Secure vs Rooted - What's the difference?
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Free from attack or danger; protected.
Free from the danger of theft; safe.
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
* Dryden
Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of .
* Milton
Overconfident; incautious; careless.
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
* Dryden
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .
* T. Dick
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
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(figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
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* 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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As adjectives the difference between secure and rooted
is that secure is free from attack or danger; protected while rooted is fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.As verbs the difference between secure and rooted
is that secure is to make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect while rooted is past tense of root.secure
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Alternative forms
* secuer (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
- secure of a welcome
- Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
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Antonyms
* insecureDerived terms
* securelyVerb
(secur)- I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
- to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage
- It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
- to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
- to secure an estate
Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
- "[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress."
(Flight, 1911, p. 766)
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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.