Root ¹

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

Root ²

Definition: Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.

Root ³

Definition: To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.

Root ⁴

Definition: 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.

Root ⁵

Definition: The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.

Root ⁶

Definition: An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.

Root ⁷

Definition: 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.

Root ⁸

Definition: An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.

Root ⁹

Definition: 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.

Root ¹⁰

Definition: The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.

Root ¹¹

Definition: That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, is a root of because multiplied into itself produces is the cube root of

Root ¹²

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

Root ¹³

Definition: The lowest place, position, or part.

Root ¹⁴

Definition: The time which to reckon in making calculations.

Root ¹⁵

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

Root ¹⁶

Definition: To be firmly fixed; to be established.

Root ¹⁷

Definition: 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.

Root ¹⁸

Definition: To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; with up, out, or away.

root ¹⁹

Definition: the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support

root ²⁰

Definition: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

root ²¹

Definition: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

root ²²

Definition: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

root ²³

Definition: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism''s Russian root"

root ²⁴

Definition: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

root ²⁵

Definition: (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

root ²⁶

Definition: a number that when multiplied by itself some number of times equals a given number

root ²⁷

Definition: take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly"

root ²⁸

Definition: cause to take roots

root ²⁹

Definition: become settled or established and stable in one''s residence or life style; "He finally settled down"

root ³⁰

Definition: take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for; "We all rooted for the home team"; "I''m pulling for the underdog"; "Are you siding with the defender of the title?"

root ³¹

Definition: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles"

root ³²

Definition: plant by the roots

root ³³

Definition: come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression"