Alum root () A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties. |
Chay root () The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. |
Choy root () See Chay root. |
Root (v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. |
Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility |
Root (v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout |
Root (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. |
Root (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. |
Root (n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc. |
Root (n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support |
Root (n.) An ancestor or progenitor |
Root (n.) A primitive form of speech |
Root (n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about |
Root (n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity |
Root (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord |
Root (n.) The lowest place, position, or part. |
Root (n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations. |
Root (v. i.) To fix the root |
Root (v. i.) To be firmly fixed |
Root (v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth |
Root (v. t.) To tear up by the root |
Square (n.) The corner, or angle, of a figure. |
Square (n.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles. |
Square (n.) Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so |
Square (n.) A square piece or fragment. |
Square (n.) A pane of glass. |
Square (n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square |
Square (n.) One hundred superficial feet. |
Square (n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side |
Square (n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc. |
Square (n.) Hence, a pattern or rule. |
Square (n.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself |
Square (n.) Exact proportion |
Square (n.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry |
Square (n.) Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement |
Square (n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other |
Square (n.) The act of squaring, or quarreling |
Square (n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered. |
Square (a.) Having four equal sides and four right angles |
Square (a.) Forming a right angle |
Square (a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines |
Square (a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent |
Square (a.) Rendering equal justice |
Square (a.) Even |
Square (a.) Leaving nothing |
Square (a.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon |
Square (n.) To form with four sides and four right angles. |
Square (n.) To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces |
Square (n.) To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard. |
Square (n.) To adjust |
square dance square dancing | American country dancing in which couples form squares |
square-bashing | drill on a barracks square |
bearded seal squareflipper square flipper Erignathus barbatus | medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle, of the Arctic Ocean |
agora public square | a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece |
annulet bandelet bandelette bandlet square and rabbet | molding in the form of a ring, at top of a column |
bevel bevel square | a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size |
carpenter's square | a steel square used by carpenters, larger than a try square |
cube square block | a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube |
open-air market open-air marketplace market square | a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold |
root cellar cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
set square | a try square with an adjustable sliding head |
square | a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles, used to construct or test right angles, the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square |
square | any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles, a checkerboard has squares |
square knot | a double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords |
square nut | nut with a square shape |
square sail | a four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast |
try square | a square having a metal ruler set at right angles to another straight piece |
T-square | a square used by draftsmen to draw parallel lines |
root tooth root | the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support |
root canal | the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity |
dorsal root dorsal horn | one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers |
ventral root ventral horn anterior root anterior horn | one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers |
eigenvalue eigenvalue of a matrix eigenvalue of a square matrix characteristic root of a square matrix | (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant |
root root word base stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
etymon root | a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes |
word square acrostic | a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across |
bracket square bracket | either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material |
square-dance music | music performed for square dancing |
fair deal square deal | fair treatment |
square meal | a substantial and nourishing meal, he seldom got three square meals a day |
root vegetable | any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers |
celeriac celery root | thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant |
chicory chicory root | root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee |
taro taro root cocoyam dasheen edda | tropical starchy tuberous root |
root beer float | an iceream soda made with ice cream floating in root beer |
root beer | carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs |
solution root | the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation |
square matrix | a matrix with the same number of rows and columns |
Latin square | a square matrix ofrows and columns, cells containdifferent symbols so arranged that no symbol occurs more than once in any row or column |
magic square | a square matrix ofrows and columns, the first n^ integers are arranged in the cells of the matrix in such a way that the sum of any row or column or diagonal is the same |
beginning origin root rootage source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, 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 |
Trafalgar Square | a square in central London where there is a memorial to Admiral Nelson |
public square square | an open area at the meeting of two or more streets |
Times Square | the area of Manhattan around the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, heart of the New York theater district, site of annual celebration of New Year's |
ancestor ascendant ascendent antecedent root | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) |
knight banneret knight of the square flag banneret | a knight honored for valor, entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command |
square dancer | someone who does square dancing |
square shooter straight shooter straight arrow | a frank and honest person |
square square toes | a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views |
square lame | someone who doesn't understand what is going on |