heart vs root

heart

noun
  • The centre, essence, or core. 

  • A wight or being. 

  • A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. 

  • A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols. 

  • Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. 

  • One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character. 

  • The twenty-fourth Lenormand card. 

  • The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. 

  • Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete. 

  • A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3. 

verb
  • To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage. 

  • To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater. 

  • To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. 

root

noun
  • The primary source; origin. 

  • 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 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.) 

How often have the words heart and root occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )