Routing vs. Rooting

A disorderly retreat or flight following defeat.

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.

An overwhelming defeat.

Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.

A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.

The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.

People of the lowest class; rabble.

The bottom or supporting part of something

A public disturbance; a riot.

The essential part or element; the basic core

A fashionable gathering.

A primary source; an origin.

(Archaic) A group of people, especially knights, or of animals, especially wolves.

A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended.

A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another

Often roots The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society

A highway

Roots The state of having or establishing an indigenous relationship with or a personal affinity for a particular culture, society, or environment

A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person.

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.

A means of reaching a goal

Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage. Also called radical.

(Football) A pass pattern.

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.

To put to disorderly flight or retreat

A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.

To defeat overwhelmingly.

A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.

To dig with the snout; root.

The note from which a chord is built.

To poke around; rummage.

Such a note occurring as the lowest note of a triad or other chord.

To expose to view as if by digging; uncover.

To grow roots or a root

To hollow, scoop, or gouge out.

To become firmly established or settled

To drive or force out as if by digging; eject

To plant and fix the roots of (a plant) in soil or the ground.

(Archaic) To dig up with the snout.

To establish or settle firmly

To bellow. Used of cattle.

To be the source or origin of

To send or forward by a specific route.

To dig or pull out by the roots. Often used with up or out

(networking) A method of finding paths from origins to destinations in a network such as the Internet, along which information can be passed.

To remove or get rid of. Often used with out

A channel cut in a material such as wood with a router or gouge.

To turn up by digging with the snout or nose

Present participle of route

To cause to appear or be known. Used with out

Present participle of rout

To turn over the earth with the snout or nose.

To search or rummage for something

To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer.

To give moral support to someone; hope for a favorable outcome for someone

A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.

The process of forming roots.

A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.

A hole formed by a pig when it roots in the ground.

The reflex a baby makes when hungry and seeking milk.

Present participle of root

The process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow