Rooted vs Stiff - What's the difference?
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Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
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(figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
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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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Of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.
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(lb) Of policies and rules and their application and enforcement, inflexible.
Of a person, formal in behavior, unrelaxed.
(lb) Harsh, severe.
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Of muscles, or parts of the body, painful, as a result of excessive, or unaccustomed exercise.
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Potent.
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Dead, deceased.
Of a penis, erect.
An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff''''' or ''lucky '''stiff .
A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
(slang) A cadaver, a dead person.
(US) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
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Rooted is a related term of stiff.
In slang|lang=en terms the difference between rooted and stiff
is that rooted is (slang) in trouble or in strife, screwed while stiff is (slang) a cadaver, a dead person.As adjectives the difference between rooted and stiff
is that rooted is fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move while stiff is of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.As verbs the difference between rooted and stiff
is that rooted is (root) while stiff is to fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.As a noun stiff is
an average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff''''' or ''lucky '''stiff .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)stiff
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Adjective
(er)Quotations
* (English Citations of "stiff")Derived terms
* stiffyNoun
(en noun)- A Working Stiff' s Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember was published in 2003.
- She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.
See also
* bindlestiff * See also ,Verb
(en verb)- Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.
- We asked one girl to explain how she felt when she was "stiffed ." She said, You think of all the work you've done and how you've tried to please [them…].
- You see, poor Nonie really was stiffed' by Adolph in his will. He really ' stiffed her , Rose, and I really wanted to right that wrong.
- Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip.