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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024root•er1 (ro̅o̅′tər, rŏŏt′ər),USA pronunciation n. - Mammalsa person, animal, or thing that roots, as with the snout.
- Dialect Terms[South Midland and Southern U.S.]a pig's snout.
- See black buffalo.
root•er2 (ro̅o̅′tər or, sometimes, rŏŏt′ər),USA pronunciation n. - a person who roots for, supports, or encourages a team or contestant.
- a loyal and enthusiastic helper, follower, or supporter.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024root1 /rut, rʊt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Botanya part of the body of a plant that develops downward into the soil.
- something resembling the root of a plant in position or function.
- Anatomythe part of a hair, tooth, etc., holding it to the main part of the body.
- the fundamental part;
the source or origin of a thing:the root of all evil. - roots, [plural]
- the original home and culture of a person or of one's ancestors:When he discovered he was adopted he began a search for his roots.
- the personal qualities that one finds appealing about a place;
one's true home:returned to his roots after years of travel.
- Mathematics
- a number that, when multiplied by itself a certain number of times, produces a given number:2 is the square root of 4.
- Grammar, Linguisticsa part of a word, or the word itself, present in other forms of that word:The word dancer has the root dance; the root of the word extend is Latin -tend-.
v. - to become fixed or established:[no object]Will these plants root well?
- to fix by or as if by roots:[~ + object]rooted to the spot in amazement.
- Agriculture to pull, tear, or dig up by the roots:[~ (+ out/up) + object]He rooted (out) the weeds from the garden.
- to remove completely: [~ + out + object]promised to root out crime from the city.[~ + object + out]to root crime out.
Idioms- Idioms take root, [no object]
- Botanyto send out roots;
begin to grow:The new plant has taken root. - to become established:Her ideas took root and grew.
root•less, adj. root2 /rut, rʊt/USA pronunciation v. - Animal Behaviorto turn up the soil with the nose, as pigs do: [no object]The pigs rooted around looking for food.[~ + up + object]rooting up a few nuts and seeds.[~ + object + up]rooting a few potatoes up.
- to poke, pry, or search:[no object]He rooted around in the drawer for a cuff link.
- to find out and bring to the attention of others: [~ + up/out + object]managed to root up some very damaging information from the files.[~ + object + up/out]to root some information up for blackmail.
root3 /rut/USA pronunciation v. [~ + for + object]- to support a team or player by cheering strongly:rooted for the basketball team.
- to lend support:We're all rooting for you.
root•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024root1 (ro̅o̅t, rŏŏt),USA pronunciation n. - Botanya part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- Botanya similar organ developed from some other part of a plant, as one of those by which ivy clings to its support.
- Botanyany underground part of a plant, as a rhizome.
- something resembling or suggesting the root of a plant in position or function:roots of wires and cables.
- Anatomythe embedded or basal portion of a hair, tooth, nail, nerve, etc.
- the fundamental or essential part:the root of a matter.
- the source or origin of a thing:The love of money is the root of all evil.
- a person or family as the source of offspring or descendants.
- Botanyan offshoot or scion.
- Mathematics
- a quantity that, when multiplied by itself a certain number of times, produces a given quantity:The number 2 is the square root of 4, the cube root of 8, and the fourth root of 16.
- r th root, the quantity raised to the power 1/r:The number 2 is the 1⁄3 root of 8.
- a value of the argument of a function for which the function takes the value zero.
- Grammar, Linguistics
- a morpheme that underlies an inflectional or derivational paradigm, as dance, the root in danced, dancer, or ten-, the root of Latin tendere "to stretch.''
- such a form reconstructed for a parent language, as *sed-, the hypothetical proto-Indo-European root meaning "sit.''
- roots:
- a person's original or true home, environment, and culture:He's lived in New York for twenty years, but his roots are in France.
- the personal relationships, affinity for a locale, habits, and the like, that make a country, region, city, or town one's true home:He lived in Tulsa for a few years, but never established any roots there.
- personal identification with a culture, religion, etc., seen as promoting the development of the character or the stability of society as a whole.
- Music and Dance
- the fundamental tone of a compound tone or of a series of harmonies.
- the lowest tone of a chord when arranged as a series of thirds;
the fundamental.
- [Mach.]
- Mechanical Engineering(in a screw or other threaded object) the narrow inner surface between threads. Cf. crest (def. 18), flank (def. 7).
- Mechanical Engineering(in a gear) the narrow inner surface between teeth.
- British Terms[Australian Informal.]an act of sexual intercourse.
- Nautical, Naval Terms[Shipbuilding.]the inner angle of an angle iron.
- root and branch, utterly;
entirely:to destroy something root and branch. - take root:
- Botanyto send out roots;
begin to grow. - to become fixed or established:The prejudices of parents usually take root in their children.
v.i. - to become fixed or established.
v.t. - to fix by or as if by roots:We were rooted to the spot by surprise.
- to implant or establish deeply:Good manners were rooted in him like a second nature.
- Agricultureto pull, tear, or dig up by the roots (often fol. by up or out).
- to extirpate;
exterminate; remove completely (often fol. by up or out):to root out crime.
- Old Norse rōt; akin to Old English wyrt plant, wort2, German Wurzel, Latin rādīx (see radix), Greek rhíza (see rhizome); (verb, verbal) Middle English roten, rooten, derivative of the noun, nominal
- bef. 1150; (noun, nominal) Middle English; late Old English rōt
root′like′, adj. - 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged basis.
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged beginning, derivation, rise, fountainhead.
- 8.See corresponding entry in Unabridged parent.
- 23.See corresponding entry in Unabridged eradicate.
root2 (ro̅o̅t, rŏŏt),USA pronunciation v.i. - Animal Behaviorto turn up the soil with the snout, as swine.
- to poke, pry, or search, as if to find something:to root around in a drawer for loose coins.
v.t. - Animal Behaviorto turn over with the snout (often fol. by up).
- to unearth;
bring to light (often fol. by up).
- variant of obsolete wroot (Old English wrōtan, akin to wrōt a snout) 1530–40
root3 (ro̅o̅t or, sometimes, rŏŏt),USA pronunciation v.i. - to encourage a team or contestant by cheering or applauding enthusiastically.
- to lend moral support:The whole group will be rooting for him.
- perh. variant of rout4 1885–90, American.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged cheer, applaud, boost, support.
Root (ro̅o̅t),USA pronunciation n. El•i•hu (el′ə hyo̅o̅′),USA pronunciation 1845–1937, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Nobel peace prize 1912.John Well•born (wel′bərn),USA pronunciation 1851–91, U.S. architect.
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