Root

What do we mean by root?

The usually underground portion of a plant that lacks buds, leaves, or nodes and serves as support, draws minerals and water from the surrounding soil, and sometimes stores food. noun

Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber. noun

The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support. noun

The bottom or supporting part of something. noun

The essential part or element; the basic core. noun

A primary source; an origin. synonym: origin. noun

A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended. noun

The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society. noun

The state of having or establishing an indigenous relationship with or a personal affinity for a particular culture, society, or environment. noun

The element that carries the main component of meaning in a word and provides the basis from which a word is derived by adding affixes or inflectional endings or by phonetic change. noun

Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage. noun

A number that when multiplied by itself an indicated number of times forms a product equal to a specified number. For example, a fourth root of 4 is √2. noun

A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable. noun

A number at which a polynomial has the value zero. 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.

The primary source; origin.

Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.

A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).

A zero (of an equation).

The single node of a tree that has no parent.

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.

(philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.

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

The lowest place, position, or part.

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.

The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.

A penis, especially the base of a penis.

1. A Kiwi/Australian slang that is used in place of the more commonly used term "fuck." Urban Dictionary

The administrator user in Unix (e.g. GNU/Linux) systems with the highest level of permissions. Urban Dictionary

1. An Australian substitute for the more crass equivalent, fuck. 2. An American substitute for the more correct, support or barrack. 3. Somewhat confusing for those moving between these countries 4. Found under trees, shrubs, bushes etc. Draws nutrients from the soil. Easily tripped over. Urban Dictionary

A term for a penis, nothing more. Urban Dictionary

Another term for a stiffy. Urban Dictionary

Male sexual organ used to reproduce. Urban Dictionary

This is a slang word for a penis. Urban Dictionary

A very large penis, usually refered to when erect. Urban Dictionary

Whoever posted the example below forgot to include the all-important comma: Urban Dictionary

What a plant uses to extract water and nutrients from the soil. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to root:
root.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word root:
ganglion, rot, suffixes, node, polynomial, cellar, suffix, chord, verb, roots, beer, tooth, directory, verbs, consonant, vegetables, nodes, nutrients, integer, vowel, bark, chords, spinal, noun, hairs, prefix, crops, stems, vegetable, stem, soil, unity, nerve, meaning, causes, tip, word, sanskrit, tree, cause, leaf, equation, algorithm, mean, plants, plant, bacteria, crop, formula, canal, evil, arabic, hebrew, tissue, file, server, teeth, matrix, shoot, element, words, leaves, trees, seeds, grow, means, certificate, corresponding.

Words that rhyme with root:
suit, attribute, moot, shoot, route, boot, fruit, minute, acute, astute, constitute, dispute, refute, absolute, institute, execute, cute, pursuit, impute, commute, substitute, resolute, destitute, recruit, loot, mute, hoot, enroute, brute, hirsute, flute, coot, lute, salute, chute, prosecute, dilute, lawsuit, newt, scoot, overshoot, compute, parachute, en route, repute, persecute, butte, bruit, brut, toot, prostitute, convolute, jute, snoot, bute, electrocute, klute, offshoot, cahoot, bandicoot, uproot, grapefruit, pollute, wetsuit, disrepute, reroute, scute, crapshoot, jumpsuit, shute, restitute, glute, arrowroot, swimsuit, reconstitute, groot, follow suit, breadfruit, malamute, permute, clute, telecommute, smoot, grassroot, spacesuit, beirut, subacute, lieut, absolut, to boot, whoot, bathing suit, birthday suit, crute, skute, kiwi fruit, cloot, pantsuit, sweatsuit, stone fruit.

Adjectives that are often used to describe root:
same, square, very, deep, aortic, dorsal, common, posterior, single, real, firm, sensory, positive, primary, anterior, main, latin, fresh, powdered, spinal, verbal, deeper, mesial, dried, distal, greek, beet, nerve, fourth, deepest, arrow, european, bitter, tuberous, lateral, primitive, iris, negative, trigeminal, double, nth, cervical, thick, nasal, edible, ventral, fifth, palatal, fleshy, lingual, mesiobuccal, characteristic, lumbar, yellow, bulbous, largest, sanskrit, etymological, mandrake, arabic, fern, lotus, fibrous, ultimate, buccal, wild, sweet, mesencephalic, bare, perennial.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective root:
hairs, canal, level, growth, rot, crops, cause, ratio, tip, development, sugar, stock, pressure, system, beer, servers, formation, bernstein, pruning, canals, cuttings, transformation, plants, therapy, law, words, knot, tips, bark, stocks, filling, treatment, fibres, shoot, nodules, zone, pain, causes, fracture, feeding, fractures, function, dependence, length, cap, compression, exudates, interface, race, disease, cells, user, systems, takahira, distribution, surface, production, trees, grafting, roses, relationship, biomass, hair, tests, method, square, penetration, pipe, leaves, fibers, sign, tubercles, tea, levels, diggers, hog, diseases, ratios, morphology, metaphors, seedlings, tubers, powder, branch, sheath, suckers, soil, races, extraction, ganglia, worm, organizations, competition, planing, users, caries.

Consonant match to root:
rate, right, write, route, rat, rout, rait, wrought, rote, rot, writ, rut, rite, wrote, wright, ret, roat, rhett, reit, raught, ritt, rought, wroot, rott, rotte, rutt, ratte, raitt, routt, raut.

Words that sound like root:
route, root, rute, ruit, arouet, ruet, rouet, wroot, right, write, rude, rate, rat, wrote, rot, rut, rite, writ, wright, wrought, ret, rit, rout, rote, rought, rood, rott, roit, rhett, rutt, reet, roat, rued, rette, rait, rett, reit, raught, ritt, raat, ratt, rete, ratte, rotte, rhat, ruud, raut, ryt, wrat, rhet, raitt, routt, wret, roode, rhit, urate, rwd, raute, royt, regt, aurate, ruhe, fruit, rad, raid, brute, ert, rade, irt, arrayed, brut, irked, hrt, groot, bruit, irst, cruet, erst, raed, arrt, pruett, erte, raad, arua, aroid, aride, crute, radde, croute, radd, earst, hru, areed, iride, garoutte, irte, arride, awrt, radh, brouette.