father vs spawn

father

verb
  • To give rise to. 

  • To act as a father; to support and nurture. 

  • To provide with a father. 

  • To adopt as one's own. 

  • To be a father to; to sire. 

noun
  • The founder of a discipline or science. 

  • A member of a church council. 

  • Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. 

  • The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather. 

  • A term of respectful address for a priest. 

  • Something inanimate that begets. 

  • A person who plays the role of a father in some way. 

  • A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor. 

  • A (generally human) male who begets a child. 

  • A term of respectful address for an elderly man. 

spawn

verb
  • To bring forth in general. 

  • To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. 

  • (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time. 

  • To reproduce, especially in large numbers. 

  • To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn. 

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

  • To plant with fungal spawn. 

  • To deposit (numerous) eggs in water. 

noun
  • The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism. 

  • Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation. 

  • Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring. 

  • The buds or branches produced from underground stems. 

  • The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear. 

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