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From Middle English spithre, from Old English spīder, spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-Germanic *spinþrô (“spider", literally, "spinner”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-, *(s)pen- (“to pull, stretch, spin”). Cognate with Scots spider (“spider”), West Frisian spin (“spider”), Dutch spin (“spider”), German Spinne (“spider”), Danish spinder (“spinner, spider”), Swedish spindel (“spider”). More at spin.
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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 (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- 2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.
- (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; 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.
- 2008, Corona Club (San Francisco, California), Corona Club Cook Book, page 202,
- Melt ½ the dry sugar in the spider, stirring with knife until all is melted.
- A part of a crank, which the chainrings are attached
- (slang) Heroin (street drug).
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arthropod
- Afrikaans: spinnekop (af)
- Albanian: merimangë (sq) f.
- Amharic: ሸረሪት (shärärit)
- Amuzgo: kítònkwé
- Arabic: عنكبوت (ar) (ʕankabūt) m., شبث (ar) (shabath) m.
- Armenian: սարդ (hy) (sard)
- Aromanian: pangu
- Azeri: hörümçək (az)
- Basque: armiarma
- Belarusian: павук (be) (pavúk) m.
- Bengali: মাকড়সা (bn) (makôŗsha)
- Bosnian: pauk m. (1)
- Bulgarian: паяк (bg) (pájak) m.
- Burmese: ပင့်ကူ (my) (pin.gu)
- Catalan: aranya f.
- Cebuano: damang
- Chamicuro: kajs̈holi
- Cherokee: ᎧᎾᏁᏍᎩ (kananesgi)
- Cheyenne: vé'ho'e
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 蜘蛛 (zi1 zyu1)
- Mandarin: 蜘蛛 (zh) (zhīzhū)
- Min Nan: 蜘蛛 (ti-tu)
- Cornish: kevnisenn f., kevnis m., gwiader m.
- Croatian: pȁūk (hr) m.
- Czech: pavouk (cs) m.
- Danish: edderkop (da) c.
- Dutch: spin (nl) m.
- Erzya: шанжав (šanžav), пондо мукоро (pondo mukoro)
- Esperanto: araneo (eo)
- Estonian: ämblik (et)
- Faroese: eiturkoppur (fo) m.
- Finnish: hämähäkki (fi)
- French: araignée (fr) f.
- Friulian: ragn
- Galician: araña (gl)
- Georgian: ობობა (ka) (oboba)
- German: Spinne (de) f.
- Greek: αράχνη (el) (aráchni) f.
- Ancient: ἀράχνη (aráchni) f.
- Guaraní: ñandu
- Hausa: gizò-gizò m., tautaù m.
- Hawaiian: nananana, pūnāwelewele
- Hebrew: עַכָּבִישׁ (he) (akavish) m.
- Hindi: मकड़ी (hi) (makṛī) f., मकड़ा (hi) (makṛā) m.
- Hungarian: pók (hu)
- Icelandic: kónguló (is) f., könguló (is) f.
- Igbo: ududo
- Ilocano: lawwa
- Indonesian: labah (id)
- Interlingua: aranea
- Inuktitut: ᐋᓯᕙᖅ (iu) (aasivaq)
- Irish: damhán alla (ga) m., ruán alla (ga) m., fíodóir (ga) m.
- Italian: ragno (it) m.
- Japanese: 蜘蛛 (ja) (くも, kumo), クモ (ja) (kumo), (katakana) スパイダー (ja) (supaidā)
- Kala Lagaw Ya: ma
- Kannada: ಸಾಲಿಗ (kn), ಜೇಡ (kn)
- Kapampangan: babagwa
- Khmer: ពីងពាង (km) (bpīng bpīəng)
- Korean: 거미 (ko) (geomi), 지주 (ko) (jiju)
- Lao: ແມງມຸມ (lo) (mǣng mum)
- Latgalian: dziernyukss
- Latin: aranea (la) f., araneus (la) m.
- Latvian: zirneklis m.
- Laz: please add this translation if you can
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- Lithuanian: voras (lt) m.
- Lower Sorbian: pawk m.
- Luxembourgish: Spann (lb) f.
- Macedonian: пајак (mk) (pájak) m.
- Malay: labah-labah
- Malayalam: എട്ടുകാലി (ml) (ettukaali), ചിലന്തി (ml) (chilanthi)
- Maltese: brimba (mt) f.
- Manx: doo-oallee f., feeder m., treechoshagh (gv) m.
- Maori: puawerewere, puungaawerewere, puungaiwerewere, puuwerewere, tuuturi
- Mingrelian: ბორბოლია (borbolia)
- Mongolian: аалз (mn) (aalz)
- Nahuatl: tocatl
- Navajo: naʼashjéʼii
- Nepali: माकुरो (ne) (mākuro)
- Norwegian: edderkopp (no) m., edderkopper (no) m. pl.
- Ojibwe: asabikeshiinh, asabikeshi
- Pashto: غڼه (ps) (ǧëṇa) f.
- Persian: عنکبوت (fa) (‘ankabut), تارتنک (fa) (târtanak)
- Polish: pająk (pl) m.
- Portuguese: aranha (pt) f.
- Punjabi: ਮੱਕਡ਼ੀ (makkaṛī)
- Quechua: kusikusi (small), apasanka (big)
- Romanian: păianjen (ro) m.
- Romansch: filien (rm) m.
- Russian: паук (ru) (paúk) m.
- Samoan: 'apogāleveleve
- Scottish Gaelic: damhan-allaidh m., fìgheadair m.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: паук (sh) m.
- Roman: pauk (sh) m.
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: pavúk (sk) m.
- Slovene: pajek (sl) m.
- Somali: caaro
- Spanish: araña (es) f.
- Svan: please add this translation if you can
- Swahili: buibui (sw)
- Swedish: spindel (sv) c.
- Tagalog: gagambá (tl), álalawa (tl)
- Tahitian: please add this translation if you can
- Tajik: анкабут (tg), тортанак (tg)
- Tamil: சிலந்தி (ta) (silanti)
- Taos: p’ȍ’ǫ́yona
- Tatar: ürmäküç (tt)
- Telugu: సాలీడు (saaleeDu)
- Thai: แมงมุม (th) (maeng mum)
- Tongan: please add this translation if you can
- Tupinambá: nhandu'ĩ
- Turkish: örümcek (tr)
- Turkmen: möý (tk)
- Twi: ananse
- Ukrainian: павук (uk) (pavúk) m.
- Upper Sorbian: pawk m.
- Urdu: مکڑی (ur) (makṛī) f.
- Uyghur: ئۆمۈچۈك (ug) (ömüchük)
- Vietnamese: nhện (vi), con nhện (vi)
- Volapük: (male or female) raänid (vo), (male) hiraänid (vo), (female) jiraänid (vo), (offspring, young) raänidül (vo), (older word) spulaf (vo)
- Welsh: corryn m., pryf copyn m.
- West Frisian: spin (fy) c.
- Wolof: jargoñ gi (wo)
- Yiddish: שפּין (yi) (shpin) f.
- Yoruba: alantakun
- Yucatec: am
- Zulu: ulwembu, ululwembu
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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)
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