Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 41
Seedsman (n.) 播種者 A person who deals in seeds.
Seedsman (n.) 種子商 A dealer in seeds [syn: seedsman, seedman].
Seedtime (n.) 播種時期 The season proper for sowing.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. -- Gen. viii. 22.
Seedtime (n.) Any time of new development.
Seedtime (n.) The time during which seeds should be planted.
Seedy (a.) 多種子的；不愉快的；下流的；衣衫襤褸的 Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
Seedy (a.) Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
Seedy (a.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat. [Colloq.]
Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. -- Goldsmith.
Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminae and the wall of the hoof.
Seedy (a.) Full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: seedless].
Seedy (a.) Shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin" -- Mark Twain [syn: scruffy, seedy].
Seedy (a.) Somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy].
Seedy (a.) Morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"-James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" [syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid].
Seeing (conj. (but originally a present participle)) In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young.
Seek (a.) 病的，有病的；病人的 [R]；患……病的 [（+with）] Sick. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sought (imp. & p. p.) of Seek.
Seeking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seek.
Seek (v. t.) 尋找；探索；追求 [（+out）]；在……中搜索，搜查遍（某處）[（+through）]；企圖，試圖 [Y] [+to-v]；徵求；請求；往，朝……而去 To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren. -- Gen. xxxvii. 15, 16.
Seek (v. t.) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.
Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. -- Luke xi. 16.
Seek (v. t.) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
Seek (v. t.) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. -- Amos v. 5.
Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. -- Pope.
Seek (v. i.) 尋找；探索 [（+after/ for）]；搜索；搜查 [（+for）] To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. -- Isa. xxxiv. 16.
To seek, Needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared. "Unpracticed, unprepared, and still to seek." -- Milton. [Obs.]
To seek after, to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take.
To seek for, To endeavor to find.
To seek to, To apply to; to resort to; to court. [Obs.] "All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom." -- 1 Kings x. 24.
To seek upon, To make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. [Obs.]
To seek, () Upon a man and do his soul unrest. -- Chaucer.
Seek (n.) The movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk.
Seek (v.) Try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness."
Seek (v.) Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" [syn: search, seek, look for].
Seek (v.) Make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world" [syn: try, seek, attempt, essay, assay].
Seek (v.) Go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level."
Seek (v.) Inquire for; "seek directions from a local" Seek.
Seeking, () To move the head of a disk drive radially, i.e., to move from one track to another.
Seeking, ()
Seeking, () To move the pointer that marks the next byte to be read from or written to a file. (1997-07-15)
Seeker (n.) 尋找者；搜索者 One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
Seeker
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(Eccl.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in
A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. -- Bullokar.
Seeker (n.) Someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth" [syn: seeker, searcher, quester].
Seeker (n.) A missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves).
Seek-no-further (n.) A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; -- formerly called go-no-further.
Seek-sorrow (n.) One who contrives to give himself vexation. [Archaic.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Seeled (imp. & p. p.) of Seel.
Seeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seel.
Seel (v. t.) (Falconry) 【古】使盲；蒙住……的眼；【古】閉（目） To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head. -- Bacon.
Fools climb to fall: fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling. -- J. Reading.
Seel (v. t.) Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind.
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. -- Shak.
Cold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel. -- Chapman.
Seel (v. i.) To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Raleigh. Seel
Seel (v.) Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.
Seel (n.) Alt. of Seeling.
Seeling (n.) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. [Obs.] -- Sandys.
Seel (n.) Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel."
Seel (n.) Time; season; as, hay seel. [Prov. Eng.]
Seelily (adv.) In a silly manner. [Obs.]
Seely (a.) See Silly. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Seemed (imp. & p. p.) of Seem.
Seeming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seem.
Seem (v. i.) [W] [L] 看來好像，似乎；似乎存在；好像發生 To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as. "It now seemed probable." -- Macaulay.
Thou picture of what thou seem'st. -- Shak.
All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all. -- Milton.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death. -- Prov. xiv. 12.
It seems, It appears; it is understood as true; it is said.
A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mistress on a great lake. -- Addison.
Syn: To appear; look.
Usage: Seem, Appear. To appear has reference to a thing's being presented to our view; as, the sun appears; to seem is connected with the idea of semblance, and usually implies an inference of our mind as to the probability of a thing's being so; as, a storm seems to be coming. "The story appears to be true," means that the facts, as presented, go to show its truth; "the story seems to be true," means that it has the semblance of being so, and we infer that it is true. "His first and principal care being to appear unto his people such as he would have them be, and to be such as he appeared." -- Sir P. Sidney.
Ham. Ay, madam, it is common.
Queen. If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee?
Ham. Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not "seems." -- Shak.
Seem (v. t.) To befit; to beseem. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Seem (v.) Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" [syn: look, appear, seem].
Seem (v.) Seem to be true, probable, or apparent; "It seems that he is very gifted"; "It appears that the weather in California is very bad" [syn: appear, seem].
Seem (v.) Appear to exist; "There seems no reason to go ahead with the project now."
Seem (v.) Appear to one's own mind or opinion; "I seem to be misunderstood by everyone"; "I can't seem to learn these Chinese characters."
Seemer (n.) One who seems; one who carries or assumes an appearance or semblance.
Hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be. -- Shak.
Seeming (a.) Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.
My lord, you have lost a friend indeed; And I dare swear you borrow not that face Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own. -- Shak.
Seeming (n.) Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.
These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. -- Shak.
Seeming (n.) Apprehension; judgment. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Nothing more clear unto their seeming. -- Hooker.
His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming. -- Milton.
Seeming (a.) Appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty" [syn: apparent(a), ostensible, seeming(a)].
Seemingly (adv.) In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.
This the father seemingly complied with. -- Addison.
Seemingly (adv.) From appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor" [syn: apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it].
Seemingness (n.) Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. -- Sir K. Digby.
Seemless (a.) Unseemly. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Seemlily (adv.) In a seemly manner. [Obs.]
Seemliness (n.) The quality or state of being seemly: comeliness; propriety.
Seemliness (n.) A sense of propriety and consideration for others; "a place where the company of others must be accepted with good grace" [syn: seemliness, grace] [ant: unseemliness].
Seemly (a.) Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous.
He had a seemly nose. -- Chaucer.
I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons. -- Shak.
Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies. -- Hooker.
Syn: Becoming; fit; suitable; proper; appropriate; congruous; meet; decent; decorous.
Seemly (adv.) In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.
Suddenly a men before him stood, Not rustic as before, but seemlier clad, As one in city or court or place bred. -- Milton.
Seemly (a.) According with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior" [syn: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly].
Seemlyhed (n.) Comely or decent appearance. [Obs.] -- Rom. of R. Spenser.
Seen () p. p. of See.
Seen (a.) Versed; skilled; accomplished. [Obs.]
Well seen in every science that mote be. -- Spenser.
Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen, Than his great brother read in states and men. -- Dryden. Seep
Seep (v. i.) Alt. of Sipe.
Sipe (v. i.) To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze. [Scot. & U. S.]
Water seeps up through the sidewalks. -- G. W. Cable. Seepage
Seep (v.) Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings [syn: seep, ooze].
Seepage (n.) Alt. of Sipage.
Sipage (n.) Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil. [Scot. & U. S.]
Seepy (a.) Alt. of Sipy.
Sipy (a.) Oozy; -- applied to land under cultivation that is not well drained.
Seer (a.) Sore; painful. [Prov. Eng.] -- Ray.
Seer (n.) One who sees. -- Addison.
Seer (n.) A person who foresees events; a prophet. -- Milton.
Seer (n.) A person with unusual powers of foresight [syn: visionary, illusionist, seer].
Seer (n.) An observer who perceives visually; "an incurable seer of movies."
Seer (n.) An authoritative person who divines the future [syn: prophet, prophesier, oracle, seer, vaticinator].
Seer, () A name sometimes applied to the prophets because of the visions granted to them. It is first found in 1 Sam. 9:9. It is afterwards applied to Zadok, Gad, etc. (2 Sam. 15:27; 24:11; 1 Chr. 9:22; 25:5; 2 Chr. 9:29; Amos 7:12; Micah 3:7). The "sayings of the seers" (2 Chr. 33:18, 19) is rendered in the Revised Version "the history of Hozai" (marg., the seers; so the LXX.), of whom, however, nothing is known. (See PROPHET.)
Seeress (n.) A female seer; a prophetess.
Seerfish (n.) (Zool.) A scombroid food fish of Madeira ({Cybium Commersonii).
Seerhand (n.) A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.
Seership (n.) The office or quality of a seer.
Seersucker (n.) A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
Seersucker (n.) A light puckered fabric (usually striped).
Seerwood (n.) Dry wood. [Written also searwood.] [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Seesaw (n.) A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.
Seesaw (n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play.
Seesaw (n.) A vibratory or reciprocating motion.
He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Seesaw (n.) (Whist.) Same as Crossruff.
Seesawad (imp. & p. p.) of Seesaw.
Seesawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seesaw.
Seesaw (v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
Seesaw (v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
He seesaws himself to and fro. -- Ld. Lytton.
Seesaw (a.) Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.
Compare: Crossruff
Crossruff (n.) (Whist) The play in bridge or whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.
Seesaw (n.) A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end [syn: seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teetertotter, teeterboard, tilting board, dandle board].
Seesaw (v.) Ride on a plank [syn: teeter-totter, teetertotter, seesaw].
Seesaw (v.) Move up and down as if on a seesaw.
Seesaw (v.) Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: teeter, seesaw, totter].
SEESAW, () An early system on the IBM 701.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
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Seet, () obs. imp. of Sit. Sate; sat. -- Chaucer.
Seeth (obs. imp.) of Seethe. -- Chaucer.
Seethed (v. t.) [imp. Seethed({Sod, obs.); p. p. Seethed, Sodden; p. pr. & vb. n. Seething.] To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. [Written also seeth.]
Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. -- 2 Kings iv. 38.
Seethed (imp.) of Seethe.
Sod () of Seethe.
Seethed (p. p.) of Seethe.
Sodden () of Seethe.
Seething (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seethe.
Seethe (v. t.) 使浸透；在沸水中煮 To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. [Written also seeth.]
Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. -- 2 Kings iv. 38.
Seethe (v. i.) 煮沸；冒泡；翻騰；沸騰；激動 [（+with）] To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil. -- 1 Sam. ii. 13.
A long Pointe, round which the Mississippi used to whirl, and seethe, and foam. -- G. W. Cable.
Seethe (v.) Be noisy with activity; "This office is buzzing with activity" [syn: hum, buzz, seethe].
Seethe (v.) Be in an agitated emotional state; "The customer was seething with anger" [syn: seethe, boil].
Seethe (v.) Foam as if boiling; "a seething liquid."
Seethe (v.) Boil vigorously; "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled" [syn: seethe, roll].
Seethe, () To boil (Ex. 16:23).
Seethe (n.) 翻騰；騷動 [U] A state of seething : ebullition.
Seether (n.) A pot for boiling things; a boiler.
Like burnished gold the little seether shone. -- Dryden.
Seg (n.) (Bot.) Sedge. [Obs.]
Seg (n.) (Bot.) The gladen, and other species of Iris. -- Prior.
Seg (n.) A castrated bull. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Halliwell.
Segar (n.) See Cigar.
Seggar (n.) A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin. [Written also saggar, sagger, and segger.] -- Ure.
Segge (n.) (Zool.) The hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Segment (n.) One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.
Segment (n.) (Geom.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.
Segment (n.) (Mach.) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.
Segment (n.) (Mach.) A segment gear.
Segment (n.) (Biol.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
Segment (n.) (Biol.) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
Segment gear, A piece for receiving or communicating reciprocating motion from or to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face.
Segment of a line, The part of a line contained between two points on it.
Segment of a sphere, The part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes.
Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loor, n., 5.
Segment (v. i.) (Biol.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
Segment (n.) One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road" [syn: section, segment].
Segment (n.) One of the parts into which something naturally divides; "a segment of an orange."
Segment (v.) Divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word" [syn: segment, section].
Segment (v.) Divide or split up; "The cells segmented."
Segment (v. i.) To experience a segmentation fault. Confusingly, this is often pronounced more like the noun ?segment? than like mainstream v. segment; this is because it is actually a noun shorthand that has been verbed.
Segment, () A collection of pages in a memory management system.
Segment, () A separately relocatable section of an executable program. Unix executables have a text segment (executable machine instructions), a data segment (initialised data) and a bss segment (uninitialised data).
Segment, () Network segment.
Segment, () To experience a segmentation fault. Confusingly, the stress is often put on the first syllable, like the noun "segment", rather than the second like mainstream verb "segment". This is because it is actually a noun shorthand that has been verbed.
Segment, () A block of memory in a segmented address space.
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Segmental (a.) Relating to, or being, a segment.
Segmental (a.) (Anat. & Zool.) Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillae.
Segmental (a.) (Anat. & Zool.) Of or pertaining to the segmental organs.
Segmental duct (Anat.), The primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and ureter; the pronephric duct.
Segmental organs. (a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts.
Segmental organs. (b) (Zool.) The tubular excretory organs, a pair of which often occur in each of several segments in annelids.
They serve as renal organs, And often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. Under Sipunculacea.
Segmental tubes (Anat.), The tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult.
Segmental (a.) Divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds.
Segmental (a.) Having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters [syn: metameric, segmental, segmented].
Segmentation (n.) The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation.
Segmentation cavity (Biol.), The cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells in segmentation or cleavage of the ovum; the cavity of the blastosphere. In the gastrula stage, the segmentation cavity in which the mesoblast is formed lies between the entoblast and ectoblast. See Illust. of Invagination.
Segmentation nucleus (Biol.), The body formed by fusion of the male and female pronucleus in an impregnated ovum. See the Note under Pronucleus.
Segmentation of the ovum, or Egg cleavage (Biol.), The process by which the embryos of all the higher plants and animals are derived from the germ cell. In the simplest case, that of small ova destitute of food yolk, the ovum or egg divides into two similar halves or segments (blastomeres), each of these again divides into two, and so on, thus giving rise to a mass of cells (mulberry mass, or morula), all equal and similar, from the growth and development of which the future animal is to be formed.
This constitutes regular segmentation. Quite frequently, however, the equality and regularity of cleavage is interfered with by the presence of food yolk, from which results unequal segmentation. See Holoblastic, Meroblastic, Alecithal, Centrolecithal, Ectolecithal, and Ovum.
Segmentation sphere (Biol.), The blastosphere, or morula. See Morula.
Segmentation (n.) (Embryology) The repeated division of a fertilised ovum [syn: cleavage, segmentation].
Segmentation (n.) The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart [syn: division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation].
Segmentation
Reassembly
SAR
Segmentation and reassembly
(Or "segmentation and reassembly", SAR) Breaking an arbitrary size packet into smaller pieces at the transmitter. This may be necessary because of restrictions in the communications channel or to reduce latency. The pieces are joined back together in the right order at the receiver ("reassembly"). Segmentation may be performed by a router when routing a packet to a network with a smaller maximum packet size.
The term "segmentation" is used in ATM, in TCP/IP, it is called "fragmentation" an is performed at the IP layer before the "fragments" are passed to the transport layer.
See for example ATM forum UNI 4.0 specification.
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Segmented (a.) Divided into segments or joints; articulated. Segnitude
Segmented (a.) Having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters [syn: metameric, segmental, segmented].
Segnitude (n.) Alt. of Segnity.