Page vs Spider - What's the difference?
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One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
(label) The type set up for printing a page.
(label) A web page.
(label) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
To turn several pages of a publication.
To furnish with folios.
(obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
(British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
(US) A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
(in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
A boy child.
* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania .
To attend (someone) as a page.
To call or summon (someone).
To contact (someone) by means of a pager.
To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
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).
* 2002', Katharine Gasparini, ''Cranberry and vanilla ice cream '''spider'' , recipe in ''Cool Food ,
(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; a bridge.
(cookware, US, UK, historical) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
* 1846 , Mary Hooker Cornelius, The Young Housekeeper's Friend ,
* 2005 , Marty Davidson, Grandma Grace's Southern Favorites , recipe for “strawberry coconuts”, Rutledge Hill Press, ISBN 1-4016-0219-3, page 193:
* 2008 , Corona Club (San Francisco, California), Corona Club Cook Book ,
(cookware) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle.
* 1996 , City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide. , Stanley Thornes, ISBN 0-7487-2566-0, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157:
* 2008 , Anna Kasabian and David Kasabian, The Wild Fish Cookbook , Creative Publishing International, ISBN 1-58923-317-4, page 84:
A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached
(slang) Heroin (street drug).
(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.
(Internet, of a computer program) to follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
As a proper noun page
is for someone who was a servant.As a noun spider is
any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order araneae , most of which spin webs to catch prey.As a verb spider is
(internet|of a computer program) to follow links on the world wide web in order to gather information.page
English
(wikipedia page)Etymology 1
Via (etyl) from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
Synonyms
* (side of a leaf) side * account, recordDerived terms
(Terms derived from "page") * on the same page * page in, page out * page-turner *Verb
(pag)- The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), possibly via (etyl) (m), from , in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.Noun
(en noun)- A doghter hadde they bitwixe]] hem two / Of twenty yeer, with-outen any mo, / Savinge a child that was of half-yeer age; / In [[cradle, cradel it lay and was a propre page .
Synonyms
* (serving boy) page boy * (boy child) boyVerb
(pag)- (Shakespeare)
- I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
- An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?
Anagrams
* (l) 1000 English basic words ----spider
English
Noun
(en noun)page 339.
page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”:
- Cut slices and lay them in cold water in the spider'; boil them up two or three minutes, then pour off the water and set the ' spider again on the coals and brown the slices on each side.
- In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.
page 202,
- Melt ½ the dry sugar in the spider , stirring with knife until all is melted.
- If you are deep-frying your falafel, use a spider or basket to place them gently into the hot oil, which should be preheated to a temperature of 175°C (330°F).
- Consider investing in a frying basket or a spider' for small amounts of fish. A ' spider looks like a metal web and has a long handle and can lower and raise fish from the hot oil.
Derived terms
* (assassin spider) * (coconut spider) * (pelican spider) * spiderdom * spidership * spideryVerb
(en verb)- ''The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.