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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
spawn
n 1: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or
molluscs
v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn]
2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Spawn \Spawn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spawned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Spawning.] [OE. spanen, OF. espandre, properly, to shed,
spread, L. expandere to spread out. See Expand.]
1. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
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2. To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
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One edition [of books] spawneth another. --Fuller.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Spawn \Spawn\, v. i.
1. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
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2. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Spawn \Spawn\, n. [[root]170. See Spawn, v. t.]
1. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic
animals.
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2. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
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3. (Hort.) The buds or branches produced from underground
stems.
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4. (Bot.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from
which fungi.
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Spawn eater (Zool.), a small American cyprinoid fish
(Notropis Hudsonius) allied to the dace.
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5. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
spawn
n.,vi.
1. [techspeak] In Unix parlance, to create a child process from within a
process. Technically this is a ?fork?; the term ?spawn? is a bit more
general and is used for threads (lightweight processes) as well as
traditional heavyweight processes.
2. In gaming, meant to indicate where (spawn-point) and when a player comes
to life (or re-spawns) after being killed. Opposite of frag.
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6. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
spawn
To create a child process in a
multitasking operating system. E.g. Unix's fork
system call or one of the spawn() library routines provided
by most MS-DOS, Novell NetWare and OS/2 C compilers -
spawnl(), spawnle(), etc.
(1995-03-28)
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Thesaurus Results for spawn:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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