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Preseed vs Pressed - What's the difference?

preseed | pressed |

As verbs the difference between preseed and pressed

is that preseed is to seed in advance while pressed is (press).

As adjectives the difference between preseed and pressed

is that preseed is before a seeding or seed stage of development while pressed is under strain or deprivation.

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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    pressed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (press)
  • contraction of impressed

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Under strain or deprivation.
    • The staff was even more pressed for useful intelligence about the enemy's intentions than it was about the enemy's capabilities.
    He found himself hard pressed .

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