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preseed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpɹiːˌsiːd/ (UK)

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.

Meanings

  1. Before a seeding or seed stage of development.
    • There are many traditional sources of funding, but for new spin-off company creation, gaining access to early stage (angel, preseed, and seed) [...] 2006, Elliott C. Kulakowski, Lynne U. Chronister, Research Administration and Management, page 799:
    • Increases in one experiment ranged from 10 to 200 times the preseed rainfall from the individual clouds, [....] 1972, John Gliedman, Terror from the Sky: North Viet-Nam's Dikes and the U. S. Bombing, page 71:
    • The totality of the preseed culture is added into the final culture composed of the same medium. 2007, Sylvie Doublié, Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols, page 31:

Forms

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most preseed Degree=Sup lexicographic
more preseed Degree=Cmp lexicographic

preseed en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpɹiːˌsiːd/ (UK)

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.

Meanings

  1. A medium specially prepared for a seeding operation.
    • The preseed was incubated with mild agitation at 30 "C for 24 h. 1990, DE Steinmeyer, ML Shuler, “Continuous operation of a pressure-cycled membrane bioreactor”, in Biotechnology Progress:
    • The preseed is then transferred aseptically to 20-liter seed tanks [....] 1988, Roman Saliwanchik, Protecting Biotechnology Inventions: A Guide for Scientists, page 157:

Forms

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preseeds Number=Plur lexicographic

preseed en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /pɹiːˈsiːd/ (UK)

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.

Meanings

  1. To seed in advance.
    • 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. 1982, Francis R. Pettit, Post-Digital Electronics, page 146:
    • […] I loaned them the valve that they used to seed the clouds or preseed them with liquid nitrate solution […]
    • Preseed plates by spreading approximately 108 phage each of λKH54 and λKH54h80. 2003, Peter E. Vaillancourt, E. Coli Gene Expression Protocols, page 245:
    • If you haven't been able to preseed the filter with bacteria from another aquarium […] 1998, Joyce D. Wilkerson, Clownfishes: A Guide to Their Captive Care, Breeding & Natural History, page 93:
    • 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. 1986, Andrew David Cliff, Peter Haggett, J. K. Ord, Spatial Aspects of Influenza Epidemics, page 18:

Forms

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preseeding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
preseeds Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
preseeded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
preseeded Tense=Past lexicographic