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Meaning 1
The 29th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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The 29th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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noun
Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: attercop, cop
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Broader terms: arachnid, arthropod, bug, invertebrate, animal, creature, critter
noun
A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: crawler
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noun
A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
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Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable
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noun
An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
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Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
A spindly person.
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noun
A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, billiards, games, hobbies, lifestyle, snooker, sports
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Synonyms: bridge
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noun
A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, US, countable, dialectal, historical, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
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
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cycling, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Heroin.
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Usage: slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: Big H, boy, brown sugar, brown, bujj, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dog food, dope, dugee, henry, heroin, horse, H, junk, muck, mud, ron, scag, smack, spider, sugar, whiteboy, white lady, yam yam
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noun
Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
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.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A soft-hackle fly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: England, countable, uncountable
Qualifier: fly fishing
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noun
The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A spider graph or spider tree.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
A type of light phaeton.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: bowls
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noun
A bit for turning fasteners with 8-pointed heads.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: double square, 8-point star
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verb
To move like a spider.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To cover a surface like a cobweb.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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noun
predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: arachnid, arachnoid
Narrower terms: orb-weaving spider, black and gold garden spider, Argiope aurantia, barn spider, Araneus cavaticus, garden spider, Aranea diademata, comb-footed spider, theridiid, black widow, Latrodectus mactans, tarantula, wolf spider, hunting spider, trap-door spider
noun
a skillet made of cast iron
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: frying pan, frypan, skillet
noun
a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: wanderer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: program, programme, computer program, computer programme
History
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).
Across languages
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