route vs root

Definitions

verb

1. send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
2. send via a specific route
3. divert in a specified direction

noun

1. an established line of travel or access
2. an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

Examples

He nearly knocked over a couple of pop fans en route.

Since then neither the printer nor wireless internet router appeared to be working.

Pile each croute with the prawn mixture and serve at once.

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Definitions

verb

1. cause to take roots
2. take root and begin to grow
3. become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
4. come into existence, originate
5. plant by the roots

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noun

1. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
2. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
3. the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
4. the place where something begins, where it springs into being
5. the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

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Examples

He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.

Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.

The Navajo made a tea of spotted coralroot used as a lotion for ringworm or skin disease.

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