| seed | |
| 1. subst. A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant. | |
| If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn. | |
| 2. subst. (botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant. | |
| 3. subst. An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted. | |
| The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed. | |
| 4. subst. Semen. | |
| A man must use his seed to start and raise a family. | |
| 5. subst. A precursor. | |
| the seed of an idea; which idea was the seed (idea)? | |
| 6. subst. The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors. | |
| 7. subst. 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. | |
| 8. subst. The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position) | |
| The rookie was a surprising top seed. | |
| 9. subst. Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number) | |
| If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers. | |
| 10. subst. 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. | |
| 11. subst. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny. | |
| the seed of Abraham | |
| 12. subst. Race; generation; birth. | |
| 13. v. To plant or sow an area with seeds. | |
| I seeded my lawn with bluegrass. | |
| 14. v. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. | |
| 15. v. To 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. | |
| 16. v. (sports) To allocate a seeding to a competitor. | |
| 17. v. (internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through BitTorrent. | |
| 18. v. To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final). | |
| The tennis player seeded into the quarters. | |
| 19. v. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum. | |
| 20. v. (dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see | |
