Seed vs. Pit — What's the Difference?

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.

A large hole in the ground.

A mature plant ovule containing an embryo.

A hollow or indentation in a surface.

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

An area at the side of a track where racing cars are serviced and refuelled

Seeds considered as a group

An orchestra pit.

The seed-bearing stage of a plant

A part of the floor of a stock exchange in which a particular stock or commodity is traded

A larval shellfish or a hatchling fish

An enclosure in which animals are made to fight

An egg or cocoon of certain insects

A person's bed.

A tiny bubble in a piece of glass.

A person's armpit.

(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.

The stone of a fruit.

A source or beginning; a germ

Set someone or something in conflict or competition with

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

Make a hollow or indentation in the surface of

A small crystal used to start a crystallization process.

Drive a racing car into the pits for fuel or maintenance

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

Remove the pit from (fruit).

Offspring; progeny.

A natural or artificial hole or cavity in the ground.

Family stock; ancestry.

An excavation for the removal of mineral deposits; a mine.

Sperm; semen.

The shaft of a mine.

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

A concealed hole in the ground used as a trap; a pitfall.

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

A small indentation in a surface

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

A natural hollow or depression in the body or an organ.

To remove the seeds from (fruit).

A small indented scar left in the skin by smallpox or other eruptive disease; a pockmark.

To furnish with something that grows or stimulates growth or development

(Zoology) Either of a pair of depressions between the nostril and the eye of a pit viper that contain heat-sensing organs.

To disperse to, as cancer cells

(Botany) A cavity in the wall of a plant cell where there is no secondary wall, as in fibers, tracheids, and vessel elements.

To disperse or transfer (cancer cells, for example)

(Informal) An armpit.

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

An enclosed, usually sunken area in which animals, such as dogs or gamecocks, are placed for fighting.

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

The section directly in front of and below the stage of a theater, in which the musicians sit.

To rank (a contestant) in this way.

Chiefly British The ground floor of a theater behind the stalls.

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

The section of an exchange where trading in a specific commodity is carried on.

To sow seed.

The gambling area of a casino.

To pass into the seed-bearing stage.

A sunken area in a garage floor from which mechanics may work on cars.

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

Often pits(Sports) An area beside an auto racecourse where cars may be refueled or serviced during a race

Set aside for planting a new crop

Hell. Used with the.

Intended to help in early stages

A miserable or depressing place or situation.

A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

Pits(Slang) The worst. Used with the

(countable) Any small seed-like fruit.

(Football) The middle areas of the defensive and offensive lines.

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

The single central kernel or stone of certain fruits, such as a peach or cherry.

An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.

To mark with cavities, depressions, or scars

(countable) A fragment of coral.

To set in direct opposition or competition

(uncountable) Semen.

To place, bury, or store in a pit.

A precursor.

To become marked with pits.

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

To retain an impression after being indented. Used of the skin.

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

To stop at a refueling area during an auto race.

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

To extract the pit from (a fruit).

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

A hole in the ground.

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

(motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.

Offspring, descendants, progeny.

(music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.

Race; generation; birth.

A mine.

A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

(archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.

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

(trading) A trading pit.

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

The bottom part of something.

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

(colloquial) Armpit.

To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

(aviation) A luggage hold.

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

(countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.

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

The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.

(intransitive) To produce seed.

The grave, underworld or Hell.

(intransitive) To grow to maturity.

An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.

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

Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.

(dialectal) see

(gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.

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.

(slang) A mosh pit.

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

(American football) The center of the line.

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

(hospital slang) The emergency department.

The principle of production.

A bed.

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

(informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.

Race; generation; birth.

A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.

To sow seed.

A shell in a drupe containing a seed.

To shed the seed.

(military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.

To grow to maturity, and to produce seed.

(informal) A pit bull terrier.

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

(transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.

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

(transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.

A small hard fruit

(transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.

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

To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.

One of the outstanding players in a tournament

(transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.

Anything that provides inspiration for later work

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

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

Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.

Go to seed; shed seeds;

A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.

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

A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body

Bear seeds

Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.

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

An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.

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

The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.

Sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain;

To place or put into a pit or hole.

Inoculate with microorganisms

To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.

Remove the seeds from;

To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.

A sizeable hole (usually in the ground);

A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed;

A trap in the form of a concealed hole

A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate;

Lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers

A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

Set into opposition or rivalry;

Mark with a scar;

Remove the pits from;