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Root
ruːt
- the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres
"cacti have deep and spreading roots"
- the persistent underground part of a plant, especially when fleshy and enlarged and used as a vegetable, e.g. a turnip or carrot
"you should never wash roots before storing"
- any plant grown for its root
"roots like beet and carrot cannot be transplanted"
- the embedded or basal part of a bodily organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nail
"her hair was fairer at the roots"
- the part of a thing attaching it to a greater or more fundamental whole; the end or base
"a little lever near the root of the barrel"
- the basic cause, source, or origin of something
"money is the root of all evil"
- family, ethnic, or cultural origins
"it's always nice to return to my roots"
- denoting or relating to something from a particular ethnic or cultural origin, especially a non-Western one
"roots music"
- (in biblical use) a scion; a descendant
"the root of David"
- a morpheme, not necessarily surviving as a word in itself, from which words have been made by the addition of prefixes or suffixes or by other modification
"many European words stem from this linguistic root"
- the fundamental note of a chord
"in the sequence the roots of the chords drop by fifths"
- a number or quantity that when multiplied by itself, typically a specified number of times, gives a specified number or quantity
- a value of an unknown quantity satisfying a given equation
"the roots of the equation differ by an integer"
- a user account with full and unrestricted access to a system
"make sure that these files can only be accessed by the root user"
- an act or instance of having sex
- a sexual partner of a specified ability
- cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots
"root your own cuttings from stock plants"
- (of a plant or cutting) establish roots
"large trees had rooted in the canal bank"
- establish deeply and firmly
"vegetarianism is rooted in Indian culture"
- have as an origin or cause
"the Latin verb is rooted in an Indo-European word"
- cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement
"George was rooted to the spot in disbelief"
unable to move from frozen to riveted to paralysed to glued to fixed to - gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer)
"we explained how to manually root almost any Android device"
- have sex with