seed
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
climatology
computing
cryptography
engineering
games
gaming
hobbies
lifestyle
marketing
mathematics
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
sports
video-games
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.
Inflected forms:
form: seeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sede
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: seeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seeded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seeded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sede
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […] 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, […]
gloss: Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
pos: noun
tags: collective
uncountable
examples: The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
gloss: A fragment of coral.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Semen.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A precursor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: 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
gloss: The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
gloss: The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
examples: The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
gloss: Offspring, descendants, progeny.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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 […]
gloss: Race; generation; birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Of mortal seed they were not held.
gloss: A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A child.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Seeds know what time it is, like it's time for Teletubbies
gloss: To plant or sow an area with seeds.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
gloss: To shed seeds (refers to plants)
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
gloss: To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] AGRYPNIA, or Vigilance, in yellovv, a ſable mantle, ſeeded vvith vvaking eies, and ſiluer fringe: […]
gloss: To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
gloss: To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
gloss: To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
pos: verb
examples: A number of clouds were seeded to help provide rain to a drought-stricken area.
gloss: To produce seed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To grow to maturity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
pos: verb
tags: slang
vulgar
Derived words: 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
fernseed
fern seed
flaxseed
flax seed
gape seed
goldseed
go to seed
grapeseed
grass seed
hagseed
hayseed
heartseed
helicopter seed
hemp seed
hempseed
hydroseed
jumpseed
lopseed
lotus seed
manyseed
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
plumeseed
poppyseed
poppy seed
poppy seed test
preseed
pumpkin seed
pumpkinseed
radon seed
random seed
rapeseed
reseed
run to seed
rye seed
scaleseed
seeb
seedable
seedage
seedbag
seed bank
seed banking
seed bead
seedbearing
seedbed
seed beetle
seed-bird
seedborne
seed-borne
seedbox
seed-bud
seed bug
seed cake
seedcake
seed capital
seedcase
seed change
seed coat
seedcoat
seedcod
seed cone
seed corn
seedcorn
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
seed-nut
seednut
seed oil
seed oyster
seed pearl
seed phrase
seed pit
seed plant
seedplot
seed pod
seedpod
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
wingseed
wormseed
yellowseed
overseed
self-seed
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: siemen
lang: Akkadian
word: 𒆰
lang: Albanian
word: farë
lang: Albanian
word: njizs
lang: Southern Altai
word: ӱрен
roman: üren
lang: Arabic
word: مَنْي
roman: many
lang: Armenian
word: սերմ
roman: serm
lang: Bulgarian
word: се́ме
roman: séme
lang: Dutch
word: sperma
lang: Dutch
word: zaad
lang: Esperanto
word: spermo
lang: Esperanto
word: semo
lang: Estonian
word: sperma
lang: Estonian
word: seeme
lang: Finnish
word: siemenneste
lang: Finnish
word: sperma
lang: Finnish
word: siemen
lang: French
word: sperme
lang: Georgian
word: თესლი
roman: tesli
lang: Georgian
word: სპერმა
roman: sṗerma
lang: German
word: Samen
lang: German
word: Sperma
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θορός
roman: thorós
lang: Irish
word: síol
lang: Italian
word: sperma
lang: Italian
word: seme
lang: Kannada
word: ಬೀಜ
roman: bīja
lang: Latvian
word: sēkla
lang: Macedonian
word: семе
roman: seme
lang: Manx
word: sheel
lang: Middle English
word: seed
lang: Polish
word: nasienie
lang: Portuguese
word: sêmen
lang: Portuguese
word: sémen
lang: Russian
word: се́мя
roman: sémja
lang: Slovak
word: semeno
lang: Spanish
word: semen
lang: Spanish
word: simiente
lang: Swedish
word: sperma
lang: Swedish
word: säd
lang: Tagalog
word: binhî
lang: Ukrainian
word: сі́м'я
roman: símʺja
lang: Walloon
word: simince
lang: Walloon
word: djermon
lang: Walloon
word: spieme
lang: Finnish
word: alkutilanne