Crossword clues for spawning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spawn \Spawn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spawned; p. pr. & vb. n. Spawning.] [OE. spanen, OF. espandre, properly, to shed, spread, L. expandere to spread out. See Expand.]
To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
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To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
One edition [of books] spawneth another.
--Fuller.
Wiktionary
n. The process by which an organism spawns. vb. (present participle of spawn English)
Wikipedia
In video games, spawning is the live creation of a character, item or mob. Respawning is the recreation of an entity after its death or destruction, perhaps after losing one of its lives.
All player characters typically spawn at the start of a round, whereas some objects or mobs may spawn after the occurrence of a particular event or delay. When a player character respawns, they generally do so in an earlier point of the level and get some kind of penalty. The term "spawning" is used almost exclusively in games where this happens frequently.
The term was coined by id Software within the context of its game, Doom.
Usage examples of "spawning".
Nor did the Demondim turn their lore to the spawning of yet more Demondim.
He realized, in one of his epiphanies, that successful spawning produced spawn.
With the spawning of the Osmia, Fabre throws a fresh and unexpected light on the intuitive knowledge of instinct.
In his artificial hives, in glass cylinders, he forces the Osmia to commence her spawning with the males, instead of beginning with the females as nature requires, since the insect is primarily preoccupied with the more important sex, that which ensures par excellence the perpetuation of the species.
Breakup of the Reld Current, and the vicious spawning ground of new currents.
Yet with what interest and lucidity has Fabre succeeded in expounding the complex morphoses of the obscure and miserable larva of the Sitaris, the curious intestine of the Scarabaeus, the secret of the spawning of the weevil, and the ingenious mechanisms of the musical instruments of the Decticus and the Cicada.
The radio crackled into life: Teams Six and Seven were in pursuit of snakes that had left the spawning grounds in the opposite direction, but the majority were coming Team One's way.
He might even, though himself a Caucasian, have comprehended the choice such a man felt was facing him: either to give himself up to the crying needs of his own people, who in this 100 STAND ON ZANZIBAR brave new century were still the trapped ones, spawning the majority of the muckers (though the newscasts by policy never mentioned their colour), the majority of the dicties (though most of them couldn't afford Skulbustium or Triptine and poisoned themselves on kitchen-brewed Yaginol or scraped poppy-juice from the slit pods with the backs of dirty knives), the ones who said, "I don't have to ghetto where I'm going because I was born here!
After we'd spent a while pounding out command lines and hitting that ENTER key and spawning dull, failed universes, we would start to long for an OS that would go all the way to the opposite extreme: an OS that had the power to do everything--to live our life for us.
The original SETI broadcast strongly implied that the router is part of a network of self-replicating instantaneous communicators, spawning and spreading between the cold brown dwarf stars that litter the galaxy.
Almost immediately, this liquid evanesced into a darkening steam, spawning an intense wave of heat that caused Riane to stumble backward into Othnam's arms.
The Magh'mmm practice group spawning with external fertilization and with a sextuploid-haploid DNA analogue.
Occasionally he caught sight of a big garpike slithering past on the way to its spawning ground upriver.
With the numerous new larvae generated by the Hatcheries, she had created Creep Colonies, Extractors, Spawning Pools.
It was turiya and moksha, Herem and Jehannum, who lured the powerful and austere Demondim to their breeding dens, and to the spawning of the ur-viles.