different between spawn vs impregnate

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)

1. (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
2. (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
3. (transitive) To bring forth in general.

   The Web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.

4. (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
5. (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
6. (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
7. (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
8. (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)

1. The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
2. Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
3. (by extension, sometimes derogatory) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.
4. (horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
5. (video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.

Derived terms

• hellspawn

Translations

Anagrams

• WPANs, pawns

English

Etymology

Earlier impregn, from Middle French imprégner, from Old French enpreignier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p???ne?t/

Verb

impregnate (third-person singular simple present impregnates, present participle impregnating, simple past and past participle impregnated)

1. (transitive) To cause to become pregnant.

   Synonyms: knock up, inseminate, cover (of animals)

2. (transitive) To fertilize.
3. (transitive) To saturate, or infuse.
4. (transitive) To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
   • 1937, Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard, The mystery of scent (page 121)

     It takes a little time for the personal fatty acids to impregnate new shoes or boots, but from the scent point of view leather is a sponge, and the personal scent is left.

5. (intransitive, dated) To become pregnant.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

Translations

See also

• conceive
• sire
• father

Anagrams

• permeating, rimegepant

Italian

Verb

impregnate

1. second-person plural present of impregnare
2. second-person plural imperative of impregnare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of impregnare

Anagrams

• pigmentare, pigmenterà, pigramente