Preseed vs Prested - What's the difference?

preseed | prested |

As verbs the difference between preseed and prested

is that preseed is to seed in advance while prested is (prest).

As a noun preseed

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

As an adjective preseed

is before a seeding or seed stage of development.

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.

Anagrams

prested

English

Verb

(head)

(prest)

prest

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (press)

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Etymology 2

(etyl) prest

Noun

(en noun)

(rare) A payment of wages in advance

A loan or advance (of money)

* Francis Bacon

Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.

A tax or duty

(obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment

(legal) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.

(Cowell)

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To give as a loan; to lend.

* E. Hall

Sums of money prested out in loan.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.

* R. of Gloucester

All prest to such battle he was.

(obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.

(Tusser)

Anagrams

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