gather vs seed

gather

verb
  • To grow gradually larger by accretion. 

  • To bring stitches closer together. 

  • To collect molten glass on the end of a tool. 

  • To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. 

  • To haul in; to take up. 

  • To infer or conclude; to know from a different source. 

  • To congregate, or assemble. 

  • Especially, to harvest food. 

  • To collect; normally separate things. 

  • To bring parts of a whole closer. 

  • To gain; to win. 

  • To be filled with pus 

  • To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width. 

  • To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue. 

noun
  • The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb). 

  • A gathering. 

  • The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. 

  • A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe. 

  • A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. 

seed

verb
  • To grow to maturity. 

  • To produce seed. 

  • To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. 

  • To allocate a seeding to a competitor. 

  • To plant or sow an area with seeds. 

  • 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. 

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

  • To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of. 

noun
  • A fragment of coral. 

  • The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position) 

  • Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number) 

  • A precursor. 

  • An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted. 

  • Any small seed-like fruit. 

  • Semen. 

  • The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position) 

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

  • Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message) 

  • Race; generation; birth. 

  • A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass. 

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

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