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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

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