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Seed

Noun

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1.NounAny propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
"If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn."
2.NounA fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
3.NounAny small seed-like fruit.
"If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn."
4.NounAn amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
"The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed."
5.NounA fragment of coral.
6.NounSemen.
"A man must use his seed to start and raise a family."
7.NounA precursor.
"the seed of an idea; Which idea was the seed (idea)?"
8.NounThe 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 team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.; The rookie was a surprising top seed.; If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.; The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community."
9.NounThe initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
"The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament."
10.NounThe competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
"The rookie was a surprising top seed."
11.NounThe initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
"If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers."
12.NounA unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement.
13.NounA commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
"The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community."
14.NounOffspring, descendants, progeny.
"the seed of Abraham"
15.NounRace; generation; birth.
16.NounA small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
17.NounA small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
18.NounA child.
19.VerbTo plant or sow an area with seeds.
"I seeded my lawn with bluegrass."
20.VerbTo shed seeds (refers to plants)
"These poppies have not seeded themselves yet."
21.VerbTo cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
22.VerbTo 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."
23.VerbTo allocate a seeding to a competitor.
24.VerbTo leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
25.VerbTo be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
"The tennis player seeded into the quarters."
26.VerbTo 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."
27.VerbTo produce seed.
28.VerbTo grow to maturity.
29.VerbTo ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
30.Verbsimple past and past participle of see
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