spider

spi·der  (spdr)

n.

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.

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

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spider

Noun

a small eight-legged creature, many species of which weave webs in which to trap insects for food [Old English spīthra]

spidery adj

Thesaurus

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

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spider

noun >> fear arachnophobia

Translations

spider [ˈspaɪdəʳ] n → araña

spider [ˈspaɪdəʳ] n → araignée f;

spider's web → toile f d'araignée

spider [ˈspaɪdəʳ] n → Spinne f;

spider's web → Spinnengewebe nt, Spinnennetz nt

spider [ˈspaɪdəʳ] n → ragno;

spider's web → ragnatela

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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