from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
- adj. Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
- adj. Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
- adj. Having a root.
- adj. In trouble or in strife, screwed.
- adj. Broken, damaged, non-functional.
- adj. Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of root.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fixed by a root or roots; firmly planted or embedded.
- In zoology and anatomy: Fixed by the roots; embedded and attached as if rooted, as a hair, feather, nail, or tooth.
- Specifically, fixed so by the root as to cease to grow, as a tooth: the opposite of rootless.
- Provided with roots.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. absolutely still
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With a name rooted in weed, they were always going to be cool with me.
Its use in a film set in the 1930s is thus an anachronism, a word rooted in Greek for “error in chronology.”
These are shibboleths, a word rooted in the name of a place that was pronounced differently by Israelites and Ephraimites, and was useful in revealing spies.
To transform a term rooted historically in the salt of the earth struggles of working class Latinos in the campaigns of candidates who also repeat mantra-like the phrase "middle class" alters and diminishes the political value and movement power of "Si Se Puede".
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He should be rooted from the Democratic party and sent packing.
Calamity Physics take on new and often humorous connotations informed by the events of each chapter yet remain rooted in their grand tradition as works of the Canon.
This is often called "Predator control" and is again rooted in this crazy idea that nature somehow needs cull her predators for her.
"Arabian Gulf" is a phrase rooted not in history or geography but instead in the political machinations of British colonialists in the first half of the 20th century.
When a body dies, its thetan forgets the details of the former life, though painful and traumatic images known as engrams remain rooted in its unconscious.