seed
/siːd/ verb C2- To plant or sow an area with seeds. · I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
- To shed seeds (refers to plants) · These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
- 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. · A venture capitalist seeds young companies.· The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
- 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. · The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
- To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain. · A number of clouds were seeded to help provide rain to a drought-stricken area.
He/she/it seeds · Past seeded · Past participle seeded · -ing form seeding
Verb forms
- Base form
- seed
- He/she/it
- seeds
- Past
- seeded
- Past participle
- seeded
- -ing form
- seeding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Thomas Lynde--a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”--was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
Blair’s store over at Carmody that he meant to sow his turnip seed the next afternoon.
“He doesn’t generally go to town this time of year and he _never_ visits; if he’d run out of turnip seed he wouldn’t dress up and take the buggy to go for more; he wasn’t driving fast enough to be going for a doctor.
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
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