spider

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
2. A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
3. A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
4. (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. 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.
8. A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
9. 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
10. A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
11. (slang) Heroin.
12. 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. A soft-hackle fly.
15. The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
16. A spider graph or spider tree.
17. (obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
18. A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
19. 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.

Verb

1. To move like a spider.
2. To cover a surface like a cobweb.
3. To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

Conceptos

araña

spider

cadena de abrojos de hierrro

cadena de clavos

araña grande

tarántula

araneae

araña web

llave de cruceta

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈspaɪ̯də/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.