spider

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.5 Anagrams 1.6 See also 2 Italian 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From late Old English spiþra, from spinnan (‘to spin’). Cognate with German Spinne.

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: spī'də(r), IPA: /ˈspaɪdə(r)/, SAMPA: /"spaId@(r)/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Homophones: Spyder

  Rhymes: -aɪdə(r)

[edit] Noun

spider (plural spiders)

1. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
2. (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
3. (chiefly Australian and New Zealand) A “float”; a drink made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
4. (slang) A spindly person.
5. (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
6. (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.
7. (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.
8. a part of a crank, which the chainrings are attached
9. heroin a street drug

[edit] Derived terms

• spidery
• Spider-Man

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[edit] Verb

to spider (third-person singular simple present spiders, present participle spidering, simple past and past participle spidered)

1. (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.

[edit] Anagrams

• prides

[edit] See also

• arachnid
• Wikipedia article on spiders

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Etymology

English

[edit] Noun

spider m. inv.

1. (computing) spider (Internet software)