Create vs. Spawn — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Create and Spawn
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Create
Bring (something) into existence
He created a thirty-acre lake
Over 170 jobs were created
Spawn
The eggs of aquatic animals such as bivalve mollusks, fishes, and amphibians.
Create
Make a fuss; complain
Little kids create because they hate being ignored
Spawn
Offspring, especially when occurring in large numbers.
Create
To cause to exist; bring into being
Created a new music school.
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Spawn
A product or an outcome
The spawn of a prodigious imagination.
Create
To give rise to; produce
That remark created a stir.
Spawn
Mycelia of mushrooms or other fungi grown in specially prepared organic matter for planting in beds.
Create
To produce through artistic or imaginative effort
Create a poem.
Create a dramatic role.
Spawn
To deposit eggs; produce spawn.
Create
To invest with an office or title; appoint
He was created a baron.
Spawn
To produce offspring in large numbers.
Create
Created.
Spawn
To produce or deposit (spawn).
Create
(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
You can create the color orange by mixing yellow and red.
Spawn
To produce (offspring).
Create
To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
Spawn
To produce or give rise to
Tyranny that spawned revolt.
Create
To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.
Couturiers create exclusive garments for an affluent clientele.
Spawn
To plant with mycelia grown in specially prepared organic matter.
Create
(transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
Crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties
A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam.
Spawn
(transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
Create
(transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
Henry VIII created him a Duke.
Last month, the queen created two barons.
Under the concordate with Belgium, at least one Belgian clergyman must be created cardinal; by tradition, every archbishop of Mechelen is thus created a cardinal.
Spawn
(transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
Create
(intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
Children usually enjoy creating, never mind if it is of any use!
Spawn
(transitive) To bring forth in general.
The Web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
Create
(transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
Spawn
(transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
Create
To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
Spawn
(transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
Create
(obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.
Spawn
(intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
Create
Created; composed; begotten.
Hearts create of duty and zeal.
Spawn
(intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
Create
To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Spawn
(To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.
Create
To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.
Your eye in ScotlandWould create soldiers.
Create in me a clean heart.
Spawn
The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
Create
To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.
Spawn
Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
Create
Make or cause to be or to become;
Make a mess in one's office
Create a furor
Spawn
Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.
Create
Bring into existence;
The company was created 25 years ago
He created a new movement in painting
Spawn
(horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
Create
Pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity;
Don't disturb him--he is creating
Spawn
(video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.
Create
Invest with a new title, office, or rank;
Create one a peer
Spawn
To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
Create
Create by artistic means;
Create a poem
Schoenberg created twelve-tone music
Picasso created Cubism
Auden made verses
Spawn
To bring forth; to generate; - used in contempt.
One edition [of books] spawneth another.
Create
Create or manufacture a man-made product;
We produce more cars than we can sell
The company has been making toys for two centuries
Spawn
To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
Spawn
To issue, as offspring; - used contemptuously.
Spawn
The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
Spawn
Any product or offspring; - used contemptuously.
Spawn
The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
Spawn
The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
Spawn
The mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
Spawn
Call forth
Spawn
Lay spawn;
The salmon swims upstream to spawn
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