Meaning

• A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

• Any small seed-like fruit.

  "If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn."

• Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

• (collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.

  "The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed."

• A fragment of coral.

• Semen.

  "A man must use his seed to start and raise a family."

• A precursor.

  "the seed of an idea; which idea was the seed (idea)?"

• The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

• Offspring, descendants, progeny.

  "the seed of Abraham"

• Race; generation; birth.

• A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

Meaning

• To plant or sow an area with seeds.

  "I seeded my lawn with bluegrass."

• 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."

• 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 produce seed.

• To grow to maturity.

• To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.