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      noun
      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.
      A root vegetable.
      The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
      The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
      The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
      (figurative) The primary source; origin.
      (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
      (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
      (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
      (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
      (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
      (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
      (linguistic morphology) 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.
      (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
      (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
      The lowest place, position, or part.
      (computing) 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.
      (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
      (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
      An act of rummaging or searching.
      (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
      (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
      A town in Lucerne canton, Switzerland.
      A township in Adams County, Indiana, United States.
      A town in Montgomery County, New York, United States; named for lawyer and politician Erastus Root.
      A river in Minnesota, United States; named as a translation of its native Dakota name.
      A river in Wisconsin, United States.
      An English surname from Middle English from a byname from Middle English rote (“glad”).
      An English surname originating as an occupation for a rote (medieval guitar)-player.
      A habitational surname from Dutch for someone living near a retting place (Dutch root, from roten (“to ret”)).
      verb
      To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
      To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
      To fix firmly; to establish.
      (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
      (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
      (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
      (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
      (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
      (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
      (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
      (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
      (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
      Synonyms for root
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