different between foundation vs seed

English

Etymology

From Latin fund?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fa?n?de???n/, [fa??n?de???n?]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

foundation (countable and uncountable, plural foundations)

1. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

   Synonym: establishment

   Antonyms: abolition, dissolution, ruination

2. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.

   Synonyms: groundwork, basis
3. (figuratively) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.

   Synonyms: groundwork, platform, stage

   • 2006, K P Yadav, Economic Planning And Restructuring, Sarup & Sons ?ISBN, page 44

     The implication is that the Gandhian model of growth is possible, now that Nehru's investment strategy had already laid a strong foundation for economic growth.

4. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
6. (architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

   Synonyms: base, groundwall

7. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
8. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.

9. (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
10. A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• foundation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: s?d, IPA^(key): /si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophones: cede, sede

Etymology 1

From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English s?d, s?d (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-Germanic *s?diz (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?tis (corresponding to Proto-Germanic *s?an? (“to sow”) + *-þiz), from *seh?- (“to sow, throw”). 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.

Alternative forms

• sede (obsolete)

Noun

seed (countable and uncountable, plural seeds)

1. (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
3. (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.

4. (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
5. (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.

6. (countable) A fragment of coral.
7. (uncountable) Semen.
   • 1611, King James Version, Leviticus 15:16:

     And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

8. (countable, figuratively) A precursor.

   Synonym: germ

9. (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
   1. 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.

   2. The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)

      The rookie was a surprising top seed.

   3. Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)

      If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.

   4. 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.

10. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.

    the seed of Abraham
11. Race; generation; birth.
    • a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Zelinda

      Of mortal seed they were not held.

12. A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

Usage notes

1-3

The common use of seed differs from the botanical use. The “seeds” of sunflowers are botanically fruits.

Hyponyms

• crack seed

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

seed (third-person singular simple present seeds, present participle seeding, simple past and past participle seeded)

1. (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.

2. (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
3. (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.

4. (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
5. (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
6. (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.

7. (intransitive) To produce seed.
8. (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
9. (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

Derived terms

• overseed
• self-seed

Translations

Etymology 2

see +? -d (“past tense suffix; variant of -ed”).

Verb

seed

1. (dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see

Anagrams

• EDES, dees, dese, sede