Root is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ROOT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to implant in the earth
• cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots
• (of a plant or cutting) establish roots
• establish deeply and firmly
• have as an origin or cause
• cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement
• gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer)
• have sexual intercourse with.
• exhaust (someone) or frustrate their efforts
• (of an animal) turn up the ground with its snout in search of food
• search unsystematically through an untidy mass or area; rummage
• find or extract something by rummaging
• To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
• Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
• To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
• To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• 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.
• To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
• come into existence, originate
• plant by the roots
• dig with the snout
• become settled or established and stable in one\'s residence or life style
• cause to take roots
• establish a root and start to grow
NOUN:
• 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 fibres
• the persistent underground part of a plant, especially when fleshy and enlarged and used as a vegetable, e.g. a turnip or carrot
• any plant grown for its root
• the embedded part of a bodily organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nail
• the part of a thing attaching it to a greater or more fundamental whole; the end or base
• the basic cause, source, or origin of something
• family, ethnic, or cultural origins
• denoting or relating to something from a particular ethnic or cultural origin, especially a non-Western one
• (in biblical use) a scion; a descendant
• 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
• the fundamental note of a chord
• a number or quantity that when multiplied by itself, typically a specified number of times, gives a specified number or quantity.
• a value of an unknown quantity satisfying a given equation
• a user account with full and unrestricted access to a system
• an act of sexual intercourse.
• a sexual partner of a specified ability.
• an act of rooting
• part of a plant that grows down into the earth obtaining nourishment
• 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.
• The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
• An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
• That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
• An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
• A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.
• The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
• That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
• The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• The lowest place, position, or part.
• The time which to reckon in making calculations.
• (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
• the place where something begins, where it springs into being
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
• the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
• a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
• the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to put forth a root (an underground portion of a plant)

Words related to ROOT

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Words that contain ROOT

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How to use ROOT in a sentence

• And if the root be holy, the branches are holy also.
• The fact is original and inherent, behind and at the root of the entire matter, with all its complication and circumstance.
• I could hardly refuse it, however, and he came along in excellent spirits, having effected the demolition of British social ideals, root and branch.
• And so, it must be that I shared each deed Our love was root of.
• They may be increased by dividing the root stock into as many pieces as there are crowns.
• They are propagated by layers or by suckers from the root.
• We mistook him for the new Secretary of War, until Secretary Root made his speech.
• I shall be associated with the Chevalier, and I desired to know the root of his troubles in order to help him.
• How strong he was! He kept her from falling, and lifted her bodily at times over a root or a fallen log.
• To do these things well leaves must be connected with a strong, healthy root system and must have plenty of light and air.
• Find some black raspberry plants and notice that some of the canes have bent over and taken root at the tips sending up a new shoot and thus forming a new plant.
• As true as the sun ever shine in its meridian splendor, my colour will root some of them out of the very face of the earth.
• But there is one difference between the schools of sectarian philosophy and the Advaita of Sankara which goes to the root of the matter.
• This close connection at the root made the angry divergence begin to assimilate at the very outset.
• This is not exactly relic worship but it has in it the root of the later tree.
• From its root grew forth a hundred blossoms, and with its fragrant odour the wide heaven above and the whole earth laughed, and the salt wave of the sea.
• While Rome spread her conquests over Europe, at the very heart of her empire Christianity took root, and by slow process transformed that empire.
• I never saw a child so possessed after the root and sassafras-tea, as he is, in my life.
• Sohar says the Ten Sephiroth have their root with the Substance of Him, 754-u.
• I have little faith in any attempt to raise root crops on land not previously well prepared.
• The storm that had torn him root and branch from his firm ground of self-restraint left her only shaken.
• But realism, which gives to Dutch art so original a stamp and such admirable qualities, is yet the root of its most serious defects.
• He conceived that their design, while it would destroy the Slave-trade, would also strike at the root of the shocking abomination of slavery also.
• But the fleet here is insufficient to root out the enemy.
• The one is a root without fruit, and the other a fruit without a root.
• Wicked, morose, unfeeling, cruel husbands are generally at the root, and God only knows what their victims have to bear.

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