Seed vs Seede - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between seed and seede

is that seed is (senseid)(countable) a fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant while seede is .

As a verb seed

is to plant or sow an area with seeds.

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

seede

English

Noun

(en noun)

* {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=THE RUINES OF TIME. DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND BEAUTIFULL LADIE, THE LA: MARIE, COUNTESSE OF PEMEBROOKE. Most honourable and bountifull Ladie, there bee long sithens deepe sowed in my brest the seede of most entire love and humble affection unto that most brave knight, your noble brother deceased; which, taking roote, began in his life time somewhat to bud forth, and to shew themselves to him, as then in the weakenes of their first spring; and would in their riper strength (had it pleased High God till then to drawe out his daies) spired forth fruit of more perfection. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1592, author=R.D., title=Hypnerotomachia, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Vppon the braunches of the coorrall, there were artificially sette certayne open flowers with fiue leaues, some of Saphyre, some of Iacynth and Berill, and in the middest of them a little round seede of golde, fastening the leaues to the stalke of corrall. }}

* {{quote-book, year=, author=Various, title=Notes & Queries, No. 39. Saturday, July 27, 1850, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It bringeth foorth at the top of the branches little yellow floures, and afterward small rough whitish and flat huskes, and almost round fashioned like bucklers, wherein is contained a flat seede almost like to the seed of castell or stocke gilloflers, but greater. }}

* {{quote-book, year=, author=Charles Dudley Warner, title=The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Charles Dudley Warner, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=After this they brought him a bagge of gunpowder, which they carefully preserved till the next spring, to plant as they did their corne, because they would be acquainted with the nature of that seede . }}