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English to English noun
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(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 |  | source: wordnet30
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the place where something begins, where it springs into being | | Example: the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
communism's Russian root
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(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | | Example: thematic vowels are part of the stem
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a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number | | source: wordnet30
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the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation | | source: wordnet30
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someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | | source: wordnet30
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a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes | | source: wordnet30
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the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support | | source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913 verb
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take root and begin to grow | | Example: this plant roots quickly
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come into existence, originate | | Example: The problem roots in her depression
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plant by the roots | | source: wordnet30
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dig with the snout | | Example: the pig was rooting for truffles
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become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | | Example: He finally settled down
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cause to take roots | | source: wordnet30
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To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. | | source: webster1913
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To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth. | | source: webster1913
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To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. | | source: webster1913
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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. | | source: webster1913
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To shout for, or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; -- usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team. | | source: webster1913
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