Roots vs. Shoots — What's the Difference?

The usually underground portion of a plant that lacks buds, leaves, or nodes and serves as support, draws minerals and water from the surrounding soil, and sometimes stores food.

To hit, wound, or kill with a missile fired from a weapon.

Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.

To remove or destroy by firing or projecting a missile

The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.

To make (a hole, for example) by firing a weapon.

The bottom or supporting part of something

To fire or let fly (a missile) from a weapon.

The essential part or element; the basic core

To discharge (a weapon).

A primary source; an origin.

To detonate or cause to explode

A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended.

To inject (a drug, for example) with a hypodermic syringe.

Often roots The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society

To throw out or release (a fishing line, for example).

Roots The state of having or establishing an indigenous relationship with or a personal affinity for a particular culture, society, or environment

To send forth suddenly, intensely, or swiftly

The element that carries the main component of meaning in a word and provides the basis from which a word is derived by adding affixes or inflectional endings or by phonetic change.

To emit (a ray or rays of light or another form of energy).

Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage. Also called radical.

To utter (sounds or words) forcefully, rapidly, or suddenly

A number that when multiplied by itself an indicated number of times forms a product equal to a specified number. For example, a fourth root of 4 is √2. Also called nth root.

(Slang) To give, send, or hand quickly

A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.

(Informal) To spend, use up, or waste

A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.

To pass over or through swiftly

The note from which a chord is built.

To cover (country) in hunting for game.

Such a note occurring as the lowest note of a triad or other chord.

To record on film or video using a movie camera

To grow roots or a root

To cause to project or protrude; extend

To become firmly established or settled

To begin to grow or produce; put forth.

To plant and fix the roots of (a plant) in soil or the ground.

To pour, empty out, or discharge down or as if down a chute

To establish or settle firmly

To throw or propel (a ball, marble, or other projectile in a game) in a specific direction or toward the objective.

To be the source or origin of

To accomplish (the objective) of a game involving a projectile; score (a point, basket, or goal).

To dig or pull out by the roots. Often used with up or out

To play (a game involving projectiles, such as golf or pool).

To remove or get rid of. Often used with out

To attain (a given score) in golf.

To turn up by digging with the snout or nose

To play (a game involving dice, especially craps).

To cause to appear or be known. Used with out

To throw (the dice or a given score) in craps.

To turn over the earth with the snout or nose.

To slide (the bolt of a lock) into or out of its fastening.

To search or rummage for something

To plane (the edge of a board) straight.

To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer.

To variegate (colored cloth) by interweaving weft threads of a different color.

To give moral support to someone; hope for a favorable outcome for someone

To measure the altitude of with a sextant or other instrument

Plural of root

To discharge a missile from a weapon.

Ancestry.

To discharge or fire; go off.

Beginnings; origin.

To gush or spurt

The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage;

To appear suddenly

To move swiftly; dart.

To be felt moving or as if moving in the body

To protrude; project

To engage in hunting or the firing of weapons, especially for sport

To put forth new growth; germinate.

To take pictures.

To film a scene in a movie.

Sports & Games To propel a ball or other object toward the goal or in a specific direction or manner.

(Games) To throw dice.

(Slang) To begin talking. Often used in the imperative

To slide into or out of a fastening. Used of the bolt of a lock.

The motion or movement of something that is propelled, driven, or discharged.

The young growth arising from a germinating seed; a sprout.

A young leaf, flower, or other new growth on a plant.

The aboveground part of a vascular plant.

A narrow, swift, or turbulent section of a stream.

The act of discharging a weapon or letting fly a missile.

(Informal) The launching of a rocket or similar missile.

An organized shooting activity, such as a skeet tournament or hunt.

A round of shots in a contest with firearms.

A session in which something is photographed, filmed, or videotaped.

The distance a shot travels; the range.

A sharp twinge or spasm of pain.

An inclined channel for moving something; a chute.

A body of ore in a vein.

Used to express surprise, mild annoyance, or disappointment.

Plural of shoot

Alright; ok; of course.

Goodbye.