spider

(countable, uncountable)Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.

Đồng nghĩa: attercop, cop

(Internet, countable, uncountable)A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

Đồng nghĩa: crawler

(Australia, New Zealand, countable, uncountable)(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.

(Australia, New Zealand, countable, obsolete, uncountable)An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.

(countable, slang, uncountable)A spindly person.

(countable, slang, uncountable)A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.

(countable, uncountable)(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.

Đồng nghĩa: bridge

(UK, US, countable, dialectal, historical, uncountable)(cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.

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.

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.

(countable, uncountable)(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

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).

(countable, uncountable)(cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.

(slang, uncountable)Heroin.

Đồng nghĩa: Big H, boy, brown sugar, brown, bujj, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dog food, dope, dugee, henry, heroin, horse, H, junk, muck, mud, ron, scag, smack, spider, sugar, whiteboy, white lady, yam yam

(countable, uncountable)(music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.

(countable, uncountable)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.

(England, countable, uncountable)(fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.

(countable, uncountable)(sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.

(countable, uncountable)(mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A type of light phaeton.

(countable, uncountable)(photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.

(countable, uncountable)(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.

(countable, uncountable)A bit for turning fasteners with 8-pointed heads.

Đồng nghĩa: double square, 8-point star

(intransitive)To move like a spider.

(intransitive)To cover a surface like a cobweb.

(Internet)(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.