Roots vs. Zeroes — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Roots and Zeroes
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Roots
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.
Zeroes
The numerical symbol 0; a cipher.
Roots
Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.
Zeroes
The identity element for addition.
Roots
The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.
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Zeroes
A cardinal number indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration.
Roots
The bottom or supporting part of something
We snipped the wires at the roots.
Zeroes
An ordinal number indicating an initial point or origin.
Roots
The essential part or element; the basic core
I finally got to the root of the problem.
Zeroes
An argument at which the value of a function vanishes.
Roots
A primary source; an origin.
Zeroes
The temperature indicated by the numeral 0 on a thermometer.
Roots
A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended.
Zeroes
A sight setting that enables a firearm to shoot on target.
Roots
Often roots The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society
Our roots in this town go back a long way.
Zeroes
(Informal) One having no influence or importance; a nonentity
A manager who was a total zero.
Roots
Roots The state of having or establishing an indigenous relationship with or a personal affinity for a particular culture, society, or environment
Music with unmistakable African roots.
Zeroes
The lowest point
His prospects were approaching zero.
Roots
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.
Zeroes
(Informal) Nothing; nil
Today I accomplished zero.
Roots
Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage. Also called radical.
Zeroes
Of, relating to, or being zero.
Roots
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.
Zeroes
Having no measurable or otherwise determinable value.
Roots
A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.
Zeroes
(Informal) Not any; no
"The town has ... practically no opportunities for amusement, zero culture" (Robert M. Adams).
Roots
A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.
Zeroes
Designating a ceiling not more than 16 meters (52 feet) high.
Roots
The note from which a chord is built.
Zeroes
Limited in horizontal visibility to no more than 55 meters (180 feet).
Roots
Such a note occurring as the lowest note of a triad or other chord.
Zeroes
(Linguistics) Of or relating to a morpheme that is expected by an established, regular paradigm but has no spoken or written form. Moose has a zero plural; that is, its plural is moose.
Roots
To grow roots or a root
Carrot tops will root in water.
Zeroes
To adjust (an instrument or a device) to zero value.
Roots
To become firmly established or settled
The idea of tolerance has rooted in our culture.
Zeroes
Plural of zero
Roots
To plant and fix the roots of (a plant) in soil or the ground.
Zeroes
(rare) The decade of the 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, etc. The noughties. The 2000s.
Roots
To establish or settle firmly
Our love of the ocean has rooted us here.
Roots
To be the source or origin of
"Much of [the team's] success was rooted in the bullpen" (Dan Shaughnessy).
Roots
To dig or pull out by the roots. Often used with up or out
We rooted out the tree stumps with a tractor.
Roots
To remove or get rid of. Often used with out
"declared that waste and fraud will be vigorously rooted out of Government" (New York Times).
Roots
To turn up by digging with the snout or nose
Hogs that rooted up acorns.
Roots
To cause to appear or be known. Used with out
An investigation that rooted out the source of the problem.
Roots
To turn over the earth with the snout or nose.
Roots
To search or rummage for something
Rooted around for a pencil in his cluttered office.
Roots
To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer.
Roots
To give moral support to someone; hope for a favorable outcome for someone
We'll be rooting for you when you take the exam.
Roots
Plural of root
Roots
Ancestry.
I have both Irish and German roots.
Roots
Beginnings; origin.
Jazz has its roots in blues.
Roots
The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage;
His roots in Texas go back a long way
He went back to Sweden to search for his roots
His music has African roots
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