From en.wiktionary.org:
[Seed]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [sēd] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en]
From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en], from [en].
Cognate with [stq], [fy], [nl], [nds], [de], [da], [sv], [is], [la]. More at
[en].
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sow n, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
2. * [en]
1. [en] [en] A fertilize d and ripened ovule , containing an embryo nic plant.
2. [en] [en] Any small seed-like fruit .
3. * [chapter=III]
4. * [en]
3. [en] An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
4. [en] A fragment of coral .
5. [en] [semen] .
6. * [Leviticus]
7. [en] A precursor .
8. [en] The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
1. [en] The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
2. The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
3. [en] [en] The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system. (seed number)
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. [en] A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
9. [en] [offspring] , descendants , progeny .
10. * [book=II]
11. [race] ; generation ; birth .
12. * {{ quote-text | en | year=a. 1687 | author=w:Edmund Waller | title=To Zelinda
|passage=Of mortal SEED they were not held.}}
1. [en] A small particle , bubble , or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
2. A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass .
***** Usage notes
- [botany] The common use of seed differs from the botanical use. The “seeds” of sunflowers are botanically fruit s.
***** Hyponyms
- [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en |aburachan seed |allseed |amber seed |apple seed |bad seed |benniseed
|birdseed |black seed squash |boneseed |burseed |canary seed |caraway seed
bread |celery seed |chia seed |cloudseed |coixseed|many-seed goosefoot
|coleseed |coriander seed |cottonseed |cupseed |dandelion seed |deseed| seed
cone |dillseed |drift seed |dropseed |eat one's seed corn |eat the seed corn
|fern seed |fernseed |flax seed |flaxseed |gape seed |go to seed |goldseed
|grapeseed |hagseed |hayseed |heartseed |helicopter seed |hemp seed |hempseed
|hydroseed |jumpseed |lopseed |lotus seed |meetin' seed |meeting seed
|microseed |moonseed |multiseed |musk seed |mustard seed |naked seed |nanoseed
|Niger seed |nonseed |nyjer seed |oil-seed camellia |oilseed |one-seed juniper
|onion seed |plant a seed |poppy seed |poppy seed test |poppyseed |preseed
|pumpkin seed |pumpkinseed |radon seed |random seed |rapeseed |reseed |run to
seed |rye seed |scaleseed |seeb |seed bank |seed bank |seed banking |seed bead
|seed beetle |seed bug |seed cake |seed change |seed coat |seed corn |seed
crystal |seed down |seed drill |seed fern |seed fill |seed funder |seed
funding |seed gall |seed grain |seed leaf |seed library |seed money |seed oil
|seed oyster |seed pearl |seed phrase |seed pit |seed plant |seed pod |seed
potato |seed shrimp |seed stitch |seed stock |seed technology |seed tick |seed
tree |seed vault |seed vault |seed vessel |seed weevil |seed wool |seed-bird
|seed-borne |seed-bud |seed-faith |seed-lobe |seed-nut |seedable |seedbag
|seedbearing |seedbed |seedborne |seedbox |seedcake |seedcase |seedcoat
|seedcod |seedcorn |seedeater |seedeating |seeder |seedful |seedhead
|seedhouse |seedlac |seedlep |seedless |seedlet |seedlike |seedline |seedling
|seedlot |seedly |seedman |seedness |seednut |seedplot |seedpod |seedset
|seedship |seedsman |seedsnipe |seedstalk |seedtime |seedy |seedzone |sesame
seed |sow the seeds of |spill one's seed |star seed |stickseed |stoneseed
|stripeseed |suicide seed |sunflower seed |sunseed |tasselseed |teal-seed
|teelseed |tickseed |til seed |top seed |true to seed |Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit
Predestinarian Baptist |velvetseed |wattleseed |wormseed |yellowseed }}
***** Translations
[botany: fertilized and ripened ovule]{{multitrans|data=
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[any small seed-like fruit]
- Acehnese: [ace]
- Acholi: [ach]
- Afar: [aa]
- Ainu: [ain] , [ain]
- Akkadian: [akk]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Ama: [amm]
- Amharic: [am]
- Apache:
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Aragonese: [an]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bislama: [bi]
- Breton: [br] , [br]
- Buginese: [bug]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Burushaski: [bsk]
- Canela: [ram]
- Capiznon: [cps]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Cham:
- Chamicuro: [ccc]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Cree: [cr] , [cr]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh] , [grain] [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Daur: [dta]
- Digo: [dig]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Gujarati: [gu] , [gu] , [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hamer-Banna: [amf]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Higaonon: [mba]
- Hiligaynon: [hil]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Javanese: [ngoko] [jv] , [krama] [jv]
- Jeju: [jje]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kamba: [kam]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kapampangan: [pam] , [pam]
- Karachay-Balkar: [krc]
- Karaim: [kdr]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Kikuyu: [ki]
- Kinaray-a: [krj]
- Kipsigis: [sgc]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladino: [lad]
- Lak: [lbe]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Leonese: [roa-leo] , [roa-leo] , [roa-leo] , [roa-leo]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lokono: [arw]
- Low German: [nds]
- Lozi: [loz] , [loz]
- Luo: [luo]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Maasai: [mas] , [mas]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Makasar: [mak]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: [pqm]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mauritian Creole: [mfe]
- Mi'kmaq: [mic]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Minangkabau: [min] , [min] , [min]
- Mirandese: [mwl] , [mwl]
- Mohegan-Pequot: [xpq]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Montagnais: [moe]
- Mpade: [mpi]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Northern Mansi: [mns-nor] [mns-nor]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Javanese: [kaw]
- Oneida: [one]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Penobscot: [aaq]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polabian: [pox]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Rajbanshi: [rjs]
- Romani: [rom] , [rom] , [rom] , [rom]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Santali: [sat] , [sat]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shina: [scl]
- Sindhi: [sd]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Skolt Sami: [sms]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Sotho: [st] , [st]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Southern Sama: [ssb]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Sumerian: [sux]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl]
- Tabasaran: [tab]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta]
- Taos: [twf]
- Tatar: [seed] [tt] , [grain] [tt]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tocharian B: [txb] , [txb]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Uab Meto: [aoz] , [aoz]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] [collective]
- Unami: [unm] , [unm]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zealandic: [zea]
- Zulu: [zu] , [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[agriculture: any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[collective: amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Zealandic: [zea]
[trans-bottom]
[fragment of coral]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[semen]
- Akkadian: [akk]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] ; [fi] [rare]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Manx: [gv]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] [Brazil] , [pt] [Portugal]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[precursor]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Korean: [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[initial state, condition or position of a process]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[initial position of a competitor in a tournament]
- French: [fr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[competitor or team occupying a given seed]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[type of commercial message] [trans-bottom]
[offspring, descendants, progeny]
- Aramaic:
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Korean: [ko]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
}} [trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To plant or sow an area with seed s.
2. [en] To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
3. * [sig=B]
4. [en] To start ; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
5. [en] To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
6. * [en]
7. [en] To leave ( file s) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent ).
8. [en] To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final [,] or final.
9. [en] To scatter small particle s within (a cloud or airmass ) in order to trigger the formation of rain .
10. [en] To produce seed .
11. [en] To grow to maturity .
12. [en] To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse , especially in the rectum .
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[to plant or sow seeds]{{multitrans|data=
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Ido: [io]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Ladino: [lad]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to provide initial resources for] [trans-bottom]
[assign a position to in a tournament]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Swedish: [sv]
}} [trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en].
**** Verb
[en]
1. [en] < !--found in Southern US black speech, and probably also elsewhere--> [en]
2. * [chapter=3]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Chinese
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [yue].
*** Pronunciation
{{zh-pron |c=sit1 |cat=n }}
*** Noun
[zh] [zh]
1. one who provides the file s to others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent )
2. file(s) that are available for download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent )
3. serial number or code of Japanese adult video s
*** See also
- [爆seed]
** Middle English
*** Etymology 1
[enm] From [enm], [enm], from [enm], [gmw-pro], from [enm], [gem-pro], from
[enm] (compare [enm]).
**** Alternative forms
- [enm]
- [enm]
**** Pronunciation
- [enm]
- [enm]
**** Noun
[sedes]
1. [en] [ovule or analogous structure] :
2. * [Matthew]
1. A kind or variety of [en] .
2. [enm] [en] , grain
3. [enm] germ , origin
4. semen , sperm [or the supposed female equivalent]
5. offspring , progeny
6. descendants , lineage
7. [enm] bit , granule
8. [enm] seeding , sowing
***** Derived terms
- [enm]
***** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
- [yol]
***** References
- [entry=sẹ̄d]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
[enm]