Rooted vs Planted - What's the difference?
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Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
* 2002 , Peter Loizos, Chapter Two: Misconceiving refugees?'', Renos K. Papadopoulos (editor), ''Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like Home ,
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(figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
* 1782 May, Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber (editors), The Link-Boy'', ''The London Magazine, or, Gentleman?s Monthly Intelligencer , Volume 51,
* 1985 , Anthony Hyman, Charles Babbage: Pioneer Of The Computer ,
* 2011 , William P. Ryan, Working from the Heart: A Therapist?s Guide to Heart-Centered Psychotherapy ,
Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
* 1979 , Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia ,
* 1997 , William E. Reiser, To Hear God?s Word, Listen to the World: The Liberation of Spirituality ,
* 2008 , Michael Allen Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity ,
(mathematics, graph theory, of a tree or graph) Having a root.
(slang) In trouble or in strife, screwed.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, damaged, non-functional.
(computing, uncomparable) Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
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An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
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, title= (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae''; now specifically, a living organism of the ''Embryophyta'' (land plants) or of the ''Chlorophyta'' (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll ''a'' and ''b , or any organism closely related to such an organism.
(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
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A large piece of machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
(obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
* Dryden
(obsolete) The sole of the foot.
* Ben Jonson
* knotty legs and plants of clay
(dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
* Charles Dickens
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
(US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
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To place in the ground.
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To furnish or supply with plants.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
* Shakespeare
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
* Francis Bacon
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To set up; to install; to instate.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between rooted and planted
is that rooted is (root) while planted is (plant).As an adjective rooted
is fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.rooted
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Adjective
(en adjective)- She stayed rooted in place.
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- Those with fewest attachments or obligations may be most vulnerable to transitions from a more rooted life, before flight, to the new as-yet unrooted or uprooted life.
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- He will immediately break in on their mo?t rooted prejudices ; and with a kind of malignant ?atisfaction hack their darling notions with un?paring rigour and unblu?hing in?olence.
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- The greater part of his property he has acquired himself during years of industry ; but with it he has acquired the most rooted habits of suspicion.
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- With other experiences added on top, the feeling state becomes more entrenched, more rooted .
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- Proper Philadelphians, especially before they became Episcopalians, and the unfashionable branches of their families to this day are surely more rooted in Westtown than St. Paul?s, the fashionable favorite.
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- For what is gradually taking hold, I think, is a way of drawing near to God that is far more rooted' in history and far more ' rooted in the gospel than we have been accustomed to.
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- This form of humanism posed a greater danger to the monks and clerics than Italian humanism because it was less extravagant, less pagan, and more rooted in an ideal of Christian charity that the church at least nominally shared.
- I am absolutely rooted if Ferris finds out about this
- I'm going to have to call a mechanic, my car's rooted .
- You are rooted . All your base are belong to us.
Derived terms
* unrootedVerb
(head)planted
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(head)plant
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- O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.
- a plant of stubborn oak
- It wasn't a bad plant , that of mine, on Fikey.
Usage notes
The scientific definition of what organisms should be considered plants changed dramatically during the 20th century. Bacteria, algae, and fungi are no longer considered plants by those who study them. Many textbooks do not reflect the most current thinking on classification.Derived terms
* houseplant * planter * plantlet * plantly * plant-pot * pot-plant * power plant * plant roomVerb
(en verb)- That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
- Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
- to plant''' cannon against a fort; to '''plant''' a flag; to '''plant one's feet on solid ground
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- Sarah, she kissed each of her grandparents on the forehead. They were planted in a graveyard behind the church.
- to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
- It engenders choler, planteth anger.
- to plant a colony
- planting of countries like planting of woods
- to plant Christianity among the heathen
- We will plant some other in the throne.