Noun

(en noun)

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis; underbuilding.

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(card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.

(architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club

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A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.

That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.

(cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.

A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.

Noun

(wikipedia seed)

(senseid)(countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.

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, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

(countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

(uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.

(uncountable) Semen.

(countable) A precursor.

(countable) 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)

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

# The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)

The rookie was a surprising top seed .

# Initialization state of a . (seed number)

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

# 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.

Offspring, descendants, progeny.

the seed of Abraham

* 1590 , , II.x:

Next him king Leyr in happie peace long raind, / But had no issue male him to succeed, / But three faire daughters, which were well vptraind, / In all that seemed fit for kingly seed

Race; generation; birth.

* Waller

Of mortal seed they were not held.