To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
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.
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 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.
To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
To generate a wave.
To swing and miss at a pitch.
To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
To have an undulating or wavy form.
To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
To produce waves to the hair.
To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
The ocean.
A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.