spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spīʹdə
ipa: /ˈspaɪ̯də/
enpr: spīʹdər
ipa: /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/
enpr: spīʹdər
ipa: [ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]
homophone: Spyder
rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spiders
Etymology: From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.
Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *mězgyrь (whence Russian мизги́рь (mizgírʹ)) (akin to Latvian mežģīt), Turkish örümcek (akin to örmek).
Senses: examples: text: Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
ref: 1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 23:
synonyms: attercop
cop
glosses: Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
examples: text: Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.
ref: 2008, Alex Michael, Ben Salter, Marketing Through Search Optimization, Routledge, →ISBN, page xii:
synonyms: crawler
glosses: A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
examples: 2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.
glosses: A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
glosses: An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
glosses: A spindly person.
glosses: A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
synonyms: bridge
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Cut slices and lay them in cold water in the spider; boil them up two or three minutes, then pour off the water and set the spider again on the coals and brown the slices on each side.
ref: 1846, Mary Hooker Cornelius, The Young Housekeeper's Friend, page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”
text: In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.
ref: 2005, Marty Davidson, Grandma Grace's Southern Favorites, recipe for “strawberry coconuts”, Rutledge Hill Press, page 193
text: 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.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
examples: text: If you are deep-frying your falafel, use a spider or basket to place them gently into the hot oil, which should be preheated to a temperature of 175°C (330°F).
ref: 1996, City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide., Stanley Thornes, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157
text: Consider investing in a frying basket or a spider for small amounts of fish. A spider looks like a metal web and has a long handle and can lower and raise fish from the hot oil.
ref: 2008, Anna Kasabian, David Kasabian, The Wild Fish Cookbook, Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 84:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: 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
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
glosses: Heroin.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
glosses: 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.
qualifier: fly fishing
glosses: A soft-hackle fly.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A spider graph or spider tree.
examples: text: I am also disappointed with the horses, having hardly seen a decent pair yet, while the traps and horses do not look smart and well groomed. There are a great many American spiders used. Have not seen a bullock in the yoke yet.
ref: 1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 298:
glosses: A type of light phaeton.
examples: text: The spider is very useful for shooting in the studio or on locations with smooth floors where tripod legs tend to slide.
ref: 1927, H. Mario Raimondo Souto, The Technique of the Motion Picture Camera, page 64:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
qualifier: bowls
glosses: A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
Derived terms: word: ant spider
word: araneomorph funnel-web spider
word: Arctic wolf spider
taxonomic: Phoneutria spp.
word: armed spider
english: esp. Archaeidae spp.
translation: esp. Archaeidae spp.
taxonomic: Palpimanoidea spp.
word: assassin spider
word: baboon spider
word: banana spider
word: barking spider
word: bear spider
word: bird dropping spider
word: bird spider
word: black and gold garden spider
word: black house spider
word: box kite spider
taxonomic: Phoneutria spp.
word: Brazilian wandering spider
word: bridge spider
word: brown recluse spider
word: brushed trapdoor spider
word: button spider
word: camel spider
word: cardinal spider
word: cellar spider
word: Chinese spider
word: cobweb spider
word: coconut spider
word: comb-footed spider
word: crab spider
word: cross spider
word: daddy longlegs spider
word: daddy long-legs spider
word: daddy long-leg spider
word: Desertas wolf spider
word: diadem spider
word: diving bell spider
word: drider
word: dwarf cobweb weaver spider
word: early spider orchid
word: European garden spider
word: European spider crab
word: extended spider
word: false violin spider
word: flattie spider
word: funnel-web spider
word: giant house spider
word: goblin spider
word: gossamer spider
word: grass crab spider
word: green lynx spider
word: ground spider
word: hairy spider orchid
word: harvest spider
word: hobo spider
word: house spider
word: hunting spider
word: huntsman spider
word: ironcaps spider orchid
word: Jorō spider
word: jumping spider
word: knoppie spider
word: ladybird spider
word: leaf-curling spider
word: liocranid sac spider
word: long-jawed spider
word: lynx spider
word: Mediterranean recluse spider
word: money spider
word: mouse spider
word: my spider sense is tingling
word: Nosferatu spider
word: nursery web spider
word: orb spider
word: orb-web spider
word: peacock jumping spider
word: peacock parachute spider
word: peacock spider
taxonomic: Archaeidae spp.
word: pelican spider
word: pirate spider
word: Port Macquarie funnel-web spider
word: pumpkin spider
word: purseweb spider
word: rabid wolf spider
word: recluse spider
word: red-legged golden orb-weaver spider
taxonomic: Tetranychidae spp.
word: red spider
word: respider
word: rockspider
word: rock spider
word: rolling spider
word: scorpion spider
word: seaspider
word: sea-spider
word: sea spider
word: shepherd spider
word: spider beetle
word: spider box
word: spider-catcher
word: spider chart
word: spider cloth
word: spider crab
word: spider diagram
word: spider diver
word: spiderdom
word: spideresque
word: spideress
word: spideret
taxonomic: Grevillea spp.
word: spider flower
word: spider fly
word: spider gag
word: spider goat
word: spidergram
word: spider hole
word: spiderhunter
word: spider-hunting wasp
word: spider in the web doctrine
word: spiderish
word: spiderkind
word: spider lamb syndrome
word: spiderless
word: spiderlet
word: spider lightning
word: spiderlike
word: spider lily
word: spiderling
word: spiderly
word: spiderman
word: spider mill
taxonomic: Tetranychidae spp.
word: spider mite
word: spider monkey
word: spider naevus
word: spider orchid
word: spiderous
word: spider-panic
word: spiderphobia
word: spider plant
word: spider roll
word: spider sense
word: spider-sense
word: spider shell
word: spidership
word: spider solitaire
word: spider spanner
word: spider stitch
word: spider strainer
word: spider strap
word: spider syndrome
word: spider table
word: spider-tailed horned viper
word: spider vein
word: spider veins
word: spider wasp
word: spider-webby
word: spider web
word: spider-web
word: spiderweb
word: spider wheel
taxonomic: Gynandropsis gynandra
word: spiderwisp
taxonomic: Dracophyllum latifolium
word: spiderwood
word: spiderwork
word: spiderwort
word: spider wrap
word: spider wrench
word: spidery
word: Spidey
word: spidroin
word: spinous spider crab
word: spiny spider crab
word: spitting spider
word: sun spider
word: Sydney funnel-web spider
word: tangled nest spider
word: Tasmanian cave spider
word: trapdoor spider
word: triangle spider
word: turret spider
word: velvet spider
word: violin spider
word: wafer trapdoor spider
word: wandering spider
word: wasp spider
word: water spider
word: Web spider
word: wheel spider
word: whip spider
word: wolf spider
word: woodlouse spider
word: writing spider
word: yellow garden spider
word: zebra spider
word: zipper spider
Related terms: spin
spindle