for the poggles.
- The tarantulas are the toughest of the spiders.
- The juvenile spider will then ingest the parent spider.
- In 2009 the world's oldest spider web was found encased in amber in the town.
- In the evening and at night, however, the spider sits in the center of the web.