Child vs Spawn - What's the difference?
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A daughter or son; an offspring.
(figuratively) An offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place.
* 1984 , Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography , page 5:
(figuratively) A member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people.
* 2009 , Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Tales of Wonder , page 64:
(figuratively) A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something.
* 1991 , (w, Midnight's Children) , (Salman Rushdie) (title)
A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor (person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability).
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
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, title= (computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
(obsolete) A female infant; a girl.
* Shakespeare
To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
To bring forth in general.
To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn
To plant with fungal spawn
To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
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To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
(ergative, video games, of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.
The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
(by extension, sometimes, derogatory) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.
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(horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
(video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.
Child is a related term of spawn.
As nouns the difference between child and spawn
is that child is a daughter or son; an offspring while spawn is the numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.As a verb spawn is
to produce or deposit (eggs) in water.child
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en-noun)- For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world.
- Plash-Goo was of the children of the giants, whose sire was Uph. And the lineage of Uph had dwindled in bulk for the last five hundred years, till the giants were now no more than fifteen foot high; but Uph ate elephants
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child' s life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
- A boy or a child , I wonder?
Synonyms
* (daughter or son) boy, fruit of one's loins, girl, kid, offspring * (young person) bairn, boy, brat, girl, kid, lad, lass * See alsoAntonyms
* (daughter or son) father, mother, parent * (person below the age of adulthood) adult * parentDerived terms
* boomerang child * childhood * childish * childless * childlike * love-child * lovechild * manchild * middle child * only child * perpetual child * problem child * schoolchild * war child * with childSee also
* orlingReferences
*Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary(accessed November 2007). *
American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company (2003). English nouns with irregular plurals 1000 English basic words
spawn
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(wikipedia spawn)Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* despawn * respawn * spawnable * spawn point * spawner * spawnyNoun
(spawn)citation, page= , passage=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.}}