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Sounds | ruw't |
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Rhymes | absolute, acute, arrowroot, and 76 more rhymes in uwt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | (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. |
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Category | botany, phytology |
Part of | rootage, root system |
Parts | root cap; root hair; bark |
Narrower | calamus; taro, cocoyam, dasheen, eddo; ginseng; horseradish, horseradish root; radish; chicory, chicory root; salsify, oyster plant; Hottentot bread, Hottentot's bread; briarroot; orrisroot, orris; sarsaparilla root; licorice root; senega; mandrake root, mandrake; cassava, manioc; carrot; parsnip; pneumatophore; taproot; adventitious root; rootlet; prop root |
Broader | plant organ |
Substances | parenchyma |
Verbs | root; root |
Meaning | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. |
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Synonyms | root word, base, stem, theme, radical |
Category | linguistics |
Broader | form, word form, signifier, descriptor |
Adjectives | radical |
Meaning | The place where something begins, where it springs into being. |
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Examples | "communism's Russian root" |
Synonyms | beginning, origin, rootage, source |
Narrower | derivation; spring; fountainhead, headspring, head; headwaters; wellhead, wellspring; jumping-off place, point of departure; birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance; home; point source; trail head, trailhead |
Broader | point |
Verbs | root |
Meaning | A number that when multiplied by itself some number of times equals a given number. |
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Narrower | square root; cube root |
Broader | number |
Meaning | The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation. |
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Synonyms | solution |
Broader | set |
Meaning | Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent). |
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Synonyms | ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent |
Narrower | ancestress; forebear, forbear; forefather, father, sire; foremother; progenitor, primogenitor |
Broader | relative, relation |
Contrary | descendant, descendent |
Meaning | A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes. |
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Synonyms | etymon |
Broader | form, word form, signifier, descriptor |
Meaning | The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support. |
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Synonyms | tooth root |
Part of | tooth |
Parts | cementum, cement |
Broader | structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure |
Meaning | Take root and begin to grow. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "this plant roots quickly" |
Broader | grow |
Similar to | root |
Nouns | root; rooting |
Meaning | Come into existence, originate. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Examples | "The problem roots in her depression" |
Broader | become |
Nouns | root, rootage |
Meaning | Plant by the roots. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | plant, set |
Nouns | root |
Meaning | Dig with the snout. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "the pig was rooting for truffles" |
Synonyms | rout, rootle |
Broader | dig, delve, cut into, turn over |
Meaning | Take sides with. Align oneself with. Show strong sympathy for. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "We all rooted for the home team" |
Synonyms | side, pull |
Broader | back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
Meaning | Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | settle, take root, steady down, settle down |
Narrower | roost |
Broader | stabilize, stabilise |
Meaning | Cause to take roots. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | grow |
Similar to | root |
Nouns | rooting |