Seed vs Nonce - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between seed and nonce

is that seed is (fertilized grain) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant while nonce is the one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).

As a verb seed

is to plant or sow an area with seeds.

As an adjective nonce is

denoting something occurring once.

seed

English

Noun

(wikipedia seed)

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

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(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.

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 seed

Verb

(en verb)

To plant or sow an area with seeds.

I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.

To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

* Ben Jonson

a sable mantle seeded with waking eyes

To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.

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.

(sports, games) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).

The tennis player seeded into the quarters.

To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

Anagrams

nonce

English

(wikipedia nonce)

Etymology 1

From a misdivision in (etyl) of .

Noun

(en noun)

The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce ).

That will do for the nonce , but we'll need a better answer for the long term.

* 1857 , , chapter 6:

'Idiot!' exclaimed the doctor, who for the nonce was not capable of more than such spasmodic attempts at utterance.

(lexicography) A nonce word.

I had thought that the term was a nonce , but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.

Adjective

(-)

denoting something occurring once.

Derived terms

* for the nonce * nonce word * nonce borrowing

Etymology 2

, from Nancy boy. See for further discussion.

Noun

(en noun)

(British, slang, pejorative) A sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile.

That bloke who lives at number 53 is a nonce!

(British, slang) A stupid or worthless person.

Shut it, ya nonce!

Etymology 3

Contraction of number used once .

Noun

(en noun)

(cryptography) A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.

In this protocol we use the serial number of the message as a nonce .

* 1999 , Network Working Group, RFC 2617 – HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication , The Internet Society, page 22,

The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce .

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