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Root

noun

1.

(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.

2.

The place where something begins, where it springs into being. Synonyms: beginning, origin, rootage, source. "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation" , "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River" , "Communism's Russian root"

3.

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. Synonyms: base, radical, root word, stem, theme.

4.

A number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number.

5.

The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation. Synonym: solution.

6.

Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent). Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent.

7.

A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes. Synonym: etymon.

8.

The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support. Synonym: tooth root.

verb

(past & past part. rooted; pres. part. rooting)

1.

Take root and begin to grow.

2.

Come into existence, originate.

3.

Plant by the roots.

4.

Dig with the snout. Synonyms: rootle, rout.

5.

Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style. Synonyms: settle, settle down, steady down, take root.

6.

Cause to take roots.

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"Root" Quotes from Famous Books

... dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers. The sap of your life will dissipate ...

— Child of a Century, Complete • Alfred de Musset

... will work and haul and root the trees as Chihun here shall order you. Take up Chihun and set him on your neck!" Moti Guj curled the tip of his trunk, Chihun put his foot there, and was swung on to the neck. Deesa handed Chihun the heavy ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... only to be found in the higher degrees. It was this controversy, centring round the Royal Arch degree, that about the middle of the eighteenth century split Masonry into opposing camps of Ancients and Moderns, the Ancients declaring that the R.A. was "the Root, Heart, and Marrow of Freemasonry,"[354] the Moderns rejecting it. Although worked by the Ancients from 1756 onwards, this degree was definitely repudiated by Grand Lodge in 1792,[355] and only in 1813 was ...

— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

... was interrupted by a shout from Swartboy himself. He was standing over a little plant with narrow leaves, that rose not more than six inches above the surface of the plain. It was the stem of the water-root,—a plant that, on the karroos of South Africa, has saved the lives of thousands of thirsty travellers, that would otherwise have perished. Several stems of the plant were seen growing around the spot, and the Bushman knew that the want from which all had been suffering, would be at ...

— The Giraffe Hunters • Mayne Reid

... undoubtedly find him at the hospital, ready to greet him with some croaking sympathy. True to his expectations Fields met him at the door. He himself was looking particularly prosperous and cheerful, as people have a way of appearing to us when our trouble is root theirs. ...

— Red Pepper Burns • Grace S. Richmond

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