Engender vs Spawn - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between engender and spawn

is that engender is to bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create while spawn is to plant with fungal spawn.

In intransitive terms the difference between engender and spawn

is that engender is to assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced while spawn is to reproduce, especially in large numbers.

As verbs the difference between engender and spawn

is that engender is to beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman) while spawn is to produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

As a noun spawn is

the numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.

engender

English

Alternative forms

* engendre

Etymology 1

From (etyl) engendrer, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Julius Caesar , Act V:

O Error soone conceyu'd, / Thou neuer com'st vnto a happy byrth, / But kil'st the Mother that engendred thee.

To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).

* 1891 , (Henry James), "James Russell Lowell", Essays in London and Elsewhere , p.60:

Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him.

To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.

* , II.11:

Me thinks vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations unto goodnesse, which in us are ingendered .

* 1928 , "New Plays in Manhattan", Time , 8 Oct.:

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.

* 2009 , Jonathan Glancey, "The art of industry", The Guardian , 21 Dec.:

Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.

To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

* Dryden

Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.

(obsolete) To copulate, to have sex.

* 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), Leviathan :

But that the bodies of the reprobate, who make the kingdom of Satan, shall also be glorious or spiritual bodies, or that they shall be as the angels of God, neither eating, drinking, nor engendering .

* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book II:

I fled, but he pursu'd (though more, it seems, / Inflam'd with lust then rage) and swifter far, / Me overtook his mother all dismaid, / And in embraces forcible and foule / Ingendring with me, of that rape begot / These yelling Monsters.

Synonyms

* (to bring into existence) beget, conjure, create, produce, make, craft, manufacture, invent, assemble, generate

Anagrams

Etymology 2

From .

Verb

(en verb)

(critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.

* 1992 , Anne Cranny-Francis, Engendered Fictions , p. 2:

As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered' (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they ' engender their consumers.

* 1996 , Steven C Ward, Reconfiguring Truth , p. xviii:

I focus on [...] the efforts of feminist critics of science to examine the engendered origins and implications of scientific rationality and modern epistemology.

spawn

English

(wikipedia spawn)

Verb

(en verb)

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.

Derived terms

* despawn * respawn * spawnable * spawn point * spawner * spawny

Noun

(spawn)

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.

Derived terms

* hellspawn