Spawn vs Children - What's the difference?

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Spawn is a related term of children.

As nouns the difference between spawn and children

is that spawn is the numerous eggs of an aquatic organism while children is .

As a verb spawn

is to produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

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

Anagrams

children

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic)

Noun

(head)

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

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