rootingn.1
/ˈruːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrudɪŋ/, /ˈrʊdɪŋ/ 1.
a. A firm hold or attachment by means of roots. Formerly also: †a root; roots collectively (obsolete). Now chiefly figurative.
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the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun]
moreeOE
rootc1175
master-rootc1330
rootinga1400
radix1558
leg1597
taproot1601
top-root1651
tuberous root1668
heart-root1669
pivot1725
spill1766
tap1796
tutty-more1873
pneumatophore1891
stem root1901
heart-root1903
the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [noun] > state of being based or settled
radicationa1500
rootfastness1526
rootinga1620
moring1625
rootedness1625
fixture1809
rootage1823
basement1838
the world > plants > part of plant > root > plant defined by roots > [noun] > hold or attachment by roots
rootfastness1526
rooting1763
rootage1917
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 9269 Iesse..of his roting Soth-fast-le a wand suld spring.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xiii. f. xvijv Hitt cauth heet, and for lake off rotynge wyddred awaye.
c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 90 Quhais ruiting sure and toppis reaching he Mot brek the storme.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. x. §5. 109 A weake, and a flickring opinion,..hauing no rooting, nor footing.
1674 Catholicon 17 This Parochial Combination would give the Royal interest the strongest rooting in the hearts of his subjects.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 25 Ashes..are best transplanted young because of their deep Rooting.
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry III. 349 That the grass may have time to get good rooting.
1858 London Rev. Oct. 28 The desire of gaining for oneself..a rooting, and a place of rest, on the soil of one's own land.
1891 Ann. Rep. Ont. Agric. College 1890 182 Some of the young and tender grasses are liable to become destroyed during the first winter, unless they get a good rooting the year before.
1908 Jrnl. Agric. (Victoria (Austral.) Dept. Agric.) 10 Nov. 664 Autumn sown fields should be..topped with the mower before the winter, so as to induce a firm rooting.
1988 Mother Jones Apr. 46/3 A firm rooting in reality can't help but expose conflicts.
2000 P. H. Collins Feminist Black Thought (ed. 2) 245 Participants bring with them a ‘rooting’ in their own particular group histories.
b. to take rooting: to become fixed or established, settle down in a place; (literal) to begin to grow and draw nourishment from the soil. Cf. to take root at root n.1 Phrases 1. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (intransitive)] > be or become established
morea1200
roota1382
to take roota1450
take1523
to take rooting1548
to be well warmed1565
seisin1568
to sit down1579
to come to stay1863
the world > plants > part of plant > root > plant defined by roots > have root [verb (intransitive)] > take root
to take roota1400
roota1425
take?1440
to take rooting1548
sprig1611
radicate1656
to strike root (also roots)1658
tap-root1769
to make root1856
fibre1869
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark iv. f. 32 Because it coulde not for stones take rootyng but lacked rootes.
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Rome in Complaints 248 Thence th' Imperiall Eagle rooting tooke.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. vi. 27 Religion..taketh naturally such rooting, that all politicall lawes and tortures cannot plucke it vp.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 62 The Linen Manufacture..will take deep rooting and get a good Foundation on a sudden.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. ii. 234 He determined to nip in the Bud this dangerous Rival, before he took too firm Rooting.
1790 S. Deane New-Eng. Farmer 120 In order to make the loosened plants take rooting.
1844 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. I. 310/1 Such a quickening power has the word of God to regenerate and make alive dead souls, if we suffer it to take rooting in our hearts.
1895 Sunday at Home 640/2 That spray, being planted, had taken rooting, and was even now quick and blossoming.
1975 P. Wall Prelude to Détente iii. 29 British influence took firm rooting only after 1887.
2. The action of taking root or growing roots; an instance of this. Also figurative.
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the world > plants > part of plant > root > plant defined by roots > [noun] > taking root
rootinga1425
radication1658
roothold1795
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 44 Aboundance of goodis and long rotyng in þe sect defenden þes sectis and maken hard to distroie hem.
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 201 (MED) We preien..þat we falle not in-to dispeir of goddis mercy for olde rotynge & custome in synne.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 437 Rotynge, or takyinge rote yn waxynge [a1500 King's Cambr. rotynge in the grounde], radicacio.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Enracinement, a rooting, or taking root.
a1639 J. Dyke Right Receiving of Christ (1640) 170 Plants and trees first roote before they growe, & then growth followes after their rooting.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Carnation Let him..put the Earth down upon it to facilitate its Rooting.
1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. i. 223 Rooting generally takes place in six months, but with some species a year is required.
1849 Beck's Florist 297 That the plants which have been removed may get a chance of rooting before frosts set in.
1898 Gardeners' Chron. 23 July 67/1 To encourage rooting, water must be afforded daily in dry weather.
1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) xi. 240 In a dense old turf the number of rootings may reach twenty millions or more but there is seldom half that number of individual plants present.
1963 Times 9 Nov. 11/5 Cuttings are automatically kept covered with a fine layer of moisture which prevents them from wilting, and encourages rapid rooting.
2001 Isis 92 296 By 1940, synthetic hormone products that enable nurserymen to promote rooting of cuttings..were available commercially.
3. The action of taking out or pulling up by the roots; extraction, extirpation; uprooting. Frequently figurative.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > rooting out or up
rooting1533
extirpation1675
uprooting1775
uprootal1861
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun]
displacing1551
dislodge1587
dislocation1604
displantinga1616
elocation1649
dislodgement1728
uprooting1775
displacement1803
disrooting1826
rooting1876
delocalization1887
1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico 60 The disease is rooted vp & drawen from the inner partis, and the rootynge vp is peynfull.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Extirpatio, a pluckynge vp by the rootes; a rootynge out.
1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection ii. 141 No seruile worke to be taken in hand on the Lords day..neither cutting of vines, nor tilling the ground, neither reaping, nor mowing, nor hedging, neither rooting or felling of trees.
a1625 J. Fletcher Valentinian iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbbbb4/2 Were it to save your worth, Or to redeeme your name from rooting out,..I ought, and would dye for ye.
1642 J. Goodwin Anti-Cavalierisme 21 That sin which was the ruine and rooting out of Ieroboam and his house.
1740 Universal Hist. V. iii. xi. 124 All he [sc. Cato] could do, was, to attempt the rooting out of bribery and corruption.
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xi. 179 The rooting up of an olive-tree in Attica was forbidden.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. 507 To attempt a deliberate rooting up of the speech of their island kingdom.
1912 M. Booth tr. R. Eucken Main Currents Mod. Thought 67 The chief task becomes that of spiritual ascent and renewal... This means the complete rooting up of intellectualism.
1942 R. S. Platt Lat. Amer. iii. 44 The change is..accompanied by..rooting up of maguey on good land and its neglect on poor land, replacement of wheat by corn and beans, [etc.].
2003 P. Lilley Dirty Dealing (ed. 2) App. I. 225 A government that has placed the rooting out of corruption at the top of its agenda.
4. The action of implanting or making something take root. Frequently figurative.
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1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 225 He caused the croce of Christe to be placed in dorpes and in Tounis, to the ruiting of the Luife of Christe in the ground of the hartes of his awne.
1862 Horticulturalist Feb. 73 If the rooting of cuttings is attempted, the sand or soil in which they are planted will be 10 or 15 degrees lower than the atmosphere.
1907 Biblical World Dec. 406 It calls for..a rooting of the personal life deep in the life of the Eternal Father.
1994 W. L. Portier Trad. & Incarnation vii. 153 From St. Thomas we can learn many things: his rooting of theology in faith, his openness to inquiry in the question format, [etc.].
Compounds
General attributive (in sense 2), as rooting ground, rooting medium, rooting place.
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1747 Biographia Britannica I. 1021 As for the length of the stalks, that might be owing to the distance of the owzy bottom, or other lodging and rooting-places.
1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 451 In this way, in good rooting-ground, he would have roots sixteen or seventeen feet long.
1854 Zoologist 12 4445 If all the seed that fell should find no rooting-place.
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Air layering The process is specified as pot layering when the rooting medium is enclosed, as in a pot or box.
2000 Halifax Daily News (Nova Scotia) (Nexis) 20 Feb. 6 A jolly blue sandbox, now a rooting place for weeds, hints of the happy families who once lived here.
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rootingn.2
/ˈruːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrudɪŋ/, /ˈrʊdɪŋ/ 1. The action of grubbing in the earth for food; an instance of this. Also in extended use: poking about, rummaging (cf. root v.2 3b).
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > grubbing
rooting1573
grubbing1831
grouting1961
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 19 For rooting of pasture, ring hog ye had neede, which being well ringled, the better do seede.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxvii. 853 The huntsman therefore shall know the fairenes of the bore..by his traces, rootings, soile, and dung.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fouge, the rooting of wild Swyne among Fearne, &c.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 387 They have a pretty device here..to prevent their hogs from rooting.
1708 W. Sewel Large Dict. Eng. & Dutch 479/1 The Rooting of a swine, de Omwroeting van een zwyn.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 108 The jaws..are extended, and evidently formed for rooting in the ground.
1811 Brit. Rev. Mar. 146 Their more practical device of ploughing the ground by the rooting of hogs' snouts after buried acorns, to save the charges of implements, cattle, and labour.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 194/3 Insert rings in their nose if needed, to prevent injury from rooting.
1894 Critic (N.Y.) 8 Dec. 391/1 Mr. Bliss is given to rooting around among deacon's chests, old church books and time-stained documents.
1954 R. E. Coker Streams, Lakes, Ponds iii. xiv. 264 A frequent cause of turbidity in farm ponds is the trampling of cattle or the rooting of pigs along the margins and in the shallows.
1992 A. McCaffrey Crystal Line (1993) 303 She enjoyed rooting among the files and collating information.
2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 June (Weekend section) 14 A tiny 20-acre mixed woodland west of Heathrow Airport,..where the roar of 21st-century living drowns out the rooting of the boar.
2. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S. Sport). The action of cheering, encouraging, or otherwise supporting a person or group. Cf. root v.2 4.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporting or encouraging
comfortingc1320
couraging?1542
encouraging1578
patronaging1597
upbolstering1610
countenancing1628
rooting1888
hand-holding1967
1888 World (N.Y.) 7 Aug. 8/5 He responded to the deep and heartfelt ‘rooting’ of the 3,500 spectators with a hit that in baseball parlance can only be designated as a Jim Dandy.
1890 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 21 Nov. 4/3 No one can say how much his ‘rooting’ did for Pattison.
1937 D. Runyon in Collier's 21 Aug. 32/4 No talking and no rooting from the spectators is permitted.
1973 R. Morris in Washington Monthly Nov. (title) Rooting for the other team: clientism in the Foreign Service.
2004 R. Bradford Chasing Steinbrenner i. 4 Rooting wasn't the thing, but watching was.
3. coarse slang. Sexual intercourse. Also: an act or instance of this. Cf. root v.2 6a. Now chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > specifically with a woman
womenOE
wivingc1300
leap1607
tillage1609
cuntc1664
rogering1788
cock1895
rooting1922
trim1955
coozea1968
stank1980
coochie1986
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. 719 All the poking and rooting and ploughing he had up in me.
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 41 All the vulgar linguistic emphasis is placed upon the poking element; fucking, screwing, rooting, shagging are all acts performed upon the passive female.
1976 F. Sargeson Sunset Village 83 Anyhow full house, rape on the screen, or it could have been mutual, just plain rooting.
1990 A. Duff Once were Warriors 15 Made her feel like..bringing the youth back to her bed and giving him, you know, a real good rooting.
Compounds
rooting interest n. U.S. a desire for, or interest in, the success of a particular person or group, esp. a sports team; cf. sense 2.
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1905 Washington Post 25 Mar. 8/2 Toscan was entered [in the horse race] in the name of R. A. Whitney, and the ‘contigent clause’ gave Pumphrey something more than a ‘rooting’ interest.
1977 Time 25 July 51/2 One on One is a picture that..transcends its humble conception and develops what movie people used to call a ‘rooting interest’ in its characters.
2008 N.Y. Mag. 12 May 18/1 I've never cared about sports, never experienced that intense, emotional, extra-rational rooting interest in any team's struggle to win the championship.
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rootingadj.1
/ˈruːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrudɪŋ/, /ˈrʊdɪŋ/ Of a pig: that roots or grubs in the earth.
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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 225 Thou eluish markt abortiue rooting hog.
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 18 Nor boorish Hog-heard fed his rooting Swine.
1753 tr. Horace in Quinti Horatii Flacci Carmina ii. xix. 167 The trampling Wolf, and rooting Boar.
1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. iii. viii. 229 Where the root is at all endangered by scratching dogs, picking and hewing children, or rooting pigs of the village, it has heaped up a good mound of earth round it.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 296 The rooting swine Beneath the..oak-trees grunt and whine.
1939 E. Fergusson Venezuela xv. 204 In the plaza nothing moved but rooting pigs and naked children, kicking dust.
1994 Independent (Nexis) 13 Dec. 20 For the death of Anthony he [sc. Paul Scofield] produced a menagerie of effects—cawing like a rook when he laughed, snuffling like a rooting pig as he drew his last extraordinary breath.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
rootingadj.2
/ˈruːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrudɪŋ/, /ˈrʊdɪŋ/ 1. Of a plant, stem, cutting, etc.: taking root; growing roots.
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the world > plants > part of plant > root > plant defined by roots > [adjective] > having or not having roots
rootlessa1413
rooty?c1475
well-rooted1577
rooted1712
rooting1731
radicant1753
rhizomatous1812
own-root1881
rhizogenetic1884
rhizogenic1884
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Orchard You should observe, never to sow too near the Trees, nor suffer any great-rooting Weeds to grow about them.
1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 378 Radicans, rooting, striking Root laterally and fixing to other Bodies.
1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 373/2 They possess rooting and floating stems.
?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. vi Silverweed... Flowers solitary on slender axillary peduncles, springing from the rooting nodes.
1910 Craftsman July 503/1 In spring the rooting cuttings are sold for flowering the ensuing year.
1945 J. M. Fogg Weeds of Lawn & Garden 82 This plant [sc. chickweed] is a bad weed in lawns, where its trailing and rooting stems may seriously impede the growth of turf.
2009 M. A. Zahran & A. J. Willis Vegetation Egypt (ed. 2) iii. 78 Creeping stolons which are often several metres long with tufts of leaves and short culms at the rooting nodes.
2. Botany. Used in the names of plants, esp. of ferns which can reproduce vegetatively when the tips of their leaves touch the ground. Now rare. [Frequently rendering post-classical Latin radicans, specific name.]
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1816 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 43 §1806 (heading) Rooting poison-oak.
1823 J. L. Drummond First Steps Bot. ix. 336 The rooting-leaved Woodwardia..and the rooting spleenwort (Asplenium rhizophyllum) of North America, protrude rootlets from the tops of their fronds, which penetrate the ground.
1859 A. Pratt Brit. Grasses & Sedges 244 Rooting Bristle Fern. Fronds three or four times pinnatifid.
1905 E. E. Oliver Hill Station Matheran ii. 176 (table) Gymnopteris contaminans. Rooting fern.
2002 S. Foster & C. Hobbs West. Med. Plants & Herbs 375 A rhizome decoction of W[oodwardia] radicans.., Rooting Chain Fern, was used internally and externally to relieve the pain of injuries.
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