Root : Roots
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.
I, who have known both loves, divine and human,
Go, then; your going leaves me not alone.
Since, now I name it, it draws near to me
And takes your place beside me. . .
Nay, I tell you,
If this be devil.html">devil's prompting, let them drown it
And, for the Christ there--is He silent too?
And that one silent--how I pity you!
The devil out? But hangs there on the wall,
I, whom He talks with, as the town attests?
That its wings failed and dropped me in Thy breast,
Of innermost commixture, when my soul.html">soul
Judge Thou alone between this priest.html">priest and me;
Thy Margaret and that other's--whose she is
Thine? Silent still.--Or his, who stooped to her,
Not Thine? Then his?
Ah, Christ--the thorn-crowned Head
If his, then Thine!
Kneel, priest, for this is heaven. . .
That held their glories moulders in its turn.
And ever on the palimpsest of earth
But one thing makes the years its pedestal,
A skyward wing above its epitaph--
The thread of some strong lives--and one slight wrist
For Time,
Becomes the globe and sceptre of the great.
Transmit across the twilight waste of years
Not always, nor alone, the lives that search
Or add a height to Babel; oftener they
Pacific order hold great deeds in leash,
Hide the attempered blade of high emprise,
Of one rare moment all the daily store
And that deliberate rashness which bespeaks
So swift to harden purpose into deed
Soul sprang full-statured from the broken flesh,
Poured all in one libation to the truth,
On deserts of the soul long beaten down
In manifold upheaval to the sun.
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