Sperm vs Spam - What's the difference?
sperm | spam |
(uncountable) Semen; the generative substance of male animals.
*, II.12:
(cytology) The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
* 2012 , Sarah Whitehouse, The Guardian , 13 Apr 2012:
(chemistry) Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti.
Imperative of (l)
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(uncountable, computing, Internet) A collection of unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
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(uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
(countable, rare, computing, Internet) An unsolicited electronic message sent in bulk, usually by email or newsgroups.
(tinned meat product)
(intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
(transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
(transitive, by extension, video games) To relentlessly attack an enemy with (a spell or ability).
(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To post the same text repeatedly with disruptive effect; to flood.
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As nouns the difference between sperm and spam
is that sperm is semen; the generative substance of male animals while spam is a collection of unsolicited bulk electronic messages.As a verb spam is
to send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages..As a proper noun SPAM is
alternative form of Spam|lang=en (tinned meat product.sperm
English
(wikipedia sperm)Noun
- Other Nations there are, that never have use of fire; Others, whose sperme is of a blacke colour.
- Seeing the two little moving cells – the result of her egg and Luke's sperm – was incredible, and two very long weeks later the clinic confirmed I was pregnant.
Synonyms
* spermatozoon * sperm cell * cumHypernyms
* gameteDerived terms
* asthenospermic * sperm cell * sperm count * sperm whale * spermatheca * spermatocyte * spermicidal * spermicide * spermousAnagrams
* * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Synonyms
* sperma *Verb
(head)spam
English
Noun
citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}
Derived terms
* * * * *Meronyms
* e-mail, emailVerb
(spamm)- Stop spamming that special attack!
See also
* *Official SPAM home page