Nut vs. Seed — What's the Difference?

An indehiscent fruit having a single seed enclosed in a hard shell, such as an acorn or hazelnut.

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering. The formation of the seed is part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiosperm plants.

The usually edible seed of such a fruit.

A mature plant ovule containing an embryo.

Any of various other usually edible seeds enclosed in a hard covering such as a seed coat or the stone of a drupe, as in a pine nut, peanut, almond, or walnut.

A small dry fruit, spore, or other propagative plant part.

A crazy or eccentric person.

Seeds considered as a group

An enthusiast; a buff

The seed-bearing stage of a plant

(Informal) A difficult endeavor or problem

A larval shellfish or a hatchling fish

(Slang) The human head.

An egg or cocoon of certain insects

A ridge of wood at the top of the fingerboard or neck of a stringed instrument, over which the strings pass.

A tiny bubble in a piece of glass.

A device at the lower end of the bow for a stringed instrument, used for tightening the hairs.

(Medicine) A form of a radioactive isotope that is used to localize and concentrate the amount of radiation administered to a body site, such as a tumor.

A small block of metal or wood with a central, threaded hole that is designed to fit around and secure a bolt or screw.

A source or beginning; a germ

The cost of launching a business venture.

A small amount of material used to start a chemical reaction.

The operating expenses of a theater, theatrical production, or similar enterprise

A small crystal used to start a crystallization process.

Vulgar Slang A testicle.

A cell that disperses, especially a cancer cell that spreads from a primary tumor to another location in the body.

To gather or hunt for nuts.

Offspring; progeny.

Vulgar Slang To ejaculate.

Family stock; ancestry.

Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

Sperm; semen.

Such a fruit that is indehiscent.

(Sports) A player who has been seeded for a tournament, often at a given rank

(hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.

To plant seeds in (land, for example); sow.

(slang) The head. 19

To plant (a crop, for example) as seeds in soil.

(slang) A crazy person.

To remove the seeds from (fruit).

(colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.

To furnish with something that grows or stimulates growth or development

An extravagantly fashionable young man.

To disperse to, as cancer cells

The glans structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris.

To disperse or transfer (cancer cells, for example)

A testicle.

(Meteorology) To sprinkle (a cloud) with particles, as of silver iodide, in order to disperse it or to produce precipitation.

Semen, ejaculate.

To arrange (the drawing for positions in a tournament) so that the more skilled contestants meet in the later rounds.

Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen.

To rank (a contestant) in this way.

Monthly expense to keep a venture running.

To help (a business, for example) in its early development.

The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.

To sow seed.

A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.

To pass into the seed-bearing stage.

On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.

(Medicine) To disperse and often multiply, as cancer cells.

En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.

Set aside for planting a new crop

(climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)

Intended to help in early stages

The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: nut straight, nut flush, and nut full house. Compare t=the best possible hand available.

A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

(firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.

(countable) Any small seed-like fruit.

(nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

(archaic) A small rounded cake or cookie.

An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.

(mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.

(countable) A fragment of coral.

To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

(uncountable) Semen.

To orgasm; to ejaculate.

A precursor.

(slang) To hit in the testicles.

(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

(slang) To defeat thoroughly.

(sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)

No.

The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)

The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

(cryptography) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system. (seed number)

A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of 1st Bolt.

Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)

The tumbler of a gunlock.

Offspring, descendants, progeny.

A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

Race; generation; birth.

Testicles.

A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

To gather nuts.

(transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.

Usually large hard-shelled seed

(transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

Egyptian goddess of the sky

(transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.

A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt

To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

Half the width of an em

To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).

A whimsically eccentric person

(intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.

Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction;

(intransitive) To produce seed.

One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens;

(intransitive) To grow to maturity.

Gather nuts

To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

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A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.

The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; - not used in the plural.

That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.

The principle of production.

Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.

Race; generation; birth.

To sow seed.

To shed the seed.

To grow to maturity, and to produce seed.

To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

A small hard fruit

A mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa

One of the outstanding players in a tournament

Anything that provides inspiration for later work

The thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

Go to seed; shed seeds;

Help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money

Bear seeds

Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;

Distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds

Sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain;

Inoculate with microorganisms

Remove the seeds from;