Dictionary Entry
root
root is a 4-letter English word with 32 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 32 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
- 2intransitive verb
Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
- 3transitive verb
To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
- 9noun
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.
- 10noun
The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
- 11noun
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.
- 12noun
The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- 13noun
The lowest place, position, or part.
- 14noun
The time which to reckon in making calculations.
- 15intransitive verb
To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- 16intransitive verb
To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- 17transitive verb
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.
- 18transitive verb
To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
- 19noun
the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support
- 20noun
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
"thematic vowels are part of the stem"
- 21noun
a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
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- 22noun
the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
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- 23noun
the place where something begins, where it springs into being
"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
"Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
- 24noun
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- 25noun
(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
- 26noun
a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- 27verb
take root and begin to grow
"this plant roots quickly"
- 28verb
cause to take roots
- 29verb
become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
"He finally settled down"
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- 30verb
dig with the snout
"the pig was rooting for truffles"
- 31verb
plant by the roots
- 32verb
come into existence, originate
"The problem roots in her depression"
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