Root vs. Stem

Rootnoun

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.

Rootnoun

A root vegetable.

Rootnoun

The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.

Rootnoun

The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.

Rootnoun

The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.

Rootnoun

The primary source; origin.

Rootnoun

(arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.

Rootnoun

(arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).

Rootnoun

(analysis) A zero (of an equation).

Rootnoun

The single node of a tree that has no parent.

Rootnoun

(linguistic morphology) 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.

Rootnoun

(philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.

Rootnoun

(music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.

Rootnoun

The lowest place, position, or part.

Rootnoun

(computing) 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.

Rootnoun

(computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.

Rootnoun

(slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.

Rootnoun

An act of sexual intercourse.

Rootnoun

A sexual partner.

Rootverb

To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

Rootverb

To be firmly fixed; to be established.

Rootverb

To break into a computer system and obtain root access.

Rootverb

(ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.

Rootverb

(by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.

Rootverb

(intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.

Rootverb

(transitive) To root out; to abolish.

Rootverb

To have sexual intercourse.

Rootverb

To grow roots

Rootverb

To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings

Rootverb

To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. See root for.

Rootverb

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

Rootverb

Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.

Rootverb

To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.

Rootverb

To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

Rootverb

To be firmly fixed; to be established.

Rootverb

To shout for, or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; - usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team.

Rootverb

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.

Rootverb

To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; - with up, out, or away.

Rootnoun

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.

Rootnoun

An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.

Rootnoun

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.

Rootnoun

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.

Rootnoun

The time which to reckon in making calculations.

Rootnoun

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.

Rootnoun

The lowest place, position, or part.

Rootnoun

(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

Rootnoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;

Rootnoun

the place where something begins, where it springs into being;

Rootnoun

a number that when multiplied by itself some number of times equals a given number

Rootnoun

the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

Rootnoun

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

Rootnoun

a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

Rootnoun

the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support

Rootverb

take root and begin to grow;

Rootverb

come into existence, originate;

Rootverb

plant by the roots

Rootverb

dig with the snout;

Rootverb

take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for;

Rootverb

become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style;

Rootverb

cause to take roots

Rootnoun

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

Rootnoun

the persistent underground part of a plant, especially when fleshy and enlarged and used as a vegetable, e.g. a turnip or carrot

Rootnoun

any plant grown for its root

Rootnoun

the embedded part of a bodily organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nail

Rootnoun

the part of a thing attaching it to a greater or more fundamental whole; the end or base

Rootnoun

the basic cause, source, or origin of something

Rootnoun

family, ethnic, or cultural origins

Rootnoun

denoting or relating to something from a particular ethnic or cultural origin, especially a non-Western one

Rootnoun

(in biblical use) a scion; a descendant

Rootnoun

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

Rootnoun

the fundamental note of a chord

Rootnoun

a number or quantity that when multiplied by itself, typically a specified number of times, gives a specified number or quantity.

Rootnoun

short for square root

Rootnoun

a value of an unknown quantity satisfying a given equation

Rootnoun

a user account with full and unrestricted access to a system

Rootnoun

an act of sexual intercourse.

Rootnoun

a sexual partner of a specified ability.

Rootnoun

an act of rooting

Rootverb

cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots

Rootverb

(of a plant or cutting) establish roots

Rootverb

establish deeply and firmly

Rootverb

have as an origin or cause

Rootverb

cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement

Rootverb

gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer)

Rootverb

have sexual intercourse with.

Rootverb

exhaust (someone) or frustrate their efforts

Rootverb

(of an animal) turn up the ground with its snout in search of food

Rootverb

search unsystematically through an untidy mass or area; rummage

Rootverb

find or extract something by rummaging

Root

In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They most often lie below the surface of the soil, but roots can also be aerial or aerating, that is, growing up above the ground or especially above water.

Stemnoun

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

Stemnoun

A branch of a family.

Stemnoun

An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

Stemnoun

(botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.

Stemnoun

A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.

Stemnoun

A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.

Stemnoun

(linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.

Stemnoun

(slang) A person's leg.

Stemnoun

(slang) The penis.

Stemnoun

(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.

Stemnoun

(music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.

Stemnoun

(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.

Stemnoun

Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork

Stemnoun

(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.

Stemnoun

(slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.

Stemnoun

(chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism

Stemnoun

alternative form of STEM

Stemverb

To remove the stem from.

Stemverb

To be caused or derived; to originate.

Stemverb

To descend in a family line.

Stemverb

To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.

Stemverb

(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.

Stemverb

To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

Stemverb

(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).

Stemverb

(skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.

Stemverb

To gleam.

Stemverb

To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.

Stemverb

To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.

Stemverb

To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.

Stemverb

To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.

Stemnoun

A gleam of light; flame.

Stemnoun

The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.

Stemnoun

A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

Stemnoun

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

Stemnoun

A branch of a family.

Stemnoun

A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.

Stemnoun

Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

Stemnoun

Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.

Stemnoun

That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.

Stemnoun

The entire central axis of a feather.

Stemnoun

The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.

Stemnoun

The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.

Stemnoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;

Stemnoun

a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

Stemnoun

cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

Stemnoun

the tube of a tobacco pipe

Stemnoun

front part of a vessel or aircraft;

Stemnoun

a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

Stemverb

grow out of, have roots in, originate in;

Stemverb

cause to point inward;

Stemverb

stop the flow of a liquid;

Stemverb

remove the stem from;