Rise vs Root - What's the difference?

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Rise is a related term of root.

As a verb rise

is (label) to move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.

As a noun rise

is the process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

As a proper noun root is

rise

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) risen, from (etyl) . See also (l). (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) rize, (etyl) .

Verb

(label) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.

# To move upwards.

# To grow upward; to attain a certain height.

# To slope upward.

# (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.

#* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) , ,

And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.

# To become erect; to assume an upright position.

# To leave one's bed; to get up.

#* Old proverb

He that would thrive must rise by five.

# (figurative) To be resurrected.

# (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.

#* (1800-1859)

It was near ninebefore the House rose .

(label) To increase in value or standing.

# To attain a higher status.

#* (rfdate) (Augustus Hare) (1834-1903)

among the rising theologians of Germany

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

# Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The rise of smart beta , passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}

# To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

# To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.

To begin; to develop.

# To develop.

#* '>citation

Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.

# To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.

# (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).

#* 1802 December 1, “Interesting description of the Montanna Real”, in The Monthly magazine, or, British register , Number 94 (Number 5 of Volume 14), page 396:

The majestic Marannon, or Amazon River, rises out of the Lake Launcocha, situated in the province of Tarma, in 10° 14? south latitude, and ten leagues to the north of Pasco.

# To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.

# To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

At our heels all hell should rise / With blackest insurrection.

#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

No more shall nation against nation rise .

# To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

#* Spectator

A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures.

(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.

* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)

He, rising with small honour from Gunza,was gone.

To come; to offer itself.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

There chanced to the prince's hand to rise / An ancient book.

(printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

Synonyms

* (move upwards) climb, go up * (be resurrected) be resurrected, come back from the dead * climb, increase, go up

Antonyms

* (move upwards) descend, drop, fall, sink * (of a celestial body) set * be reduced, decrease, drop, fall, go down

Coordinate terms

* raise

Etymology 2

From the above verb.

Noun

(en noun)

The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

The rise of the tide.

There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.

Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.

The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.

The rise of the working class.

The rise of the printing press.

The rise of the feminists.

(chiefly, UK) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).

The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.

The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.

(UK, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise.

The governor just gave me a rise of 2-pounds-6.

(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names .

An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.

* 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) , ,

I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t?other one out for what the rise might fetch along.

An angry reaction.

I knew that would get a rise out of him.

Synonyms

* (increase in pay) raise

Antonyms

* fall

Derived terms

* earthrise * get a rise out of * moonrise * on the rise * pay rise * sunrise * take the rise

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root

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; cognate with wort and radix.

Noun

(en noun)

The part of a plant, generally underground, that absorbs water and nutrients.

This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.

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.

Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.

The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.

The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.

The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.

He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.

The primary source; origin.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

* John Locke

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.

The cube root of 27 is 3.

(arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).

Multiply by root 2.

(analysis) A zero (of a function).

(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.

(philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.

(music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.

(Busby)

The lowest place, position, or part.

* Milton

deep to the roots of hell

* Southey

the roots of the mountains

(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.

(computing) The person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.

(computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories. (rfex)

Synonyms

* (source) basis, origin, source * (zero of a function) zero * (word from which another is derived) etymon * superuser (), root account, root user

Antonyms

* (zero of a function) pole

Holonyms

* (zero of a function) kernel

Derived terms

* cube root * functional root * put down roots * root canal * root cause * rootkit * roots * roots music * rootsy * square root * strictly roots * take root * taproot * root gap

Verb

(en verb)

(computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.

We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.

To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

* Mortimer

In deep grounds the weeds root deeper.

* '>citation

To be firmly fixed; to be established.

* Bishop Fell

If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . Cognate with rodent. Cognate with Dutch wroeten.

Verb

(en verb)

To turn up or dig with the snout.

A pig roots the earth for truffles.

(by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.

To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.

rooting about in a junk-filled drawer

To root out; to abolish.

* Shakespeare

I will go root away the noisome weeds.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 28

The Lord rooted them out of their land and cast them into another land.

(Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.

Usage notes

* The Australian/New Zealand sexual sense is somewhat milder than fuck but still quite coarse, 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'' is only the direct verbal sense, not an all-purpose intensive like ''fucking .

Synonyms

* (rummage) dig out, root out, rummage * (have sexual intercourse) screw, bang, drill (US), shag (British) - See also

Derived terms

* root about * rooted * root out * root up

Noun

(en noun)

(Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.

Fancy a root ?

(Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.

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.

Synonyms

* (act of sexual intercourse) screw (qualifier), shag (UK); see also * (sexual partner) screw (US)

Etymology 3

Possibly an alteration of , influenced by hoot

Verb

(en verb)

(intransitive, with for, US) To cheer to show support for.

* 1908 ,

Let me root', '''root''', ' root for the home team,

(US) To hope for the success of. Rendered as 'root for'.

I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!

Synonyms

* (cheer) barrack (qualifier), cheer on

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