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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
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propagate
English
Etymology
Latin propagatus
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??p???e?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??p???e?t/
Verb
propagate (third-person singular simple present propagates, present participle propagating, simple past and past participle propagated)
- (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production
- June 1879, William Keith Brooks, Popular Science Monthly Volume 15 - The Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View I
- A marked bud-variation is of very rare occurrence, but in many cases the tendency of plants raised from seeds to differ from the parents is so great that choice varieties are propagated entirely by buds. It is almost hopeless to attempt to propagate a choice variety of grape or strawberry by seeds, as the individuals raised in this way seldom have the valuable qualities of their parents, and, although they may have new qualities of equal or greater value, the chances are of course greatly against this, since the possibility of undesirable variation is much greater than the chance of a desirable sport.
- June 1879, William Keith Brooks, Popular Science Monthly Volume 15 - The Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View I
- (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space
- (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate
- 1938, Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies Chapter 4
- There began to appear from the East, cropping up now here, now there, but in general along lines of advance towards the West, individuals or small communities who proposed and propagated a new and, as they called it, a purified form of religion.
- 1913, J. B. Bury, A History of Freedom of Thought Chapter 3
- The works of the freethinker Averroes (twelfth century) which were based on Aristotle's philosophy, propagated a small wave of rationalism in Christian countries.
- 1938, Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies Chapter 4
- (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 1
- Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, / Which thou wilt propagate.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 1
- (transitive) To generate; to produce.
- 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Conversation (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)
- Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.
- 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Conversation (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)
- (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- 1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Chapter XXVIII
- As pigeons propagate so rapidly, I suppose that a thousand or fifteen hundred birds would have to be annually killed by mere chance.
- 1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Chapter XXVIII
- (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.
- (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.
Derived terms
- propagation
- propagator
Translations
References
- propagate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Ido
Verb
propagate
- adverbial present passive participle of propagar
Italian
Verb
propagate
- second-person plural present indicative of propagare
- second-person plural imperative of propagare
- feminine plural of propagato
Anagrams
- prepagato
Latin
Verb
pr?p?g?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of pr?p?g?
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