spidering
- 1Present participle and gerund of spider.
The crawler is spidering across every link it can find on the domain.
Spidering a public archive without permission can overload its server.
Note
One -ing form does two jobs here: progressive verb (the crawler is spidering) and verbal noun (spidering an archive strains its server). The computing use can take a direct object, so you spider a site. The other two senses stand alone, with no object: a thing goes spidering across a surface, moving like a spider or spreading like a cobweb. The final r is not doubled before -ing.
Fine cracks were spidering across the windshield.
We spent the night spidering the old forum for dead links.
spidering is a form of spider
spider, verb: To collect information by moving from link to link across the World Wide Web. Full entry
- Spelling
- spider → spidering: add -ing
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