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offspring

offspring

11 4.3
A thing produced as a result of an idea or action
  • noun
  • /ˈɔfˌsprɪŋ/
translation icon : producto
  • The scientist studied how environmental factors affect the offspring produced by the plants.
  • produce offspring
  • offspring of scientific

So the Universal Postage Union is a one of the offspring of the UN system that regulates freight rates around the world.

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Examples

  • I was reading how the stallion is responsible for 60 percent of the characteristics of the offspring.

    Nothing in Common (1986)

  • The offspring of the bird hatched from the eggs last week.

  • What kind of offspring do you think that would yield?

    King Arthur (2004)

  • You can get higher quality or more offspring doing it quicker.

  • Other projects are the obvious offspring of a scientific mind and a pencil and paper.

    Academic text (1990)

  • In such years, weasels seize the opportunity to produce as many offspring as possible.

    Academic text (1991)

  • So the Universal Postage Union is a one of the offspring of the UN system that regulates freight rates around the world.

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  • In addition, they noted that "Academics are the offspring of a disproportionately well-educated group of parents" (p. 321).

    Academic text (1995)

  • Parents often worry about the future of their offspring in a rapidly changing world.

Synonyms

materialization
vsoffspring
1 7.2

An idea or plan that becomes real and takes a clear form

is the produced outcome rather than the process of becoming real

Antonyms

to cause
∞ 1.0

To make something happen

Compounds

female offspring
1 2.2

A female child of a person or animal, for example a daughter

How Significant

breakthrough
242 3.9
offspring
11 4.3
product
313 1.0
by-product
6 3.9

Surface Forms

offspring singular
offspring plural

Morphology

offspring = spring (semi-transparent) = off + spring

The sense is a metaphorical extension ('that which springs off' → 'product/result'); components are analyzable but the specific 'product/result' meaning is figurative. [Postprocessing: moved 'off' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Offspring also keeps the image of 'something that springs from' another thing, from off- ('from') + spring ('to jump'), so think of ideas that 'spring off' an older idea. That's why offspring can mean a product or result of a process.