(v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
(v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
(v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
(n.) The lowest place, position, or part.
(n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.
(v. i.) To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
(v. i.) To be firmly fixed; to be established.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
Example Sentences:
(1) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(2) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(3) Subdural tumors may be out of the cord (10 tumors), on the posterior roots (28 tumors), or within the cord.
(4) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(5) But the roots of Ukip support in working-class areas are also cultural.
(6) The Ca2+ channel current recorded under identical conditions in rat dorsal root ganglion neurones was less sensitive to blockade by PCP (IC50, 90 microM).
(7) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(8) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(9) We have characterized previously a model of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection of rat dorsal root ganglia (DRG) following cutaneous infection.
(10) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(11) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(12) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
(13) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
(14) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(15) The ventral root dissection technique was used to obtain contractile and electromyogram (e.m.g.)
(16) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(17) The roots of the incisor teeth should, if possible, be placed accurately in this zone and a method of achieving this is suggested.
(18) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
(19) Rooting latency showed a significant additive maternal strain effect but little systematic effect of pup genotype.
(20) Dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons cultured from neonatal rats contained high concentrations of protein kinase C (PKC).
Rootless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of roots.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Cable said he had accidentally compared her to the wrong murderous dictator: “I got my literary reference wrong – I think it was Stalin who talked about ‘rootless cosmopolitans’.
(2) Rootless and ruled by the landlord class – the future for young adults Read more As a backbench all-party committee of MPs warned that housing policy was “a mess”, the Resolution Foundation said those aged 18 to 34 faced the prospect of being permanent renters and that home ownership was increasingly becoming the preserve of the well-off and the elderly.
(3) While waiting families often live a rootless existence, subject to frequent moves between different properties and locations, cut off from vital support networks.
(4) One of the rough ways that social geographers have of classifying lives led in Britain is to ask how "rooted" or "rootless" they are.
(5) It has been cast as representative of the rootlessness of New Labour and, by architecture critic Owen Hatherley , as the doomed apotheosis of the fossil-fuel society.
(6) It promotes the ideal worker as a rootless person with no attachment to place or community, and with limited political rights; whose citizenship resides in their ability to work alone.
(7) It portrays LA as a place where criminals are rootless, almost weightless.
(8) Rootless and ruled by the landlord class – the future for young adults Read more The NUT survey found that most teachers live within 45 minutes of work, suggesting that if forced to move out they would look for jobs close to home rather than commuting in.
(9) Hypotheses of tooth emergence are viewed in the light of these rootless eruptions.
(10) Salinger's great, obsessive theme was the moral rootlessness of contemporary American materialism and its corrosive effect upon precocious, highly sensitive children and adolescents whose religious yearnings were both esoteric (eastern, mystic) and sentimental (narcissistic, naively self-regarding).
(11) Eruption of rootless mandibular premolars and other dental defects in a girl suffering from congenital kidney disease are described.
(12) The world of listless, rootless youth, casual acts of sex and random acts of violence in south London parks were very much part of the landscape as I reached my 20th birthday in 1986.
(13) Is the Tory party becoming the vehicle for a rootless, amoral global financial community with little loyalty to country – or even to great business?
(14) Clinical and histologic examination revealed that the tooth was rootless, incompletely mineralized, and acutely inflamed.
(15) They have no country of their own, so we regard them as rootless.
(16) Global news channels have their own parallel world of timeless, rootless programmes that work as well at 2am in an airport as at 2pm in a jet-lagged hotel suite.
(17) It is suggested that the flagellar rootless may function in controlling the patterning and the direction of cytoplasmic microtubule assembly.
(18) Both companies are already the strangely rootless products of previous mergers.
(19) Tarantino’s anti-heroes were ideal models for upcoming mafiosi because they were drawn from the same timeless, rootless renegades.
(20) Here is its point: the creation of the bored, cynical, rootless Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin.