seed

v. plant or sow seeds; produce seeds; remove seeds; rank players or competitors (Sports)

n. ovule of a plant; grain, kernel; sperm; source, origin; offspring, progeny; ranked player or competitor (Sports)

For other meanings of seed, see seed (disambiguation). SEED is a block cipher developed by the Korean Information Security Agency. It is used broadly throughout South Korean industry, but seldom found elsewhere. It gained popularity in Korea because 40 bit SSL was not considered strong enough (see Transport Layer Security#Early short keys), so the Korean Information Security Agency developed its own standard. However, this decision has limited the competition of web browsers in Korea, as no major SSL libraries or web browsers currently support the SEED algorithm, and users are limited to using ActiveX components with Internet Explorer for secure web sites.
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A seed is a small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant. The formation of the seed completes the process of reproduction in seed plants (started with the development of flowers and pollination), with the embryo developed from the zygote and the seed coat from the integuments of the ovule.
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Noun
1. a small hard fruit
(hypernym) fruit
(hyponym) edible seed
(part-meronym) kernel, meat
2. a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
(hypernym) ovule
(part-meronym) testa, episperm, seed coat
(derivation) sow, sough
3. one of the outstanding players in a tournament
(synonym) seeded player
(hypernym) player, participant
4. anything that provides inspiration for later work
(synonym) source, germ
(hypernym) inspiration
(hyponym) taproot
5. the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
(synonym) semen, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum
(hypernym) liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
(hyponym) milt
(part-meronym) sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon, spermatozoan
Verb
1. go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed"
(hypernym) spill, shed, disgorge
(hyponym) reseed
2. help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
(hypernym) finance
3. bear seeds
(hypernym) bear, turn out
4. place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds"
(synonym) sow, sough
(hypernym) put, set, place, pose, position, lay
(hyponym) broadcast
(verb-group) inseminate, sow, sow in
(classification) farming, agriculture, husbandry
5. distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
(hypernym) rate, rank, range, order, grade, place
(derivation) seeded player
(classification) sport, athletics
6. sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; "seed clouds"
(hypernym) process, treat
(derivation) seeder, cloud seeder
7. inoculate with microorganisms
(hypernym) inoculate
8. remove the seeds from; "seed grapes"
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw

(v. t.)
To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
  

(v. t.)
To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
  

(pl. )
of Seed
  

(n.)
The principle of production.
  

(n.)
The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
  

(n.)
That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
  

(n.)
Race; generation; birth.
  

(n.)
Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
  

(n.)
Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
  

(n.)
A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
  

Seed The essence or germ of an entity, imbodying its svabhava (essential nature) and determining the forms produced from it, partly by the accretion of various elements but mainly by the emanating stream working from within outwards or above downwards. The seed of a plant is a globule of physical matter, but the actual seed is ultra-physical. All seeds strictly speaking are the vital life-forces working in and through the physical germs, and hence these true seeds are ethereal organisms, structures composed of a higher order of matter (SD 1:201). Thus there is a succession of vital seeds pertaining to one individual entity, each such seed being the ultimate unit of that organism on a particular plane. There is the physical seed of a plant, containing the astral seed -- a unit on its own plane containing a still subtler seed belonging to a higher plane, and so forth. Ultimately a seed is a life-atom, in itself the expression on a particular plane of a monad which is a thought in divine ideation.