root

Plural: roots

Noun

• (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
• the place where something begins, where it springs into being
  • "communism's Russian root"
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
• the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
• a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
• the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support
• The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
• A root vegetable.
• The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• The primary source; origin.
• The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
• The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
• Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
• A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
• A zero (of an equation).
• The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
• A word from which another word or words are derived.
• The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• The lowest place, position, or part.
• In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
• The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• An act of rummaging or searching.
• An act of sexual intercourse.
• A sexual partner.

Verb

Verb Forms: rooted, rooting, roots

• To put forth or develop roots; to become established.
• take root and begin to grow
  • "this plant roots quickly"
• come into existence, originate
  • "The problem roots in her depression"
• plant by the roots
• dig with the snout
  • "the pig was rooting for truffles"
• become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
• cause to take roots
• To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• To fix firmly; to establish.
• To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
• To turn up or dig with the snout.
• To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
• Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
• To root out; to abolish.
• To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
• To sexually penetrate.
• To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)

Examples

• A pig roots the earth for truffles.
• Fancy a root?
• He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.
• I have to log in as root before I do that.
• I installed the files in the root directory.
• I tried to ROOT out my opponent’s strategy early in the Words With Friends game.
• I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.
• I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!
• Multiply by root 2.
• Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
• rooting about in a junk-filled drawer
• The cube root of 27 is 3.
• The cuttings are starting to root.
• The love of money is the root of all evil.
• The root diameter is the minor diameter of an external thread and the major diameter of an internal one.
• The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.
• This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.
• We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.
• We rooted some cuttings last summer.

Synonyms

ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, base, beginning, etymon, origin, radical, root word, rootage, rootle, rout, settle, settle down, solution, source, steady down, stem, take root, theme, tooth root, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, Netflix and chill, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, action, aphrodisia, ass, ball, bang, barney-mugging, barrack, basis, bauf, be with, bed, beef injection, beep, boff, boink, bone, bonk, bonking, boom-boom, carnal knowledge, cheer on, chesterfield rugby, coit, coition, coitize, coitus, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjunction, connection, consummation, conversation, copulation, coupling, cuntfuck, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, do, doink, drill, eff, enjoy, expletive deleted, feague, feck, fill, fooling about, fooling around, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, fucking, fucky-fucky, funny business, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, hanky-panky, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, hot beef injection, how's your father, hump, humpa humpa, intercourse, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, jailbreak, jape, jig-jig, jiggery-pokery, jiggy-jiggy, joining, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, legover, lie by, lie with, love, love up, lovemaking, lustmaking, make, making whoopee, marital embrace, mating, meat injection, monkey business, mount, mounting, nail, nookie, occupy, old hat, pareunia, penetrate, penetration, physical love, pipe, playing around, plough, plow, plug, poke, poon, poontang, pork, pound, prig, pump, punani, pussy, ream, relations, ride, rock, roger, roll in the hay, root, root account, root out, root user, rummage, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, screwing, season, seduce, see to, seeing-to, service, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, sexy time, sexy times, shaft, shag, shelve, skin, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smush, snu snu, stallionize, superuser, swive, swiving, take, tang, tap, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, trim, tup, union, wap, zero

Antonyms

descendant, crest, pole

Related Words

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