Seed vs Geed - What's the difference?
seed | geed |
(senseid)(countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
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, title= (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 competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
# Initialization state of a . (seed number)
# Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
Offspring, descendants, progeny.
* 1590 , , II.x:
Race; generation; birth.
* Waller
To plant or sow an area with seeds.
To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
* Ben Jonson
To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
(sports, games) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).
To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
(gee)
A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
(often as imperative to a draft animal) To turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
A gee-gee; a horse.
* 1879 , , Act I:
*:You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee .
(slang) ; a thousand dollars.
(physics) ; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1949
, month = July
, first = Margaret
, last = St. Clair
, authorlink = Margaret St. Clair
, title = Sacred Martian Pig
, magazine = Startling Stories
, page = 92
, passage = I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee , being from earth.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1987
, first = Tom
, last = Clancy
, authorlink = Tom Clancy
, title = Patriot Games
, page = 449
, passage = So if you fire the Phoenix inside that radius, he just can't evade it. The missile can pull more gees than any pilot can.
}}
(US, slang) A guy.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 197:
(Ireland, slang) (vagina), (vulva)
* 1987 , (Roddy Doyle), (The Commitments) , King Farouk, Dublin:
* 1991 , (Roddy Doyle), , p. 65. Secker & Warburg (ISBN: 0-436-20052-X):
* 1992 , (Samuel Beckett), (Dream of Fair to Middling Women) , p. 71. John Calder (ISBN: 978-0714542133):
* 1995 , (w, Joseph O'Connor), (Red Roses and Petrol) , p. 7. Methuen (ISBN: 978-0413699909):
English interjections
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As verbs the difference between seed and geed
is that seed is to plant or sow an area with seeds while geed is (gee).As a noun seed
is (senseid)(countable) a fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.seed
English
Noun
(wikipedia seed)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
- The rookie was a surprising top seed .
- If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.
- The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
- the seed of Abraham
- 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
- Of mortal seed they were not held.
Usage notes
The common use of seed differs from the botanical use. The “seeds” of sunflowers are botanically fruits.Derived terms
* crack seed * go to seed * seedcake * seedling * seed potato * seedy * spill one's seedVerb
(en verb)- I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
- a sable mantle seeded with waking eyes
- A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
- The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
- The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.
- The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
Anagrams
*geed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----gee
English
Etymology 1
A shortening of (Jesus), perhaps as in the oath (by Jesus)Interjection
(en interjection)- Gee , I didn't know that!
- Gee , this is swell fun!
Usage notes
Gee'' is generally considered somewhat dated or juvenile. It is often used for ironic effect, with the speaker putting on the persona of a freshly-scrubbed freckle-faced kid from days gone by (e.g. 1950 sitcom children, such as Beaver on ).Synonyms
* (exclamation of surprise) geez, gosh, gollyDerived terms
* gee whiz * gee whillikers, gee willikers, gee willickersEtymology 2
Verb
- This horse won't gee when I tell him to.
- You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog.
- Mush, huskies. Now, gee'''! ' Gee !
- (Forby)
Derived terms
* gee haw whimmy diddleCoordinate terms
* hawNoun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Pronunciation of the letter (G).Noun
(en noun)- One branch of English society drops its initial aitches, and another branch ignores its terminal gees .
- ten gees
- Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck.
Etymology 4
Noun
(en noun)The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional Englishp. 850, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0-415-25937-1.
- The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee . Is tha' why?
- But he'd had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she'd said that....
- Lily Neary has a lovely gee and her pore Paddy got his B.A. and by the holy fly I wouldn't recommend you to ask me what class of a tree they were under when he put his hand on her and enjoyed that.
- And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.