seed
noun
1. a small hard fruit
Definition categories: plant, fruit
2. a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
Definition categories: plant, ovule
3. one of the outstanding players in a tournament
Definition categories: person, participant, player
4. anything that provides inspiration for later work
Definition categories: thought, inspiration
5. the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
Similar word(s): come, ejaculate, semen
Definition categories: body, humor, humour
Sentences with seed as a noun:
- If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
- The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
- A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
- the seed of an idea;
- 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.
- the seed of Abraham
verb
1. go to seed; shed seeds
- The dandelions went to seed
Definition categories: contact, disgorge, shed, spill
2. help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
Definition categories: possession, finance
3. bear seeds
Definition categories: creation, bear
4. place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- She sowed sunflower seeds
Similar word(s): sow
Definition categories: contact, lay, place, pose, position, put, set
5. distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
Definition categories: cognition, grade, order, place, range, rank, rate
6. sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
- seed clouds
Definition categories: change, process, treat
7. inoculate with microorganisms
Definition categories: change, inoculate
8. remove the seeds from
- seed grapes
Definition categories: change, remove, take, withdraw
Sentences with seed as a verb:
- I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
- 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.
- The tennis player seeded into the quarters.