Word Finder - spawn

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To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

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To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.

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To bring forth in general.

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

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To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.

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To plant with fungal spawn.

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To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.

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To reproduce, especially in large numbers.

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(of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.

The spawn of the angler is very remarkable.

Dean crossed his fingers and hoped this affiance would spawn fewer complications than the last.

In about ten days, when the mass is milkwarm, the bed will be ready for spawning, which consists of inserting small pieces of spawn bricks into the sloping sides of the bed, about 6 in.

The breeding season lasts throughout spring and summer, and the female is able to spawn two, three or even four times in the year.

The mycelium produced from the spores dropped by the fungus or from the "spawn" in the soil, radiates outwards, and each year's successive crop of fungi rises from the new growth round the circle.

The siawan is a species of fish found in the rivers and valued for its spawn, which is salted.

Towards the end of May the old fish become heavy with spawn and are in the highest condition for the table; and the latter half of June or beginning of July may be regarded as the time at which the greater part of mackerel spawn.

When fully grown they come back to spawn in the same river in which they were hatched.

They will still require soft and acidic water to spawn successfully.

Also, this year I am doing a project on the spawn in the pond on the March 2004 page.

Britain 's fastest growing town is about to spawn a generation of kids who could eat an apple through a tennis racquet.

These help to create pools and riffles for fish to spawn.

The game raked in enough cash to spawn an historic racing spin-off, GT Legends, which received an equally warm reception.

You need to take that in mind when placing your spawn points.

Toads tend to spawn in deeper water forming ropes of eggs, which wind around plant stems.

C'mon we 're supposed to be the Spawn of Satan not scared off by train problems !

The best way to stock a pond is to advertize in a local shop for spawn from another garden pond.

Some temperate fish like salmon, catfish and sturgeon cannot spawn at all if winter temperatures do not drop below a certain level.

They migrate up the rivers top spawn, and this upstream migration is known as the ' run '.

Also, be on the lookout for unintended sniping spots, especially if they offer a vantage on a team 's spawn area.

Who knows what kind of songs this next round of romances will spawn?

This series went on to spawn numerous sequels, prequels and updated versions and is largely credited for popularizing the fighting game genre.

Little did their creators know the massive entertainment industry they would spawn.

They seem to spawn continuously, so you can keep doing this over and over.

Any objects that you did spawn the first time around to earn the silver star can be reused in Advance Mode.

First of all, Heihachi is nowhere as well known (or cool) as Spawn or Link.

Spiderman has been part of the American pop culture scene since the early 1980's when the popularity of the comic book grew to such heights as to spawn several animated series as well as a live action Spiderman television show.

Just as movies spawn new fashion trends, video games, and other merchandise, they also spark interest in new types of engagement rings and jewelry styles.

British reality television series are often those that spawn the shows aired in the United States and around the world.

Despite a low-budget, the film's inherent romance between Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) and Sarah Connor combined with Schwarzenegger's ominous presence created a cult classic that would spawn multiple sequels and a television series.

The true mushroom itself is to a great extent a dung-borne species, therefore mushroom-beds are always liable to an invasion from other dung-borne forms. The spores of all fungi are constantly floating about in the air, and when the spores of dung-infesting species alight on a mushroom-bed they find a nidus already prepared that exactly suits them; and if the spawn of the new-comer becomes more profuse than that of the mushroom the stranger takes up his position at the expense of the mushroom.

The stable manure is taken into the tortuous passages of these cellars, and the spawn introduced from masses of dry dung where it occurs naturally.

In France mushroom-growers do not use the compact blocks or bricks of spawn so familiar in England, but much smaller flakes or "leaves" of dry dung in which the spawn or mycelium can be seen to exist.

The common mushroom (Agaricus campestris) is propagated by spores, the fine black dust seen to be thrown off when a mature specimen is laid on white paper or a white dish; these give rise to what is known as the "spawn" or mycelium, which consists of whitish threads permeating dried dung or similar substances, and which, when planted in a proper medium, runs through the mass, and eventually develops the fructification known as the mushroom.

This spawn may be obtained from old pastures, or decayed mushroom beds, and is purchased from nurserymen in the form of bricks charged with the mycelium, and technically known as mushroom spawn.

The beds made partly of old mushroom-bed dung often contain sufficient spawn to yield a crop, without the introduction of brick or cake spawn, but it is advisable to spawn them in the regular way.

So far as is known at present, all sticklebacks construct a nest for the reception or the spawn, which is jealously guarded by the male until the young are hatched, which event takes place in from ten to eighteen days after oviposition.

The first two are migratory, entering rivers in the spring to spawn; of the river-lamprey, however, specimens are met with in fresh water all the year round.

The spawn of the herring is adhesive, and is deposited on rough gravelly ground at varying distances from the coast and always in comparatively shallow water.

A second species (Clupea leachii) has been supposed to exist on the British coast; but it comprises only individuals of a smaller size, the produce of an early or late spawn.

The explanation appears to be that the shallow and landlocked waters of the Zuider Zee, as well as the sea on the Dutch coast, become raised to a higher temperature in summer than any part of the sea about the British coasts, and that therefore anchovies are able to spawn and maintain their numbers in these waters.

Amongst the loose tissue of the leaf numerous transparent threads are shown; these are the mycelial threads or spawn of the fungus; wherever they touch the leaf-cells they pierce or break down the tissue, and so set up decomposition, as indicated by the darker shading.

While they are in salt water they live singly or in very small companies, but during May (the twaite shad some weeks later) they congregate, and in great numbers ascend large rivers, such as the Severn (and formerly the Thames), the Seine, the Rhine, the Nile, &c., in order to deposit their spawn.

The spawn is free in the sea.

A single male will enhance any small quiet aquarium, and for the more advanced aquarist the fish are easy and interesting to spawn.

Both thinkers would spawn defenders and schools of thought that would become decisive in establishing modernism.

Not generally a problem in farmed fish, only wild fish as they enter freshwater to spawn.

Tall reeds fringe open water where frogs and toads spawn in the spring.

Britain's fastest growing town is about to spawn a generation of kids who could eat an apple through a tennis racquet.

Like all salmonids, grayling spawn on clean gravel, excavating a small redd in the gravel in which their eggs are laid.