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1. Any of numerous arachnids of the order Araneae, having a body divided into a cephalothorax bearing eight legs, two poison fangs, and two feelers and an unsegmented abdomen bearing several spinnerets that produce the silk used to make nests, cocoons, or webs for trapping insects.

2. One that resembles a spider, as in appearance, character, or movement.

3. New England, Upper Northern, & South Atlantic U.S. See frying pan. See Regional Note at frying pan.

4. A trivet.

[Middle English spither, from Old English spthra; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]

spider [ˈspaɪdə]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any predatory silk-producing arachnid of the order Araneae, having four pairs of legs and a rounded unsegmented body consisting of abdomen and cephalothorax See also wolf spider, trap-door spider, tarantula, black widow

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various similar or related arachnids

3. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a hub fitted with radiating spokes or arms that serve to transmit power or support a load

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Agriculture an instrument used with a cultivator to pulverize soil

5. (Engineering / Tools) any implement or tool having the shape of a spider

6. (Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical a metal frame fitted at the base of a mast to which halyards are tied when not in use

7. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) any part of a machine having a number of radiating spokes, tines, or arms

8. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Also called octopus Brit a cluster of elastic straps fastened at a central point and used to hold a load on a car rack, motorcycle, etc.

9. (Group Games / Billiards & Snooker) Billiards Snooker a rest having long legs, used to raise the cue above the level of the height of the ball

10. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Angling) Angling an artificial fly tied with a hackle and no wings, perhaps originally thought to imitate a spider

11. (Electronics & Computer Science / Telecommunications) Computing a computer program that is capable of performing sophisticated recursive searches on the Internet

12. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) short for spider phaeton

[Old English spīthra; related to Danish spinder, German Spinne; see spin]

spider

cobweb - A single thread spun by a spider.
arain - Another word for spider.
lobster - Comes from Old English loppestre, "spider," because there is some resemblance.
insect, spider, crustacean - One major difference between insects, spiders, and crustaceans is the antennae; most insects have one pair, spiders have none, and crustaceans have two pairs.

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	spider - predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey arachnid, arachnoid - air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs Araneae, Araneida, order Araneae, order Araneida - spiders orb-weaving spider - a spider that spins a circular (or near circular) web Argiope aurantia, black and gold garden spider - a widely distributed North American garden spider Araneus cavaticus, barn spider - an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily; "the barn spider was made famous in E. B. White's book `Charlotte's Web'" Aranea diademata, garden spider - a spider common in European gardens comb-footed spider, theridiid - spider having a comb-like row of bristles on each hind foot black widow, Latrodectus mactans - venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen tarantula - large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites hunting spider, wolf spider - ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web trap-door spider - American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid
	2.	spider - a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine wanderer computer program, computer programme, programme, program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code"
	3.	spider - a skillet made of cast iron frying pan, frypan, skillet - a pan used for frying foods

spider noun

Related words
adjective arachnoid
fear arachnophobia

Spiders and other arachnids

bird spider, black widow, book scorpion, cardinal spider, cheese mite, chigger, chigoe, or (U.S. & Canad.) redbug, chigoe, chigger, jigger, or sand flea, false scorpion, funnel-web, harvestman or (U.S. & Canad.) daddy-longlegs, house spider, itch mite, jumping spider, katipo, mite, money spider, redback spider, spider, spider mite, tarantula, tick, trap-door spider, vinegarroon, water spider, whip scorpion, wolf spider or hunting spider

Translations

spider [ˈspaɪdəʳ]

A. N → araña f
spider's web → telaraña f

B. CPD spider crab N → centollo m, centolla f
spider plant N → cinta f

spider [ˈspaɪdə^r] n (= arachnid) → araignée f
spider monkey n → singe m araignée
spider plant n → chlorophytum m
spider's web n → toile f d'araignée

spider

→ Spinne f; spider’s web → Spinnwebe f, → Spinnengewebe nt, → Spinnennetz nt

(inf, = wheelbrace) → Kreuzschlüssel m

(for roofrack) → elastisches Befestigungsband

spider:

spider crab

n → Spinnenkrabbe f → or -krebs m

spiderman

n (inf)

(= building worker) → Gerüstbauer m

(= steeplejack) → Schornsteinarbeiter m

spider monkey

n → Klammeraffe m

spider plant

n → Grünlilie f

spider veins

n (Med inf) → Besenreiser pl (inf), → Besenreißer pl (inf)

spiderweb

n (US) → Spinnwebe f, → Spinnengewebe nt, → Spinnennetz nt

spider [ˈspaɪdəʳ] n → ragno; (tool) → chiave f a croce
spider's web → ragnatela

spider

n spider [ˈspaidə]

a kind of small creature with eight legs and no wings, which spins a web. spinnekop عَنْكَبوت паяк pavouk edderkop die Spinne αράχνη araña ämblik عنكبوت hämähäkki araignée עַכָּבִיש मकड़ी pauk pók labah-laba kónguló ragno くも 거미 voras zirneklis labah-labah spin edderkopp pająk aranha păianjen паук pavúk pajek pauk spindel แมงมุม örümcek 蜘蛛 павук مکڑی con nhện 蜘蛛

spider → عنكبوت pavouk edderkop Spinne αράχνη araña hämähäkki araignée pauk ragno クモ 거미 spin edderkopp pająk aranha паук spindel แมลงมุม örümcek con nhện 蜘蛛

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