spider

Meaning of spider

noun
  1. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
  2. A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
  3. 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.
  4. An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
  5. A spindly person.
  6. A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
  7. 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.
  8. A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
  9. Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
  10. A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
  11. Heroin (street drug).
  12. Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
  13. A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
  14. (fly fishing) a soft-hackle fly
  15. The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard
  16. A spider graph or spider tree
  17. A type of light phaeton.
verb
  1. To move like a spider.
  2. To cover a surface like a cobweb.
  3. (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.

Information about spider

Hyphenation of spider

spi-der

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • spider is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

spider synonyms

Meaning wanderer:

wanderer

Meaning :

attercop, cop

Translation of spider

Anagrams of spider

prides, redips, risped, spired, spried

Words that rhyme with spider

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