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- Throughout an area indicated by the root.
- Unification of a social group; the political movement to unify said group.
- Ubiquitous, widespread. The root indicates what is widespread rather than the area in which it is widespread.
- Representing or covering a given social group.
- Entire, whole; the entirety of the root object or category.
- Spanning the entirety of a set which may not be countable; its members may not be clearly distinguished from each other.
- Universal, everything, all that can be imagined.
- Encompassing, including all, or involving all.
- (LGBTQ) Pansexual or pansexuality.
- Every member of a countable set.
- All.
- Most, nearly all, effectively all in quantity.
noun
- Roots, tree roots.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
- A tern.
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
- a railway line connected to a trunk line
- any sharply pointed projection
verb
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- give heart or courage to
- incite or stimulate
- goad with spurs
- equip with spurs
- strike with a spur
verb
- plant by the roots
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- dig with the snout
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
noun
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (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
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- 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.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (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.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (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.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
noun
- the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- thick end of the handle
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- (Canada, US, Cumbria, Philippines, slang) The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- (dialectal) The entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- (colloquial, Wales) Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
- (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- (slang, metonymic) Body; self.
- (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- A thrust in fencing.
- (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
- (slang) A used cigarette.
verb
- to strike, thrust or shove against
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- place end to end without overlapping
- (transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
- (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
noun
- The root of this plant.
- Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots.
- Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.
- cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
- a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
- any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
noun
- The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.
- Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
- aromatic root of ginseng plants
- Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
noun
- The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
- A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
- (uncountable) Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”).
- (obsolete except dialectal) A hamlet or village; also, a town.
- Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”).
- (countable) A maggot.
- (countable) A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel.
- (chiefly in the plural) The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
- (countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
- (obsolete except dialectal, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
- (uncountable) Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks (etymology 1 sense 1) are made”).
- (countable, by extension) Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; specifically (medicine), a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids.
- Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”).
- A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
- (Northern England, Scotland) An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.
- A grove; also, a hollow.
- (countable, euphemistic, slang) Often in dip one's wick: the penis.
- any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
- a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
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- Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
- (transitive) Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
- (intransitive) To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
- Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.
- (transitive) To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
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- The interior of the region indicated by the root.
- Indicating that the root is internal in nature.
- Inside or with, in terms of location or position.
- A part of the root entity.
- Between two or more similar entities that are within a larger entity. The root indicates the commonality between the entities.
- Behaviour of a single individual.
- Within a group or concept.
- In alignment or synchronous with the root entity.
- During, within a time period.
- Spatially located in between the root entity and a reference point.
- Spatially located in between two points within the region indicated by the root entity.
- A direction that is inward or into the location indicated by the root word.
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noun
- (botany) A buttress root.
- (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
- (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
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noun
- (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
- The snipe itself.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column.
- The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
- The cry of the snipe when flushed.
- (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
- The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
- erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
noun
- Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
- (especially UK) A climbing plant that produces grapes.
- Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
- Any plant of the genus Vitis.
- A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
- a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
noun
- (botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
- (botany) In orchids, a fleshy outgrowth from the labellum.
- (botany) In grasses, a hardened extension from the base of a floret, which may or may not elongate and is often covered in hairs or bristles.
- (entomology) A shining area on the frons of many species of Tabanomorpha (horse flies and relatives).
- The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
- A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
- (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
- an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot)
- bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone
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noun
- A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
- An item of clothing worn under or over another.
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- A hen kept to lay eggs; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.
- (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
- One of the items in a hierarchy.
- (computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
- A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
- (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
- A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
- a hen that lays eggs
- a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
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noun
- (botany) A root-like structure that runs along the surface of the ground, putting down roots at a distance as a form of propagation.
- (architecture) A channel for providing ventilation.
- (rare, weaponry) A shot at something that is in the air, or a shot in midair.
- (botany) A filiform shoot of a water plant that floats on the surface of the water and contains bract-like organs.
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- Intensifying the root.
- To do the root.
- hypothetical, fictional
- Uniform, or made to be the same as.
- A fellow kind of the root.
- Together: the root is done together.
- Synchronous or simultaneous with the root.
- Found with. What is found with the root.
- Belonging to the same group indicated by the root.
- Mutuality, indicating a reciprocal relationship or influence
- related to conlangs, conworlds, etc.
- To surround or adorn with
- From, coming from the root.
- When one entity is put into another, or one entity affects the other.
- constructed, artificial
- Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root.
- Unite: to unite into a collection indicated by the root word.
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- Across, spanning multiple distinct kinds of the root, different.
- Asymmetric in shape.
- Other, by another.
- Opposite in direction or position.
- Inconsistent, irregular, or intermittent.
- Alternating.
- (organic chemistry) Heterocyclic: a cyclic compound with multiple elements in its ring. The non-carbon atoms are known as heteroatoms.
- (transplantation) Outside; Synonym of xeno-.
- Varied, heterogeneous; a set that has variety with respect to the root.
- (chemistry) A heterogeneous mixture.
- (LGBTQ) Straight, heterosexual.
noun
- A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.
- (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
- A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.
- One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.
- One who roots or rummages through something.
- (woodworking) A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.
- (computing) A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.
- (by extension) A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.
- One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
noun
- (biology) A root.
- (linguistics) The primitive root word or morpheme from which later versions derive; the etymon
- (mathematics) The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
noun
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- (UK) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- The highest part of a hill.
- (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- (US) A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- (clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
- (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
- (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- The topmost part of the head.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
- (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- (forestry) The top of a tree.
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
- (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- (metonymic) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The highest part of an arch.
- (historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
- (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
- an English coin worth 5 shillings
- the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head
- the top of the head
- a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the center of a cambered road
- the award given to the champion
- the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
- the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
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- (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To hit on the head.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.
- (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- be the culminating event
- put an enamel cover on
- invest with regal power; enthrone
- form the topmost part of
noun
- The trunk or stem of a tree.
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
- Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
- (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
- (Scotland) A small closet.
- The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
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noun
- One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.
- A small, lens-shaped gland on the underside of some leaves.
- one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue
adj
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
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verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
noun
- root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots
- a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
- (figurative, by extension) The necessary basis for something to develop.
- (agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
noun
- Roots, tree roots.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
- A tern.
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
- a railway line connected to a trunk line
- any sharply pointed projection
verb
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- give heart or courage to
- incite or stimulate
- goad with spurs
- equip with spurs
- strike with a spur
noun
- the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- thick end of the handle
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- (Canada, US, Cumbria, Philippines, slang) The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- (dialectal) The entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- (colloquial, Wales) Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
- (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- (slang, metonymic) Body; self.
- (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- A thrust in fencing.
- (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
- (slang) A used cigarette.
verb
- to strike, thrust or shove against
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- place end to end without overlapping
- (transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
- (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
noun
- The root of this plant.
- Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots.
- Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.
- cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
- a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
- any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
noun
- The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.
- Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
- aromatic root of ginseng plants
- Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
noun
- The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
- A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
- (uncountable) Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”).
- (obsolete except dialectal) A hamlet or village; also, a town.
- Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”).
- (countable) A maggot.
- (countable) A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel.
- (chiefly in the plural) The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
- (countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
- (obsolete except dialectal, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
- (uncountable) Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks (etymology 1 sense 1) are made”).
- (countable, by extension) Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; specifically (medicine), a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids.
- Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”).
- A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
- (Northern England, Scotland) An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.
- A grove; also, a hollow.
- (countable, euphemistic, slang) Often in dip one's wick: the penis.
- any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
- a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
adj
verb
- Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
- (transitive) Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
- (intransitive) To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
- Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.
- (transitive) To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
noun
noun
- (botany) A buttress root.
- (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
- (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
verb
noun
- (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
- The snipe itself.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column.
- The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
- The cry of the snipe when flushed.
- (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
- The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
- erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
noun
- Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
- (especially UK) A climbing plant that produces grapes.
- Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
- Any plant of the genus Vitis.
- A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
- a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
noun
- (botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
- (botany) In orchids, a fleshy outgrowth from the labellum.
- (botany) In grasses, a hardened extension from the base of a floret, which may or may not elongate and is often covered in hairs or bristles.
- (entomology) A shining area on the frons of many species of Tabanomorpha (horse flies and relatives).
- The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
- A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
- (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
- an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot)
- bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone
verb
noun
- A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
- An item of clothing worn under or over another.
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- A hen kept to lay eggs; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.
- (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
- One of the items in a hierarchy.
- (computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
- A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
- (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
- A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
- a hen that lays eggs
- a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
verb
noun
- (botany) A root-like structure that runs along the surface of the ground, putting down roots at a distance as a form of propagation.
- (architecture) A channel for providing ventilation.
- (rare, weaponry) A shot at something that is in the air, or a shot in midair.
- (botany) A filiform shoot of a water plant that floats on the surface of the water and contains bract-like organs.
noun
- A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.
- (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
- A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.
- One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.
- One who roots or rummages through something.
- (woodworking) A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.
- (computing) A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.
- (by extension) A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.
- One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
noun
- (biology) A root.
- (linguistics) The primitive root word or morpheme from which later versions derive; the etymon
- (mathematics) The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
noun
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- (UK) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- The highest part of a hill.
- (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- (US) A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- (clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
- (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
- (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- The topmost part of the head.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
- (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- (forestry) The top of a tree.
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
- (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- (metonymic) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The highest part of an arch.
- (historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
- (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
- an English coin worth 5 shillings
- the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head
- the top of the head
- a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the center of a cambered road
- the award given to the champion
- the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
- the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
adj
verb
- (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To hit on the head.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.
- (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- be the culminating event
- put an enamel cover on
- invest with regal power; enthrone
- form the topmost part of
noun
- The trunk or stem of a tree.
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
- Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
- (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
- (Scotland) A small closet.
- The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
noun
- One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.
- A small, lens-shaped gland on the underside of some leaves.
- one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue
noun
- root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots
- a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
- (figurative, by extension) The necessary basis for something to develop.
- (agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
verb
- plant by the roots
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- dig with the snout
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
noun
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (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
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- 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.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (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.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (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.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
verb
noun
adj
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
noun
verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.