seedingn.

Brit.

/ˈsiːdɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈsidɪŋ/

Forms: see seed v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seed v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < seed v. + -ing suffix¹.Compare Old Frisian sēdinge action of sowing seed, seed sown, land which has been sown (West Frisian siedding), Old High German sātunga action of sowing seed.

a. The action or process of producing seed; an instance of this. Also: the action of reproducing by seed.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > plant having seed > [noun] > production or formation of seed or seed-vessel

seedinga1398

kernelling1532

kerning1669

seminificationa1676

podding1743

seedage1887

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. i. 883 A tre haþ in hitsilf vertu of seedynge and may þerby brynge forþ anoþer liche itself in kynde.

1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 161 If that the stems or stalkes after they be well come, be then broken off or cut away, they wil continue the longer greene and without seeding.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 50 Yf eyther they [sc. Herbes and Fruites] be bitten with Beastes, or to often handeled with Men, it hindereth them both of their growth and seeding.

1617 W. Lawson Countrie Housewifes Garden ix. 18 in New Orchard & Garden (1618) Seeding spoyles the most rootes, as drawing the heart and sap from the root.

1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 178 Tread down the Stem, till the cabbage inclines to one side, this will much impead its seeding.

1716 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 4) II. xv. i. 236 These Plants commonly die after their Seeding.

1760 R. Brown Compl. Farmer: Pt. 2 69 Before they are near seeding.

1806 W. Pitt in Communications to Board of Agric. V. i. 257 As the seeding and scattering of these plants is clearly a public nuisance,..I think they ought to be within the reach of our political regulations.

1868 Malthus Re-examined (Bristol Sel. Pamphlets) v. 57 Starvation..stimulates flowering and seeding.

1900 Derby Mercury 16 May 3/6 It is an old adage and a very true one, that ‘one year's seeding means seven year's weeding’.

1992 J. A. Sayer et al. Conservation Atlas Trop. Forests Afr. viii. 61/2 The species grows in patches or clumps presumably due to natural seeding of forest trees in clearings or gaps.

2006 Functional Ecol. 20 588/1 We monitored fruiting and seeding of these 108 flowers.

b. concrete. Seed produced by a plant; (also) a plant grown from seed. Now rare.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > collectively

seedinga1400

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 386 Alkin things grouand sere þat in þam self þaire seding [Gött. sedis, Trin. Cambr. seed] bere.

1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 69 The trees, their leafs; the flowres, their seeding;..I summon'd to decide this strife.

1938 Rep. Div. Entomol. 1937 (State Indiana Dept. Conservation) 6 The bees have proved their value.., judging from the great amount of seedings and fruits found on all wild plants.

1972 New York 8 May 62/3 Anyone who wants a head start on an organic garden can buy seeding from the shimmering greenhouse.

a. The action or process of sowing seed; the sowing of land with seed; an instance of this. Also figurative.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun]

sowing1362

sowa1400

sation?1440

semination1531

seeding1541

seedness1549

seedage1610

sature1657

insemination1658

grass seeding1823

semence1859

1541 in J. H. Glover Kingsthorpiana (1883) 81 And the rent, sowyng, arying, foldynge, and sedynge of an acre of rey wyll cost the tenant therof fyve shillings and above.

1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 1562/1 It was the chiefest time of seding, & their ploughes could not go if they wer not at home.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Psalms cxxv. 5 Comm. His seruants shal make their seeding..with teares..and reape a plentiful haruest..in the next life.

1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden iv. 9 The labour, and seeding of your Corne-fields.

1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis Epigr. xxvii Mine heart's a field; Thy crosse a plow; be pleas'd Dear Spouse, to till it, till the mould be rais'd Fit for the seeding of Thy Word.

1799 Ann. Agric. 32 193 After the preceding sowing, finding the quantity of steep reduced to too small a quantity for finishing the seeding of the land, he added to it about half its quantity of dung-water.

1810 T. Jefferson Writings (1853) V. 509 I talk of ploughs and harrows, of seeding and harvesting, with my neighbors.

1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 15 Horses often..execute the drilling, hoeing, seeding, haymaking, &c. in a wasteful and expensive manner, compared to manual labour properly directed.

1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 320/1 Openings [in the seed-box] which can be graduated to suit the required rate of seeding.

1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree (1985) v. 48 Nora and I each went with a pail of ‘sets’ and laid them along in the furrow, and later Walter came and hitched the horses to the plough and covered them in. For the plough is not quite left out of the spring seeding.

1939 T. H. Benton & W. J. Geib Soil Surv. 26 Where the soil is low in organic matter, corn should..be followed by a small grain, with a seeding of clover and timothy, or sweetclover.

1990 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 2 July (Late ed.) 6 His role at Apple Computer includes the seeding of ideas and counselling the company on future directions of personal computing.

2016 Wigan Today (Nexis) 2 Feb. The implementation plan is to phase the development as funds allow, and begins with the preparation and seeding of the land.

†b. concrete. The seed sown. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > seed sown

sowing1733

seeding1814

1814 J. West Alicia de Lacy III. 241 Twice the seasons were against us, and the seeding and the earing might go into the same sack.

3. Needlework. Small stitches of even length, scattered at irregular angles and used in embroidery to decorate a large area. Cf. seed v. 8; seed stitch n. at seed n. Compounds 3.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other

chain-stitch1598

French knot1623

picot1623

petty-point1632

tent-stitch1639

brede-stitch1640

herringbone stitch1659

satin stitch1664

feather-stitch1835

Gobelin stitch1838

crowfoot1839

seedingc1840

German stitch1842

petit point1842

long stitch1849

looped stitch1851

hem-stitch1853

loop-stitch1853

faggot stitch1854

spider-wheel1868

dot stitch1869

picot stitch1869

slip-stitch1872

coral-stitch1873

stem stitch1873

rope stitch1875

Vienna cross stitch1876

witch stitch1876

pin stitch1878

seed stitch1879

cushion-stitch1880

Japanese stitch1880

darning-stitch1881

Kensington stitch1881

knot-stitch1881

bullion knot1882

cable pattern1882

Italian stitch1882

lattice-stitch1882

queen stitch1882

rice stitch1882

shadow-stitch1882

ship-ladder1882

spider-stitch1882

stem1882

Vandyke stitch1882

warp-stitch1882

wheel-stitch1882

basket-stitch1883

outline stitch1885

pointing1888

bullion stitchc1890

cable-stitchc1890

oriental stitchc1890

Turkish stitchc1890

Romanian stitch1894

shell-stitch1895

saddle stitch1899

magic stitch1900

plumage-stitch1900

saddle stitching1902

German knot stitch1903

trellis1912

padding stitch1913

straight stitch1918

Hungarian stitch1921

trellis stitch1921

lazy daisy1923

diamond stitchc1926

darning1930

faggot filling stitch1934

fly stitch1934

magic chain stitch1934

glove stitch1964

pad stitch1964

c1840 Lady Wilton Art of Needlework xx. 317 There is slabbing—veining—and button stitch; seeding—roping—and open stitch.

1885 Plain Cutting Out 47 Knotting or ‘seeding’ is thus described in a book which bears date 1850.

1942 Bull. Museum of Fine Arts 40 115/2 Dot stitching or seeding, stem, herring-bone, buttonhole, bullion knot, French knot, and darning stitch may also be found in our curtains executed with precision and effectiveness.

1960 B. Dean in G. Lewis Handbk. Crafts 24 Stem stitch..and seeding.., which consists of a small back stitch with another worked over it, to form an irregular filling, are also useful.

2008 T. Geary Illustr. Bead Bible 44 A few techniques include appliqué, blanket stitch.., seeding, slipstitch, running stitch, lane stitch, and satin stitch.

4. The removal of seeds from a plant or fruit; (originally spec.) the extraction of linseed from flax; = rippling n.¹ Cf. seed v. 9.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > removing seeds

ripplingc1350

seeding1851

deseeding1941

1851 Belfast News Let. 1 Dec. Extension of the powers of the Land Improvement Advances (Ireland) Act, so as to include..loans for buildings for the scutching, steeping, seeding, and drying of flax.

1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 789 The time occupied..in the processes, from the seeding of the flax to the commencement of the scutching.

1907 Christian Advocate 29 Aug. 1404/1 To every pound of fruit measured before pitting or seeding, allow a scant pound of sugar or even less in the case of particularly sweet fruits.

1997 T. B. Golson 1,000 Lowfat Recipes 68 Many of my recipes with cucumbers call for seeding. To do this, cut the cucumber in half lengthwise, then scoop out the seeds with a teaspoon.

2011 R. L. Smith Farm Fresh Flavors 288 Peeling and seeding is especially appropriate when using raw tomatoes in a cold salsa.

a. Medicine. Spread (of a malignant cell or tumour) from one organ or part of the body to another; cf. metastasis n. 2a.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > metastasis

translation?1541

metathesis1646

metastasis1663

seeding1882

1882 R. Quain Dict. Med. I. 203/2 A similar seeding may take place into the lungs when an ulcerated epithelioma projects into the trachea.

1913 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 15 Feb. 512/1 The process of ‘seeding’, in which malignant cells from the tumor have become detached and grafted on the surface of the mucous membrane, sometimes at a considerable distance from and usually below the original growth.

1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. II. xxxiv. 1248/1 The ability of a glioma to spread by seeding is of considerable practical importance.

1995 Independent (Nexis) 19 July (Health section) 6 These cases raise the question of whether cancer cell seeding is facilitated by the laparoscopic technique.

2017 M. Bloomston et al. in R. C. Bast et al. Holland-Frei Cancer Med. (ed. 9) xliii. 499/1 Widespread peritoneal seeding is common with gastrointestinal and ovarian cancers.

b. The inoculation of a culture vessel, medium for growth, etc., with cells or organisms from a culture which is to be propagated. Cf. seed v. 2c.

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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > inoculation

seeding1883

inoculation1886

1883 Canada Lancet July 325/1 Seeding of the culture will give a reliable vaccination.

1896 7th Ann. Rep. Delaware Coll. Agric. Exper. Station 1894–5 120 Immediately after seeding, this last tube had the lower end of its cotton plug saturated with menthol.

1919 Rep. & Handbk. Dept. Health Chicago 1911–18 119 (heading) Guide for inoculating final broth cultures from seeding flasks.

1958 S. M. Brooks Basic Facts Med. Microbiol. i. 29 Inoculation means the seeding of a culture medium with an organism..using a sterile platinum wire (straight or looped) or a sterile glass pipette.

2014 Cell Stress & Chaperones 19 867/1 Cells were harvested at various time points after seeding.

c. Chemistry. The action or process of introducing crystals or small particles into a liquid so as to promote further crystal growth. Cf. seed v. 10b.

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1909 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 31 245 The best method of manufacturing this compound [sc. sodium alum] is to dissolve the materials in an amount of water sufficient to give a solution moderately supersaturated at ordinary temperatures, and then cool the solution and induce crystallization by stirring or seeding.

1926 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. ii. 2774 Crystallisation could be easily induced by ‘seeding’.

1972 Materials & Technol. V. xx. 713 This process may be induced by the introduction of a few crystals of ephedrine oxalate—a process known as ‘seeding’.

2014 R. S. Jackson Wine Sci. (ed. 4) viii. 547/1 Seeding with calcium tartrate crystals..greatly enhances precipitation.

d. The action or process of releasing a crystalline substance into a cloud, weather system, etc., in order to cause ice or water droplet formation and (usually) precipitation. Cf. seed v. 10c.See also cloud-seeding n. at cloud n. Compounds 2.

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1947 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Sept. 3/2 The Miami plane will fly above the storm to photograph the effects of ‘seeding’ by the weather-science plane.

1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 160/1 By far the largest and most sustained effort to modify weather deliberately has involved the artificial seeding of clouds in an attempt to increase the rainfall or suppress damaging hailstorms.

2006 G. Pretor–Pinney Cloudspotter's Guide xii. 257 Whilst these may seem laudable reasons to mess with the clouds, seeding has also been employed for much more dubious ends.

6. Sport (originally Tennis).

a. The practice of placing competitors in a ranking list, with a view to arranging a draw in which the most highly ranked players do not meet in the early stages of an elimination competition. Cf. seed v. 11.

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society > leisure > sport > judging or umpiring > [noun] > exclusion of best players from early rounds

seeding1899

1899 Outing June 276/2 Personally I am heartily in favor of a certain amount of ‘seeding’ in the draws of important tournaments.

1912 A. F. Wilding On Court & Off 140 Arranging or ‘seeding’ is a distinction without any material difference.

1937 P. B. Hawk Off Racket i. 13 ‘Seeding’ was believed to be unfair to certain contestants and to make for a less interesting tournament by eliminating..the probability of thrilling matches in the early rounds.

1958 Oxf. Mail 15 Jan. 8/1 For the first time, seeding is to be introduced into the Amateur Golf Championship being played at St. Andrews in the week beginning June 2.

1988 Tennis World June 10/2 The team managers were generally happy with the way the teams were drawn..although..one..suggested that seeding should be introduced.

2012 Snooker Scene Mar. 3/2 Seeding would be restricted to separating players in the draw on the basis of rankings—as at Wimbledon.

b. plural. The order or ranking so produced.

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1934 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 16 Jan. In the next place, according to the seedings, is Jim Bossie.

1955 N.Y. Times 10 May 33/5 (heading) Penn crew tops sprint seedings.

1978 Times 4 July 19/3 Another clay court specialist, Miss Jausovec, upset the seedings by beating Wendy Turnbull.

2001 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 11 June 11 Ferrero said he would play Wimbledon only if the club formed the seedings directly off the rankings.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1.)

seeding stage n.

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1813 W. Barre Months 27 Plants having pass'd the three progressive ages,—Gone through their springing, flow' ring, seeding stages.

1877 Rep. Trans. Pennsylvania State Agric. Soc. 12 393 Here we have the seedling and the seeding stages of the weeds.

1939 Times 23 Aug. 8/4 It is a pity that county councils do not take steps to cause the plants to be cut before the flowers reach the seeding stage.

2002 Ecol. Applic. 12 614 (note) These species were hard to distinguish from one another in the seeding stage.

b. (In sense 2.)

seeding rate n.

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1910 Bull. Texas Agric. Exper. Stations 1909 No. 132. 13 The seeding rates used were one-half, one and two bushels per acre.

1949 G. H. Ahlgren Forage Crops xxiv. 241 The seeding rates shown for certain crops..are too high.

2012 Weed Technol. 26 561/2 The high greenhouse seeding rate was 20 to 25 times the rate that would be recommended for planting in the field.

c. (In sense 6a.)

seeding committee n. (also seedings committee)

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1924 Indianapolis Star 27 June The majority of players in all divisions have an established ranking..so that will simplify the work of the seeding committee.

1960 Times 4 July 15/6 In spite of the skilful pruning of the seedings committee.

1976 Liverpool Echo 7 Dec. 17/7 Mrs. Marshall had a tough fight in her semi-final..as the girls battled to give the seeding committee for the finals an idea of current form.

2015 Clovis (New Mexico) News Jrnl. (Nexis) 20 Sept. It's tough for the seeding committee to keep the Wildcats out of the top six seeds.

seeding system n.

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1922 N.Y. Times 9 Jan. 21/4 Arguments against the adoption of the seeding system..have been neither numerous nor convincing.

2015 Africa News (Nexis) 4 Nov. A new seeding system has been put in place to help drivers re-position themselves in case of any mechanical problems that may slow their progress during the upcoming Kenya Airways EA Safari Classic Rally.

C2.

seeding felling n. Forestry the felling of trees in a mature stand, leaving a small number of trees to produce seed, thus ensuring that the resulting seedlings have sufficient light and room to grow into a new crop of trees.

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1893 Indian Forester 16 61 The secondary fellings generally follow six to eight years after the seeding fellings.

1947 Empire Forestry Rev. 26 225 Many of the older stands, especially the Beechwoods, were opened out by a seeding felling long before it was really due.

2013 P. S. Savill Silviculture Trees Brit. Forestry 84 A good seed fall immediately follows a seeding felling.

seeding house n. a building or area in a rettery, in which the linseed is separated from the flax.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > removing seeds > place for

seeding house1851

1851 Flax: Its Manuf., on Schenk's Patent Syst. (A. Bernard & Koch) 7 The stack yard should be situated as near as possible to the main works, and facing the seeding house.

1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) II. 328 The seeding-house requires to be of large size.

2005 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Sept. k1 The ocean-view grounds, estimated at 2.5 acres, has a mushroom-shaped seeding house, Japanese lanterns, a bridge over a brook and a tea house.

seeding plough n. a plough adapted to sow seed into the furrow.

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1767 J. W. Baker Descr. Instruments of Husb. 23 This is what I call my Seeding Plough.

1868 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 443/1 It is excellent policy when the seed is sown broad-cast to harrow down the last furrow,..and cover in with the small seeding plough.

1964 Technol. & Culture 5 184 Agricultural scene showing oxen and men with a seeding plough.

seeding season n. the time or season for sowing seed; (also) the time or season in which seed (in various senses) is produced.

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?1695 T. Worden Leper, & Leper's House, Cleansed viii. 64 A Minister's sleepy Season is the Devil's seeding Season; whiles the Minister snores in his Sleep, then is the Devil's Season to sow his Seed.

?1788 J. Abercrombie Gen. Syst. Trees & Shrubs 124/2 Large plantations of the trees are cultivated for the leaves, with which to supply them [sc. silkworms] daily, in their seeding season.

1840 Niles' National Reg. 19 Sept. 33/1 Heavy rains during the seeding season had prevented the usual quantity [of wheat] being sown.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. ii. 38 He was taking them home to his sister Faith, who prized the lingering blossoms of the seeding season.

1919 Landscape Archit. Apr. 148 The grass seeding-season is from the time the ground gets warm enough in the spring until it gets too cold in the autumn to start the germination process.

1991 Times 8 May 7/4 The Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Naturalists' Trust is paying for a warden to guard the site during the flowering and seeding season.

2007 High Plains Expansion Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Office of Energy Projects) App. C 12 Perform seeding of permanent vegetation at the beginning of the next recommended seeding season.

seeding time n. = seed time n.; also figurative.

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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > time of year > season for specific agricultural operation

seedOE

seed timeOE

season1393

barley-selec1440

seednessc1450

seeding timea1594

turf-time1594

tid1799

a1594 R. Greenham Wks. (1599) 336 Now, if any shall here further inquire, whether in seeding time, or the haruest season, when the times before haue been and still are like to be vnseasonable and vntemperate, they may somewhat on the Sabboth giue themselues to sowing, or gathering of their corne: I answere, No.

1613 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 184 Harvest and seeding tyme.

1790 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 42 We are yet but in the seeding time of national prosperity, and it will be well not to mortgage the crop before it is gathered.

1838 Intellect. Repository May 113 The period of youth, which may be appropriately denominated ‘the mental seeding time’.

1907 B. Hunter Farm Pract. in Columbia Basin Uplands 22 By seeding time in the spring the winter rains have settled the soil sufficiently to form a good, firm seed bed.

2015 Murray Valley (Austral.) Standard (Nexis) 12 Nov. I used to wear coveralls a lot, particularly at seeding time on open tractors with no cabs.

seeding top n. now rare (frequently in plural) a seed vessel found at the top of a plant stem; a seed head.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [noun] > borne upon a stalk

seeding top1676

1676 J. Beal in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 586 The Lilly of the Valley (which propagates it self by the weight of its seeding tops, descending into the earth) is much esteem'd on the Elbe.

1771 tr. J. Cruso Treasure Easy Med. 3 Mercury. The Leaves and Seeding Tops, boiled in broth, are useful.

1897 Hamilton (Victoria) Spectator 31 Aug. A grower showed me what I took to be the seeding top of a Scotch thistle.

1958 S. Ashton-Warner Spinster (1959) 97 It's time to break off the seeding tops of the delphiniums, to prepare for a second blooming.

1997 C. Conrad Hemp for Health vi. 71 Peasant farmers in Poland, Russia, and Lithuania commonly inhaled the vapors of smoldering seeding tops of hemp plants.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	seeding
释义	seedingn. Brit. /ˈsiːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsidɪŋ/ Forms: see seed v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seed v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < seed v. + -ing suffix¹.Compare Old Frisian sēdinge action of sowing seed, seed sown, land which has been sown (West Frisian siedding), Old High German sātunga action of sowing seed. 1. a. The action or process of producing seed; an instance of this. Also: the action of reproducing by seed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > plant having seed > [noun] > production or formation of seed or seed-vessel seedinga1398 kernelling1532 kerning1669 seminificationa1676 podding1743 seedage1887 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. i. 883 A tre haþ in hitsilf vertu of seedynge and may þerby brynge forþ anoþer liche itself in kynde. 1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 161 If that the stems or stalkes after they be well come, be then broken off or cut away, they wil continue the longer greene and without seeding. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 50 Yf eyther they [sc. Herbes and Fruites] be bitten with Beastes, or to often handeled with Men, it hindereth them both of their growth and seeding. 1617 W. Lawson Countrie Housewifes Garden ix. 18 in New Orchard & Garden (1618) Seeding spoyles the most rootes, as drawing the heart and sap from the root. 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 178 Tread down the Stem, till the cabbage inclines to one side, this will much impead its seeding. 1716 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 4) II. xv. i. 236 These Plants commonly die after their Seeding. 1760 R. Brown Compl. Farmer: Pt. 2 69 Before they are near seeding. 1806 W. Pitt in Communications to Board of Agric. V. i. 257 As the seeding and scattering of these plants is clearly a public nuisance,..I think they ought to be within the reach of our political regulations. 1868 Malthus Re-examined (Bristol Sel. Pamphlets) v. 57 Starvation..stimulates flowering and seeding. 1900 Derby Mercury 16 May 3/6 It is an old adage and a very true one, that ‘one year's seeding means seven year's weeding’. 1992 J. A. Sayer et al. Conservation Atlas Trop. Forests Afr. viii. 61/2 The species grows in patches or clumps presumably due to natural seeding of forest trees in clearings or gaps. 2006 Functional Ecol. 20 588/1 We monitored fruiting and seeding of these 108 flowers. b. concrete. Seed produced by a plant; (also) a plant grown from seed. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > collectively seedinga1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 386 Alkin things grouand sere þat in þam self þaire seding [Gött. sedis, Trin. Cambr. seed] bere. 1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 69 The trees, their leafs; the flowres, their seeding;..I summon'd to decide this strife. 1938 Rep. Div. Entomol. 1937 (State Indiana Dept. Conservation) 6 The bees have proved their value.., judging from the great amount of seedings and fruits found on all wild plants. 1972 New York 8 May 62/3 Anyone who wants a head start on an organic garden can buy seeding from the shimmering greenhouse. 2. a. The action or process of sowing seed; the sowing of land with seed; an instance of this. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] sowing1362 sowa1400 sation?1440 semination1531 seeding1541 seedness1549 seedage1610 sature1657 insemination1658 grass seeding1823 semence1859 1541 in J. H. Glover Kingsthorpiana (1883) 81 And the rent, sowyng, arying, foldynge, and sedynge of an acre of rey wyll cost the tenant therof fyve shillings and above. 1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 1562/1 It was the chiefest time of seding, & their ploughes could not go if they wer not at home. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Psalms cxxv. 5 Comm. His seruants shal make their seeding..with teares..and reape a plentiful haruest..in the next life. 1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden iv. 9 The labour, and seeding of your Corne-fields. 1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis Epigr. xxvii Mine heart's a field; Thy crosse a plow; be pleas'd Dear Spouse, to till it, till the mould be rais'd Fit for the seeding of Thy Word. 1799 Ann. Agric. 32 193 After the preceding sowing, finding the quantity of steep reduced to too small a quantity for finishing the seeding of the land, he added to it about half its quantity of dung-water. 1810 T. Jefferson Writings (1853) V. 509 I talk of ploughs and harrows, of seeding and harvesting, with my neighbors. 1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 15 Horses often..execute the drilling, hoeing, seeding, haymaking, &c. in a wasteful and expensive manner, compared to manual labour properly directed. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 320/1 Openings [in the seed-box] which can be graduated to suit the required rate of seeding. 1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree (1985) v. 48 Nora and I each went with a pail of ‘sets’ and laid them along in the furrow, and later Walter came and hitched the horses to the plough and covered them in. For the plough is not quite left out of the spring seeding. 1939 T. H. Benton & W. J. Geib Soil Surv. 26 Where the soil is low in organic matter, corn should..be followed by a small grain, with a seeding of clover and timothy, or sweetclover. 1990 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 2 July (Late ed.) 6 His role at Apple Computer includes the seeding of ideas and counselling the company on future directions of personal computing. 2016 Wigan Today (Nexis) 2 Feb. The implementation plan is to phase the development as funds allow, and begins with the preparation and seeding of the land. †b. concrete. The seed sown. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > seed sown sowing1733 seeding1814 1814 J. West Alicia de Lacy III. 241 Twice the seasons were against us, and the seeding and the earing might go into the same sack. 3. Needlework. Small stitches of even length, scattered at irregular angles and used in embroidery to decorate a large area. Cf. seed v. 8; seed stitch n. at seed n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other chain-stitch1598 French knot1623 picot1623 petty-point1632 tent-stitch1639 brede-stitch1640 herringbone stitch1659 satin stitch1664 feather-stitch1835 Gobelin stitch1838 crowfoot1839 seedingc1840 German stitch1842 petit point1842 long stitch1849 looped stitch1851 hem-stitch1853 loop-stitch1853 faggot stitch1854 spider-wheel1868 dot stitch1869 picot stitch1869 slip-stitch1872 coral-stitch1873 stem stitch1873 rope stitch1875 Vienna cross stitch1876 witch stitch1876 pin stitch1878 seed stitch1879 cushion-stitch1880 Japanese stitch1880 darning-stitch1881 Kensington stitch1881 knot-stitch1881 bullion knot1882 cable pattern1882 Italian stitch1882 lattice-stitch1882 queen stitch1882 rice stitch1882 shadow-stitch1882 ship-ladder1882 spider-stitch1882 stem1882 Vandyke stitch1882 warp-stitch1882 wheel-stitch1882 basket-stitch1883 outline stitch1885 pointing1888 bullion stitchc1890 cable-stitchc1890 oriental stitchc1890 Turkish stitchc1890 Romanian stitch1894 shell-stitch1895 saddle stitch1899 magic stitch1900 plumage-stitch1900 saddle stitching1902 German knot stitch1903 trellis1912 padding stitch1913 straight stitch1918 Hungarian stitch1921 trellis stitch1921 lazy daisy1923 diamond stitchc1926 darning1930 faggot filling stitch1934 fly stitch1934 magic chain stitch1934 glove stitch1964 pad stitch1964 c1840 Lady Wilton Art of Needlework xx. 317 There is slabbing—veining—and button stitch; seeding—roping—and open stitch. 1885 Plain Cutting Out 47 Knotting or ‘seeding’ is thus described in a book which bears date 1850. 1942 Bull. Museum of Fine Arts 40 115/2 Dot stitching or seeding, stem, herring-bone, buttonhole, bullion knot, French knot, and darning stitch may also be found in our curtains executed with precision and effectiveness. 1960 B. Dean in G. Lewis Handbk. Crafts 24 Stem stitch..and seeding.., which consists of a small back stitch with another worked over it, to form an irregular filling, are also useful. 2008 T. Geary Illustr. Bead Bible 44 A few techniques include appliqué, blanket stitch.., seeding, slipstitch, running stitch, lane stitch, and satin stitch. 4. The removal of seeds from a plant or fruit; (originally spec.) the extraction of linseed from flax; = rippling n.¹ Cf. seed v. 9. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > removing seeds ripplingc1350 seeding1851 deseeding1941 1851 Belfast News Let. 1 Dec. Extension of the powers of the Land Improvement Advances (Ireland) Act, so as to include..loans for buildings for the scutching, steeping, seeding, and drying of flax. 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 789 The time occupied..in the processes, from the seeding of the flax to the commencement of the scutching. 1907 Christian Advocate 29 Aug. 1404/1 To every pound of fruit measured before pitting or seeding, allow a scant pound of sugar or even less in the case of particularly sweet fruits. 1997 T. B. Golson 1,000 Lowfat Recipes 68 Many of my recipes with cucumbers call for seeding. To do this, cut the cucumber in half lengthwise, then scoop out the seeds with a teaspoon. 2011 R. L. Smith Farm Fresh Flavors 288 Peeling and seeding is especially appropriate when using raw tomatoes in a cold salsa. 5. a. Medicine. Spread (of a malignant cell or tumour) from one organ or part of the body to another; cf. metastasis n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > metastasis translation?1541 metathesis1646 metastasis1663 seeding1882 1882 R. Quain Dict. Med. I. 203/2 A similar seeding may take place into the lungs when an ulcerated epithelioma projects into the trachea. 1913 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 15 Feb. 512/1 The process of ‘seeding’, in which malignant cells from the tumor have become detached and grafted on the surface of the mucous membrane, sometimes at a considerable distance from and usually below the original growth. 1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. II. xxxiv. 1248/1 The ability of a glioma to spread by seeding is of considerable practical importance. 1995 Independent (Nexis) 19 July (Health section) 6 These cases raise the question of whether cancer cell seeding is facilitated by the laparoscopic technique. 2017 M. Bloomston et al. in R. C. Bast et al. Holland-Frei Cancer Med. (ed. 9) xliii. 499/1 Widespread peritoneal seeding is common with gastrointestinal and ovarian cancers. b. The inoculation of a culture vessel, medium for growth, etc., with cells or organisms from a culture which is to be propagated. Cf. seed v. 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > inoculation seeding1883 inoculation1886 1883 Canada Lancet July 325/1 Seeding of the culture will give a reliable vaccination. 1896 7th Ann. Rep. Delaware Coll. Agric. Exper. Station 1894–5 120 Immediately after seeding, this last tube had the lower end of its cotton plug saturated with menthol. 1919 Rep. & Handbk. Dept. Health Chicago 1911–18 119 (heading) Guide for inoculating final broth cultures from seeding flasks. 1958 S. M. Brooks Basic Facts Med. Microbiol. i. 29 Inoculation means the seeding of a culture medium with an organism..using a sterile platinum wire (straight or looped) or a sterile glass pipette. 2014 Cell Stress & Chaperones 19 867/1 Cells were harvested at various time points after seeding. c. Chemistry. The action or process of introducing crystals or small particles into a liquid so as to promote further crystal growth. Cf. seed v. 10b. ΚΠ 1909 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 31 245 The best method of manufacturing this compound [sc. sodium alum] is to dissolve the materials in an amount of water sufficient to give a solution moderately supersaturated at ordinary temperatures, and then cool the solution and induce crystallization by stirring or seeding. 1926 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. ii. 2774 Crystallisation could be easily induced by ‘seeding’. 1972 Materials & Technol. V. xx. 713 This process may be induced by the introduction of a few crystals of ephedrine oxalate—a process known as ‘seeding’. 2014 R. S. Jackson Wine Sci. (ed. 4) viii. 547/1 Seeding with calcium tartrate crystals..greatly enhances precipitation. d. The action or process of releasing a crystalline substance into a cloud, weather system, etc., in order to cause ice or water droplet formation and (usually) precipitation. Cf. seed v. 10c.See also cloud-seeding n. at cloud n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1947 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Sept. 3/2 The Miami plane will fly above the storm to photograph the effects of ‘seeding’ by the weather-science plane. 1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 160/1 By far the largest and most sustained effort to modify weather deliberately has involved the artificial seeding of clouds in an attempt to increase the rainfall or suppress damaging hailstorms. 2006 G. Pretor–Pinney Cloudspotter's Guide xii. 257 Whilst these may seem laudable reasons to mess with the clouds, seeding has also been employed for much more dubious ends. 6. Sport (originally Tennis). a. The practice of placing competitors in a ranking list, with a view to arranging a draw in which the most highly ranked players do not meet in the early stages of an elimination competition. Cf. seed v. 11. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > judging or umpiring > [noun] > exclusion of best players from early rounds seeding1899 1899 Outing June 276/2 Personally I am heartily in favor of a certain amount of ‘seeding’ in the draws of important tournaments. 1912 A. F. Wilding On Court & Off 140 Arranging or ‘seeding’ is a distinction without any material difference. 1937 P. B. Hawk Off Racket i. 13 ‘Seeding’ was believed to be unfair to certain contestants and to make for a less interesting tournament by eliminating..the probability of thrilling matches in the early rounds. 1958 Oxf. Mail 15 Jan. 8/1 For the first time, seeding is to be introduced into the Amateur Golf Championship being played at St. Andrews in the week beginning June 2. 1988 Tennis World June 10/2 The team managers were generally happy with the way the teams were drawn..although..one..suggested that seeding should be introduced. 2012 Snooker Scene Mar. 3/2 Seeding would be restricted to separating players in the draw on the basis of rankings—as at Wimbledon. b. plural. The order or ranking so produced. ΚΠ 1934 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 16 Jan. In the next place, according to the seedings, is Jim Bossie. 1955 N.Y. Times 10 May 33/5 (heading) Penn crew tops sprint seedings. 1978 Times 4 July 19/3 Another clay court specialist, Miss Jausovec, upset the seedings by beating Wendy Turnbull. 2001 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 11 June 11 Ferrero said he would play Wimbledon only if the club formed the seedings directly off the rankings. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1.) seeding stage n. ΚΠ 1813 W. Barre Months 27 Plants having pass'd the three progressive ages,—Gone through their springing, flow' ring, seeding stages. 1877 Rep. Trans. Pennsylvania State Agric. Soc. 12 393 Here we have the seedling and the seeding stages of the weeds. 1939 Times 23 Aug. 8/4 It is a pity that county councils do not take steps to cause the plants to be cut before the flowers reach the seeding stage. 2002 Ecol. Applic. 12 614 (note) These species were hard to distinguish from one another in the seeding stage. b. (In sense 2.) seeding rate n. ΚΠ 1910 Bull. Texas Agric. Exper. Stations 1909 No. 132. 13 The seeding rates used were one-half, one and two bushels per acre. 1949 G. H. Ahlgren Forage Crops xxiv. 241 The seeding rates shown for certain crops..are too high. 2012 Weed Technol. 26 561/2 The high greenhouse seeding rate was 20 to 25 times the rate that would be recommended for planting in the field. c. (In sense 6a.) seeding committee n. (also seedings committee) ΚΠ 1924 Indianapolis Star 27 June The majority of players in all divisions have an established ranking..so that will simplify the work of the seeding committee. 1960 Times 4 July 15/6 In spite of the skilful pruning of the seedings committee. 1976 Liverpool Echo 7 Dec. 17/7 Mrs. Marshall had a tough fight in her semi-final..as the girls battled to give the seeding committee for the finals an idea of current form. 2015 Clovis (New Mexico) News Jrnl. (Nexis) 20 Sept. It's tough for the seeding committee to keep the Wildcats out of the top six seeds. seeding system n. ΚΠ 1922 N.Y. Times 9 Jan. 21/4 Arguments against the adoption of the seeding system..have been neither numerous nor convincing. 2015 Africa News (Nexis) 4 Nov. A new seeding system has been put in place to help drivers re-position themselves in case of any mechanical problems that may slow their progress during the upcoming Kenya Airways EA Safari Classic Rally. C2. seeding felling n. Forestry the felling of trees in a mature stand, leaving a small number of trees to produce seed, thus ensuring that the resulting seedlings have sufficient light and room to grow into a new crop of trees. ΚΠ 1893 Indian Forester 16 61 The secondary fellings generally follow six to eight years after the seeding fellings. 1947 Empire Forestry Rev. 26 225 Many of the older stands, especially the Beechwoods, were opened out by a seeding felling long before it was really due. 2013 P. S. Savill Silviculture Trees Brit. Forestry 84 A good seed fall immediately follows a seeding felling. seeding house n. a building or area in a rettery, in which the linseed is separated from the flax. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > removing seeds > place for seeding house1851 1851 Flax: Its Manuf., on Schenk's Patent Syst. (A. Bernard & Koch) 7 The stack yard should be situated as near as possible to the main works, and facing the seeding house. 1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) II. 328 The seeding-house requires to be of large size. 2005 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Sept. k1 The ocean-view grounds, estimated at 2.5 acres, has a mushroom-shaped seeding house, Japanese lanterns, a bridge over a brook and a tea house. seeding plough n. a plough adapted to sow seed into the furrow. ΚΠ 1767 J. W. Baker Descr. Instruments of Husb. 23 This is what I call my Seeding Plough. 1868 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 443/1 It is excellent policy when the seed is sown broad-cast to harrow down the last furrow,..and cover in with the small seeding plough. 1964 Technol. & Culture 5 184 Agricultural scene showing oxen and men with a seeding plough. seeding season n. the time or season for sowing seed; (also) the time or season in which seed (in various senses) is produced. ΚΠ ?1695 T. Worden Leper, & Leper's House, Cleansed viii. 64 A Minister's sleepy Season is the Devil's seeding Season; whiles the Minister snores in his Sleep, then is the Devil's Season to sow his Seed. ?1788 J. Abercrombie Gen. Syst. Trees & Shrubs 124/2 Large plantations of the trees are cultivated for the leaves, with which to supply them [sc. silkworms] daily, in their seeding season. 1840 Niles' National Reg. 19 Sept. 33/1 Heavy rains during the seeding season had prevented the usual quantity [of wheat] being sown. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. ii. 38 He was taking them home to his sister Faith, who prized the lingering blossoms of the seeding season. 1919 Landscape Archit. Apr. 148 The grass seeding-season is from the time the ground gets warm enough in the spring until it gets too cold in the autumn to start the germination process. 1991 Times 8 May 7/4 The Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Naturalists' Trust is paying for a warden to guard the site during the flowering and seeding season. 2007 High Plains Expansion Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Office of Energy Projects) App. C 12 Perform seeding of permanent vegetation at the beginning of the next recommended seeding season. seeding time n. = seed time n.; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > time of year > season for specific agricultural operation seedOE seed timeOE season1393 barley-selec1440 seednessc1450 seeding timea1594 turf-time1594 tid1799 a1594 R. Greenham Wks. (1599) 336 Now, if any shall here further inquire, whether in seeding time, or the haruest season, when the times before haue been and still are like to be vnseasonable and vntemperate, they may somewhat on the Sabboth giue themselues to sowing, or gathering of their corne: I answere, No. 1613 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 184 Harvest and seeding tyme. 1790 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 42 We are yet but in the seeding time of national prosperity, and it will be well not to mortgage the crop before it is gathered. 1838 Intellect. Repository May 113 The period of youth, which may be appropriately denominated ‘the mental seeding time’. 1907 B. Hunter Farm Pract. in Columbia Basin Uplands 22 By seeding time in the spring the winter rains have settled the soil sufficiently to form a good, firm seed bed. 2015 Murray Valley (Austral.) Standard (Nexis) 12 Nov. I used to wear coveralls a lot, particularly at seeding time on open tractors with no cabs. seeding top n. now rare (frequently in plural) a seed vessel found at the top of a plant stem; a seed head. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [noun] > borne upon a stalk seeding top1676 1676 J. Beal in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 586 The Lilly of the Valley (which propagates it self by the weight of its seeding tops, descending into the earth) is much esteem'd on the Elbe. 1771 tr. J. Cruso Treasure Easy Med. 3 Mercury. The Leaves and Seeding Tops, boiled in broth, are useful. 1897 Hamilton (Victoria) Spectator 31 Aug. A grower showed me what I took to be the seeding top of a Scotch thistle. 1958 S. Ashton-Warner Spinster (1959) 97 It's time to break off the seeding tops of the delphiniums, to prepare for a second blooming. 1997 C. Conrad Hemp for Health vi. 71 Peasant farmers in Poland, Russia, and Lithuania commonly inhaled the vapors of smoldering seeding tops of hemp plants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). seedingadj. Brit. /ˈsiːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsidɪŋ/ Forms: see seed v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seed v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < seed v. + -ing suffix². That seeds; running to seed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] > growing unseasonably seeding1582 bolting1961 1582 R. Madox Diary 3 Oct. in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 202 Blubbers..ar lyke to the head of a seedyng thistle. 1688 J. Ray Hist. Plantarum 122 Seeding Mountain-moss. 1759 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry (ed. 2) IV. 368 With the plain scythe a great many of the seeding heads are cut thro'. 1835 R. H. Budd Compl. Pract. Farmer i. xxiv. 184 The seeding thistle is very small, and as easily destroyed as a pigweed, should they happen to be observed. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise 226 Though the birds see them, and the seeding grass Harsh and unloving over them may pass, When carelessly through rough and smooth they run. 1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily v. 34 Their plumes bent in the breeze; like a plain of seeding grass they bent. 1937 Oceania 8 208 The seeding grass is gathered, rubbed in the hands, winnowed and pounded dry. 1959 A. Beaumont Dis. Farm Crops v. 74 When present on a seeding crop there is always a danger of the fungus passing on to the seed. 2014 Express (Nexis) 19 Sept. 14 The mouse ate a sprig of seeding grass out of the palm of his hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398adj.1582
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