spawn

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

   • A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.
2. 2

   To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.

3. 3

   To bring forth in general.

   • Weather Underground, a covert organization that spawned countless other would-be revolutionary cadres - the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the Black Liberation Army, the May 19 Communist Organization each of which
   • The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
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   1. 4

      To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.

   2. 5

      To plant with fungal spawn.

   3. 6

      To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.

      • Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.
   4. 7

      To reproduce, especially in large numbers.

   5. 8

      To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a…

      To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.

      • We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.
   6. 9

      To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, unexpectedly and seemingly out of…

      To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, unexpectedly and seemingly out of nowhere.

      • Where did he come from? Bro just spawned in.
      • Mavs fans really be spawning out of nowhere.
      • So many virgos have spawned in my life lately
   7. 10

      Of a person or non-egglaying animal

      Of a person or non-egglaying animal: to be born.

      • That kid just spawned and looks like he's already done with life.
      • I spawned in Turkey. I wasn't given an option on difficulty. It was automatically set on the hardest.
      • Oh he is entirely too smol! Just spawned and already running a drug ring!! ❤️
   8. 11

      The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.

   9. 12

      Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.

   10. 13

       Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.

       • This dreadful idea is the spawn of a large business conglomerate.
   11. 14

       The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

   12. 15

       Synonym of spawn point.

   13. 16

       A surname.

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