spawn — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

1. To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.

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

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

3. To bring forth in general.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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

4. To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

5. To plant with fungal spawn.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

6. To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

   Beispiele

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

7. To reproduce, especially in large numbers.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

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

   Gebrauch

   • ergative

   Unterbegriffe

   respawn

   Beispiele

   We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.

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

   Gebrauch

   • Internet
   • ergative
   • übertragen

   Beispiele

   Where did he come from? Bro just spawned in.

   Mavs fans really be spawning out of nowhere.

   Weitere Beispiele (6)

   So many virgos have spawned in my life lately

   I swear a new vtuber with 250,000 subscribers and wildly transphobic views just spawns every other fucking week

   rizz so strong the bf just spawned out of nowhere

   bro jus spawns in when the word cuck is mentioned

   God spawning in a new streamer and fans for him every week:

   McDonalds skips the whole process and just spawns a new building somewhere

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

    Gebrauch

    • Internet
    • übertragen
    • scherzhaft
    • intransitiv

    Beispiele

    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.

    Weitere Beispiele (2)

    Oh he is entirely too smol! Just spawned and already running a drug ring!! ❤️

    dude literally just spawned and already gave up

Substantiv

1. The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

2. Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

3. Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

   Beispiele

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

4. Any germ or seed, even a figurative source. Children; offspring.

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • abwertend
   • often
   • nicht zählbar

   Beispiele

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.

5. The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

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   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

6. Synonym of spawn point.

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   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

Substantiv

1. the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

   Oberbegriffe

   egg

Verb

1. call forth

   Synonyme

   engenderbreed

   Oberbegriffe

   causedomake

2. lay spawn

   Oberbegriffe

   lay

   Beispiele

   The salmon swims upstream to spawn