spider
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Etymology [edit]
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.
Pronunciation [edit]
- enPR: spī'də(r), IPA: /ˈspaɪdə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"spaId@(r\)/
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Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: Spyder
- Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
Noun [edit]
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 Australia 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.
- 2008, Corona Club (San Francisco, California), Corona Club Cook Book, page 202,
- A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached
- (slang) Heroin (street drug).
- (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
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Translations [edit]
arthropod
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computer program
drink
Snooker spider
Verb [edit]
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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spider m (invariable)
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