seed
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable)(countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
Đồng nghĩa: spawn
- 2.
(collective, uncountable)An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
- 3.
(countable)A fragment of coral.
- 4.
(uncountable)Semen.
A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
- 5.
(countable, figuratively)(countable, figurative) A precursor.
the seed of an idea
Which idea was the seed (idea)?
Đồng nghĩa: germ
- 6.
(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
- 7.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)(now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
the seed of Abraham
- 8.
(countable, uncountable)Race; generation; birth.
- 9.
(countable, uncountable)(physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
- 10.
(countable, uncountable)A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- 11.
(US, countable, slang, uncountable)(US slang) A child.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To plant or sow an area with seeds.
I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
- 2.
(reflexive)To shed seeds (refers to plants)
These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
- 3.
(transitive)To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- 4.
(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.
- 5.
(sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- 6.
(Internet, transitive)To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- 7.
(intransitive)To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
- 8.
(meteorology) 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.
- 9.
(intransitive)To produce seed.
- 10.
(intransitive)To grow to maturity.
- 11.
(slang, vulgar)To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- 12.
(dialectal, form of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of see
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