Spider

English

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

Verb

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: spī'də(r), IPA: /ˈspaɪdə(r)/, SAMPA: /"spaId@(r)/

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• Homophones: Spyder
• Rhymes: -aɪdə(r)