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To launch another program from the current program. The child program is spawned from the parent program.

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verb

1. To produce sexually or asexually others of one's kind: breed, increase, multiply, procreate, proliferate, propagate, reproduce. See reproduction/barrenness.
2. To cause to come into existence: beget, breed, create, engender, father, hatch, make, originate, parent, procreate, produce, sire. Idioms: givebirthriseto. See make/unmake.

v

Definition: produce
Antonyms: destroy

IN BRIEF: To produce young in large numbers. Also: Offspring.

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

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Fish eggs.

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• Pregnancy and Birth - spawn: (vb) reproduce, esp. in large numbers

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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - yngle, avles, udklækkes
v. tr. - yngle, avle, gyde, udklække
n. - yngel, æg, rogn, fiskeleg

Nederlands (Dutch)
kuit schieten, uitscheiden, kuit

Français (French)
v. intr. - (Zool) frayer, se multiplier
v. tr. - engendrer
n. - frai, mycélium

Deutsch (German)
v. - laichen, hervorbringen
n. - Laich, Brut

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - (για ψάρια ή βατράχους) ωοτοκώ, (μτφ.) αβγατίζω, πληθαίνω, παράγω σε μεγάλες ποσότητες
n. - αβγά ή γόνος (ψαριών ή βατράχων), μυκήλιο(ν) (μύκητα), (μτφ.) γόνος, φύτρα

Italiano (Italian)
deporre, razza

Português (Portuguese)
v. - reproduzir, procriar
n. - descendência (f), prole, ovas (f pl)

Русский (Russian)
икра, мальки, многочисленное потомство, отродье, следствие (чего-л.), метать икру, плодиться, плодить, кишеть

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - desovar, frezar, producir, engendrar
v. tr. - multiplicarse, propagarse, desarrollarse en abundancia
n. - hueva, freza, micelio, resultado

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - lägga rom, leka, yngla, producera i massor, spotta ut, yngla av sig
n. - rom, ägg

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
产卵, 大量生产, 产, 大量产生, 生育, 造成, 酿成, 卵, 鱼卵

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 產卵, 大量生產
v. tr. - 產, 大量產生, 生育, 造成, 釀成
n. - 卵, 魚卵

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 알을 낳다, 산란하다, 대량 생산하다
v. tr. - 알을 낳다, ~의 원인이 되다, 대량 생산하다
n. - 알, (~ 혈통의) 자손

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 卵, 菌糸, はらご, 子供
v. - 産む, 産卵する, 引き起こす, 生み出す

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) تضع ألسمكه بيضها, يحدث أو يفرخ أو ينتج, تبيض (الاسم) جرثومه, بذرة, نتاج‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮נוצרו כביצים‬
v. tr. - ‮הוליד, השריץ במספרים גדולים, הטילה ביצים (צפרדע, דגה, רכיכה)‬
n. - ‮ביצי-דגים, פקעת-ביצים, תפטיר-פטריות‬

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