Look up: Spawn

1. spawn
   [n] - the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs 2. [v] - emit spawn, of fish
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2. Spawn
   release of ova (eggs) fertilized or to be fertilized.
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3. Spawn
   Spawn transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Spawned ; present participle & verbal noun Spawning .] [ Middle English spanen , Old French espandre , properly, to shed, ...
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4. Spawn
   Spawn intransitive verb 1. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do. 2. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
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5. Spawn
   Spawn noun [ √170. See Spawn , transitive verb ] 1. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals. 2. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously. 3. (Hort.) Th...
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6. spawn
   1. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. ... 2. To bring forth; to generate; used in contempt. 'One edition [of books] spawneth another.' (Fuller) ... Origin: OE. Spanen, OF. Espandre, properly, to shed, spread, L. Expandere to spread out. See Expand. ... 1. To deposit eggs, as fish o...
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7. spawn
   noun the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
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8. Spawn
   • (v. t.) To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. • (v. t.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems. • (v. i.) To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do. • (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously. • (v. t.) The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oyster...
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9. spawn
   (operating system) 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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10. Spawn
    (comics) `Spawn` (`Albert Francis "Al" Simmons`/`Jim Downing`) is a fictional comic book superhero who appears in a monthly comic book of the same name published by . Created by writer/artist Todd McFarlane, Spawn first appeared in Spawn #1 (May 1992). Spawn was ranked 60th o...
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11. Spawn
    (film) `Spawn` is a 1997 American superhero film loosely based on the comic book of the same name, by Todd McFarlane and published by . Directed and co-written by Mark A.Z. Dippé (a former Industrial Light & Magic animator), the film stars Michael Jai White in the leading role. ...
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12. Spawn
    (handheld game) `Spawn`, by Konami for the Game Boy Color video game system, is side-scrolling action based game based on the Spawn comic book character. Story: Special agent Al Simmons is tricked by his military team and assassinated. After traveling to Hell, Simmons make a deal with ...
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13. Spawn
    (computing) `Spawn` refers to a function that loads and executes a new child process. The current process may or may not continue to execute asynchronously. Creating a new subprocess requires enough memory in which both the child process and the current program can execute. There is a family ...
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14. SPAWN
    `SPAWN`, the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network, is a project of the Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN), a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental organization. SPAWN`s stated mission is to "protect endangered salmon in the Lagunitas Creek Watershed and the environment on whi...
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