Definition of spider in English:

spider

noun ˈspʌɪdəˈspaɪdər

1An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. Spiders have fangs which inject poison into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects.
蜘蛛
Order Araneae, class Arachnida
Example sentencesExamples
- She hesitated, but slowly walked out of the cell, afraid that rats or spiders would brush her feet.
- To survive the winter, they depend on food sources such as berries, spiders, and insects.
- The name is misleading, as this spider is native to the Waterloo region.
- Long legged spiders crawled up and down the walls, unafraid of the trespassers.
- The book includes information about more than 100 insects, spiders, mites, slugs and earthworms found in the Prairies, and encourages people to live with them in harmony.
- ‘There's a spider in the kitchen,’ Mum told Dad blandly.
- Some people may be terrified of spiders, dogs or insects.
- When they reduce pesticide use, they see a lot more beneficial predatory insects: spiders and parasitic wasps and flies.
- This tiny spider is related to the more commonly known, and much larger, tarantulas of the southwestern United States.
- We record plants and invertebrates (including weeds, insects, spiders, slugs and snails) in and around the fields, before, during and after the crops are in the ground.
- They are predators on spiders, mites, millipedes, and other insects.
- This occurs in, among other animals, butterflies, spiders, birds, and small mammals.
- The full moon shone onto the filthy prison floor revealing spiders, insects, and rats.
- They are habitat to countless amphipods, insects, spiders and other organisms.
- In addition to honey, their diet included scorpions, spiders, insects, mice, lizards, frogs, snakes and fruit, she said.
- All kinds of small creepy crawlies are eaten including insects, spiders and centipedes.
- It was possible that an insect or a spider had bitten her during that time.
- Four other people in the area have been poisoned by funnel web spiders since 1992.
- In fact, the typical residents of these boxes are other insects and spiders.
- They feed on other insects and spiders, so they are not really that bad to have around.
1. 1.1 Used in names of arachnids similar or related to spiders, e.g. sea spider, sun spider.
  用于类似或相关的蛛形纲动物的名称中，如：sea spider，sun spider
2An object resembling a spider, especially one having numerous or prominent legs or radiating spokes.
（尤指有众多突出长杆或辐条的）状似蜘蛛的物体
Example sentencesExamples
- It was crafted in the shape of a spider, so that its minute legs would curl around her index finger, with tiny ruby eyes.
- Especially Dave, who had to feed the scrum, swipe the ball from the back of the black spider, and dive-pass it out to the waiting back line.
- Remove with spider or slotted spoon and drain on paper towels.
1. 2.1British A set of radiating elastic ties used to hold a load in place on a vehicle.
  〈英〉蛛网形系索（用于车辆装载货物时固定其位置）
2. 2.2 A long-legged rest for a billiard cue that can be placed over a ball without touching it.
  台球棒三脚架（盖住球上而不与之接触）
3Computing
another term for crawler (sense 2)
Example sentencesExamples
- The spider captures summaries, which is all the engine searches, which gives you easy breadth, but not depth.
- They usually target comments to old posts, so they won't show up to people reading the latest ones, though search engine spiders will spot them and index them.
- The same thing applies to forms; spiders can't fill out forms and click ‘submit.’
- The search engine spiders take those words and display the best sites that relate to that information.
- This way, your site map will be a valuable resource for anyone who accesses your site, and a useful tool for spiders to find everything that's within.

verbˈspʌɪdəˈspaɪdər

1no object, with adverbial of direction Move in a scuttling manner suggestive of a spider.
（似蜘蛛般）急促爬动
a treecreeper spidered head first down the tree trunk
旋木雀头朝下沿树干急促爬下。
Example sentencesExamples
- As they spidered their way up the walls, Deuterium Boy sighed.
- You see them occasionally: a skier ghosting through trees in total control, a climber spidering up a sheer rock face with ease, a poised surfer rocketing out of a perfect barrel.
- Ambitious craggers had been spidering up Baffin's granite for decades, but none had ever looked at the walls with an eye out for skiable lines.
1. 1.1 Form a pattern suggestive of a spider or its web.
  设网；设圈套
  a system of tunnels spider through the district
  Example sentencesExamples
  When they hit his shield, they spider out making a massive web of rock!
  We stepped down a short staircase leading from the hallway's floor, and saw before us a large, concrete room, primitive with its bare, wooden beams, and deep cracks spidering in every direction.
  In Middlesbrough, where there's one long road spidering into town, most people walk into town on the left-hand pavement, and walk away from town on the left-hand pavement.
  Age creeps up on all of us, from the first delicate lines spidering around our eyes in our twenties to the heavier frown lines and crow's feet of middle age.
  The cylindrically hulled Healy drove up on top of the massive floe until the heft of the boat sent dozens of cracks spidering across the surface.
  At the stern, hull plates have fallen away to leave ribs spidering out above the rudder.
2Computing
when the search engines spider your site they'll find all of the pages
another term for crawl (sense 4 of the verb)
Example sentencesExamples
- For prices starting at $20, the company guarantees they'll spider your website every 48 hours for a year.
- Search engines will spider the text near the top of the page, rather than at the bottom.
- Within three days of the launch of our site, Google had spidered our main page.
- The dataset is also very 'natural', consisting of images spidered from the Internet.
- Google says its most refreshed pages are spidered every 15 minutes, with the entire index getting a refresh every 28 days.

Derivatives

spiderish

adjective

Here's an author who has intimate, first-hand knowledge of Eastern Europe, TV journalism, and the spiderish, down-and-dirty world of espionage.
Example sentencesExamples
- He savoured such incidents, which he quickly noted in his spiderish hand-writing, to be retrieved for use on some later date.
- Even her hair is wispy and desiccated, a spiderish black, standing out from her head as if electrified.
- The most decidedly passionate female character in the book is a smothering, multi-eyed, hungry, very round spiderish monster, whose very roundness is her most disgusting characteristic.
- Ms. Winters does a spectacular job weaving the mystery into a spiderish web of intrigue.

Origin

Late Old English spīthra, from spinnan (see spin).

spinster from Late Middle English:
A spinster was originally a woman who spun, something that many unmarried women used to do at home to earn their living. The word was often added after the name of a woman to describe her occupation, and in time became the official description of an unmarried woman. Today it has a dated feel and alludes to a stereotypical figure of an older woman who is unmarried, childless, and prim or repressed. The word could also once refer to another kind of spinner, a spider, and spider itself is descended from Old English spithra, from spinnan ‘to spin’. See also cobweb

Rhymes

chider, cider, divider, eider, glider, Guider, Haida, hider, Ida, insider, Oneida, outsider, provider, rider, Ryder, Saida, slider, strider, stridor

Definition of spider in US English:

spider

nounˈspaɪdərˈspīdər

1An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. Spiders have fangs which inject poison into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects.
蜘蛛
Order Araneae, class Arachnida
Example sentencesExamples
- They are habitat to countless amphipods, insects, spiders and other organisms.
- They feed on other insects and spiders, so they are not really that bad to have around.
- It was possible that an insect or a spider had bitten her during that time.
- The name is misleading, as this spider is native to the Waterloo region.
- She hesitated, but slowly walked out of the cell, afraid that rats or spiders would brush her feet.
- ‘There's a spider in the kitchen,’ Mum told Dad blandly.
- All kinds of small creepy crawlies are eaten including insects, spiders and centipedes.
- This tiny spider is related to the more commonly known, and much larger, tarantulas of the southwestern United States.
- The full moon shone onto the filthy prison floor revealing spiders, insects, and rats.
- They are predators on spiders, mites, millipedes, and other insects.
- The book includes information about more than 100 insects, spiders, mites, slugs and earthworms found in the Prairies, and encourages people to live with them in harmony.
- Some people may be terrified of spiders, dogs or insects.
- This occurs in, among other animals, butterflies, spiders, birds, and small mammals.
- We record plants and invertebrates (including weeds, insects, spiders, slugs and snails) in and around the fields, before, during and after the crops are in the ground.
- In addition to honey, their diet included scorpions, spiders, insects, mice, lizards, frogs, snakes and fruit, she said.
- Four other people in the area have been poisoned by funnel web spiders since 1992.
- When they reduce pesticide use, they see a lot more beneficial predatory insects: spiders and parasitic wasps and flies.
- To survive the winter, they depend on food sources such as berries, spiders, and insects.
- In fact, the typical residents of these boxes are other insects and spiders.
- Long legged spiders crawled up and down the walls, unafraid of the trespassers.
1. 1.1 Used in names of arachnids similar or related to the spider, e.g., sea spider, sun spider.
  用于类似或相关的蛛形纲动物的名称中，如：sea spider，sun spider
2An object resembling a spider, especially one having numerous or prominent legs or radiating spokes.
（尤指有众多突出长杆或辐条的）状似蜘蛛的物体
Example sentencesExamples
- It was crafted in the shape of a spider, so that its minute legs would curl around her index finger, with tiny ruby eyes.
- Especially Dave, who had to feed the scrum, swipe the ball from the back of the black spider, and dive-pass it out to the waiting back line.
- Remove with spider or slotted spoon and drain on paper towels.
1. 2.1 A long-legged rest for a billiard cue that can be placed over a ball without touching it.
  台球棒三脚架（盖住球上而不与之接触）
2. 2.2 A cast-iron frying pan, originally made with legs for cooking on coals in a hearth.
3Computing
another term for crawler (sense 2)
Example sentencesExamples
- They usually target comments to old posts, so they won't show up to people reading the latest ones, though search engine spiders will spot them and index them.
- This way, your site map will be a valuable resource for anyone who accesses your site, and a useful tool for spiders to find everything that's within.
- The same thing applies to forms; spiders can't fill out forms and click ‘submit.’
- The search engine spiders take those words and display the best sites that relate to that information.
- The spider captures summaries, which is all the engine searches, which gives you easy breadth, but not depth.

verbˈspaɪdərˈspīdər

1no object, with adverbial of direction Move in a scuttling manner suggestive of a spider.
（似蜘蛛般）急促爬动
a treecreeper spidered head first down the tree trunk
旋木雀头朝下沿树干急促爬下。
Example sentencesExamples
- You see them occasionally: a skier ghosting through trees in total control, a climber spidering up a sheer rock face with ease, a poised surfer rocketing out of a perfect barrel.
- As they spidered their way up the walls, Deuterium Boy sighed.
- Ambitious craggers had been spidering up Baffin's granite for decades, but none had ever looked at the walls with an eye out for skiable lines.
1. 1.1 Form a pattern suggestive of a spider or its web.
  设网；设圈套
  Example sentencesExamples
  The cylindrically hulled Healy drove up on top of the massive floe until the heft of the boat sent dozens of cracks spidering across the surface.
  At the stern, hull plates have fallen away to leave ribs spidering out above the rudder.
  Age creeps up on all of us, from the first delicate lines spidering around our eyes in our twenties to the heavier frown lines and crow's feet of middle age.
  In Middlesbrough, where there's one long road spidering into town, most people walk into town on the left-hand pavement, and walk away from town on the left-hand pavement.
  When they hit his shield, they spider out making a massive web of rock!
  We stepped down a short staircase leading from the hallway's floor, and saw before us a large, concrete room, primitive with its bare, wooden beams, and deep cracks spidering in every direction.
2Computing
when the search engines spider your site they'll find all of the pages
another term for crawl (sense 4 of the verb)
Example sentencesExamples
- Google says its most refreshed pages are spidered every 15 minutes, with the entire index getting a refresh every 28 days.
- Within three days of the launch of our site, Google had spidered our main page.
- The dataset is also very 'natural', consisting of images spidered from the Internet.
- For prices starting at $20, the company guarantees they'll spider your website every 48 hours for a year.
- Search engines will spider the text near the top of the page, rather than at the bottom.

Origin

Late Old English spīthra, from spinnan (see spin).

词汇	spider
释义	Definition of spider in English: spider noun ˈspʌɪdəˈspaɪdər 1An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. Spiders have fangs which inject poison into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects. 蜘蛛 Order Araneae, class Arachnida Example sentencesExamples She hesitated, but slowly walked out of the cell, afraid that rats or spiders would brush her feet. To survive the winter, they depend on food sources such as berries, spiders, and insects. The name is misleading, as this spider is native to the Waterloo region. Long legged spiders crawled up and down the walls, unafraid of the trespassers. The book includes information about more than 100 insects, spiders, mites, slugs and earthworms found in the Prairies, and encourages people to live with them in harmony. ‘There's a spider in the kitchen,’ Mum told Dad blandly. Some people may be terrified of spiders, dogs or insects. When they reduce pesticide use, they see a lot more beneficial predatory insects: spiders and parasitic wasps and flies. This tiny spider is related to the more commonly known, and much larger, tarantulas of the southwestern United States. We record plants and invertebrates (including weeds, insects, spiders, slugs and snails) in and around the fields, before, during and after the crops are in the ground. They are predators on spiders, mites, millipedes, and other insects. This occurs in, among other animals, butterflies, spiders, birds, and small mammals. The full moon shone onto the filthy prison floor revealing spiders, insects, and rats. They are habitat to countless amphipods, insects, spiders and other organisms. In addition to honey, their diet included scorpions, spiders, insects, mice, lizards, frogs, snakes and fruit, she said. All kinds of small creepy crawlies are eaten including insects, spiders and centipedes. It was possible that an insect or a spider had bitten her during that time. Four other people in the area have been poisoned by funnel web spiders since 1992. In fact, the typical residents of these boxes are other insects and spiders. They feed on other insects and spiders, so they are not really that bad to have around. 1.1 Used in names of arachnids similar or related to spiders, e.g. sea spider, sun spider. 用于类似或相关的蛛形纲动物的名称中，如：sea spider，sun spider 2An object resembling a spider, especially one having numerous or prominent legs or radiating spokes. （尤指有众多突出长杆或辐条的）状似蜘蛛的物体 Example sentencesExamples It was crafted in the shape of a spider, so that its minute legs would curl around her index finger, with tiny ruby eyes. Especially Dave, who had to feed the scrum, swipe the ball from the back of the black spider, and dive-pass it out to the waiting back line. Remove with spider or slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. 2.1British A set of radiating elastic ties used to hold a load in place on a vehicle. 〈英〉蛛网形系索（用于车辆装载货物时固定其位置） 2.2 A long-legged rest for a billiard cue that can be placed over a ball without touching it. 台球棒三脚架（盖住球上而不与之接触） 3Computing another term for crawler (sense 2) Example sentencesExamples The spider captures summaries, which is all the engine searches, which gives you easy breadth, but not depth. They usually target comments to old posts, so they won't show up to people reading the latest ones, though search engine spiders will spot them and index them. The same thing applies to forms; spiders can't fill out forms and click ‘submit.’ The search engine spiders take those words and display the best sites that relate to that information. This way, your site map will be a valuable resource for anyone who accesses your site, and a useful tool for spiders to find everything that's within. verbˈspʌɪdəˈspaɪdər 1no object, with adverbial of direction Move in a scuttling manner suggestive of a spider. （似蜘蛛般）急促爬动 a treecreeper spidered head first down the tree trunk 旋木雀头朝下沿树干急促爬下。 Example sentencesExamples As they spidered their way up the walls, Deuterium Boy sighed. You see them occasionally: a skier ghosting through trees in total control, a climber spidering up a sheer rock face with ease, a poised surfer rocketing out of a perfect barrel. Ambitious craggers had been spidering up Baffin's granite for decades, but none had ever looked at the walls with an eye out for skiable lines. 1.1 Form a pattern suggestive of a spider or its web. 设网；设圈套 a system of tunnels spider through the district Example sentencesExamples When they hit his shield, they spider out making a massive web of rock! We stepped down a short staircase leading from the hallway's floor, and saw before us a large, concrete room, primitive with its bare, wooden beams, and deep cracks spidering in every direction. In Middlesbrough, where there's one long road spidering into town, most people walk into town on the left-hand pavement, and walk away from town on the left-hand pavement. Age creeps up on all of us, from the first delicate lines spidering around our eyes in our twenties to the heavier frown lines and crow's feet of middle age. The cylindrically hulled Healy drove up on top of the massive floe until the heft of the boat sent dozens of cracks spidering across the surface. At the stern, hull plates have fallen away to leave ribs spidering out above the rudder. 2Computing when the search engines spider your site they'll find all of the pages another term for crawl (sense 4 of the verb) Example sentencesExamples For prices starting at $20, the company guarantees they'll spider your website every 48 hours for a year. Search engines will spider the text near the top of the page, rather than at the bottom. Within three days of the launch of our site, Google had spidered our main page. The dataset is also very 'natural', consisting of images spidered from the Internet. Google says its most refreshed pages are spidered every 15 minutes, with the entire index getting a refresh every 28 days. Derivatives spiderish adjective Here's an author who has intimate, first-hand knowledge of Eastern Europe, TV journalism, and the spiderish, down-and-dirty world of espionage. Example sentencesExamples He savoured such incidents, which he quickly noted in his spiderish hand-writing, to be retrieved for use on some later date. Even her hair is wispy and desiccated, a spiderish black, standing out from her head as if electrified. The most decidedly passionate female character in the book is a smothering, multi-eyed, hungry, very round spiderish monster, whose very roundness is her most disgusting characteristic. Ms. Winters does a spectacular job weaving the mystery into a spiderish web of intrigue. Origin Late Old English spīthra, from spinnan (see spin). spinster from Late Middle English: A spinster was originally a woman who spun, something that many unmarried women used to do at home to earn their living. The word was often added after the name of a woman to describe her occupation, and in time became the official description of an unmarried woman. Today it has a dated feel and alludes to a stereotypical figure of an older woman who is unmarried, childless, and prim or repressed. The word could also once refer to another kind of spinner, a spider, and spider itself is descended from Old English spithra, from spinnan ‘to spin’. See also cobweb Rhymes chider, cider, divider, eider, glider, Guider, Haida, hider, Ida, insider, Oneida, outsider, provider, rider, Ryder, Saida, slider, strider, stridor Definition of spider in US English: spider nounˈspaɪdərˈspīdər 1An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. Spiders have fangs which inject poison into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects. 蜘蛛 Order Araneae, class Arachnida Example sentencesExamples They are habitat to countless amphipods, insects, spiders and other organisms. They feed on other insects and spiders, so they are not really that bad to have around. It was possible that an insect or a spider had bitten her during that time. The name is misleading, as this spider is native to the Waterloo region. She hesitated, but slowly walked out of the cell, afraid that rats or spiders would brush her feet. ‘There's a spider in the kitchen,’ Mum told Dad blandly. All kinds of small creepy crawlies are eaten including insects, spiders and centipedes. This tiny spider is related to the more commonly known, and much larger, tarantulas of the southwestern United States. The full moon shone onto the filthy prison floor revealing spiders, insects, and rats. They are predators on spiders, mites, millipedes, and other insects. The book includes information about more than 100 insects, spiders, mites, slugs and earthworms found in the Prairies, and encourages people to live with them in harmony. Some people may be terrified of spiders, dogs or insects. This occurs in, among other animals, butterflies, spiders, birds, and small mammals. We record plants and invertebrates (including weeds, insects, spiders, slugs and snails) in and around the fields, before, during and after the crops are in the ground. In addition to honey, their diet included scorpions, spiders, insects, mice, lizards, frogs, snakes and fruit, she said. Four other people in the area have been poisoned by funnel web spiders since 1992. When they reduce pesticide use, they see a lot more beneficial predatory insects: spiders and parasitic wasps and flies. To survive the winter, they depend on food sources such as berries, spiders, and insects. In fact, the typical residents of these boxes are other insects and spiders. Long legged spiders crawled up and down the walls, unafraid of the trespassers. 1.1 Used in names of arachnids similar or related to the spider, e.g., sea spider, sun spider. 用于类似或相关的蛛形纲动物的名称中，如：sea spider，sun spider 2An object resembling a spider, especially one having numerous or prominent legs or radiating spokes. （尤指有众多突出长杆或辐条的）状似蜘蛛的物体 Example sentencesExamples It was crafted in the shape of a spider, so that its minute legs would curl around her index finger, with tiny ruby eyes. Especially Dave, who had to feed the scrum, swipe the ball from the back of the black spider, and dive-pass it out to the waiting back line. Remove with spider or slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. 2.1 A long-legged rest for a billiard cue that can be placed over a ball without touching it. 台球棒三脚架（盖住球上而不与之接触） 2.2 A cast-iron frying pan, originally made with legs for cooking on coals in a hearth. 3Computing another term for crawler (sense 2) Example sentencesExamples They usually target comments to old posts, so they won't show up to people reading the latest ones, though search engine spiders will spot them and index them. This way, your site map will be a valuable resource for anyone who accesses your site, and a useful tool for spiders to find everything that's within. The same thing applies to forms; spiders can't fill out forms and click ‘submit.’ The search engine spiders take those words and display the best sites that relate to that information. The spider captures summaries, which is all the engine searches, which gives you easy breadth, but not depth. verbˈspaɪdərˈspīdər 1no object, with adverbial of direction Move in a scuttling manner suggestive of a spider. （似蜘蛛般）急促爬动 a treecreeper spidered head first down the tree trunk 旋木雀头朝下沿树干急促爬下。 Example sentencesExamples You see them occasionally: a skier ghosting through trees in total control, a climber spidering up a sheer rock face with ease, a poised surfer rocketing out of a perfect barrel. As they spidered their way up the walls, Deuterium Boy sighed. Ambitious craggers had been spidering up Baffin's granite for decades, but none had ever looked at the walls with an eye out for skiable lines. 1.1 Form a pattern suggestive of a spider or its web. 设网；设圈套 Example sentencesExamples The cylindrically hulled Healy drove up on top of the massive floe until the heft of the boat sent dozens of cracks spidering across the surface. At the stern, hull plates have fallen away to leave ribs spidering out above the rudder. Age creeps up on all of us, from the first delicate lines spidering around our eyes in our twenties to the heavier frown lines and crow's feet of middle age. In Middlesbrough, where there's one long road spidering into town, most people walk into town on the left-hand pavement, and walk away from town on the left-hand pavement. When they hit his shield, they spider out making a massive web of rock! We stepped down a short staircase leading from the hallway's floor, and saw before us a large, concrete room, primitive with its bare, wooden beams, and deep cracks spidering in every direction. 2Computing when the search engines spider your site they'll find all of the pages another term for crawl (sense 4 of the verb) Example sentencesExamples Google says its most refreshed pages are spidered every 15 minutes, with the entire index getting a refresh every 28 days. Within three days of the launch of our site, Google had spidered our main page. The dataset is also very 'natural', consisting of images spidered from the Internet. For prices starting at $20, the company guarantees they'll spider your website every 48 hours for a year. Search engines will spider the text near the top of the page, rather than at the bottom. Origin Late Old English spīthra, from spinnan (see spin).
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