Seemest vs Seedest - What's the difference?

In archaic terms the difference between seemest and seedest

is that seemest is archaic second-person singular of seem while seedest is archaic second-person singular of seed.

seemest

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Verb

(head)

(archaic) (seem)

seem

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Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.

* 1813 (14^thc.), (Dante Alighieri), The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.

*:He, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied.

*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..

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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}

*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin

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(lb) To befit; to beseem.

:(Spenser)

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

Derived terms

* meseems * seeming * seemingly

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* English copulative verbs 1000 English basic words

seedest

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Verb

(head)

(archaic) (seed)

seed

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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.