Seminal - English meaning

adjective

Relating to or involving the use of the imagination or original ideas to create something.

Usage examples:

Change unleashes people's creative energy

noun

A person whose job involves creative work.

Usage examples:

The most important people in the mix will be creatives and direct marketing specialists

Having the ability or power to invent or make something

adjective

Serving to form something, especially having a profound influence on a person's development.

Usage examples:

His formative years

noun

A formative element.

Usage examples:

Do consumers perceive new ‘e’ and ‘i- ‘formatives as ready-made brand names or as new public domain…

adjective

Developing and not yet completely formed

Usage examples:

The formative years of adolescence

adjective

Original and important; showing a new way of doing or thinking about things

Usage examples:

This groundbreaking work changed the way historians looked at slavery.

adjective

New and likely to have an effect on how things are done in the future

Usage examples:

A groundbreaking discovery, groundbreaking work/research/studies, a groundbreaking agreement/deal

adjective

Having or showing creativity or inventiveness.

Usage examples:

Making imaginative use of computer software

adjective

New, original, and showing a quick intelligence

Usage examples:

An imaginative little girl

adjective

Of great significance or value.

Usage examples:

Important habitats for wildlife

adjective

Of great value, meaning, or effect

Usage examples:

An important discovery, [ + that clause ] it’s important that you tell the doctor all your symptoms…

adjective

Having great influence on someone or something.

Usage examples:

Her work is influential in feminist psychology

noun

An influential person.

Usage examples:

Young influentials

adjective

Having a lot of influence

Usage examples:

Dr. carter is an influential member of the board.

adjective

(of a product, idea, etc.) featuring new methods; advanced and original.

Usage examples:

Innovative designs

adjective

(of ideas and methods) new and different

Usage examples:

Gwen introduced a number of innovative solutions.

adjective

Using new ideas or methods

Usage examples:

In recent years, the company has relied more on creative repackaging than on innovative design., in…

adjective

Important, serious, or significant.

Usage examples:

The use of drugs is a major problem

noun

A rank of officer in the army and the us air force, above captain and below lieutenant colonel.

Usage examples:

One e-mail avowed that too many majors and lieutenant colonels flounder in their first joint assign…

verb

Short for major suit.

Usage examples:

South was anxious to mention his four-card major and bid one spade

adjective

Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.

Usage examples:

The original owner of the house

noun

The earliest form of something, from which copies may be made.

Usage examples:

The portrait may be a copy of the original

noun

The first one made and not a copy

Usage examples:

Send a copy of your receipt, but keep the original., the original plans have been changed., our tea…

adjective

Involving new ideas or methods.

Usage examples:

His pioneering work on consciousness

verb

Develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity).

Usage examples:

The technique was pioneered by a swiss doctor in the 1930s

adjective

Being the first to do or use a particular new idea

Usage examples:

Pioneering research/work/study, a pioneering technique/treatment/technology, a pioneering company/b…

adjective

Producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.

Usage examples:

The most productive employees

adjective

Causing or providing a good result or a large amount of something

Usage examples:

We had a very productive meeting – a lot of problems were solved., what was once desert has become …

adjective

Producing a large number of goods, crops, profit, etc. or doing a lot of work

Usage examples:

Productive farmland/sector/economy the only remaining option is to switch underemployed workers fro…

noun

The unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant.

Usage examples:

Cut open the peppers and remove the seeds

verb

Sow (land) with seeds.

Usage examples:

The shoreline is seeded with a special grass

noun

A small, usually hard part of a plant from which a new plant can grow

Usage examples:

A good defense lawyer knows how to plant these little seeds of doubt in the minds of jurors., we se…

noun

Semen.

Usage examples:

If there is a problem with the male partner sperm, then sperm from an anonymous donor may be used.

noun

A cell produced by a male animal for the purpose of reproducing

noun

A sex cell produced by a man or male animal

Usage examples:

In human reproduction, one female egg is usually fertilized by one sperm.

adjective

Relating to sperm or semen.

Usage examples:

The spermatic fluid may be rich, ordinary, poor or insufficient, or absolutely worthless.

adjective

Relating to sperm (= the cell produced by males that joins an egg from a female to create a baby)

Usage examples:

The spermatic cord