Root
In botany, plant roots[?] are the portion of a plant which is below the level of the soil. Roots have a tendency to grow downward in order to reach more nutrients and water which the plant needs to survive.
In Unix style computer operating systems, root is the name of the user who has all rights on permissions in all modes (single or multi user). Normally this is the administrator's account. Additionally it refers to the base of the file system's directory structure, written as a single forward slash (/). If a person 'has root access' it means that they are able to act as the administrator of that computer.
There is a alternative hip hop group called The Roots.
In mathematics, a root of a function f is an element x in the codomain of f such that f(x)=0. For example, 3 is a root of f(x)=x2-6x+9. A substantial amount of mathematics was developed in order to find roots of various functions, especially polynomials. For example, the roots of a quadratic are given by the quadratic formula, and the Fundamental theorem of algebra states that every polynomial of degree n has n complex roots. See also: square root.
In computer science, the root of a tree structure is the starting node.
In etymology, a root comprises the core form of a word, often in a primitive attestation or even in a reconstruction. Root forms have importance in deducing the structure of language families such as those of Semitic or Dravidian languages.
Stobbs, have I not kept my promise? I told you dem
the roofs of the houses, which I could not see for the tears.
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but you vere de pigeon, and she was de grow. She has plocked you,
not left me a single shilling under heaven. And I shall starve: I
heart.
"Starf! stoff and nonsense! You vill never die of starfing--you
too." I didn't say a word, but cried on; till everybody in the
not goot for a Gaptain to gry--ha! ha! Dere--come vid me, and you
nothing, until you can bay vid your earnings."
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me home with him as he promised. "I saw your name among de
Dere, now, it is done and forgotten, look you. Here, Betty,
Cornvallis is come to dine vid me."
I lived with this strange old man for six weeks. I kept his books,
boots and shoes, as if I had never borne his Majesty's commission.
and boys used to laugh, and call me General, and Lord Cornwallis,
ones for me.
One day I can recollect--one miserable day, as I was polishing on
gentleman came into the shop, with a lady on his arm.
"Vere is Gaptain Stobbs?" said he. "Vere is dat ornament to his
one of them in my hand.
"Look, my dear," says he, "here is an old friend of yours, his
vood turn shoeblack? Captain Stobbs, here is your former flame, my
lof of a man? Shake hands vid her, Gaptain;--dere, never mind de
contemptuous.
"Bah! my lof, his fingers von't soil you. Don't you know he.
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