Spider - Wiktionary

English

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Etymology

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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).

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: spīʹdə, IPA(key): /ˈspaɪ̯də/
• (General American) enPR: spīʹdər, IPA(key): /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/
• (New England, Inland Northern American, Canada) enPR: spīʹdər, IPA(key): [ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: Spyder
• Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)

Noun

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spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

1. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey. Synonyms: (obsolete except in dialects) attercop, (obsolete) cop Hypernyms: arachnid < arthropod < bug (broad sense) < invertebrate < animal < creature, critter Coordinate terms: (other arachnids) tick, mite, scorpion; (other arthropods) insect
   • 1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 23: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.
2. (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information. Synonym: crawler
   • 2008, Alex Michael, Ben Salter, Marketing Through Search Optimization, Routledge, →ISBN, page xii: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.
3. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) 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. (Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
5. (slang) A spindly person.
6. (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
7. (snooker, billiards) 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. Synonym: bridge
8. (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
   • 1846, Mary Hooker Cornelius, The Young Housekeeper's Friend, page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”: 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.
   • 2005, Marty Davidson, Grandma Grace's Southern Favorites, recipe for “strawberry coconuts”, Rutledge Hill Press, →ISBN, page 193: In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.
   • 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.
9. (cooking) 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
   • 1996, City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide., Stanley Thornes, →ISBN, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157: 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).
   • 2008, Anna Kasabian, David Kasabian, The Wild Fish Cookbook, Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 84: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.
10. (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
11. (slang, uncountable) Heroin. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
12. (music) 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, England) A soft-hackle fly.
15. (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
16. (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
17. (obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
    • 1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎[1], volume 4, number 10, page 298: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.
18. (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
    • 1927, H. Mario Raimondo Souto, The Technique of the Motion Picture Camera, page 64:The spider is very useful for shooting in the studio or on locations with smooth floors where tripod legs tend to slide.
19. (bowls) 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.
20. A bit for turning fasteners with 8-pointed heads. Synonyms: double square, 8-point star

Derived terms

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• ant spider
• Arctic wolf spider
• armed spider (Phoneutria spp.)
• assassin spider (Palpimanoidea spp., esp. Archaeidae spp.)
• baboon spider
• banana spider
• barking spider
• bear spider
• bird dropping spider
• bird spider
• black and gold garden spider
• black house spider
• box kite spider
• Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria spp.)
• bridge spider
• brown recluse spider
• brushed trapdoor spider
• button spider
• camel spider
• cardinal spider
• cellar spider
• Chinese spider
• cobweb spider
• coconut spider
• comb-footed spider
• crab spider
• cricket thief spider
• cross spider
• daddy longlegs spider, daddy long-legs spider, daddy long-leg spider
• Desertas wolf spider
• diadem spider
• diving bell spider
• drider
• dwarf cobweb weaver spider
• early spider orchid
• European garden spider
• European spider crab
• extended spider
• false violin spider
• flattie spider
• funnel-web spider
• giant house spider
• goblin spider
• gossamer spider
• grass crab spider
• green lynx spider
• ground spider
• hairy spider orchid
• harvest spider
• hobo spider
• house spider
• hunting spider
• huntsman spider
• ironcaps spider orchid
• Jorō spider
• jumping spider
• knoppie spider
• ladybird spider
• leaf-curling spider
• liocranid sac spider
• long-jawed spider
• lynx spider
• Mediterranean recluse spider
• money spider
• mouse spider
• my spider sense is tingling
• Nosferatu spider
• nursery web spider
• orb spider
• orb-web spider
• peacock jumping spider
• peacock parachute spider
• peacock spider
• pelican spider (Archaeidae spp.)
• pirate spider
• Port Macquarie funnel-web spider
• pumpkin spider
• purseweb spider
• rabid wolf spider
• recluse spider
• red-legged golden orb-weaver spider
• red spider (Tetranychidae spp.)
• respider
• rockspider, rock spider
• rolling spider
• sac spider
• scorpion spider
• seaspider, sea-spider, sea spider
• shepherd spider
• spider beetle
• spider bit
• spider box
• spider-catcher
• spider chart
• spider cloth
• spider crab
• spider diagram
• spider diver
• spiderdom
• spideresque
• spideress
• spideret
• spider flower (Grevillea spp.)
• spider fly
• spider gag
• spider goat
• spidergram
• spider hole
• spiderhunter
• spider-hunting wasp
• spider in the web doctrine
• spiderish
• spiderkind
• spider lamb syndrome
• spiderless
• spiderlet
• spider lightning
• spiderlike
• spider lily
• spiderling
• spiderly
• spiderman
• spider mill
• spider mite (Tetranychidae spp.)
• spider monkey
• spider naevus
• spider orchid
• spiderous
• spider-panic
• spiderphobia
• spider plant
• spider roll
• spider sense, spider-sense
• spider shell
• spidership
• spider solitaire
• spider spanner
• spider stitch
• spider strainer
• spider strap
• spider syndrome
• spider table
• spider-tailed horned viper
• spider vein
• spider veins
• spider wasp
• spider-webby
• spider web, spider-web, spiderweb
• spider wheel
• spiderwisp (Gynandropsis gynandra)
• spiderwood (Dracophyllum latifolium)
• spiderwork
• spiderwort
• spider wrap
• spider wrench
• spidery
• Spidey
• spidroin
• spinous spider crab
• spiny spider crab
• spitting spider
• sun spider
• Sydney funnel-web spider
• tangled nest spider
• Tasmanian cave spider
• trapdoor spider
• triangle spider
• turret spider
• velvet spider
• violin spider
• wafer trapdoor spider
• wandering spider
• wasp spider
• water spider
• Web spider
• wheel spider
• whip spider
• wolf spider
• woodlouse spider
• writing spider
• yellow garden spider
• zebra spider
• zipper spider

Related terms

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• spin
• spindle

Translations

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Abkhaz: абызкаҭаҳа (abəzkʼataḥa) Acehnese: rambideuën Adyghe: бэджы (bɛdžə), багьэ (bagʲɛ) (Shapsug) Afrikaans: spinnekop (af) Ainu: ヤテㇷ゚ (yatep) Akan: ananse Aklanon: eawa' Albanian: merimangë (sq) f Algonquin: mamunappeht Altai: Southern Altai: јӧргӧмӧш (ǰörgömöš), джергемеш (džergemeš) Amami Ōshima: Southern Amami Ōshima: 蜘蛛 (こぶ, kobu) Amharic: ሸረሪት (šärärit) Amuzgo: Guerrero Amuzgo: kítònkwé Arabic: عَنْكَبُوت (ar) m (ʕankabūt), شَبَث m (šabaṯ) Egyptian Arabic: عنكبوت m (ʕankabūt), ابو شبت m (abu šabat) Hijazi Arabic: عنكبوت m (ʕankabūt) Moroccan Arabic: عنكبوت m (ʕankbūt), رتيلة f (rtīla) Aragonese: araina f Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܟܵܒ݂ܝܼܬܵܐ m (ʿākawīta), ܥܲܟܵܒ݂ܝܼܬܬܵܐ f (ʿākawītta) Classical Syriac: ܓܘܓܝ f (gəwāḡay) Armenian: սարդ (hy) (sard) Aromanian: pangu (roa-rup), merimangã f Arrernte: Eastern Arrernte: inurle Ashe: intããn Assamese: মকৰা (mokora) Asturian: araña (ast) f Avar: къорола (qxʼorola), нусиреч (nusireč) Ayere: alayigɔ̀dɔ̀ Aymara: kusikusi Azerbaijani: hörümçək (az) Bajau: West Coast Bajau: kobon-kobon Baka: mázlə̀rpapaŋ Baluchi: موکو (mokū, moko) Bashkir: үрмәксе (ürməkse) Basque: armiarma (eu), marasma (eu) Begbere-Ejar: u-tàán Belarusian: паву́к m (pavúk) Bengali: মাকড়সা (bn) (makṛośa), ঊর্ণনাভ (bn) (urnonabh), উর্ণনাভ (bn) (urnonabh), লূতা (bn) (luta) Bhojpuri: मकड़ी (makᵊṛī) Bidayuh: Bau Bidayuh: toka Central Bikol: lawa (bcl) Breton: kevnidenn (br) f Bulgarian: па́як (bg) m (pájak) Bura: titaw Burmese: ပင့်ကူ (my) (pang.ku) Buryat: абаахай (abaaxaj) Butuanon: lawa Caijia: ʈa²¹ʈo³³ Carpathian Rusyn: паву́к m (pavúk) Catalan: aranya (ca) f Cebuano: damang Chakma: please add this translation if you can Cham: Eastern Cham: galimâng Western Cham: please add this translation if you can Chamicuro: kajs̈holi Chamorro: sånye'ye' Chechen: гезг (gezg) Cherokee: ᎧᎾᏁᏍᎩ (chr) (kananesgi) Cheyenne: vé'ho'e Chichewa: kangaude Chinese: Cantonese: 蠄蟧 / 蠄𮔚 (yue) (kam4 lou4-2), 蜘蛛 (zi1 zyu1) (from Mandarin) Dungan: җўҗў (žwžw), зузу (zuzu) Eastern Min: 蜘蛛 (tĭ-tṳ̆) Gan: 蝃蛛 ('zet6 jy1), 蝃蛛子 ('zet6 jy1 zi) Hakka: 蜘蛛 (tî-tû), 蝲䗁 (la2 kia2) (Meixian, Guangdong), 蝲䗁 (là-khià) (Sixian, PFS) Hokkien: 蜘蛛 (zh-min-nan) (ti-tu) Mandarin: 蜘蛛 (zh) (zhīzhū), 蛛蛛 (zh) (zhūzhu) Northern Min: 吊蛛 (dia̿u-dṳ́) Wu: 蜘蛛 (1tsy-tsy1), 結蛛 / 结蛛 Xiang: 蜘蛛子 (zhr6 jy1 zr) Chukchi: апаапагԓыӈын (apaapagḷyṇyn), апаапаԓгын (apaapaḷgyn) Chuvash: эрешмен (erešmen) Comorian: Ngazidja Comorian: bwibwi class 5/6 Cornish: kevnisen f, kevnis m Corsican: aragnu m Crimean Tatar: biy, örümçek Czech: pavouk (cs) m Danish: edderkop (da) c Daur: атаакий (ataakij) Degema: ọḅọm ụtara, ọḍịạmtạrạ Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dinka: aɣukar Dutch: spin (nl) f, kobbe (nl) f Ede: Ifè: àgùɖã̀takùtakù Edo: àkpákpà Engenni: ẹdẹ́ẹdyọrị Epie: ededékūékúé Erzya: шанжав (šanžav), пондо мукоро (pondo mukoro) Esperanto: araneo (eo) Estonian: ämblik (et) Even: атаки (ataki) Extremaduran: murgañu m Faroese: eiturkoppur m Fijian: viritalawalawa Finnish: hämähäkki (fi) French: araignée (fr) f Frisian: West Frisian: spin c Friulian: ragn Gagauz: örümcä Galician: araña (gl) f, ará f, arangaño (gl) m Gallo: irâgne f Ge'ez: ሣሬት (śaret) Georgian: ობობა (oboba), ბაბაჭუა (babač̣ua) (obsolete), ზარდლი (zardli) (obsolete), დედაზარდლი (dedazardli) (obsolete) German: Spinne (de) f Greek: αράχνη (el) f (aráchni) Ancient Greek: ἀράχνη f (arákhnē) Pontic Greek: αράχνα (aráchna) Greenlandic: aasiak Guarani: Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) ñandu (gn) Gujarati: કરોળિયો m (karoḷiyo), ઉર્ણનાભ (gu) m (urṇanābh) Haitian Creole: zariyen, areye Halkomelem: q'ésq'esetsel Hausa: gizò-gizò m, tautàu m (long-legged) Hawaiian: nananana, pūnāwelewele Hebrew: עַכָּבִישׁ (he) m (akavísh) Higaonon: lawa, lalawa Hiligaynon: damang Hindi: मकड़ी (hi) f (makṛī), मकड़ा (hi) m (makṛā) Hmong: Central Huishui Hmong: kab laug sab White Hmong: kab laug sab Hungarian: pók (hu) Hunsrik: Spinn f Icelandic: kónguló (is) f, könguló (is) f Igala: ágàárà Igbo: ududo (ig), ùdodo, ùdide, ùdude, ùgide, ùgude, ànụ̀ǹgidhēre (Echie) Ilocano: lawwa Indonesian: labah, laba-laba (id) Ingrian: hämöläin Ingush: гизг (gizg) Interlingua: aranea (ia) Inuktitut: ᐋᓯᕙᖅ (iu) (aasifaq) Latin: aasivaq (iu) Inupiaq: aasivak Iranun: lalawa' Irish: damhán alla m, ruán alla m, fíodóir m Old Irish: damán allaid m Italian: ragno (it) m Itsekiri: akpakpa Izon: atamatámà Japanese: 蜘蛛 (ja) (くも, kumo), クモ (ja) (kumo), スパイダー (ja) (supaidā) Javanese: laba-laba Jeju: 거믜 (geomui) Kadugli: madharakunzu (Katcha) Kala Lagaw Ya: ma Kalmyk: аралҗн (araljn) Kannada: ಸಾಲಿಗ (kn) (sāliga), ಜೇಡ (kn) (jēḍa) Kanuri: tàttáu (Manga) Kapampangan: babagua Karakalpak: o'rmekshi Karelian: hämähäkki Kashubian: pajk m Kaurna: waku Kazakh: өрмекші (örmekşı) Keiga: koolo Khakas: ірімӌік (ìrìmcìk) Khanty: Northern Khanty: нимсар ими (nimsar imi) (Kazym) Khmer: ពីងពាង (km) (piing piəng) Khowar: شُوبیناک (šubinák) Kikuyu: mbũmbũĩ class 9/10 Kimaragang: korut Kirya-Konzel: zámbá Klamath-Modoc: q'aljijiks Komi: Komi-Permyak: черань (ćerań) Komi-Zyrian: черань (ćerań) Korean: 거미 (ko) (geomi), 지주(蜘蛛) (ko) (jiju) Middle Korean: 거믜〮 (kèmúy) Kumyk: мияма (miyama), мия (miya) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: جاڵجاڵۆکە (callcalloke) Northern Kurdish: tevnpîrk (ku) Kyrgyz: жөргөмүш (ky) (jörgömüş) Ladin: aragn f Ladino: aranya f Lagwan: máshɨ́rní Lakota: iktómi Lao: ແມງມຸມ (lo) (mǣng mum) Latgalian: dziernyukss, ziernyuklis Latin: aranea (la) f, araneus m Latvian: zirneklis m Laz: bobola, raxna Leonese: please add this translation if you can Lezgi: хуьшрекан (ꭓüšrekan) Ligurian: ägna f Limburgish: spin (li) m, spèn m Lingala: limpúlututú class 6/7, alulu, libobe Lithuanian: voras (lt) m Livvi: hämähäkki Lombard: ragn (lmo) m Louisiana Creole: zaryin Lü: ᦂᦳᧂᧉᦂᦱᧁ (k̇ung²k̇aaw), ᦶᦙᧂᦇᦸ (maengngoa), ᦂᦱᧁ (k̇aaw) Lucumi: erá Luxembourgish: Spann f Macedonian: пајак m (pajak) Maguindanao: lalawa Malagasy: halabe (mg) Malay: labah-labah Malayalam: എട്ടുകാലി (ml) (eṭṭukāli), ചിലന്തി (ml) (cilanti), ൡതം (ml) (l̥̄taṁ) Maltese: brimba f Manchu: ᡥᡝᠯᠮᡝᡥᡝᠨ (helmehen) Mansaka: lawa Manx: doo-oallee f, feeder m, treechoshagh m Māori: pūngāwerewere, puawerewere, pūngaiwerewere, pūwerewere, tūturi Maranao: lalawa' Marathi: कोळी (mr) (koḷī) Mari: Eastern Mari: эҥыремыш (eŋyremyš) Western Mari: ӓнгӹремшӹ (ängÿremšÿ) Mazanderani: ون (van), وننالی (vannâli) Megleno-Romanian: puiangu m Melanau: Central Melanau: belabawak Middle English: spiþre, coppe, loppe, attercoppe Mi'kmaq: go'gwejij anim Minangkabau: lawah (min) Mingrelian: ბორბოლია (borbolia) Mirandese: aranhon m Miwok: Central Sierra Miwok: ˀačá·ja·ji- Miya: ánginā̀niy f Moksha: котфонь кодай (kotfoń kodaj), унжа (unža) Mon: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: Cyrillic: аалз (mn) (aalz) Mongolian script: ᠠᠭᠠᠯᠵᠢ (aɣalǰi) Murut: Tagal Murut: lawa' Musey: mbambaraŋŋa Muyang: ètimé Nahuatl: Central Nahuatl: tocatl Classical Nahuatl: tocatl Nanai: атакан (atakan) Navajo: naʼashjéʼii Neapolitan: rancio m Nepali: माकुरो (mākuro) Nivkh: кывғыв (kəvγəv) Nogai: бий (biy), эрмекшен (érmekşen), оьрмекшен (örmekşen) Norwegian: Bokmål: edderkopp (no) m Nynorsk: edderkopp m, kongro f, kingel m Nupe: edzu Occitan: aranha (oc) f Odia: ମକ୍ରୀ (or) (makri) Ogbah: m̀gbrègide Ojibwe: asabikeshiinh, asabikeshi, asabikeshiinh Okinawan: 蜘蛛 (くーばー, kuubaa) Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: паѫкъ m (paǫkŭ) Glagolitic: ⱂⰰⱘⰽⱏ m (paǫkŭ) Old East Slavic: паукъ m (paukŭ) Old English: ātorcoppe f, loppe f, spīþra m Old Tupi: nhandu'i Olukumi: àkpákpa Oromo: sariitii Otomi: Mezquital Otomi: mexe Pacoh: apiêng Panamint: soomattsi Pannonian Rusyn: павук m (pavuk) Pashto: غڼه (ps) f (ǧëṇa) Pawnee: caciks Persian: تنند (tanand) (archaic, borrowed from Middle Persian) Dari: جولَا (jōlā), جولَاه (jōlāh) Iranian Persian: عَنْکَبوت (ankabut), تارْتَنَک (târtanak), (please verify) جُوْلاهی (jowlâhi) Picard: àrin·nhie f Piedmontese: aragn m, ragn m Pitjantjatjara: waṉka Plautdietsch: Spand f Polabian: pojąk m Polci: kàláŋkàlàŋ (Zul) Polish: pająk (pl) m Portuguese: aranha (pt) f Punjabi: ਮੱਕਡ਼ੀ (makkaṛī) Purepecha: sïkuapu Quechua: kusikusi (small), apasanka (big), uru (Cusco Quechua) Rohingya: mocá Romagnol: râgn m Romanian: păianjen (ro) m Romansh: filien m, filien m (Rumantsch Grischun), falien m (Sursilvan), falient m, filùn m (Sutsilvan), arogn m (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader), aragnun m (Puter), filunza f (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran) Ron: raŋaŋ f Russian: пау́к (ru) m (paúk) Sami: Northern Sami: heavdni Southern Sami: hievnie Samoan: 'apogāleveleve Samogitian: vuors m Sanskrit: लूता (sa) f (lūtā), तन्तुनाभ (sa) (tantunābha), मूषिका (sa) f (mūṣikā), उर्णनाभ (sa) m (urṇanābha), ऊर्णनाभ (sa) m (ūrṇanābha), जालकारक (sa) m (jālakāraka), तन्तुवाय (sa) m (tantuvāya), तन्त्रवाय (sa) m (tantravāya), मर्कट (sa) m (markaṭa), मर्कटक (sa) m (markaṭaka) Sardinian: aranzolu m, aragnolu, aragiolu, arantzolu, arrungiolu, ranzolu Scots: speeder, ettercap Scottish Gaelic: damhan-allaidh m, figheadair m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: па̏ӯк m Latin: pȁūk (sh) m Shan: please add this translation if you can Shor: қорбалчық (qorbalçıq) Sicilian: taràntala f, ragnu (scn) m Silesian: szpiny f, pajōnk m Simeulue: please add this translation if you can Sinhalese: මකුළුවා (makuḷuwā) Slovak: pavúk (sk) m Slovene: pajek (sl) m Sogdian: ܮܘܢܬܐܟ (γōndāk) Somali: caaro (so) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: pawk m Lower Sorbian: pawk m Upper Sorbian: pawk m Upper Sorbian: pawk Sotho: sekho Spanish: araña (es) f Sranan Tongo: anansi Sundanese: lancah (su) Svan: უ̂ობობუა̄ (ûobobuā) Swahili: buibui (sw) Swedish: spindel (sv) c Sylheti: please add this translation if you can Tabasaran: хашхаш (ꭓašꭓaš) (North dialect), хашв (ꭓaš°) (South dialect) Tagalog: gagambá, álalawa, pitik Tahitian: tūtūrahonui Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can Tajik: анкабӯт (tg) (ankabüt), тортанак (tg) (tortanak) Tal: naan Tamil: சிலந்தி (ta) (cilanti) Taos: pʼȍʼǫ́yona Tarifit: qundɛa f Tatar: үрмәкүч (tt) (ürmäküç) Tausug: lawa Tày: xao Telugu: సాలీడు (te) (sālīḍu) Thai: แมงมุม (th) (mɛɛng-mum) Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can Tibetan: སྡོམ (sdom) Tigrinya: ሳሬት (saret) Tocharian B: yape Tongan: hina Tswana: segokgo Turkish: örümcek (tr) Ottoman Turkish: اورمجك (örümcek), عنكبوت ('ankebut) Turkmen: möý, leñkewut Udmurt: чонари (ćonari) Ukrainian: паву́к m (pavúk) Uldeme: madzala boŋwe Unami: xalahputis Urdu: مَکْڑی f (makṛī), مَکْڑا m (makṛā) Urhobo: akpakpasímagha Uyghur: ئۆمۈچۈك (ug) (ömüchük) Uzbek: oʻrgimchak (uz) Vame: adum ndege Venetan: ràgno m, rain (vec) m Veps: hämähouk Vietnamese: nhện (vi), nhền nhện Vili: buba Volapük: raänid (vo) Võro: härm Votic: hämöläin Walloon: aragne f, arègne f, araegne (wa) f Waray-Waray: lawa Warji: ŋinaŋina Welsh: corryn m, pryf cop m, pryf copyn m, copyn m Wiradjuri: gangga Wolof: jargoñ gi (wo) Yakan: please add this translation if you can Yakut: ооҕуй (ooğuy) Yámana: atekal-wankara Yekhee: àkpákpa Yeskwa: ɔ̀tan Yiddish: שפּין f (shpin) Yonaguni: 蜘蛛 (くぶ, kubu) Yoruba: aláǹtakùn Yucatec Maya: am Zaghawa: gûm Zande: ture Zazaki: tertenek, bındırık Zhuang: duzgyau, gungqgyau

computer program

Bulgarian: паяк (bg) m (pajak) Finnish: hakurobotti Latvian: zirnekļprogramma f Swedish: spindel (sv) c

drink

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can

slang: a spindly person

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Greek: αράχνη (el) f (aráchni)

snooker, billiards

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can French: araignée (fr) f

Verb

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spider (third-person singular simple present spiders, present participle spidering, simple past and past participle spidered)

1. (intransitive) To move like a spider.
   • 2001, Life Books, Life: The Greatest Adventures of All Time, Time Home Entertainment Incorporated, →ISBN:A year later she returned to El Cap and spidered up the wall again — this time in 23 hours.
   • 2009, Michael Crummey, Galore: A novel, Doubleday Canada, →ISBN:They saved the hall though the facing and part of the roof had to be torn out and replaced, men spidered over the building to repair it before Coaker's arrival.
   • 2012, David Gross, Lord of Stormweather: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:Briefly he considered letting go to glide along in Radu's wake as the assassin spidered up the wall.
2. (intransitive) To cover a surface like a cobweb.
   • 2011, Jenna Burtenshaw, Wintercraft: Blackwatch, Hachette UK, →ISBN:High walls surrounded it on all sides, each one covered with the skeletal stems of climbing plants that spidered across the stones, and the ground was cobbled between patches of frozen grass.
   • 2011, MJ Ware, Super Zombie Juice Mega Bomb, MJA Ware, →ISBN:Large cracks spidered across the mask's glass where the nozzle had hit.
   • 2013, Mary Gentle, Rats and Gargoyles, Hachette UK, →ISBN:Moss spidered across the stone, fresh green. Seaweed sprouted bright yellows and ochres between the vast webs of fingers.
3. (Internet, 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.

Translations

[edit] (Internet) to gather information

Chinese: Mandarin: 爬取 (páqǔ), 爬 (zh) (pá)

See also

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• arachnid

Further reading

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• spider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• spider (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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• 'spired, Prides, prides, prised, re-dips, redips, risped, spired

French

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Pronunciation

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Noun

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spider m (plural spiders)

1. spyder

Further reading

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• “spider”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English spider.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈspaj.der/[1][2]
• Rhymes: -ajder

Noun

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spider m (invariable)

1. (computing) spider (Internet software)

References

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1. ^ spider in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
2. ^ spider in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

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• sperdi

Middle English

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Noun

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spider

1. alternative form of spiþre