Phonetic: "/ɹuːt/"
Part Of Speech: noun
Definition: 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.
Example: This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.
Definition: A root vegetable.
Definition: The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
Example: Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
Definition: The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
Example: The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.
Definition: The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
Example: He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.
Definition: The primary source; origin.
Example: The love of money is the root of all evil.
Definition: Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
Example: The cube root of 27 is 3.
Definition: A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
Example: Multiply by root 2.
Definition: A zero (of an equation).
Definition: The single node of a tree that has no parent.
Definition: 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.
Definition: (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
Definition: The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
Definition: The lowest place, position, or part.
Definition: 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.
Example: I have to log in as root before I do that.
Definition: The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
Example: I installed the files in the root directory.
Definition: A penis, especially the base of a penis.
