root

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• the place where something begins, where it springs into being
• a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
• (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes
• a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
• the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
• the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support
• take root and begin to grow
• come into existence, originate
• plant by the roots
• dig with the snout
• become settled or established and stable in one´s residence or life style
• cause to take roots
• To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine
• Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility
• To turn up or to dig out with the snout
• 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
• 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
• An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc
• That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support
• An ancestor or progenitor
• A primitive form of speech
• The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about
• That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity
• The fundamental tone of any chord
• The lowest place, position, or part
• The time which to reckon in making calculations
• To fix the root
• To be firmly fixed
• To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth
• To tear up by the root
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Belgium in Limburg
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Switzerland in Luzern
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Netherlands in Limburg

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