ROOT Synonyms

• the place where something begins, where it springs into being

• a document (or organization) from which information is obtained

• anything that provides inspiration for later work

• a facility where something is available

• a person who supplies information

• someone who originates or causes or initiates something

• (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system

• anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

• a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

• get (a product) from another country or business

• specify the origin of

• a relation that provides the foundation for something

• the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

• the most important or necessary part of something

• a central cohesive source of support and stability

• fortitude and determination

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved

• the part of a network that connects other networks together

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

• the center of an object

• the central part of the Earth

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories

• the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

• a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

• remove the core or center from

• the most important point

• a small conspicuous constellation in the Southern Hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

• the basis on which something is grounded

• an institution supported by an endowment

• lowest support of a structure

• education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge

• the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

• a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body

• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

• anything that provides inspiration for later work

• a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

• a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

• the locus of feelings and intuitions

• the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

• the courage to carry on

• an area that is approximately central within some larger region

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• an inclination or tendency of a certain kind

• a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines

• a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal)

• a positive feeling of liking

• a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it

• a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction

• the positively charged dense center of an atom

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail

• any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord

• the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex

• a small hard fruit

• a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa

• one of the outstanding players in a tournament

• anything that provides inspiration for later work

• the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

• go to seed; shed seeds

• help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money

• bear seeds

• place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth

• distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds

• sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain

• inoculate with microorganisms

• remove the seeds from

• earliest limiting point

• a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

• a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel

• lodge in barracks

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)

• similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored

• systematic training by multiple repetitions

• (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms

• make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool

• train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons

• learn by repetition

• teach by repetition

• undergo military training or do military exercises

• an escape from jail

• the removal of security locks from an electronic device

• a jumble of things to be given away

• a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)

• search haphazardly

• of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)

• a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

• a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

• the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured

• the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing

• indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration

• having no measurable or otherwise determinable value

• indicating an initial point or origin

• adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

• adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun)

• remove, harvest, or recover by digging

• dig out from underneath earth or snow

• create by digging