Used in a Sentence

spawn

How to use spawn in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for spawn.

Editorial note

So then you'd spawn "worker" threads, each handling just 64 handles.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of spawn gathered in one view.

noun

the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

verb

call forth

verb

lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spawn.

noun

the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

verb

lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

Example sentences

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So then you'd spawn "worker" threads, each handling just 64 handles.

2

The solution is "don't spawn a huge number of tasks in a tight loop".

3

Federally listed steelhead use the lower parts of Post Creek to spawn.

4

I got banned regularly, but would just spawn up a new server with a new IP. I'm not going to use this data anywhere on my sites.

5

Rust tasks are optimized for maximum performance once you spin them up, at the cost of some overhead once you spawn them.

6

> It's typically difficult, if not impossible, to scale up and down your engineering team in the way you can spawn up new cloud servers.

7

We may be the ones, like our founding fathers, who have to write up a new constitution, bill of rights, and spawn a new nation to break away from the defective one.

8

Comment threads usually spawn multi-leveled discussions with various but not radical opinions about a topic.

9

It's perfectly reasonable to up-vote something with the hopes that it hits the front page because you feel it will spawn an interesting discussion that you want to read and/or participate in.

10

It was a very elegant system, root's primal shell spawned getty, and getty would spawn a shell for a user when they logged in, everything from that point on would be owned by the user just like everything that happened before was owned by root.

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And avian meat was a pain in the arse to harvest - you had to roam all over the map looking for the changing spawn points and if I remember correctly, you would only have maybe 20 pieces of the resource for every hour hunting - it was seriously time consuming.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use spawn in a sentence?

So then you'd spawn "worker" threads, each handling just 64 handles.

What does spawn mean?

the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

What part of speech is spawn?

spawn is commonly used as noun, verb.