What's the difference between generate and spawn?

Generate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.
  • (v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.
  • (v. t.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (2) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
  • (3) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
  • (4) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (5) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
  • (6) It was also found that lipocortin I and ONO-RS-082, but not neomycin, facilitated the generation of GIF-producing T cells.
  • (7) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
  • (8) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
  • (9) Discrimination errors were used to generate a matrix of interletter and interpattern similarities.
  • (10) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
  • (11) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
  • (12) This result suggests that tryptophan-86 may be importantly involved in the generation of the product excited state during aequorin bioluminescence.
  • (13) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
  • (14) The transmission of alcoholism and its effects are thereby lessened for future generations of children of alcoholics.
  • (15) Furthermore, high-density catalase-positive--but not catalase-negative--E. coli can survive and multiply in the presence of competitive, peroxide-generating streptococci.
  • (16) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (17) These results suggest that CD4+ protective T cells generated by immunization with vBCG are characterized by the ability to produce IFN-gamma after stimulation with specific Ag.
  • (18) The alpha-ketoglutarate generated is reduced with glutamate dehydrogenase and NADH.
  • (19) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
  • (20) Extensive proliferation has been shown to accompany the de novo generation of LAK cytotoxicity.

Spawn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
  • (v. t.) To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
  • (v. i.) To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
  • (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
  • (v. t.) The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
  • (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
  • (v. t.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
  • (v. t.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple spawnings of individual females were also observed during the spawning period affecting the relative fecundity of the eggs.
  • (2) Such a heterogeneity in DNA content in the diploid part of HPR cell population could apparently suggest some differences in the nuclear chromatin arrangement to be always higher in spring before the frog spawning, and it seems to be characteristic of this type of cells.
  • (3) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
  • (4) As a precociously talented young artist, his interests didn't lie with landscape or the countryside – "though I did collect frog spawn and things like that" – but more with the advertising, posters and signwriting he saw around town.
  • (5) Unreasonable expectations and expansion of the health sector have spawned counterproductive effects which are to some extent detrimental to public health.
  • (6) The 53K esterase is also present in spawned ovaries and testes.
  • (7) It is important that newly developed antibiotics be used so as to increase our ability to eradicate infection, rather than to complicate the treatment of infection by spawning the creation of organisms resistant to multiple antibiotics.
  • (8) At this stage, however, the allure of big money Super Pacs has been much stronger on the GOP side, although their ineffectiveness in slowing Trump’s inexorable rise has spawned grousing and finger pointing.
  • (9) EHSE, but not DSE or HCSE, inhibited spawning (P less than 0.01) in 36% of the exposed fish and hepatic AHH activity in the non-spawning fish was significantly (P less than 0.05) higher than in the fish that did spawn.
  • (10) It's a fact of modern life that any human aspiration – from dropping a dress size to preventing your own suicide – will spawn a series of how-to books devoted to it.
  • (11) The many pop stars spawned by Simon Cowell's television shows have, as usual, been comprehensively ignored, apart from in the British single category, based on commercial radio airplay and sales and voted for by the public.
  • (12) The involvement of active inorganic ion transport and Na+,K(+)-ATPase in oocyte hydration in Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) and spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), marine teleosts which spawn pelagic eggs, was investigated by examining changes in the inorganic ion content of ovarian follicles containing mainly oocytes, by performing in vitro incubations of the follicles with ion channel blockers, and by assaying membrane preparations of ovaries containing hydrating and non-hydrating oocytes for Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity and content.
  • (13) In males, both plasma T and 11-KT initially increased in November and then showed further increasings during the rest of the period of gametogenesis (December) to reach their peak levels in the first half of the spawning period (end of January).
  • (14) The increase of the lysosomal activity in the connective tissue may be related to the changes found in the muscle texture associated with spawning.
  • (15) 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone increased significantly in serum before and after the fish had spawned.
  • (16) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
  • (17) In Scotland a section of the Labour party remain convinced that Blairism spawned the rise of nationalism, and in England a similar group believe the alienation of the working-class vote stems from the former PM’s embrace of globalisation, leading to lower wages and weaker job security.
  • (18) The spawning season extends from late October to December and the ovary exhibits asynchronism.
  • (19) These findings suggest mechanisms for the maintenance of high rates of gluconeogenesis in salmon during spawning migration.
  • (20) China’s real growth is now below that of the Mao years: the economic crisis will spawn a crisis of legitimacy for the deeply corrupt communist party.