seed

Plural: seeds

Noun

• a small hard fruit
• a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
• one of the outstanding players in a tournament
• anything that provides inspiration for later work
• the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
• Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
• 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.
• 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.
• An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
• A fragment of coral.
• Semen.
• A precursor.
• 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 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 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)
• 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)
• Offspring, descendants, progeny.
• Race; generation; birth.
• A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
• A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

Verb

Verb Forms: seeded, seeding, seeds

• To plant seeds in soil or a container.
• go to seed; shed seeds
  • "The dandelions went to seed"
• help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
• bear seeds
• place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
  • "She sowed sunflower seeds"
• distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
• sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
  • "seed clouds"
• inoculate with microorganisms
• remove the seeds from
  • "seed grapes"
• To plant or sow an area with seeds.
• To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
• To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
• To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
• 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.
• To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
• 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

Examples

• A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
• A number of clouds were seeded to help provide rain to a drought-stricken area.
• A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
• He decided to seed the board with common letters, hoping for future bingos.
• I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
• If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
• If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.
• The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
• The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
• The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.
• The rookie was a surprising top seed.
• the seed of Abraham
• the seed of an idea
• The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
• The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
• The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
• Which idea was the seed (idea)?

Synonyms

come, cum, ejaculate, germ, seeded player, semen, seminal fluid, source, sow

Anagrams of seed