 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
spawn
noun: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
verb
1: call forth [syn: {engender}, {breed}]
2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spawn \Spawn\, verb (used with an object) [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.
2. To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
One edition [of books] spawneth another. --Fuller.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spawn \Spawn\, verb (used without an object)
1. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
2. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spawn \Spawn\, noun [[root]170. See {Spawn}, verb (used with an object)]
1. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic
animals.
2. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
3. (Hort.) The buds or branches produced from underground
stems.
4. (Bot.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from
which fungi.
{Spawn eater} (Zo["o]l.), a small American cyprinoid fish
({Notropis Hudsonius}) allied to the dace.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "spawn":
albumen, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth,
bring into being, brood, call into being, cause, caviar, clutch,
coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, create, deposit,
design, develop, devise, discover, dream up, drop, egg, egg white,
eggshell, engender, evolve, fabricate, farrow, father, fish eggs,
frame, fry, generate, get, give being to, give birth to,
give rise to, glair, hatch, improvise, invent, lay, litter, make,
make do with, make up, mature, mint, nest, originate, ovule,
parent, plan, procreate, produce, roe, sire, spat, strike out,
think out, think up, vitellus, white, yellow, yield, yolk, young
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
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}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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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