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fountain
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fa?n.tn?/
- (US) IPA(key): [?fa?n.?n?]
Noun
fountain (plural fountains)
- (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:
- Nothing will plea?e ?ome Men, but Books ?tuff’d with Antiquity, groaning under the weight of Learned Quotations drawn from the Fountains: And what is all this but Pilfering.
- 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:
- (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- (US) A soda fountain.
- 2014, Danielle Sarver Coombs, ?Bob Batchelor, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life... and Always Has (page 222)
- He takes out a soup bowl, fills it with Pepsi from the fountain, and places it carefully on the counter in front of the boy. “That'll be a quarter,” he says professionally.
- 2014, Danielle Sarver Coombs, ?Bob Batchelor, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life... and Always Has (page 222)
- (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
Synonyms
- fount
- wellspring
- (heraldry) syke
Derived terms
Related terms
- font
Translations
Verb
fountain (third-person singular simple present fountains, present participle fountaining, simple past and past participle fountained)
- (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
- 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
- The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
- 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
Translations
References
Further reading
- fountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- infonaut
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root
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ro?ot, IPA(key): /?u?t/
- (Midwestern US) IPA(key): /??t/
- Rhymes: -u?t, -?t
- Homophones: route (some pronunciations), rute
Etymology 1
From Middle English rote, root, roote (“the underground part of a plant”), from late Old English r?t, from Old Norse rót (Icelandic rót), from Proto-Germanic *wr?ts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds (“root”); cognate with wort, radish, and radix.
Noun
root (countable and uncountable, plural roots)
- 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.
- Hyponym: taproot
- A root vegetable.
- [...] two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figuratively) The primary source; origin.
- Synonyms: basis, origin, source
- , Book 1
- They were the roots out of which sprang two distinct people.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- Hyponyms: cube root, functional root, square root
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
- 1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (transl.), The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri, Siddall edition, page 122.
- The number three is the root of the number nine; […] being multiplied merely by itself, it produceth nine, as we manifestly perceive that three times three are nine.
- 1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (transl.), The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri, Siddall edition, page 122.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- Synonym: zero
- Antonym: pole
- Holonym: kernel
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (linguistic morphology) 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.
- Coordinate term: stem
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- Synonym: etymon
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
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- The lowest place, position, or part.
- 1812, Robert Southey, Omniana
- the roots of the mountains
- 1812, Robert Southey, Omniana
- (computing) 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.
- Synonyms: superuser, root account, root user
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
root (third-person singular simple present roots, present participle rooting, simple past and past participle rooted)
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- In deep grounds the weeds root the deeper.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings
- To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- 1823, Gilbert Burnet, The Life of Sir Matthew Hale, Knt., Sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench
- If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment.
- 1823, Gilbert Burnet, The Life of Sir Matthew Hale, Knt., Sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- Synonym: (mobile phone) jailbreak
Etymology 2
From Middle English wr?ten (“to dig with the snout”), from Old English wr?tan, from Proto-Germanic *wr?tan? (“to dig out, to root”). Related to Old English wr?t (“snout; trunk”). Loss of initial w- probably due to influence from the related noun (Etymology 1).
Verb
root (third-person singular simple present roots, present participle rooting, simple past and past participle rooted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- Such tunges ?huld be torne out by the harde rootes,
Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
- Such tunges ?huld be torne out by the harde rootes,
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, scene 3:
- Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog!
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, scene 3:
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- Synonyms: dig out, root out, rummage
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- The Lord rooted them out of their land [...] and cast them into another land.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
- Synonyms: screw, bang, (US) drill, (British) shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Usage notes
- The Australian/New Zealand sexual sense is somewhat milder than fuck but still quite coarse, and certainly not for polite conversation. The sexual sense will often be understood, unless care is taken with the context to make the rummage sense clear, or root through or root around is used. The past participle rooted is equivalent to fucked in the figurative sense of broken or tired, but rooting has only the direct verbal sense; it is not an all-purpose intensive like fucking.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
root (plural roots)
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- Synonyms: (UK, US) screw, (UK) shag; see also Thesaurus:copulation
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- Synonym: (US) screw
Usage notes
- The Australian/New Zealand sexual sense of root is somewhat milder than fuck but still quite coarse, certainly not for polite conversation. The normal usage is to have a root or similar.
Translations
Etymology 3
Possibly an alteration of rout (“to make a loud noise”), influenced by hoot.
Verb
root (third-person singular simple present roots, present participle rooting, simple past and past participle rooted)
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.) [late 19th century]
- Synonyms: (Australia, New Zealand) barrack, cheer on
- 1908, Jack Norworth, Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- Let me root, root, root for the home team,
Translations
Anagrams
- Toor, Toro, roto, roto-, toro, troo
Chinese
Etymology
Borrowed from English root.
Verb
root
- (computing slang) to root (an Android device) (to get root or privileged access)
- ????root????? [MSC, trad.]
- Zhè bù sh?uj? root hòu bù b?oxi?. [Pinyin]
- This mobile phone will not be guaranteed if it is rooted.
????root????? [MSC, simp.]
See also
- ????? (yuèyù, “to jailbreak”)
German Low German
Alternative forms
- raud
- rauth
- rod, rood
- rot, roth
Etymology
From Old Saxon r?d, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rowd?ós < *h?rewd?-. Compare Dutch rood, German rot, West Frisian read, English red, Danish rød.
Adjective
root (comparative röder, superlative röödst)
- red
Declension
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch r?t, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rowd?ós, from the root *h?rewd?-.
Adjective
rôot
- red
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: rood
- Afrikaans: rooi
- Limburgish: roead
Further reading
- “root”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “root (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English r?t.
Noun
root
- Alternative form of rote (“root”)
Etymology 2
Unknown.
Noun
root
- Alternative form of rote (“habit”)
Etymology 3
A back-formation from roten (“to rot”).
Noun
root
- Alternative form of rot
Plautdietsch
Adjective
root
- red
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English root.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /??ut??/
Noun
root m (plural roots)
- (computing) root (user with complete access to the operating system)
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