Routed vs. Rooted
Difference Between Routed and Rooted
Routednoun
A disorderly retreat or flight following defeat.
Rootednoun
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.
Routednoun
An overwhelming defeat.
Rootednoun
Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.
Routednoun
A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.
Rootednoun
The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.
Routednoun
People of the lowest class; rabble.
Rootednoun
The bottom or supporting part of something
We snipped the wires at the roots.Routednoun
A public disturbance; a riot.
Rootednoun
The essential part or element; the basic core
I finally got to the root of the problem.Routednoun
A fashionable gathering.
Rootednoun
A primary source; an origin.
Routednoun
(Archaic) A group of people, especially knights, or of animals, especially wolves.
Rootednoun
A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended.
Routednoun
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.Rootednoun
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.Routednoun
A highway
traveled on Route 12 through Michigan.Rootednoun
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.Routednoun
A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person.
Rootednoun
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.
Routednoun
A means of reaching a goal
The route to success required hard work.Rootednoun
Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage. Also called radical.
Routednoun
(Football) A pass pattern.
Rootednoun
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.
Routedverb
To put to disorderly flight or retreat
"the flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun" (Virginia Woolf).Rootednoun
A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.
Routedverb
To defeat overwhelmingly.
Rootednoun
A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.
Routedverb
To dig with the snout; root.
Rootednoun
The note from which a chord is built.
Routedverb
To poke around; rummage.
Rootednoun
Such a note occurring as the lowest note of a triad or other chord.
Routedverb
To expose to view as if by digging; uncover.
Rootedverb
To grow roots or a root
Carrot tops will root in water.Routedverb
To hollow, scoop, or gouge out.
Rootedverb
To become firmly established or settled
The idea of tolerance has rooted in our culture.Routedverb
To drive or force out as if by digging; eject
rout out an informant.Rootedverb
To plant and fix the roots of (a plant) in soil or the ground.
Routedverb
(Archaic) To dig up with the snout.
Rootedverb
To establish or settle firmly
Our love of the ocean has rooted us here.Routedverb
To bellow. Used of cattle.
Rootedverb
To be the source or origin of
"Much of [the team's] success was rooted in the bullpen" (Dan Shaughnessy).Routedverb
To send or forward by a specific route.
Rootedverb
To dig or pull out by the roots. Often used with up or out
We rooted out the tree stumps with a tractor.Routedverb
simple past tense and past participle of route
Rootedverb
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).Routedverb
simple past tense and past participle of rout
Rootedverb
To turn up by digging with the snout or nose
hogs that rooted up acorns.Routedadjective
assigned a route
Rootedverb
To cause to appear or be known. Used with out
an investigation that rooted out the source of the problem.Routedadjective
decisively beaten or defeated
Rootedverb
To turn over the earth with the snout or nose.
Rootedverb
To search or rummage for something
rooted around for a pencil in his cluttered office.Rootedverb
To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer.
Rootedverb
To give moral support to someone; hope for a favorable outcome for someone
We'll be rooting for you when you take the exam.Rootedadjective
Having roots, or certain type of roots.
Rootedadjective
Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
She stayed rooted in place.Rootedadjective
(figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
Rootedadjective
Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
Rootedadjective
Having a root.
Rootedadjective
(slang) In trouble or in strife, screwed.
I am absolutely rooted if Ferris finds out about thisRootedadjective
Broken, damaged, non-functional.
I'm going to have to call a mechanic, my car's rooted.Rootedadjective
Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
You are rooted. All your base are belong to us.Rootedverb
simple past tense and past participle of root
Rootedadjective
absolutely still;
frozen with horrorthey stood rooted in astonishment
