Root and Stroke

noun

• 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. (
• The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
  • usage: "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
  • synonyms: beginning, origin, rootage, source
• Linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. (
  • usage: "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
  • synonyms: root word, base, stem, theme, radical
• 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.
  • synonyms: solution
• Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent.
  • synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent
• A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes.
  • synonyms: etymon
• The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support.
  • synonyms: tooth root

verb

• Take root and begin to grow.
  • usage: "this plant roots quickly"
• Come into existence, originate.
  • usage: "The problem roots in her depression"
• Plant by the roots.
• Dig with the snout.
  • usage: "the pig was rooting for truffles"
  • synonyms: rout, rootle
• Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style.
  • usage: "He finally settled down"
  • synonyms: settle, take root, steady down, settle down
• Cause to take roots. .

• (v.i.) To shout for or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; -- usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team.
• (n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, especially as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
• (n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
• (v.i.) To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• (v.t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out or away.
• (v.i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
• (n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.
• (n.) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix or radical.
• (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics or overtones, a chord is composed.
• (v.i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
• (n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
• (v.t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
• (n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
• (n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The lowest place, position or part.
• (v.i.) To be firmly fixed; to be established.

noun

• Sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand. (
  • usage: "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot requires good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot"
  • synonyms: shot
• The maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam.
  • synonyms: throw, cam stroke
• A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
  • synonyms: apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA
• A light touch.
• A light touch with the hands.
  • synonyms: stroking
• Golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club. (
  • usage: "Nicklaus won by three strokes"
• The oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew.
• Anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause.
  • usage: "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"
  • synonyms: accident, fortuity, chance event
• A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information.
  • synonyms: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, separatrix
• A mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush.
  • usage: "she applied the paint in careful strokes"
• Any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing.
• A single complete movement.

verb

• Touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions.
  • usage: "He stroked his long beard"
• Strike a ball with a smooth blow.
• Row at a particular rate.
• Treat gingerly or carefully.
  • usage: "You have to stroke the boss"

• In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• (v.t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
• (v.t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.
• (v.t.) Appetite.
• (v.t.) To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
• (v.t.) The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; especially, a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand or with an instrument or weapon.
• (v.t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
• (v.t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
• (v.t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.
• (v.t.) To make smooth by rubbing.
• (v.t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.
• (v.t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.
• (v.t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
• (v.t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
• (v.t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart.
• (v.t.) To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
• (imp.) Struck.
• (v.t.) To strike.
• (v.t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
• (v.t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
• (v.t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
• (v.t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
• (v.t.) Power; influence.