The base or bottom of anything.
The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
Travel by walking.
The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
The bottom edge of a sail.
A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
The globular lower domain of a protein.
The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
Foot soldiers; infantry.
Recognized condition; rank; footing.
The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
To walk.
To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
To pay (a bill).
The lowest place, position, or part.
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").
A zero (of an equation).
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 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.
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.)