Definizione monolingua

seed

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.

   I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.

2. (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.

   A venture capitalist seeds young companies.

   The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.

   The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.

3. (sports, games) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
4. To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).

   The tennis player seeded into the quarters.

5. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

Wikipedia

1. (countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.

   If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.

2. (countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
3. (uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.

   The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.

4. (uncountable) Semen.

   Sometimes a man may feel encouraged to spread his seed before he settles down to raise a family.

5. (countable) A precursor.

   The seed of an idea. Which idea was the seed (idea)?

6. (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precusor in a defined chain of precusors.
   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.

Definizione dizionario seed

	seme
	fertilized grain
	A mature fertilized plant ovule, consisting of an embryo and its food store surrounded by a protective seed coat (testa). (Source: CED)
	To add a database, either a blank database or a copy of the production database, to the storage group copy. This becomes the baseline database for the passive copy of the storage group.

	germe
	In senso figurato, ciò che sta all'origine di qualcosa, la causa prima di qualcosa.

	semente
	A fertilized ovule containing an embryo which forms a new plant upon germination. (Source: MGH)

	seminare
	to plant or sow seeds

	classificare
	assign a position to in a tournament

	effettuare il seeding
	To add a database, either a blank database or a copy of the production database, to the storage group copy. This becomes the baseline database for the passive copy of the storage group.

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Altri significati:

shaved ice with fruit syrup

(uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.

semen

(uncountable) Semen.

(countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.

To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).

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

(countable) A precursor.

Held in reserve for future growth.

precursor

(countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

(transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.

(sports, games) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precusor in a defined chain of precusors.

First. The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

To remove the seeds from.

A precursor, especially in a process without a defined initial state.

(now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.