root
Definition of root:
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
That part of a plant which descends into and fixes itself in the earth, and through which the plant is nourished; the part of anything resembling a root in manner of growth; the lower part of a thing; the original or cause of anything; first ancestor; impression; durable effect; in a language, that element which serves as a common basis to one or more words, the root being contained in the language itself, or in its older forms derived from a foreign language; in alg., the value of an unknown quantity in an equation; in arith., any number which multiplied by itself produces a square or power- that number is the root of the square or power.
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part of speech: noun
The part of a plant which is fixed in the earth, and which draws up sap from the soil: an edible root: anything like a root: the bottom: a word from which others are derived: the cause or occasion of anything: ( math.) the factor of a quantity which multiplied by itself produces that quantity: in an equation.
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Common misspellings:
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- roon (10.0%)
- orgin (10.0%)
- roo (10.0%)
- rool (10.0%)
- roto (20.0%)
- rought (10.0%)
- rott (30.0%)
Usage examples for root:
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The familiar distinction between work and play has no root in nature.
"Wagner's Tristan und Isolde" – George Ainslie Hight -
The Liberals endeavoured to go to the root of the matter.
"A Short History of English Liberalism" – Walter Lyon Blease -
L. F. Root now a leading man in New Haven, came to work with me when quite young, nearly twenty years ago.
"History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome" – Chauncey Jerome
