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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.]
   1. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.

   2. To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.

            One edition [of books] spawneth another. --Fuller.

Spawn \Spawn\, v. i.
   1. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.

   2. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.

Spawn \Spawn\, n. [[root]170. See {Spawn}, v. t.]
   1. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic
      animals.

   2. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.

   3. (Hort.) The buds or branches produced from underground
      stems.

   4. (Bot.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from
      which fungi.

   {Spawn eater} (Zo["o]l.), a small American cyprinoid fish
      ({Notropis Hudsonius}) allied to the dace.

资料来源 : WordNet®

spawn
     n : the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
     v 1: call forth [syn: {engender}, {breed}]
     2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

spawn
     
         To create a {child process} in a
        {multitasking} {operating system}.  E.g. {Unix}'s {fork}
        {system call} or one of the spawn() library routines provided
        by most {MS-DOS}, {Novell NetWare} and {OS/2} {C} compilers -
        spawnl(), spawnle(), etc.
     
        (1995-03-28)