egg vs root

egg

noun
  • A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg. 

  • A foolish or obnoxious person. 

  • A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg. 

  • A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning; also, one's lack of awareness that one is transgender. 

  • A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia. 

  • A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury. 

  • Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell. 

  • The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food. 

  • An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development. 

  • One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes". 

  • Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes. 

  • A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1). 

verb
  • To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape. 

  • To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something). 

  • To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish. 

  • To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds. 

  • To encourage, incite, or urge (someone). 

root

noun
  • A zero (of an equation). 

  • The single node of a tree that has no parent. 

  • A sexual partner. 

  • The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories. 

  • A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root"). 

  • The primary source; origin. 

  • The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots. 

  • Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression. 

  • A root vegetable. 

  • The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated. 

  • The lowest place, position, or part. 

  • The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place. 

  • The bottom of the thread of a threaded object. 

  • A word from which another word or words are derived. 

  • The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction. 

  • The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed. 

  • An act of sexual intercourse. 

  • The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage. 

  • The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place. 

  • In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system. 

  • A penis, especially the base of a penis. 

verb
  • To be firmly fixed; to be established. 

  • To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings. 

  • To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. 

  • To sexually penetrate. 

  • To get root or privileged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism. 

  • To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn. 

  • To turn up or dig with the snout. 

  • Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food. 

  • To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil. 

  • To root out; to abolish. 

  • To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.) 

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