different between progeny vs spawn
progeny
English
Etymology
From Old French progenie, from Latin pr?geni?s, from pr?gign? (“beget”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??d??ni/
- (General American) enPR: pr?j'?-n?, IPA(key): /?p??d??ni/
- Hyphenation: prog?e?ny
Noun
progeny (countable and uncountable, plural progenies)
- (uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.
- (countable, figuratively) A result of a creative effort.
Synonyms
- (offspring): binary clone, descendant(s), fruit of one's loins, get, issue, lineage, offspring
Related terms
- progenitor
Translations
Anagrams
- pyrogen
progeny From the web:
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spawn
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).
Verb
spawn (third-person singular simple present spawns, present participle spawning, simple past and past participle spawned)
- (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
- (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
- (transitive) To bring forth in general.
- The Web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
- (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
- (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
- (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
- (intransitive) 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
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English spawne, from the verb (see above).
Noun
spawn (plural spawn or spawns)
- 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.
- (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
Translations
Anagrams
- WPANs, pawns
spawn From the web:
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- what spawns in the grand reef
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