Definitions for spider

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spider spi·der

Spelling: [spahy-der]

IPA: /ˈspaɪ dər/

Spider is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in spider (deiprs).

Definitions for spider

noun

1. any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
2. (loosely) any of various other arachnids resembling or suggesting these.
3. any of various things resembling or suggesting a spider.
4. a frying pan, originally one with legs or feet.
5. a trivet or tripod, as for supporting a pot or pan on a hearth.
6. Machinery. a part having a number of radiating spokes or arms, usually not connected at their outer ends. Also called cross. (in a universal joint) a crosslike part pivoted between the forked ends of two shafts to transmit motion between them.
7. Also called web crawler. Digital Technology. a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
8. an evil person who entraps or lures others by wiles.
9. a device attached to a cultivator, for pulverizing the soil.

verb (used with object)

1. Also, crawl. Digital Technology. to retrieve (data) from a website using a computer program, as in order to index web pages for a search engine:

Origin of spider

1300-50; Middle English spithre, Old English spīthra, akin to spinnan to spin; cognate with Danish spinder

Examples for spider

As well try to mend a spider's web when you have put your boot through it.

She loved to spin, and no spider ever spun so fine a thread as she on her spinning wheel.

Apparently, all Palestinians have an inner spider Man and scaling walls is child's play.

Sometimes it resembles a spider's web when it is called arachnoid.

This past April, he made headlines again for calling a Pakistani girl born with additional limbs a “spider baby.”

On the cover of Teen Vogue are spider Man stars Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield.

The spider is tossed from his footing and falls wounded to earth.

Did you know that Solange was just trying to kill a spider that was crawling on Jay?

Is that your spider sense tingling, or is that your arthritis?

This little girl, the Cod-fish by name, was devoted to the spider.