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seed¹

  • /siːd/ UK, US

Sounds like cede, sede · Rhymes with -iːd

Where it comes from

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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.

noun seeds · sede

  1. countable Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
  2. countable A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
  3. countable Any small seed-like fruit. If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
  4. collective, uncountable An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted. The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
  5. countable A fragment of coral.
  6. uncountable Semen. A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
  7. countable, figuratively A precursor. the seed of an idea
  8. countable, uncountable 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.
  9. countable, uncountable The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position). The rookie was a surprising top seed.
  10. countable, uncountable The 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.
  11. countable, uncountable (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement. Seeds are Minecraft's way of generating terrain. Each biome you spawn in is determined by the seed. With a custom seed, you can have a desert biome right next to a mesa biome.
  12. Internet, countable, uncountable A 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.
  13. archaic, countable, uncountable Offspring, descendants, progeny. the seed of Abraham
  14. countable, uncountable Race; generation; birth. Of mortal seed they were not held.
  15. countable, uncountable A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
  16. countable, uncountable A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
  17. US, countable, slang, uncountable A child. Seeds know what time it is, like it's time for Teletubbies

verb seeds · seeding · seeded · sede

  1. transitive To plant or sow an area with seeds. I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
  2. reflexive To shed seeds (refers to plants) These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
  3. transitive 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: […]
  4. transitive To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of. A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
  5. 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.
  6. Internet, transitive To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
  7. intransitive To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final. The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
  8. 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.
  9. intransitive To produce seed.
  10. intransitive To grow to maturity.
  11. slang, vulgar To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

seed²

  • /siːd/ UK, US

Sounds like cede, sede · Rhymes with -iːd

Where it comes from

From see + -d (“past tense suffix; variant of -ed”).

verb

  1. dialectal, participle, past simple past and past participle of see Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feegees."

Seed³

proper noun Seeds

  1. A surname.

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