to seed
- verb
- /siːd/
- The committee seeded the participants to avoid having the strongest competitors face each other in the early rounds.
- a seeded team
- top-seeded team
- a seeded player
Examples
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Ridgewood advanced with a 31-18 home win over fifth-seeded Passaic Tech last Friday to improve to 7-2.
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I suppose I was lucky being seeded fifth.
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Oh, I should mention a young man seeded in the second group on the basis of a stunning performance when starting way back.
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The top four teams qualify and are seeded based on their league regular season records.
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In San Jose, the Earthquakes fell to the fourth-seeded Los Angeles Galaxy.
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Ironically, Hawaii has already beaten four of the teams seeded in front of them this season, including No. 2 Stanford.
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Peter, did you know that Dragomir is the first seeded player you've defeated in three years?
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State basketball tournament games are held in the gym of the higher-seeded team, regardless of how well-lit the gym is.
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Another seeded player goes down, and Colt will now take on fifth seed Pierre Maroux in the semifinals on Friday.
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The Sounders play Mexican side Tigres UANL, seeded No. 6 in the two-leg series.
Blog text (4)
Antonyms
- Specialized
Arrange something in no particular order, often to give each item an equal chance
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
Small seeds from sunflowers eaten as a snack, used in cooking or pressed for oil
- Specialized
A very small imperfect round bead made by an oyster and used in jewelry
- Specialized
A small bush that grows in salt marshes and has fruit with white fluffy tufts
- Specialized
A seed from Mexican shrubs that moves because a baby moth inside wiggles
- Indian
A seed from the neem tree used to make natural insect spray, plant food, and medicine
- UK
Hard shiny grey seed from a tropical tree that people use to make jewelry and decorations
- Specialized
A very small water animal like a shrimp with its whole body inside a two-part shell
- Specialized
Small dark pieces made by crushing and washing stick resin, used to make shellac
- Specialized
The part of a plant that holds the small parts that grow into new plants after flowering
A small beetle that lays eggs in seeds of plants like beans and whose young eat the seeds
A pale yellow liquid used for cooking and salads that comes from sunflower seeds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
To seed a tournament as a verb comes from the same planting idea: organizers place teams or players into the bracket like 'planting' seeds so the strongest do not meet at the start.