Meaning

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

    Spinne

    пау́кpaúk

    паву́кpavúk

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

  3. (Australia, New Zealand, countable, uncountable)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. (countable, slang, uncountable)A spindly person.

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

  6. (countable, uncountable)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.

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

    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.

    a skillet made of cast iron

  8. (countable, uncountable)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

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

  10. (slang, uncountable)Heroin.

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

  12. (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.

Examples

589 sentences
  1. There's a spider in the shower.

    У душі паук. — deniko

    ruВ душе паук. — Karok

    deIn der Dusche ist eine Spinne. — al_ex_an_der

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  2. There's a spider in the bathroom.

    У ванній павук. — deniko

    ruВ ванной паук. — marafon

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  3. It's just a spider.

    Це просто павук. — Balamax

    ruЭто просто паук. — marafon

    deEs ist nur eine Spinne. — Adelpa

  4. Tom watched the spider carefully.

    Том уважно спостерігав за павуком. — deniko

  5. I'm no longer afraid of spiders.

    Я більш не боюсь павуків. — lingvokrolik

    ruЯ уже не боюсь пауков. — marafon

    deIch habe keine Angst mehr vor Spinnen. — Adelpa

Translations

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English spithre, spider, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Pr

Inherited from Middle English spithre, spider, 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.

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