brood vs seed

brood

verb
  • To be bred. 

  • (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone. 

  • To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. 

  • To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster. 

noun
  • Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. 

  • Parentage. 

  • The children in one family; offspring. 

  • The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. 

  • The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony. 

  • The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. 

  • That which is bred or produced; breed; species. 

adj
  • Kept or reared for breeding. 

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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