spider

CEFRA1

/ˈspaɪ̯də/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small animal with eight legs that often makes webs.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).

Examples

  • Have you ever seen a spider spinning its web?

  • The spider responds with a swift attack.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

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

  3. A spindly person.

More examples

In context

  • There the spider waits for small insects like butterflies and dragonflies to be trapped.

  • 2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.

  • In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.

Synonyms

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The eight-legged blank carefully spun a delicate web to catch flying insects.

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, 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. Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *mězgyrь (whence Russian мизги́рь (mizgírʹ)) (akin to Latvian mežģīt), Turkish örümcek (akin to örmek).