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Preseed vs Preneed - What's the difference?

preseed | preneed |

As adjectives the difference between preseed and preneed

is that preseed is before a seeding or seed stage of development while preneed is arranged before a need arises.

As a verb preseed

is to seed in advance.

As a noun preseed

is (biotechnology) a medium specially prepared for a seeding operation.

preseed

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To seed in advance.
  • * 1974 , Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States, Senate, Congress, Weather Modification Grants: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Agricultural ... , page 53
  • * [....] I loaned them the valve that they used to seed the clouds or preseed them with liquid nitrate solution [....]
  • * 1982 , Francis R. Pettit, Post-Digital Electronics , Page 146
    • Also included in the menu is the possibility to preseed the entire LSE matrix to any desired level, thus providing a base for many classes of experiment.
  • * 1986 , Andrew David Cliff, Peter Haggett, J. K. Ord, Spatial Aspects of Influenza Epidemics , page 18
    • Under this scheme, an outbreak of influenza in one year would preseed the population to give a pattern of latent infectives from which a subsequent outbreak would arise in a later year.
  • * 1998 , Joyce D. Wilkerson, Clownfishes: A Guide to Their Captive Care, Breeding & Natural History , page 93
    • If you haven't been able to preseed the filter with bacteria from another aquarium [....]
  • * 2003 , Peter E. Vaillancourt, E. Coli Gene Expression Protocols , page 245
    • Preseed plates by spreading approximately 108 phage each of ?KH54 and ?KH54h80.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biotechnology) A medium specially prepared for a seeding operation.
  • * 1988 , Roman Saliwanchik, Protecting Biotechnology Inventions: A Guide for Scientists , page 157
    • The preseed is then transferred aseptically to 20-liter seed tanks [....]
  • * 1990 , DE Steinmeyer, ML Shuler, "Continuous operation of a pressure-cycled membrane bioreactor", Biotechnology Progress
    • The preseed was incubated with mild agitation at 30 "C for 24 h.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Before a seeding or seed stage of development.
  • * 1972 , John Gliedman Terror from the Sky: North Viet-Nam's Dikes and the U. S. Bombing , page 71
    • Increases in one experiment ranged from 10 to 200 times the preseed rainfall from the individual clouds, [....]
  • * 2006 , Elliott C. Kulakowski, Lynne U. Chronister Research Administration and Management , page 799
    • There are many traditional sources of funding, but for new spin-off company creation, gaining access to early stage (angel, preseed , and seed) [...]
  • * 2007 , Sylvie Doublié, Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols , page 31
    • The totality of the preseed culture is added into the final culture composed of the same medium.

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    preneed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Arranged before a need arises.
  • * 1988 , Howard C Raether, The Funeral director's practice management handbook?
    • Some agreements with third-party preneed sales companies require the funeral provider to enter into a noncompetition clause with the seller.

    Alternative forms

    * pre-need

    Synonyms

    * advance

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