sniper vs spider

sniper

noun
  • A hunter of snipe (the bird). 

  • A person or automated process set up by a person who or which attempts to win an online auction by placing a bid only seconds before the auction ends, leaving no time for other bidders to respond 

  • One who shoots from a concealed position. 

  • A player who specializes in scoring goals. 

  • A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position. 

  • Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position. 

  • One who criticizes; a person who frequently snipes at others. 

spider

noun
  • A soft-hackle fly. 

  • A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached. 

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

  • The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard. 

  • A spider graph or spider tree. 

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

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

  • Heroin. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 

  • A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A spindly person. 

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

verb
  • To move like a spider. 

  • To cover a surface like a cobweb. 

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

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