Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing seed; hence, matured; full-grown.
- Sown; sprinkled with seed.
- In heraldry, having the stamens indicated: used only when they are of a different tincture from the rest of the flower: as, a rose gules seeded or.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective sports being a
seed , being in a seed position. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
seed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective sprinkled with seed
- adjective having seeds as specified
- adjective having the seeds extracted
- adjective having or supplied with seeds
- adjective (of the more skilled contestants) selectively arranged in the draw for position in a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds
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Examples
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VIGUERIE: Well I guarantee you, the Federal Election Commission has got them what we call seeded, salted, and they have what we call dummy names in there.
America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power 2004
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Individual accounts would be seeded from the general account and then remain open for a designated amount of time.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Individual accounts would be seeded from the general account and then remain open for a designated amount of time.
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Mozdex is a search engine seeded from the dmoz. org directory.
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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Life, they argued, could have been "seeded" on the early Earth by a spacecraft packed with bacteria.
Dawkins and ID 2008
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Also, you seem to assume that aliens would have "seeded" life.
All These Different Creatures are Variations of the Same Theme 2008
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Also, you seem to assume that aliens would have "seeded" life.
All These Different Creatures are Variations of the Same Theme 2008
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The first 250 schools were "seeded," with months of research and solicitation of student content.
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I've "seeded" it with a variety of data, on issues ranging from global warming to the housing crisis, plus some visualizations various individuals have created of those data, as well as their interpretations of the data.
W. David Stephenson: Let My Data Go: How Activists Can Transform Government Through Public Data 2008
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Human contact with the island is minor and infrequent, and the difficulty of access has spared the islands being "seeded" with livestock by passing mariners, as has been the fate of so may other islands in the Pacific and around the world.
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