Noun
One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
The rooter was terrorized, what with the mechanical noises right behind it, and it abandoned evasive turns and darts and made for the horizon with pitiful desperation.
Juveniles arriving early tend to become rooters, while late arrivals are forced into stone-turning, having been chased away by the rooters.
Most rural farming families in the Big Thicket had “rooter hogs and woods cattle” roaming the free range around their homeplaces.
More examples (1)
Instantly, the rooters were upon it, tearing savagely at the meat and at each other.
A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.
Usage- broadly
- Examples
-
More examples (2)
The five rooters or plows are so fastened in the frame that any one or all can be removed if desired, and each rooter is provided with a removable point, which can be taken off and sharpened without removing the entire rooter from the from the frame.
Breaking old concrete is a simple task for powerful tractor and rooter if the teeth are hooked under slab edge and pulled forward, then raised up by rooter's cable lift.
If the airstrip site is on hard and rocky terrain, it will be necessary to loosen and break the soil by using a rooter.
More examples (1)
Under difficult soil conditions, rooters that work on the same principle as subsoilers are used. Rooters are larger, heavier, and more sturdily built than subsoilers and can loosen the soil up to a depth of 1 meter ( 3.3 ft ) (Fig. 4-6).
A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
In cutting across the grain a small steel cutter, No. 10, must first be used in a similar manner, moving the strip of wood which acts as a gauge, to cut the second line exactly the same width as the "rooter" blade; the "rooter" is then used as before, when the piece between the two lines made by the cutter will be neatly removed without leaving a burr, which would not be the case if the "rooter" was alone used across the grain.
A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
The rooter was the tool that convinced me that plumbers and doctors were only alike if you'd missed out on your daily cone of mull. The head of the sewer rooter looked like something an alien would use to bore into your skull.
One who roots or rummages through something.
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
Like so many of the self-made industry emperors of the late 1800s, he had been little more than a pawnshop rooter masquerading in collector's clothing, a connoisseur of canvas monstrosities, trashy novels and poetry collections […]
A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.
- Examples
-
In 2002 a new variant of auto-rooters was discovered in the wild: mass-rooters.
More examples (1)
The structure of a rooter is a fixed package: a program that generates fixed shell code with a fixed payload, launching it at a single target chosen by the attacker.
One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.
- Examples
-
Basically there are two kinds of Christians, the tooters and the rooters - the talkers and the doers.
More examples (1)
In today's context, any fair review of the "rooters" who contributed to the development of ergonomics and human factors would certainly include references to Earl A. Alluisi, because of his influence on the development of research area, academic programs, professional organizations, and individuals who have shaped the field.
A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.
- Examples
-
It is now possible to see at a glance how good rooters and poor rooters compare in their response to auxin treatments.
In general the stem rooters need to be planted a good deal more deeply than the purely bulb rooting kinds.
More examples (2)
If only shallow rooters are present, the vegetation will die away quickly during a drought while interspersed deep rooters will thrive longer,
A similar effect is obtained by binding the shy rooter with wire immediately above the graft.
Noun
One who roots for, or applauds, something.
Usage- US usage
- Slang
- Examples
-
More examples (2)
Then, as the victorious team, streaming and slimy with mud, was borne by, literally in the arms of the populace, in a bit of momentary abstraction the beat wildly upon the thing nearest at hand, which happend to be the top of a blue and gold rooter's hat, beneath which, naturally enough, was the head of the aforementioned rooter.
In my country a mythology exists concerning the rooter. Great names, great deeds, great passions, great fights, and great deaths from heart attacks are the landmarks on the battlefield of a sport incorporated in Brazilian folklore. However, the different types of rooters are more interesting to the psychologist than soccer folklore proper.
My oldest brother is a hefty twelve years older; we never quite bonded, though he's always been my supporter—a real rooter for me in academic studies.
He was a rooter if there ever was one. His enthusiasm was at a boiling heat all the time.
More examples (1)
This was the Lawrencetown team and rooters, arriving for the fray. Led by the band the rooters gathered in a column four abreast and started to parade around the campus, later turning in the direction of the baseball diamond where they took up their section of the bleachers and forthwith began to hurl challenges at the now crowded buff and blue stands along third base line.
Noun
an enthusiastic devotee of sports
- Synonyms
- Broader terms