preseed
/pɹiːˈsiːd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To seed in advance.
adj
Before a seeding or seed stage of development.
Example Sentences
- "[…] I loaned them the valve that they used to seed the clouds or preseed them with liquid nitrate solution […]"
- "Also included in the menu is the possibility to preseed the entire LSE matrix to any desired level, thus providing a base for many classes of experiment."
- "Under this scheme, an outbreak of influenza in one year would preseed the population to give a pattern of latent infectives from which a subsequent outbreak would arise in a later year."
- "If you haven't been able to preseed the filter with bacteria from another aquarium […]"
- "Preseed plates by spreading approximately 108 phage each of λKH54 and λKH54h80."
- "The preseed is then transferred aseptically to 20-liter seed tanks [....]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English seed English preseed From pre- + seed.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /pɹiːˈsiːd/
Inflected Forms
preseeds (present, singular)
preseeding (participle, present)
preseeded (participle, past)
preseeded (past)
preseeds (plural)
more preseed (comparative)
most preseed (superlative)