seed

Meanings

Noun

• A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
• Any small seed-like fruit.
• Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
• An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
• A fragment of coral.
• Semen.
• A precursor.
• The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
• Offspring, descendants, progeny.
• Race; generation; birth.
• A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

Verb

• To plant or sow an area with seeds.
• To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
• To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
• To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
• To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
• To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final or final.
• To produce seed.
• To grow to maturity.
• To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
• Past of see

Related

Narrower meaning words

• crack seed

Origin

• From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdiz ("seed"), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁tis (corresponding to Proto-Germanic *sēaną + *-þiz), from *seh₁-. Cognate with West Frisian sied ("seed"), Dutch zaad ("seed"), Low German Saad ("seed"), German Saat ("sowing; seed"), Icelandic sæði ("seed"), Danish sæd ("seed"), Swedish säd ("seed"), Latin satio ("seeding, time of sowing, season"). More at sow.
• see + -d.