seed

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /siːd/    美 /siːd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. countable
    — […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
  2. Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.; A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant. countable
  3. Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.; Any small seed-like fruit. countable
    — If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
  4. An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted. collective,uncountable
    — The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
  5. A fragment of coral. countable
  6. Semen. uncountable
    — A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
  7. A precursor. countable,figuratively
    — the seed of an idea
  8. 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) countable,uncountable
    — The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
  9. The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.; The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position). countable,uncountable
    — The rookie was a surprising top seed.
  10. The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.; The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system. countable,uncountable
    — If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.
  11. The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.; (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement. countable,uncountable
    — Seeds are Minecraft's way of generating terrain. Each biome you spawn in is determined by the seed. With a custom seed, you can have a desert biome right next to a mesa biome.
  12. The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.; A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message) Internet,countable,uncountable
    — The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
  13. Offspring, descendants, progeny. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — the seed of Abraham
  14. Race; generation; birth. countable,uncountable
    — Of mortal seed they were not held.
  15. A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process. countable,uncountable
  16. A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass. countable,uncountable
  17. A child. US,countable,slang,uncountable
    — Seeds know what time it is, like it's time for Teletubbies
动词 v.
  1. To plant or sow an area with seeds. transitive
    — I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
  2. simple past and past participle of see dialectal,form-of,participle,past
    — Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feegees."
  3. To shed seeds (refers to plants) reflexive
    — These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
  4. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. transitive
    — […] AGRYPNIA, or Vigilance, in yellovv, a ſable mantle, ſeeded vvith vvaking eies, and ſiluer fringe: […]
  5. To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of. transitive
    — A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
  6. To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
    — Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass.
  7. To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent). Internet,transitive
  8. To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final. intransitive
    — The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
  9. 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.
  10. To produce seed. intransitive
  11. To grow to maturity. intransitive
  12. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum. slang,vulgar

词形变化

seeds plural sede alternative,obsolete seeds present,singular,third-person seeding participle,present seeded participle,past seeded past sede alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

下位词
crack seed
衍生词
aburachan seed allseed amber seed apple seed bad seed benniseed birdseed black seed squash boneseed burseed canary seed caraway seed bread celery seed chia seed cloudseed coixseed coleseed coriander seed cottonseed cupseed dandelion seed deseed dillseed drift seed dropseed eat one's seed corn eat the seed corn fernseed fern seed flaxseed flax seed gape seed goldseed go to seed grapeseed grass seed hagseed hayseed heartseed helicopter seed hemp seed hempseed hydroseed jumpseed lopseed lotus seed manyseed many-seed goosefoot meeting seed meetin' seed microseed moonseed multiseed musk seed mustard seed naked seed nanoseed Niger seed nonseed nyjer seed oilseed oil-seed camellia one-seed juniper onion seed plant a seed plumeseed poppyseed poppy seed poppy seed test preseed pumpkin seed pumpkinseed radon seed random seed rapeseed reseed run to seed rye seed scaleseed seeb seedable seedage seedbag seed bank seed banking seed bead seedbearing seedbed seed beetle seed-bird seedborne seed-borne seedbox seed-bud seed bug seed cake seedcake seed capital seedcase seed change seed coat seedcoat seedcod seed cone seed corn seedcorn seed crystal seed down seed drill seedeater seedeating seeder seed-faith seed fern seed fill seedful seed funder seed funding seed gall seed grain seedhead seedhouse seedlac seed leaf seedlep seedless seedlet seed library seedlike seedline seedling seed-lobe seedlot seedly seedman seed money seedness seed-nut seednut seed oil seed oyster seed pearl seed phrase seed pit seed plant seedplot seed pod seedpod seed potato seedset seedship seed shrimp seedsman seedsnipe seedstalk seed stitch seed stock seed technology seed tick seedtime seed tree seed vault seed vessel seed weevil seed wool seedy seedzone sesame seed sow the seeds of spill one's seed star seed stickseed stoneseed stripeseed suicide seed sunflower seed sunseed tasselseed teal-seed teelseed tickseed til seed top seed true to seed Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptist velvetseed wattleseed wingseed wormseed yellowseed overseed self-seed

词源

词源 1
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From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola zeade (“seed”), North Frisian sead, seed, siad, Siid, sädj, säid (“seed”), Saterland Frisian Säid (“seed”), West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), German Saat (“seed; sowing”), Limburgish zaod (“seed”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk sæd (“seed”), Faroese and Icelandic sáð (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Gothic *𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 (*sēþs, “seed”); also Latin serō (“to sow, plant”), Latvian sēt (“to sow”), Lithuanian sėti (“to sow”), Bulgarian се́я (séja, “to sow, plant”), Czech sít (“to sow”), Macedonian сее (see, “to sow”), Polish siać (“to sow”), Russian се́ять (séjatʹ, “to sow”), Serbo-Croatian се̏јати, sȅjati, си̏јати, sȉjati (“to sow”), Slovak siať (“to sow”), Slovene sejáti (“to sow”), Ukrainian сі́яти (síjaty, “to sow”). More at sow.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English see
English -d
English seed
From see + -d (“past tense suffix; variant of -ed”).
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