(n.) 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.
(n.) Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red).
(n.) 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.
(n.) A trevet to support pans or pots over a fire.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(2) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(3) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(4) Venom is attractive because the character can exist without Spider-Man and has embarked on its own adventures when in sync with Brock.
(5) Giant spiders from Mars This is particularly handy later, when we encounter the mid-level boss, a giant spider-like vehicle known as a Fallen Walker.
(6) A 4-year-old girl was admitted 30 hours after being bitten by a black widow spider.
(7) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.
(8) "I was in a squatted house that was falling down, with spiders everywhere.
(9) Electron micrographs of protein 4.1-labelled colloidal gold particles incubated at 4 degrees C with spectrin dimers reveal that 1-5 spectrin dimers attach to each protein 4.1-labelled colloidal gold particle yielding a spider-like appearance of these complexes.
(10) Necrotic arachnidism was seen only in areas where populations of Tegenaria agrestis spiders were well established and did not occur where Tegenaria agrestis was absent.
(11) Thirty-eight spider phobics completed the Questionnaire on Mental Imagery (QMI) and the Spider Questionnaire (SPQ).
(12) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(13) The availability of selective drugs (such as dihydropyridines) and natural toxins (such as omega-Conotoxin, omega-agatoxin, and funnel-web spider toxins), which bind to specific channel subtypes, has greatly helped in channel classification.
(14) A high number of spiders in the pastures (3-4 specimens per sq.
(15) • The Wall Street Journal uncovers communications between Sony and Marvel discussing a Spider-Man crossover and speaking disparagingly about Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield.
(16) It was like a superhero's origin story: Peter Parker's bedroom before he became Spider-Man.
(17) The replication becomes impossible to hold back because any time a web server gains a new file and is queried by the search engines' "spiders" – which go out looking to see what has changed on the web – the cache of the web is updated, with the location of the new file.
(18) What made this so troubling he said, is that digital spiders could then crawl the web and find every picture in the public domain and match it with an identity.
(19) Last Saturday a man dressed as Spider-Man was arrested and charged with hitting a police officer who tried to intervene during a dispute with a woman who offered him $1 (59p).
(20) Bowie’s first US tour saw him play as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Tarantula
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliae). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two additional acylpolyamines (Apc600 and Apc728) are partially characterized from venom of another tarantula, Aphonopelma chalcodes.
(2) Biogenic amines, which are components of tarantula Scodra griseipes venom, are studied using tandem mass spectrometry.
(3) The complete amino-acid sequence of subunit a of the hemocyanin of the tarantula Eurypelma californicum was determined by manual sequencing.
(4) Tarantula leg muscles in the relaxed state were rapidly frozen against a copper block cooled with liquid helium.
(5) The haemocyanins of the three species cannot be distinguished by their carbohydrate moieties, while there is a significant difference in amino acid composition between tarantula and Cupiennius haemocyanins.
(6) Expect tarantulas, snakeboys, wolfmen and other scary stuff.
(7) The hemocyanin of the North American tarantula Eurypelma californicum (Dugesiella californica) is dissociated at pH 9.6 into monomers (Mr about 70 000) and dimers (Mr about 140 000), which were separated by gel filtration.
(8) In one case the symptomatology following the bite of Poecilotheria was more marked than after the bites of different large American tarantulas on the same person.
(9) The epitope of monoclonal antibody Ec-7 directed against tarantula (Eurypelma californicum) hemocyanin subunit d and also reactive to Calliphora arylphorin was traced to a highly conserved peptide of 27 amino acids localized in the center of the protein.
(10) The venom of the tarantula Eurypelma californicum was analysed biochemically, the components were isolated and characterized.
(11) The subunits of the hemocyanin from the tarantula, Eurypelma californicum, were isolated, following dissociation at pH 9.6, by a sequence of chromatographic and electrophoretic steps.
(12) Electron microscopy has been used to study the structural changes that occur in the myosin filaments of tarantula striated muscle when they are phosphorylated.
(13) A young woman presented with ocular discomfort after handling her pet tarantula.
(14) This points to a concerted mechanism for the conformational transitions of the tarantula haemocyanin.
(15) Fourier transforms of selected filaments showed a myosin layer line pattern, similar to that observed in X-ray diffraction patterns of intact tarantula muscle, extending to the sixth order of the 43.5 nm X-ray repeat.
(16) 4x6-meric hemocyanin of the tarantula Eurypelma californicum was dissociated into subunits; one type of subunit was removed by immunoaffinity chromatography and replaced by its apo- or met-form.
(17) Electron microscopy of negatively stained isolated thick filaments of tarantula muscle has revealed that phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chains is accompanied by a loss of the helical order of myosin heads.
(18) Following induction of hemopoiesis, poly(A)-rich RNA was prepared from the heart of the tarantula, Eurypelma californicum, and translated in rabbit reticulocyte lysates.
(19) A comparison of some components of the venoms of two Costa Rican tarantulas, Aphonopelma seemanni (Cambridge) and Sphaerobothria hoffmanni (Karsch) by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis shows patterns similar to those of Dugesiella hentzi (Girard), a North American tarantula.
(20) Sixty and 73% of those cured by sulphamonomethoxine and penicillin, respectively, and 29% of those cured by the tarantula poison (Theranekron), showed relapses within 6 months.