How to pronounce “spider”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
• (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
• (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
• (Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
• (slang) A spindly person.
• (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.
• (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
• (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
• (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
• (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
• (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
• 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.
• (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
• (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
• (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
• (obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
• (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
• (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.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To move like a spider.
• (intransitive) To cover a surface like a cobweb.
• (Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

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