Root
Definition of Root
Pronunciation: rŌt | v. i. | 1. | To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. | | 2. | Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely. | | v. t. | 1. | To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth. | | n. | 1. | (Bot.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag. | | 2. | An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop. | | 3. | That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like. | | 4. | A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical. | | 4. | (Astrol.) The time which to reckon in making calculations. | | 5. | (Math.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27. | | 6. | The lowest place, position, or part. | | v. i. | 1. | To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. | | 2. | To be firmly fixed; to be established. | | 1. | To shout for, or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; - usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team. | | v. t. | 1. | To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; - used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike. | | 2. | To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; - with up, out, or away. |
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