Cop vs. Spider — What's the Difference?

A police officer

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms.

Shrewdness; practical intelligence

An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. Spiders have fangs which inject poison into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects.

A conical mass of thread wound on to a spindle.

An object resembling a spider, especially one having numerous or prominent legs or radiating spokes.

Catch or arrest (an offender)

Another term for crawler (sense 2)

Receive or attain (something welcome)

Move in a scuttling manner suggestive of a spider

Strike (an attitude or pose)

Another term for crawl (sense 4 of the verb)

A police officer.

Any of numerous arachnids of the order Araneae, having a body divided into a cephalothorax and an abdomen, eight legs, two chelicerae that bear venom glands, and two or more spinnerets that produce the silk used to make nests, cocoons, or webs for trapping insects.

One that regulates certain behaviors or actions

One that resembles a spider, as in appearance, character, or movement.

A cone-shaped or cylindrical roll of yarn or thread wound on a spindle.

A program that automatically retrieves webpages and follows the links on them to retrieve more webpages. Spiders are used by search engines to retrieve publicly accessible webpages for indexing, and they can also be used to check for links to webpages that no longer exist. Also called crawler, search bot.

Chiefly British A summit or crest, as of a hill.

New England, Upper Northern, & South Atlantic US See frying pan.

To get hold of; gain or win

A trivet.

To perceive by one of the senses

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

To take unlawfully or without permission; steal.

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

To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.

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

(transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.

To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.

(slang) A spindly person.

(transitive) To steal.

(slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.

(transitive) To adopt.

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.

(transitive) To earn by bad behavior.

A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.

To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.

(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

Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable.

(cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.

(informal) A police officer or prison guard.

Heroin.

(obsolete) A spider.

(music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.

(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.

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.

(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

A soft-hackle fly.

(obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.

(sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.

A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.

(maths) A spider graph or spider tree.

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

(obsolete) A type of light phaeton.

A merlon.

(photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.

The top of a thing; the head; a crest.

(lawn 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.

A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

To move like a spider.

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

To cover a surface like a cobweb.

Same as Merlon.

To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

A policeman.

Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to form cocoons, or nests, to protect their eggs and young. Many species spin also complex webs to entrap the insects upon which they prey. The eyes are usually eight in number (rarely six), and are situated on the back of the cephalothorax. See Illust. under Araneina.

Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red).

Take by theft;

An iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth.

Take into custody;

A trevet to support pans or pots over a fire.

A skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; 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; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc.

Predatory arachnid that usually has silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey

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

A skillet made of cast iron