Word Finder - root

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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.

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This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.

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A root vegetable.

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The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.

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Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.

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The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.

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The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.

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The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.

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He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.

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The primary source; origin.

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The love of money is the root of all evil.

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• basis
• origin
• source

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Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.

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The cube root of 27 is 3.

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A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).

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Multiply by root 2.

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A zero (of an equation).

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• zero

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The single node of a tree that has no parent.

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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.

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(philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.

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• etymon

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The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.

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The lowest place, position, or part.

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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.

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I have to log in as root before I do that.

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• root account
• root user
• superuser

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The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.

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I installed the files in the root directory.

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A penis, especially the base of a penis.

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To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

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The cuttings are starting to root.

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To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings

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We rooted some cuttings last summer.

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To be firmly fixed; to be established.

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To get root or priviledged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.

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I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.

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• jailbreak

I'll do new potatoes and roasted root vegetables.

The root of the tree is very strong and ramifying.

Its preamble stated that its object was " to exterminate the root and ground of this pest."

The original root is seen in Skt.

I'd rather root them out and have them killed.

It kills all root pests.

Muscular substance forming the root of the foot.

But none of these classifications of expense reaches the root of the matter.

The right otocyst is seen at the root of the foot.

For such functions remain unaltered when each root receives the same infinitesimal increment h; but writing x-h for x causes ao, a1, a 2 a3,...

The first accurate description of the plant is given by Theophrastus, from whom we learn that it grew in shallows of 2 cubits (about 3 ft.) or less, its main root being of the thickness of a man's wrist and 10 cubits in length.

The equation then becomes a 2 /V = k, or a = A / Vk, so that the molecular conductivity is proportional to the square root of the dilution.

The lower part of the trunk bears huge buttresses, each of which ends in a long branching far-spreading; root, from the branches of which spring the peculiar knees which, rise above the level of the water.

The root appears more or less disguised in a vast number of river names all over the Celtic area in Europe.

At the root of all economic investigation lies the conception of the standard of life of the community.

In Switzerland and parts of Germany, where it is collected in some quantity for commerce, a long strip of bark is cut out of the tree near the root; the resin that slowly accumulates during the summer is scraped out in the latter part of the season, and the slit enlarged slightly the following spring to ensure a continuance of the supply.

This view of nature Bacon considered fundamental, and it lies, indeed, at the root of his whole philosophy.

Schultens (Vita Sal., Index geogr.) cites Tatmur as a variant of the Arabic name; this might mean " abounding in palms " (from the root tamar); otherwise Tadmor may have been originally an Assyrian name.

Planters appreciate generally the value of broad-leaved and narrow-leaved plants and root crops, but there is an absence of exact knowledge, with the result that their practices are very varied.

It is sometimes assumed that this is measured perfectly by the standard deviation,' which is obtained by taking the squares of the differences between the average and the individual prices, summing them and extracting the square root.

He displayed his political tact in the choice of the American delegation, which was led by Secretary Hughes and included, besides Elihu Root, two members of the Senate, Lodge and Underwood, the Republican and Democratic leaders respectively.

Since the current passing through the balance when equilibrium is obtained with a given weight is proportional to the square root of the couple due to this weight, it follows that the current strength when equilibrium is obtained is proportional to the product of the square root of the weight used and the square root of the displacement distance of this weight from its zero position.

Each instrument is accompanied by a pair of weights and by a square root table, so that the product of the square root of the number corresponding to the position of the sliding weight and the ascertained constant for each weight, gives at once the value of the current in amperes.

Worterbuch, who derives the element bel from an old Celtic root meaning shining, &c.) (W.

This book evidently afforded the root idea of the Ignatian and more famous book.

Farn; the Indo-European root, seen in the Sanskrit parna, a feather, shows the primary meaning; cf.

Of the head nothing could be made but garlands for the shrines of the gods; but the wood of the root was employed in the manufacture of different utensils as well as for fuel.

On the 4th of May Milner penned a memorable despatch to the Colonial Office, in which he insisted that the remedy for the unrest in the Transvaal was to strike at the root of the evil - the political impotence of the injured.

It seems not unlikely that Pelagianism had taken root among the Christian communities of Ireland, and it was found necessary to send a bishop to combat the heresy.

It is closely related to the Manioc, cassava or tapioca plant (Manihot utilissima) which it resembles when young and exhibits a similar tuberous root system.

After brushing away the loose stones and dirt from the root of the tree by means of a handful of twigs, the collector lays down large leaves for the latex to drop upon.

The word is commonly used in the Alexandrian Greek translation of the Old Testament (Septuagint) for the Hebrew word (ger) which is derived from a root (gur) denoting to sojourn.

Under cultivation this root becomes much enlarged, as in turnip, swede and others.

From the first he ranged himself among the opponents of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster; he was a firm upholder of the rights of the English Church, and was always eager to root out Lollardry.

The new creed, the new speech, the new social system, had taken such deep root that the descendants of the Scandinavian settlers were better fitted to be the armed missionaries of all these things than the neighbours from whom they had borrowed their new possessions.

But it took firm root on Norman soil; it made its way to England at an early stage of its growth, and from that time it went on developing and improving on both sides of the Channel till the artistic revolution came by which, throughout northern Europe, the Romanesque styles gave way to the Gothic. Thus the history of architecture in England during the 11th and 12th centuries is a very different story from the history of the art in Sicily during the same time.

In germination of the seed the root of the embryo (radicle) grows out to get a holdfast for the plant; this is generally followed by the growth of the short stem immediately above the root, the so-called "hypocotyl," which carries up the cotyledons above the ground, where they spread to the light and become the first green leaves of the plant.

This increase in the diameter of stem and root is correlated with the increase in leaf-area each season, due to the continued production of new leaf-bearing branches.

From this root, which lay horizontally, smaller roots pushed down into the mud, and the stem of the plant sprang up to the height of 4 cubits, being triangular and tapering in form.

In the case of the determinant of order 4 the square root is Al2A34 - A 13 A 24 +A14A23.

The resultant being a product of mn root differences, is of degree mn in the roots, and hence is of weight mn in the coefficients of the forms; i.e.

If Hebrew, it might be derived from the root p rr (to embrace) as an intensive term of affection.

Both solea and solum are, of course, from the same root.

But its linen manufactures, begun early in the 18th century, gradually restored prosperity; and when other industries had taken root its fortunes advanced by leaps and bounds, and there is now no more flourishing community in Scotland.

Then moving farther in the same direction he resolved to strike at the root of the evil by the exercise of his imperial authority.

In these haunts of learning the new studies took root after the year 1440, chiefly through the influence of travelling professors; Peter Luder and Samuel Karoch.

If EXPR is omitted, returns square root of $ _ .

In " Root rot," as the name implies, the roots are attacked, the fungus being a species of Ozonium, which envelops the roots in a white covering of mould or mycelium.

The crown or upper portion of the root gives rise to new plants.

When put to the lip, the juice of the aconite root produces a feeling of numbness and tingling.