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# spawn

«spawn» in Mova's school dictionary: **When fish or frogs spawn, they lay lots of eggs in water** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (spawn, spawns, spawned, spawning); noun (spawn — uncountable: frogspawn)

### meaning for a pupil

1) When fish or frogs spawn, they lay lots of eggs in water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#m1)

2) Spawn is the mass of eggs laid by fish, frogs or toads, like frogspawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#m2)

3) To spawn something means to cause many new things to appear, as in the film spawned three sequels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#m3)

4) (games) In video games, to spawn means for a player or character to appear in the game world; the spawn point is where they appear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on life cycles, frogs lay frogspawn in ponds in spring; it hatches into tadpoles. Salmon swim upriver to spawn. In computer games, players spawn and respawn after losing a life. In everyday talk, one popular thing can spawn many copies.

### examples

- Frogs spawn in ponds in early spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#x1)
- We saw a clump of frogspawn in the school pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#x2)
- Salmon swim up the river to spawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#x3)
- The film spawned a whole series of toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#x4)
- In the game you spawn next to a castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#x5)
- After you lose a life, you respawn at the last checkpoint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#x6)
- Zombies spawn at night in that game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/#x7)

### note

Spawn as a noun is uncountable: some spawn, not a spawn. Frogspawn is written as one word. Respawn means spawn again. Older and formal use: spawn can sound negative, as in spawn of the devil in old stories.

### In the corpora

- [In March a garden pond can fill with clumps of jelly dotted with black eggs: common frog spawn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spawn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spawn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.