seeding

Verb

seed (third-person singular simple present seeds, present participle seeding, simple past and past participle seeded)

1. (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
   • I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
2. (reflexive) To shed seeds (refers to plants)
   • These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
3. (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
   • […] AGRYPNIA, or Vigilance, in yellovv, a ſable mantle, ſeeded vvith vvaking eies, and ſiluer fringe: […]1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), B[en] Jon[son], “The Pegme at Fen-church”, in B. Jon: His Part of King James His Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through His Honorable...
4. (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
   • A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
5. To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
   • Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass.1979 July 2, “Reflection on the Seedings Fills Pause at Wimbledon”, in The New York Times
6. (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).

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