spider

Definition of Spider in English :

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

2. spider, wanderer

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

3. spider

a skillet made of cast iron

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spider

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noun

1.

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.

any of various similar or related arachnids

3.

a hub fitted with radiating spokes or arms that serve to transmit power or support a load

4. agriculture

an instrument used with a cultivator to pulverize soil

5.

any implement or tool having the shape of a spider

6. nautical

a metal frame fitted at the base of a mast to which halyards are tied when not in use

7.

any part of a machine having a number of radiating spokes, tines, or arms

8. Also called: octopus British

a cluster of elastic straps fastened at a central point and used to hold a load on a car rack, motorcycle, etc

9. billiards, snooker

a rest having long legs, used to raise the cue above the level of the height of the ball

10. angling

an artificial fly tied with a hackle and no wings, perhaps originally thought to imitate a spider

11. computing

a computer program that is capable of performing sophisticated recursive searches on the internet

12. short for spider phaeton

Spider

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noun

1.

any of an order (Araneae) of small, chiefly land arachnids having a body composed of a cephalothorax bearing the legs and an abdomen bearing two or more pairs of spinnerets that spin the silk threads from which are made nests, cocoons for the eggs, or webs for trapping insects

2. US

a cast-iron frying pan, orig. one with legs for use on a hearth

3.

any of various devices or frameworks with several leglike extensions

Spider

see synonyms of spider

n.

1. Any of numerous arachnids of the order Araneae, having a body divided into a cephalothorax and an abdomen, eight legs, two chelicerae that bear venom glands, and two or more 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. A program that automatically retrieves webpages and follows the links on them to retrieve more webpages. Spiders are used by search engines to retrieve publicly accessible webpages for indexing, and they can also be used to check for links to webpages that no longer exist. Also called crawler, search bot.

4. New England, Upper Northern, & South Atlantic US See frying pan.

5. A trivet.

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