Definizione monolingua

spider

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

1. (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.

spider (plural spiders)

1. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
2. (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
3. (chiefly Australian 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. (slang) A spindly person.
5. (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
6. (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; a bridge.
7. (cooking) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open hearth cookery. They were generally called spiders both in England and in America.
   • 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.

8. A part of a crank, which the chainrings are attached
9. (slang) Heroin (street drug).
10. (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.

Definizione dizionario spider

	ragno
	arthropod
	Any predatory silk-producing arachnid of the order Araneae, having four pairs of legs and a rounded unsegmented body consisting of abdomen and cephalothorax.

	crawler
	An automated program that searches the Internet for new Web documents and places their addresses and content-related information in a database, which can be accessed with a search engine. Generally considered to be a type of bot, or Internet robot.

araneae

Altri significati:

(Internet, of a computer program) to follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

Wheel brace in the shape of a cross.

a part of a crank, which the chainrings are attached

(cooking) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open hearth cookery. They were generally called spiders both in England and in America.

heroin a street drug

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

(slang) A spindly person.

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

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

(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. Also called a bridge.

(chiefly Australian and New Zealand) A “float”; a drink made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).