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[edit] Etymology
From late Old English spiþra, from spinnan (‘to spin’). Cognate with German Spinne.
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spider (plural spiders)
- 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 Australian and New Zealand) A “float”; a drink made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- (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. Also called a bridge.
- (cooking) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open hearth cookery. They were generally called spiders both in England and in America.
- a part of a crank, which the chainrings are attached
- heroin a street drug
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[edit] Translations
arthropod
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: merimangë sq(sq) f.
- Amharic: ሸረሪት (shärärit)
- Amuzgo: kítònkwé
- Arabic: عنكبوت (ʕankabūt) m.
- Armenian: սարդ hy(hy) (sard)
- Aromanian: pangu
- Azeri: hörümçək az(az)
- Basque: armiarma
- Bosnian: pauk m. (1)
- Bulgarian: паяк bg(bg) (pajak) m.
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- CJKV Characters: 鼅, 蜘; 鼄, 蛛
- Catalan: aranya f.
- Cebuano: damang
- Chamicuro: kajs̈holi
- Cherokee: ᎧᎾᏁᏍᎩ (kananesgi)
- Chinese: 蜘蛛 (zhīzhū)
- Cornish: kevnisenn f., kevnis m., gwiader m.
- Croatian: pȁūk hr(hr) m.
- Czech: pavouk cs(cs) m.
- Danish: edderkop m.
- Dutch: spin nl(nl) m.
- Erzya: шанжав (šanžav), пондо мукоро (pondo mukoro)
- Estonian: ämblik et(et)
- Faroese: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: hämähäkki fi(fi)
- French: araignée fr(fr) f.
- Frisian: please add this translation if you can
- Georgian: ობობა ka(ka) (oboba)
- German: Spinne de(de) f.
- Greek: αράχνη (arákhni) f.
- Guaraní: ñandu
- Hausa: gizò-gizò m., tautaù m.
- Hawaiian: nananana, pūnāwelewele
- Hebrew: עכביש (akaveesh)
- Hindi: मकड़ा (makɽa), मकड़ी (makɽi)
- Hungarian: pók hu(hu)
- Icelandic: kónguló is(is) f., könguló is(is) f.
- Igbo: ududo
- Ilocano: lawwa
- Indonesian: labah id(id)
- Interlingua: aranea
- Irish: damhán alla ga(ga) m., ruán alla ga(ga) m., fíodóir ga(ga) m.
- Italian: ragno it(it) m.
- Japanese: 蜘蛛 (くも, kumo)
- Kala Lagaw Ya: ma
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Khmer: ពីងពាង (bpīng bpīəng)
- Korean: 거미 (geomi)
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- Latin: aranea la(la) f.
- Latvian: zirneklis
- Lithuanian: voras lt(lt) m.
- Lower Sorbian: pawk m.
- Macedonian: пајак mk(mk) (pájak) m.
- Malay: labah-labah
- Malayalam: എട്ടുകാലി (ettukaali), ചിലന്തി (chilanthi)
- Maltese: brimba mt(mt) f.
- Manx: doo-oallee f., feeder m.
- Maori: puawerewere, puungaawerewere, puungaiwerewere, puuwerewere, tuuturi
- Mongolian: аалз mn(mn) (aalz)
- Nahuatl: tocatl
- Nepali: (maakoora)
- Norwegian: edderkopp no(no) m.
- Persian: عنکبوت (‘ankabut)
- Polish: pająk pl(pl) m.
- Portuguese: aranha pt(pt) f.
- Punjabi: ਮੱਕਡ਼ੀ (makkaṛī)
- Quechua: kusikusi (small), apasanka (big)
- Romanian: păianjen ro(ro) m.
- Russian: паук ru(ru) (paúk) m.
- Samoan: 'apogāleveleve
- Scottish Gaelic: damhan-allaidh m., fìgheadair m.
- Serbian: паук sr(sr) (pauk) m.
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: pavúk sk(sk) m.
- Slovene: pajek sl(sl) m.
- Somali: caaro
- Spanish: araña es(es) f.
- Swahili: buibui sw(sw)
- Swedish: spindel sv(sv) c.
- Tagalog: gagambá, álalawa
- Tahitian: please add this translation if you can
- Tamil: சிலந்தி (silanti)
- Taos: p’ȍ’ǫ́yona
- Telugu: సాలీడు (saaleeDu)
- Tongan: please add this translation if you can
- Tupinambá: nhandu'ĩ
- Turkish: örümcek tr(tr)
- Twi: ananse
- Ukrainian: павук uk(uk) m.
- Upper Sorbian: pawk m.
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: nhện, con nhện
- Volapük: suplaf
- Welsh: corryn m., pryf copyn m.
- Yiddish: שפּין yi(yi) (shpin) f.
- Yoruba: alantakun
- Yucatec: am
- Zulu: ulwembu, ululwembu
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to spider (third-person singular simple present spiders, present participle spidering, simple past and past participle spidered)
- (Internet, of a computer program) to follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
- The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.
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English
spider m. inv.
- (computing) spider (Internet software)