1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Root

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noun. The usually underground portion of a plant that lacks buds, leaves, or nodes and serves as support, draws minerals and water from the surrounding soil, and sometimes stores food.

noun. Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.

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noun. The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.

noun. The bottom or supporting part of something.

noun. The essential part or element; the basic core.

noun. A primary source; an origin. synonym: origin.

noun. A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended.

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noun. The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society.

noun. The state of having or establishing an indigenous relationship with or a personal affinity for a particular culture, society, or environment.

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noun. The element that carries the main component of meaning in a word and provides the basis from which a word is derived by adding affixes or inflectional endings or by phonetic change.

noun. Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage.

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noun. A number that when multiplied by itself an indicated number of times forms a product equal to a specified number. For example, a fourth root of 4 is √2.

noun. A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.

noun. A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.

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noun. The note from which a chord is built.

noun. Such a note occurring as the lowest note of a triad or other chord.

intransitive verb. To grow roots or a root.

intransitive verb. To become firmly established or settled.

intransitive verb. To plant and fix the roots of (a plant) in soil or the ground.

intransitive verb. To establish or settle firmly.

intransitive verb. To be the source or origin of.

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intransitive verb. To dig or pull out by the roots. Often used with up or out.

intransitive verb. To remove or get rid of. Often used with out.

idiom. (root and branch) Utterly; completely.

intransitive verb. To turn up by digging with the snout or nose.

intransitive verb. To cause to appear or be known. Used with out.

intransitive verb. To turn over the earth with the snout or nose.

intransitive verb. To search or rummage for something.

intransitive verb. To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer. synonym: applaud.

intransitive verb. To give moral support to someone; hope for a favorable outcome for someone.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

A dialectal form of rot.

noun. In mech., the part of a gear-tooth where it joins the rim of the wheel; the base of a tooth.

noun. The sweet-flag.

To dig or burrow in with the snout; turn up with the snout, as a swine.

To tear up or out as if by rooting; eradicate; extirpate; remove or destroy utterly; exterminate: generally with up, out, or away.

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

To push with the snout.

To fix the root; strike root; enter the earth, as roots.

To be firmly fixed; be established.

To fix by the root or as if by roots; plant and fix deep in the earth: as, a tree roots itself; a deeply rooted tree.

To plant deeply; impress deeply and durably: used chiefly in the past participle.

noun. A form of rut.

To work hard for the success of some person or thing: as, to root for one's party (at an election); specifically, in base-ball, etc., to exert oneself for the success of one's side, usually by uproarious applause intended partly to disconcert the other side.

Word Usage

"The one that drives me crazy is when I'm trying to change to a directory with only root access: john@p490: ~$ cd / root john@p490: / root$ cd. gconf bash: cd:. gconf: Permission denied john@p490: / root$ sudo cd. gconf sudo: cd: command not found"