Roots

Definition: Roots

Roots

Noun

1. The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; "his roots in Texas go back a long way"; "he went back to Sweden to search for his roots"; "his music has African roots".

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Date "roots" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Extraction

Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.

Numeration

Verb: number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up; tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots. algebraize.

Notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots, reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration.

Stability

Settle down; strike roots, put down roots, take root; take up one's abode; build one's house on a rock.

Vegetability|

Verb: vegetate, grow roots, put down roots.

Crosswords: Roots

My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountains (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Sleep in a bed, have roots. And you'll never be alone again, Mathilda (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson)

The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I can hardly do a locator spell without getting dark roots. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Maybe I should tap into my roots, too. My grandmother was half Indian (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España)

Like Macy Gray, Roots, and D'Angelo (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas)

Roots that spread so deep (Something So Strong; performing artist: Crowded House)

But he'd have said that roots grow stronger if only he could hear (Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny); performing artist: Elton John)

Blame it all on my roots ("Friends in Low Places"; performing artist: Garth Brooks)

When I feel my withered roots begin to grow (You're My Home; performing artist: Joe)

A person without knowledge of his history is like a tree without roots. (references; author: unknown)

American Roots Music (2001)

Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley (1974)

From These Roots (1974)

Their Roots Run Deep (1968)

Roots (1966)

Awnaw (performing artist: Nappy Roots)

Po' Folks (performing artist: Nappy Roots)

I'd Wait a Million Years (performing artist: The Grass Roots)

Let's Live For Today (performing artist: The Grass Roots)

Midnight Confessions (performing artist: The Grass Roots)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Fresh, Chilled, Frozen and Preserved Vegetables, Roots, and Tubers in Indonesia (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Fresh, Chilled, Frozen and Preserved Vegetables, Roots, and Tubers Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Fresh, Chilled, Frozen and Preserved Vegetables, Roots, and Tubers Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Fresh, Chilled, Frozen and Preserved Vegetables, Roots, and Tubers: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• There We Stood, Here We Stand : Eleven Lutherans Rediscover Their Catholic Roots (reference)

• More Excellent Way : A Teaching on the Spiritual Roots of Disease (reference)

• Refuse to Stand Silently by: An Oral History of Grass Roots Social Activism in America, 1921-64 (reference)

• Power Within the Land: Roots of Celtic and Underworld Traditions Awakening the Sleepers and Regenerating the Earth (Earth Quest Series) (reference)

• Roots Rock Reggae: An Oral History of Reggae Music from Ska to Dancehall (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Roots Users Group Of Arlington Virginia Newsletter (reference)

• Clarke County Roots & Branches (reference)

• Garfield County Roots & Branches (reference)

• Logan Roots And Branches (reference)

• Northeast Michigan Roots & Branches Genealogical Newsletter (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Message to the Grass Roots (reference)

• Maceo Parker - Roots Revisited (reference)

• Urusei Yatsura Ova 6:Twisted Roots (reference)

• Story of a People, Vol. 5: The Roots of Racism (reference)

• Redefinitions: Hip Hop Roots and Future (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Afro Cuban Roots, Vol. 2: Cuban Feelings - Bolero Era (reference)

• Roots & Branches [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• New Britain: The Roots of American Folksong (reference)

• Acoustic Roots (reference)

• Staying true to the ascetic roots (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• SONIC FOUNDRY New Roots Reggae (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The Mansonia and Coquillettidia mosquitoes are distinguished by the radically modified siphon. These two genera insert their siphons into the hollow roots of aquatic plants in order to access their air supply. Credit: CDC.

"Spheres" by David Sjöstrand. From inside DPGraph, use Edit to see the equation. It is a 54th order polynomial in x, y, and z whose roots are 27 spheres.

Stump of a large tree still standing though roots exposed and outstretched. At the mouth of Dividing Creek on Wye Island. This gives an indication of the extent of erosion in this area. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Tree roots exposed because of erosion on the north end of Sapelo's beach. Typical of barrier islands, sand from the north end of Sapelo and Blackbeard is eroded away by ocean currents and deposited at the south end where sand dunes continue to build. The erosion leaves behind trees that were once protected by dunes exposed to the ocean. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Volunteers hunt for discarded monofilament in the roots and branches of mangroves. A dead victim, a brown pelican floats in the water nearby. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Another propagule. This image shows a full eelgrass plant with a long healthy rhizome and roots of the rhizome. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Ascidians and sponges are filter feeders, part of the diverse community that lives on the mangrove roots. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Mangroves roots serve as critical habitat for many species and nutrient filters. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Red mangrove prop roots - an extreme example. Credit: Small World.

Prop roots and epiphytes in the jungle on Isla Cocos. Credit: Small World.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thus conquerors swords often cut up governments by the roots, and mangle societies to pieces, separating the subdued or scattered multitude from the protection of, and dependence on, that society which ought to have preserved them from violence. (Second Treatise of Government)

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But roots cannot be added in this manner

The sentiment is probably assignable to the deep and aged roots which my family has struck into the soil

The roots of French society were not in Bourbons but in the nation

These men work carefully and endlessly to perfect the seed, the roots.

I think that I may warrant you one worm to every three sods you turn up, if you look well in among the roots of the grass, as if you were weeding

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Rapidly dividing cells in hair roots and cells that line the digestive tract may also be affected. (references)

If surgery is not advisable, spinal cord nerve roots may be cut to relieve pain. Other treatment is symptomatic and supportive. (references)

In teeth with underdeveloped roots secondary to cancer therapy, even minimal periodontal disease will result in early loss of teeth. (references)

Children

Czech Republic

The Ministry of Education ordered a textbook for use in schools on the cultural and historical roots of the Romani minority and on successful members of the Romani community. (references)

Civil Liberties

Laos

The authorities sometimes advised new congregations to join other religious groups with similar historical roots, despite clear differences between the groups' beliefs. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

The law includes a stated official preference towards the Catholic Church and the Reform Church of Equatorial Guinea due to their traditional roots and historic influence in the social and cultural life of the populace. (references)

Economic History

Czech Republic

Its main agricultural products are sugarbeets, fodder roots, potatoes, wheat, and hops. (references)

Cape Verde

The cordial relations between the United States and Cape Verde have strong historical roots. (references)

Solomon Islands

Most Solomon Islanders maintain this traditional social structure and find their roots in village life. (references)

Minorities

Albania

The Roma, and the Egyptians, who trace their roots back to Egypt, are among the most neglected groups in the country. (references)

Yugoslavia

The attitudes of ethnic groups in the region historically have been influenced strongly by religion, and most instances of ethnic discrimination have at least some religious roots. (references)

Political Economy

Guatemala

Democracy's roots are still relatively shallow in Guatemala. (references)

Political Rights

Brunei

The delegates were elected from among individual villagers, and the Government described the Assembly as "a grass roots level political system." However, the Sultan appoints all the council's advisers. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Many food-related and agricultural imports, such as livestock, plants, bulbs, cuttings, rhizomes, roots, grains, and plant products, require a sanitary certificate issued by a competent authority in the exporting country. (references)

Travel

Botswana

Conversation Gambits: Botswana is a rapidly urbanizing society with strong rural roots. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "roots": Aerial roots ♦ at grass roots level ♦ bare the roots of ♦ be on the roots ♦ conjugate roots ♦ edible roots ♦ extract roots ♦ extraction of roots ♦ get at the roots of ♦ grass roots ♦ grass roots movement ♦ grow roots ♦ know the roots ♦ latent roots ♦ learn the roots ♦ Plant Roots ♦ pruning the roots ♦ put down roots ♦ roots and tubers production ♦ Roots blower ♦ Roots supercharger ♦ secondary roots ♦ Spinal Nerve Roots ♦ strike roots ♦ striking roots ♦ take roots ♦ The extraction of roots ♦ to the roots ♦ under the roots. Additional references.

Ending with "roots": grass-roots, tree-roots.

Bulgarian 

кореноплодни. (various references)

Chinese 

根 (root). (various references)

Czech

kořeny. (various references)

Danish

Roots kompressor (double rotary impeller compressor, Roots compressor), radices viscerales venae cavae inferioris (visceral roots of the inferior vena cava), rodbeskæring (pruning the roots), roedder med jord (balled roots), radices parietales venae cavae inferioris (parietal roots of the inferior vena cava), Roots lader (Roots supercharger), rootskompressor (double rotary impeller compressor, Roots compressor), roots-kompressor (Roots blower), rodfrugter til foderbrug (fodder roots, forage root crop, forage root crops), blomster knolde (tuberous roots of flowers), konsumgrønsager (edible roots), beskaere roedder (to trim roots), anslag (assault), egenværdi (eigenvalues, latent roots), græsrodsbevægelse (grass roots movement), in vitro forsoeg med rajgraes,tomater og kartofler har vist,at blyindholdet i roedderne stiger enormt med stigende blyindhold i jorden,men at kun ringe maengde naar andre dele af planten (but that only small amounts reach the other parts of the plant, test tube experiments with perennial ryegrass, tomatoes and potatoes showed that the lead content of the roots increases enormously with an increase in the lead content of the soil), konjugerende roedder (conjugate roots), latente rødder (eigenvalues, latent roots), man taenker paa en fordeling af bly i planten og ogsaa paa en transport af det i roden akkumulerede bly til den overjordiske del af planten (one thinks of a redistribution in the plant and also of a transportation of the lead accumulated by the roots towards the parts above ground), accessoriusnervens kraniale udspring (cranial roots of the accessory nerve), pars spinalis verni accessorii (spinal roots of the accessory nerves), transport (transfer, transport), samling (collection), slå rødder (growing up, to take roots), tapiokaroedder (tapioca roots), nervus mandibularis (and the motor root of the trigeminal, mandibular nerve, the third division of the trigeminal nerve consisting of two roots). (various references)

Dutch

radices viscerales venae cavae inferioris (visceral roots of the inferior vena cava), radices spinales nervi accessorii (spinal roots of the accessory nerves), Roots compressor (double rotary impeller compressor, Roots compressor), rootsaanjager (Roots supercharger), Rootscompressor (Roots blower), radices parietales venae inferiores (parietal roots of the inferior vena cava), eetbare wortels (edible roots), bloemknollen (tuberous roots of flowers), nervus inframandibularis (and the motor root of the trigeminal, mandibular nerve, the third division of the trigeminal nerve consisting of two roots), achterban (adherents, disciples, followers, party members), latente wortels (eigenvalues, latent roots), eigenwaarde (characteristic constant, characteristic number, characteristic root, characteristic value, eigenvalue, eigenvalues, fundamental number, latent root, latent roots, proper value), geconjugeerde wortels (conjugate roots), groeperen van de wortels (carting of roots), in zwad leggen van de wortels (carting of roots), kluitplanten (balled roots), levende bodem noemt men de door verwering en onder invloed van dierlijk en plantaardig leven of van andere processen ontstane,voor cultuur geschikte,bovenste grondlaag,die doorworteld en belucht is en waarin zich talrijke levende organismen bevinden (is ventilated and contains roots and living organisms, organic soil(i.e.topsoil)is the top layer of soil that can support vegetation and is produced by weathering, the effect of animal and plant life or other processes), aanslaan (alarm, bark, dim, get blurred, give tongue, raise the alarm, rebound, root, salute, sound the alarm, strike, tax), met een aardkluit gerooide planten (balled roots), wortelsnoei (pruning the roots), nervus inframaxillaris (and the motor root of the trigeminal, mandibular nerve, the third division of the trigeminal nerve consisting of two roots), nervus mandibularis (and the motor root of the trigeminal, mandibular nerve, the third division of the trigeminal nerve consisting of two roots), tapiocawortelen (tapioca roots), uit proeven in vitro met Engels raaigras,tomaten en aardappels bleek dat stijging van het loodgehalte van de grond een enorme stijging van het loodgehalte van de wortels tot gevolg had,maar dat schlechts een klein gedeelte van het lood in de overige plant (but that only small amounts reach the other parts of the plant, test tube experiments with perennial ryegrass, tomatoes and potatoes showed that the lead content of the roots increases enormously with an increase in the lead content of the soil), wortels snoeien (to trim roots), man denkt aan een redistributie in de plant,en wel aan een transport van door de wortels geaccumuleerd lood naar bovengrondse delen (one thinks of a redistribution in the plant and also of a transportation of the lead accumulated by the roots towards the parts above ground). (various references)

Finnish

juurekset (root crop, tuber crop). (various references)

French

enracine. (various references)

German

Wurzeln (be rooted, carrots, root, to root), Verwurzelungen, stock (baton, cane, cue, floor, massif, pointer, pot plant, rock mass, rosebush, staff, stick, stock, stocks, storey, story, vine). (various references)

Greek 

ρίζες (radicals). (various references)

Hebrew 

להתערות (strike roots, transfuse), להשתיל (strike roots, transplant), להשתרש (strike roots, take root), להקלט (be absorbed, integrate, strike roots), התערות (settling in, striking roots), השתרשות (rooting, striking roots), השרשה (implantation, implanting, rooting, striking roots). (various references)

Hungarian

gumós növények (root crop, root-crops). (various references)

Indonesian

berakar (have roots in), akar-akaran (like a root, several roots). (various references)

Italian

radici. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

リン酸 (loose, loose-leaf, louver, phosphoric acid, red, redhead, revival, roof, roof garden, roof rack, rookie, root, rouble, rouge, route, route sales, router, routine, routing, to have roots in). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ルーツ . (various references)

Korean 

뿌리 (root). (various references)

Manx

bun ny cheerey (grass roots). (various references)

Mohawk

ohtera. (various references)

Pig Latin

ootsray.(various references)

Portuguese

raízes comestíveis (edible roots). (various references)

Romanian

prinde rãdãcini (root, strike roots, take roots), determina cauzele (get at the roots of). (various references)

Scottish

gonan (grass roots), eiteach (burnt roots of heath). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

korenje (objurgation). (various references)

Spanish

raizes. (various references)

Swedish

rötter (rootlet). (various references)

Turkish

memba (font, fount, fountain, mine, source, spring, wellspring), kaynak (authorship, basis, beginning, birth, bottom, chapter and verse, context, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, fund, genesis, grass roots, headspring, inquiries, origin, parent, paternity, principle, provenance, quarter, reserve, resource, rise, root, root stock, seeds, source, source material, source of supply, spore, spring, weld, welding, well, wellhead, wellspring, womb). (various references)

suhu�. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "roots": rootstock, rootstocks. (additional references)

Words ending with "roots": alumroots, arrowroots, beetroots, birthroots, bitterroots, bloodroots, cheroots, clubroots, colicroots, disroots, enroots, gingerroots, grassroots, orrisroots, outroots, pinkroots, pokeroots, puttyroots, redroots, roseroots, sheroots, snakeroots, squawroots, taproots, unroots, uproots, wormroots. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Roots" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: broots, frokost, Orontes, orot, ratos, Rioutts, Rodota, roits, Rojot, rolot, rooates, roogs, roota, roote, rootes, Rooth, rootish, rootsy, rooty, rorts, rosts, rotas, rotc, rotis, rotiss, roto, rotol, rotos, rotous, rotsl, rotts, rounts, routw, rrost, ruota, ruotes, ryots. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: roost, rotos, toros, torso.

-1 letter: oots, orts, root, roto, rots, soot, sort, toro, tors.

-2 letters: oot, ors, ort, rot, sot, too, tor.

-3 letters: or, os, so, to.

+1 letter: motors, robots, roosts, rotors, strook, torose, torous, torsos, troops.

+2 letters: booster, cohorts, consort, cooters, crotons, disroot, doctors, enroots, foetors, footers, gosport, grottos, hooters, hotrods, looters, mooters, nitroso, octrois, orators, outrows, outsoar, poorest, protons, provost, ratoons, reboots, reshoot, retools, riotous, risotto, roosted, rooster, rooters, scooter, sheroot, shooter, soother, sootier, stooker, stooper, thorons, toolers, tooters, toreros, toroids, torpors, torsion, trogons, tsooris, unroots, uproots.