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seed C0184000 (sēd)n. pl. seeds or seed 1. a. A mature plant ovule containing an embryo.b. A small dry fruit, spore, or other propagative plant part.c. Seeds considered as a group: a farmer buying seed.d. The seed-bearing stage of a plant: The grass is in seed.2. a. A larval shellfish or a hatchling fish: released scallop seed in the bay.b. An egg or cocoon of certain insects: silkworm seed.3. Something that resembles a seed, as:a. A tiny bubble in a piece of glass.b. Medicine A form of a radioactive isotope that is used to localize and concentrate the amount of radiation administered to a body site, such as a tumor.4. a. A source or beginning; a germ: the seed of an idea.b. A small amount of material used to start a chemical reaction.c. A small crystal used to start a crystallization process.5. A cell that disperses, especially a cancer cell that spreads from a primary tumor to another location in the body.6. Archaic a. Offspring; progeny.b. Family stock; ancestry.c. Sperm; semen.7. Sports A player who has been seeded for a tournament, often at a given rank: a top seed.v. seed·ed, seed·ing, seeds v.tr.1. a. To plant seeds in (land, for example); sow.b. To plant (a crop, for example) as seeds in soil.2. To remove the seeds from (fruit).3. To furnish with something that grows or stimulates growth or development: a bioreactor seeded with bacteria.4. Medicine a. To disperse to, as cancer cells: organs seeded by circulating tumor cells.b. To disperse or transfer (cancer cells, for example): a needle biopsy that seeded cancer cells into adjacent tissue; seed stem cells onto collagen gels.5. Meteorology To sprinkle (a cloud) with particles, as of silver iodide, in order to disperse it or to produce precipitation.6. Sports a. To arrange (the drawing for positions in a tournament) so that the more skilled contestants meet in the later rounds.b. To rank (a contestant) in this way.7. To help (a business, for example) in its early development.v.intr.1. To sow seed.2. To pass into the seed-bearing stage.3. Medicine To disperse and often multiply, as cancer cells.adj.1. Set aside for planting a new crop: seed corn; seed potatoes.2. Intended to help in early stages: provided seed capital for a fledgling business.Idiom: go/run to seed1. To pass into the seed-bearing stage.2. To become weak or devitalized; deteriorate: The old neighborhood has gone to seed. [Middle English, from Old English sǣd, sēd; see sē- in Indo-European roots.]seedingThe placing of the best players in separate sections of a draw so that they do not meet until the later rounds.IdiomsSeeseedseeding
seeding[′sēd·iŋ] (agriculture) The planting of seed. (chemistry) The adding of a seed charge to a supersaturated solution, or a single crystal of a desired substance to a solution of the substance to induce crystallization. (electronics) The introduction of atoms with a low ionization potential into a hot gas to increase electrical conductivity. |