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    root
    [ro͞ot]
    noun
    root (noun) · roots (plural noun) · root note (noun) · root notes (plural noun)
    1. the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibers:
      "cacti have deep and spreading roots" · "a tree root"
      • the persistent underground part of a plant, especially when fleshy and enlarged and used as a vegetable, e.g. a turnip or carrot:
        "you should never wash roots before storing"
      • any plant grown for its edible root:
        "roots like beet and carrot cannot be transplanted"
      • the embedded or basal part of a bodily organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nail:
        "her hair was fairer at the roots"
      • the part of a thing attaching it to a greater or more fundamental whole; the end or base:
        "a little lever near the root of the barrel"
    2. the basic cause, source, or origin of something:
      "love of money is the root of all evil" · "jealousy was at the root of it" · "the root cause of the problem"
      • (roots)
        family, ethnic, or cultural origins, especially as the reasons for one's long-standing emotional attachment to a place or community:
        "it's always nice to return to my roots"
      • (roots)
        denoting or relating to something from a particular ethnic or cultural origin, especially a non-Western one:
        "roots music"
      • (in biblical use) a scion; a descendant:
        "the root of David"
      • linguistics
        a morpheme, not necessarily surviving as a word in itself, from which words have been made by the addition of prefixes or suffixes or by other modification:
        "many European words stem from this linguistic root" · "the root form of the word"
      • music
        the fundamental note of a chord:
        "in the sequence the roots of the chords drop by fifths"
    3. mathematics
      a number or quantity that when multiplied by itself, typically a specified number of times, gives a specified number or quantity:
      "find the cube root of the result"
      • short for square root
      • a value of an unknown quantity satisfying a given equation:
        "the roots of the equation differ by an integer"
    4. computing
      a user account with full and unrestricted access to a system:
      "make sure that these files can only be accessed by the root user" · "I need to log in as root on my system to resolve an issue"
    verb
    root (verb) · roots (third person present) · rooted (past tense) · rooted (past participle) · rooting (present participle)
    1. cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots:
      "root your own cuttings from stock plants"
      • (of a plant or cutting) establish roots:
        "large trees had rooted in the canal bank"
    2. establish deeply and firmly:
      "vegetarianism is rooted in Indian culture"
      • (be rooted in)
        have as an origin or cause:
        "the Latin dubitare is rooted in an Indo-European word"
    3. (be rooted to)
      cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement:
      "George was rooted to the spot in disbelief" · "fear rooted me to the spot"
    4. computing
      gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer):
      "we explained how to manually root almost any Android device"
    Origin
    Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót; related to wort, also to Latin radix.
    root
    [ro͞ot]
    verb
    root (verb) · roots (third person present) · rooted (past tense) · rooted (past participle) · rooting (present participle)
    1. (of an animal) turn up the ground with its snout in search of food:
      "stray dogs rooting around for bones and scraps"
      • search unsystematically through an untidy mass or area; rummage:
        "she was rooting through a pile of papers"
    noun
    root (noun) · roots (plural noun)
    1. an act of rooting:
      "I have a root through the open drawers"
    Origin
    Old English wrōtan, of Germanic origin; related to Old English wrōt ‘snout’.
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    noun
    1. the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibers:
      • the basic cause, source, or origin of something:
      verb
      1. cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots:
      2. establish deeply and firmly:
        • cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement:
          unable to move from
          frozen to
          riveted to
          paralyzed to
          glued to
          fixed to
          as still as a statue
          as if turned to stone
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        In English grammar, a root is a word or portion of a word from which other words grow, usually through the addition of prefixes and suffixes. By learning root words, you can decipher unfamiliar words, expand your vocabulary, and become a better English speaker. Most words in the English language are based on words from ancient Greek and Latin.

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        In English grammar and morphology, a root is a word or word element (in other words, a morpheme) from which other words grow, usually through the addition of prefixes and suffixes. Also called a root word. In Greek and Latin Roots (2008), T. Rasinski et al. define root as "a semantic unit.

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