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seed
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)
- (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
- (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- (countable) A fragment of coral.
- (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.
- 1611, King James Version, Leviticus 15:16:
- (countable, figuratively) A precursor.
- Synonym: germ
- (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
- 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.
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
- The rookie was a surprising top seed.
- 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.
- 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.
- The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
- the seed of Abraham
- Race; generation; birth.
- a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Zelinda
- Of mortal seed they were not held.
- a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Zelinda
- 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)
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- (intransitive) To produce seed.
- (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
- (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
- (dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see
Anagrams
- EDES, dees, dese, sede
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rye
English
Etymology
From Middle English rie, reighe, from Old English ry?e, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrug?ís.
Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian ???? (rož?) and Latvian rudzi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophone: wry
Noun
rye (countable and uncountable, plural ryes)
- A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. [from 8th c.]
- The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]
- Rye bread. [from 19th c.]
- (US, Canada) Rye whiskey. [from 19th c.]
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 159:
- I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 159:
- Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
- Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
- A disease of hawks.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
Coordinate terms
- (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat
Derived terms
- ryegrass
Translations
Anagrams
- -ery, -yer, Rey, Yer, e'ry, eyr, yer, yre
Middle English
Alternative forms
- rie, reye, reyghe, reyhe, ruye
Etymology
From Old English ryge, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ri?(?)/
Noun
rye (plural ryes)
- rye (Secale cereale)
Descendants
- English: rye
- Scots: ry
- Yola: ree
References
- “r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
rye f (definite singular rya, indefinite plural ryer, definite plural ryene)
- rya
Related terms
- ru
References
- “rye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- yre
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