seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēd
ipa: /siːd/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: cede
homophone: sede
Forms: form: seeds
form: sede
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”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Säid (“seed”), West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), Low German Saad (“seed”), German Saat (“seed; sowing”), Danish sæd (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Icelandic sæði (“seed”), Latin satiō (“seeding, time of sowing, season”). More at sow.
Senses: examples: text: […] 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, […]
ref: 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: spawn
glosses: Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
synonyms: spawn
glosses: 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.
examples: text: If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
text: 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.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 136:
text: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
ref: 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: spawn
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
glosses: An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
glosses: A fragment of coral.
examples: text: A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
text: 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.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 15:16:
glosses: Semen.
examples: text: the seed of an idea
text: Which idea was the seed (idea)?
synonyms: germ
glosses: A precursor.
examples: text: The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: 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)
examples: text: The rookie was a surprising top seed.
glosses: 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).
examples: text: If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Daniel J. Bernstein, Johannes Buchmann, Erik Dahmen, editors, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Springer, →ISBN, page 44:
text: 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.
ref: 2015, Jesse Stay, Thomas Stay, Jacob Cordeiro, Minecraft For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 242:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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. (seed number)
examples: text: The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: 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)
examples: text: the seed of Abraham
text: 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 […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Offspring, descendants, progeny.
examples: text: Of mortal seed they were not held.
ref: a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Zelinda:
glosses: Race; generation; birth.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
glosses: A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
examples: text: Seeds know what time it is, like it's time for Teletubbies
ref: 2004, MF DOOM, “One Beer”, in MM..FOOD:
glosses: A child.
Hyponyms: crack seed
Derived terms: aburachan seed
allseed
amber seed
apple seed
bad seed
benniseed
birdseed
black seed squash
boneseed
burseed
canary seed
caraway seed bread
celery seed
chia seed
cloudseed
coixseed
coleseed
coriander seed
cottonseed
cupseed
dandelion seed
deseed
dillseed
drift seed
dropseed
eat one's seed corn
eat the seed corn
fern seed
fernseed
flax seed
flaxseed
gape seed
goldseed
go to seed
grapeseed
grass seed
hagseed
hayseed
heartseed
helicopter seed
hemp seed
hempseed
hydroseed
jumpseed
lopseed
lotus seed
many-seed goosefoot
meeting seed
meetin' seed
microseed
moonseed
multiseed
musk seed
mustard seed
naked seed
nanoseed
Niger seed
nonseed
nyjer seed
oilseed
oil-seed camellia
one-seed juniper
onion seed
plant a seed
poppyseed
poppy seed
poppy seed test
preseed
pumpkin seed
pumpkinseed
radon seed
random seed
rapeseed
reseed
run to seed
rye seed
scaleseed
seeb
seedable
seedbag
seed bank
seed banking
seed bead
seedbearing
seedbed
seed beetle
seed-bird
seed-borne
seedborne
seedbox
seed-bud
seed bug
seed cake
seedcake
seedcase
seed change
seed coat
seedcoat
seedcod
seed cone
seedcorn
seed corn
seed crystal
seed down
seed drill
seedeater
seedeating
seeder
seed-faith
seed fern
seed fill
seedful
seed funder
seed funding
seed gall
seed grain
seedhead
seedhouse
seedlac
seed leaf
seedlep
seedless
seedlet
seed library
seedlike
seedline
seedling
seed-lobe
seedlot
seedly
seedman
seed money
seedness
seednut
seed-nut
seed oil
seed oyster
seed pearl
seed phrase
seed pit
seed plant
seedplot
seedpod
seed pod
seed potato
seedset
seedship
seed shrimp
seedsman
seedsnipe
seedstalk
seed stitch
seed stock
seed technology
seed tick
seedtime
seed tree
seed vault
seed vessel
seed weevil
seed wool
seedy
seedzone
sesame seed
sow the seeds of
spill one's seed
star seed
stickseed
stoneseed
stripeseed
suicide seed
sunflower seed
sunseed
tasselseed
teal-seed
teelseed
tickseed
til seed
top seed
true to seed
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptist
velvetseed
wattleseed
wormseed
yellowseed