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root- (noun)
- The primary source.
- The love of money is the root of all evil.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that absorbs water and nutrients.
- 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.
- Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- The cube root of 27 is 3.
- A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
- Multiply by root 2.
- A zero (of a function).
- 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.
- A word from which another word or words are derived.
- 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.
- (verb)
- To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil, to root out.
- To cheer to show support for a sports team, etc.
- 1908, Jack Norworth, Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- Let me root, root, root for the home team,
- To have sexual intercourse.
- (noun)
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A sexual partner.
