seed
nounverbverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//siːd//
Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
noun
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Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
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Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
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Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. Any small seed-like fruit.
If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
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An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
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A fragment of coral.
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Semen.
A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
And if any mans seede of copulation goe out from him, then hee shall wash all his flesh in water, and bee vncleane vntill the Euen.
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figurativeA precursor.
the seed of an idea
Which idea was the seed (idea)?
Sometimes it takes more than you have / To benefit from what you know / Sometimes you keep pouring water / But the seeds don't grow, woah
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The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors. The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
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The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors. The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
The rookie was a surprising top seed.
Serving at deuce and trailing to Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch 5-2 in the first set of their second-round match at the French Open, the Chinese No. 32 seed saw a forehand called out by a line judge.
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The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors. The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.
As suggested in [3], space can be saved by using a deterministic pseudo random number generator (PRNG) and storing only the seed of that PRNG.
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The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors. (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement.
Seeds are Minecraft's way of generating terrain. Each biome you spawn in is determined by the seed. With a custom seed, you can have a desert biome right next to a mesa biome.
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The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors. A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
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archaicOffspring, descendants, progeny.
the seed of Abraham
Next him king Leyr in happie peace long raind, / But had no issue male him to succeed, / But three faire daughters, which were well vptraind, / In all that seemed fit for kingly seed […]
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Race; generation; birth.
Of mortal seed they were not held.
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A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
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A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
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slangA child.
Seeds know what time it is, like it's time for Teletubbies
Etymology
] From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”). Cognates Cognate with Yola zeade (“seed”), North Frisian sead, seed, siad, Siid, sädj, säid (“seed”), Saterland Frisian Säid (“seed”), West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), German Saat (“seed; sowing”), Limburgish zaod (“seed”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk sæd (“seed”), Faroese and Icelandic sáð (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Gothic *𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 (*sēþs, “seed”); also Latin serō (“to sow, plant”), Latvian sēt (“to sow”), Lithuanian sėti (“to sow”), Bulgarian се́я (séja, “to sow, plant”), Czech sít (“to sow”), Macedonian сее (see, “to sow”), Polish siać (“to sow”), Russian се́ять (séjatʹ, “to sow”), Serbo-Croatian се̏јати, sȅjati, си̏јати, sȉjati (“to sow”), Slovak siať (“to sow”), Slovene sejáti (“to sow”), Ukrainian сі́яти (síjaty, “to sow”). More at sow.
verb
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To plant or sow an area with seeds.
I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
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To shed seeds (refers to plants)
These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
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To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
[…] AGRYPNIA, or Vigilance, in yellovv, a ſable mantle, ſeeded vvith vvaking eies, and ſiluer fringe: […]
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To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.
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To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass.
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To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
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To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
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To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
A number of clouds were seeded to help provide rain to a drought-stricken area.
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To produce seed.
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To grow to maturity.
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slangTo ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
verb
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Also a form of seesimple past and past participle of see
Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feegees."
Etymology
From see + -d (“past tense suffix; variant of -ed”).
Forms
- plural
- seeds
- past tense
- seeded
- past participle
- seeded
- present participle
- seeding
- third person singular
- seeds
seed · Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
Seed · A surname.Seeds · A Life-like cellular automaton with the rule B2/S.seeing · Having vision; not blind.