seed
IPA: sˈid
noun
- (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
- (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- (countable) A fragment of coral.
- (uncountable) Semen.
- (countable, figurative) A precursor.
- (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
- (sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
- (cryptography) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system. (seed number)
- (Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
- Race; generation; birth.
- (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
- (intransitive) To produce seed.
- (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
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Examples of "seed" in Sentences
- Ayni is the seed of the fruit.
- The seed contains the plant embryo.
- The medicinal parts of the plant are the ripe seeds.
- The fruit contains a number of large, inedible seeds.
- Could it be that the serpent ate the seed of the fruit
- The fruit type is a banana that is seeded and inedible.
- Seed corn and soybean are among the grains produced by the city.
- The fruits and seeds are poisonous, causing nausea and vomiting.
- The ovary now will develop into fruit and the ovule will develop into seed.
- Mustard seeds of the various mustard plants are among the smallest of seeds.
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