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Secure vs Rooted - What's the difference?

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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

English

Alternative forms

* secuer (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • 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
  • But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
  • 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 .
  • secure of a welcome
  • * Milton
  • Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
  • Overconfident; incautious; careless.
  • (Macaulay)

    Antonyms

    * insecure

    Derived terms

    * securely

    Verb

    (secur)
  • To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
  • * Dryden
  • I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
  • To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .
  • to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage
  • * T. Dick
  • It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
  • To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
  • to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
  • To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
  • to secure an estate
  • * 2014 , Jamie Jackson, " 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)
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

    Anagrams

    * ----

    rooted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
  • She stayed rooted in place.
  • * 2002 , Peter Loizos, Chapter Two: Misconceiving refugees?'', Renos K. Papadopoulos (editor), ''Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like Home , page 54,
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Michael Da Silva , title=Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.}}
  • (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, page 205,
  • 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.
  • * 1985 , Anthony Hyman, Charles Babbage: Pioneer Of The Computer , page 32,
  • 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.
  • * 2011 , William P. Ryan, Working from the Heart: A Therapist?s Guide to Heart-Centered Psychotherapy , page 47,
  • With other experiences added on top, the feeling state becomes more entrenched, more rooted .
  • Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
  • * 1979 , Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia , page 280,
  • 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.
  • * 1997 , William E. Reiser, To Hear God?s Word, Listen to the World: The Liberation of Spirituality , page 12,
  • 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.
  • * 2008 , Michael Allen Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity , page 93,
  • 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.
  • (mathematics, graph theory, of a tree or graph) Having a root.
  • (slang) In trouble or in strife, screwed.
  • I am absolutely rooted if Ferris finds out about this
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, damaged, non-functional.
  • I'm going to have to call a mechanic, my car's rooted .
  • (computing, uncomparable) Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
  • You are rooted . All your base are belong to us.

    Derived terms

    * unrooted

    Verb

    (head)
  • (root)