Root

This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.

A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.

A root caught Ulot's left foot and he almost fell.

[...] two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough.

Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.

The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.

He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

They were the roots out of which sprang two distinct people.

Phallicism was, therefore, at the root of all religion, and was definitely the opponent of evil and darkness.

The root diameter is the minor diameter of an external thread and the major diameter of an internal one.

The cube root of 27 is 3.

Multiply by root 2.

1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (transl.), The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri, Siddall edition, page 122. The number three is the root of the number nine; […] being multiplied merely by itself, it produceth nine, as we manifestly perceive that three times three are nine.

In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]

A considerable number of derived nominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots.

deep to the roots of hell

the roots of the mountains

I have to log in as root before I do that.

I installed the files in the root directory.

The cuttings are starting to root.

In deep grounds the weeds root the deeper.

Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.

We rooted some cuttings last summer.

If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment.

Small theater companies come and go very quickly — many times after one show — but community response to Triangle has been strong, and there is a good chance that they will make it through those early growing stages and firmly root.

Massacres that take place during war often seem to be rooted in irrational emotion.

We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.

I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.

A pig roots the earth for truffles.

Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,

Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog!

rooting about in a junk-filled drawer

When your baby is rooting, his head will turn to the side and he will open and close his mouth. If you put your finger in your baby's hand, she has a grasping reflex that makes her curl her fingers around yours and hold on.

I will go root away the noisome weeds.

The Lord rooted them out of their land [...] and cast them into another land.

It was always sensible to get off the busy streets if you were going to have a root inside your girlfriend's bra.

It'll come to me eventually, but I think I'll go over to Bristol tomorrow afternoon and have a root through the medical school library.

It was not likely a tapestry over two hundred feet long and twenty inches wide was in the dustbin, but Pavel took a root through Laurent's dustbin anyway, just because it was there.

Fancy a root?

Ken was in the good mood he'd been in for weeks. Nothing like a regular root to turn him into the jolly green giant.

I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!

Let me root, root, root for the home team,

In July this year, Mrs. Betty Root, who is in charge of the reading centre at Reading University's Institute of Education, reported 'that there are now more backward readers than ever, in spite of the large number of teaching methods now available'.