Routing vs. Rooting

Routing and Rooting Definitions
Routing
A disorderly retreat or flight following defeat.
Rooting
The usually underground portion of a plant that lacks buds, leaves, or nodes and serves as support, draws minerals and water from the surrounding soil, and sometimes stores food.
Routing
An overwhelming defeat.
Rooting
Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.
Routing
A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.
Rooting
The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.
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Routing
People of the lowest class; rabble.
Rooting
The bottom or supporting part of something
We snipped the wires at the roots.
Routing
A public disturbance; a riot.
Rooting
The essential part or element; the basic core
I finally got to the root of the problem.
Routing
A fashionable gathering.
Rooting
A primary source; an origin.
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Routing
(Archaic) A group of people, especially knights, or of animals, especially wolves.
Rooting
A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended.
Routing
A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another
The route from Maine to Boston takes you through New Hampshire.
Ocean routes that avoided the breeding grounds of whales.
Rooting
Often roots The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society
Our roots in this town go back a long way.
Routing
A highway
Traveled on Route 12 through Michigan.
Rooting
Roots The state of having or establishing an indigenous relationship with or a personal affinity for a particular culture, society, or environment
Music with unmistakable African roots.
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Routing
A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person.
Rooting
The element that carries the main component of meaning in a word and provides the basis from which a word is derived by adding affixes or inflectional endings or by phonetic change.
Routing
A means of reaching a goal
The route to success required hard work.
Rooting
Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage. Also called radical.
Routing
(Football) A pass pattern.
Rooting
A number that when multiplied by itself an indicated number of times forms a product equal to a specified number. For example, a fourth root of 4 is √2. Also called nth root.
Routing
To put to disorderly flight or retreat
"the flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun" (Virginia Woolf).
Rooting
A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.
Routing
To defeat overwhelmingly.
Rooting
A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.
Routing
To dig with the snout; root.
Rooting
The note from which a chord is built.
Routing
To poke around; rummage.
Rooting
Such a note occurring as the lowest note of a triad or other chord.
Routing
To expose to view as if by digging; uncover.
Rooting
To grow roots or a root
Carrot tops will root in water.
Routing
To hollow, scoop, or gouge out.
Rooting
To become firmly established or settled
The idea of tolerance has rooted in our culture.
Routing
To drive or force out as if by digging; eject
Rout out an informant.
Rooting
To plant and fix the roots of (a plant) in soil or the ground.
Routing
(Archaic) To dig up with the snout.
Rooting
To establish or settle firmly
Our love of the ocean has rooted us here.
Routing
To bellow. Used of cattle.
Rooting
To be the source or origin of
"Much of [the team's] success was rooted in the bullpen" (Dan Shaughnessy).
Routing
To send or forward by a specific route.
Rooting
To dig or pull out by the roots. Often used with up or out
We rooted out the tree stumps with a tractor.
Routing
(networking) A method of finding paths from origins to destinations in a network such as the Internet, along which information can be passed.
Rooting
To remove or get rid of. Often used with out
"declared that waste and fraud will be vigorously rooted out of Government" (New York Times).
Routing
A channel cut in a material such as wood with a router or gouge.
Rooting
To turn up by digging with the snout or nose
Hogs that rooted up acorns.
Routing
Present participle of route
Rooting
To cause to appear or be known. Used with out
An investigation that rooted out the source of the problem.
Routing
Present participle of rout
Rooting
To turn over the earth with the snout or nose.
Rooting
To search or rummage for something
Rooted around for a pencil in his cluttered office.
Rooting
To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer.
Rooting
To give moral support to someone; hope for a favorable outcome for someone
We'll be rooting for you when you take the exam.
Rooting
A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.
Rooting
The process of forming roots.
Rooting
A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.
Rooting
A hole formed by a pig when it roots in the ground.
Rooting
The reflex a baby makes when hungry and seeking milk.
Rooting
Present participle of root
Rooting
The process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow