different between seed vs preseed

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

English

Etymology

pre- +? seed

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??.si?d/

Verb

preseed (third-person singular simple present preseeds, present participle preseeding, simple past and past participle preseeded)

1. To seed in advance.
   • 1974, Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States, Senate, Congress, Weather Modification Grants: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Agricultural ..., page 53
   • […] I loaned them the valve that they used to seed the clouds or preseed them with liquid nitrate solution […]
   • 1982, Francis R. Pettit, Post-Digital Electronics, Page 146

     Also included in the menu is the possibility to preseed the entire LSE matrix to any desired level, thus providing a base for many classes of experiment.

   • 1986, Andrew David Cliff, Peter Haggett, J. K. Ord, Spatial Aspects of Influenza Epidemics, page 18

     Under this scheme, an outbreak of influenza in one year would preseed the population to give a pattern of latent infectives from which a subsequent outbreak would arise in a later year.

   • 1998, Joyce D. Wilkerson, Clownfishes: A Guide to Their Captive Care, Breeding & Natural History, page 93

     If you haven't been able to preseed the filter with bacteria from another aquarium […]

   • 2003, Peter E. Vaillancourt, E. Coli Gene Expression Protocols, page 245

     Preseed plates by spreading approximately 108 phage each of ?KH54 and ?KH54h80.

Noun

preseed (plural preseeds)

1. (biotechnology) A medium specially prepared for a seeding operation.
   • 1988, Roman Saliwanchik, Protecting Biotechnology Inventions: A Guide for Scientists, page 157

     The preseed is then transferred aseptically to 20-liter seed tanks [....]

   • 1990, DE Steinmeyer, ML Shuler, "Continuous operation of a pressure-cycled membrane bioreactor", Biotechnology Progress

     The preseed was incubated with mild agitation at 30 "C for 24 h.

Adjective

preseed (comparative more preseed, superlative most preseed)

1. Before a seeding or seed stage of development.
   • 1972, John Gliedman Terror from the Sky: North Viet-Nam's Dikes and the U. S. Bombing, page 71

     Increases in one experiment ranged from 10 to 200 times the preseed rainfall from the individual clouds, [....]

   • 2006, Elliott C. Kulakowski, Lynne U. Chronister Research Administration and Management, page 799

     There are many traditional sources of funding, but for new spin-off company creation, gaining access to early stage (angel, preseed, and seed) [...]

   • 2007, Sylvie Doublié, Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols, page 31

     The totality of the preseed culture is added into the final culture composed of the same medium.

Anagrams

• speeder, speered