Root vs. Trunk

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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.

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A root vegetable.

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

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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.

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(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.

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

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

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The lowest place, position, or part.

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(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.

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(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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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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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;

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plant by the roots

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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

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

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any plant grown for its root

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

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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

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

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(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

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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.

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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.

Trunknoun

Part of a body.

Trunknoun

The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.

Trunknoun

The torso.

Trunknoun

The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

Trunknoun

(heading) A container.

Trunknoun

A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.

Trunknoun

A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.

Trunknoun

The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot

Trunknoun

(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.

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A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

Trunknoun

A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

Trunknoun

A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.

Trunknoun

(archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter

Trunknoun

(mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

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(software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.

Trunknoun

The main line or body of anything.

Trunknoun

(transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.

Trunknoun

(architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

Trunknoun

A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.

Trunknoun

Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).

Trunkverb

(obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

Trunkverb

(mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.

Trunknoun

The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

Trunknoun

The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.

Trunknoun

The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.

Trunknoun

That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

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That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.

Trunknoun

The proboscis of an elephant.

Trunknoun

A long tube through which pellets of clay, p as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.

Trunknoun

A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.

Trunknoun

A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

Trunknoun

A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.

Trunkverb

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.

Trunkverb

To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.

Trunknoun

the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

Trunknoun

luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage

Trunknoun

the body excluding the head and neck and limbs;

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compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools;