seed
nounEtymology
] 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.
Definitions
Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like…
Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
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.
A 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
The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process
The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
- The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
Offspring, 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 […]
Race
Race; generation; birth.
- Of mortal seed they were not held.
A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some…
A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
A child.
- Seeds know what time it is, like it's time for Teletubbies
To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
To shed seeds (refers to plants)
- These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
To cover thinly with something scattered
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: […]
To start
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.
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.
To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing…
To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation…
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.
To produce seed.
To grow to maturity.
To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
simple past and past participle of see
A surname.
The neighborhood
- neighborcrack seed
Derived
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 · +151 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at seed. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at seed. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at seed
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA