seed

Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.countable

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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.countable

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.countable

• If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.

An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.collectiveuncountable

• The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.

A fragment of coral.countable

Semen.uncountable

• A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.

A precursor.countablefiguratively

• the seed of an idea
• Which idea was the seed (idea)?

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)countableuncountable

• The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.

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).countableuncountable

• The rookie was a surprising top seed.

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.countableuncountable

• If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.

To plant or sow an area with seeds.transitive

• I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.

To shed seeds (refers to plants)reflexive

• These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.

To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.transitive

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To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.transitive

• A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
• The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.

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 protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).Internettransitive

To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.intransitive

• The tennis player seeded into the quarters.

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.intransitive

To grow to maturity.intransitive

simple past and past participle of seedialectalform-ofparticiple

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