I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cube root
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4 is the cube root of 64
grass roots
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We are hoping for full participation at grass roots level.
root beer
root canal
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root canal treatment treatment in which a dentist removes a diseased area in the root of a tooth
root crop
root out corruption (= find and stop it )
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a new campaign to root out corruption
root vegetable
root vegetables (= vegetables whose roots you eat, such as carrots )
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Excellent soups can be made from root vegetables.
roots reggae
square root
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The square root of nine is three.
sth is the root of all evil (= something is the main cause of bad things )
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Love of money is the root of all evil.
the core/roots/whole of sb’s being
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The whole of her being had been taken over by a desire to return to her homeland.
the root cause (= the most basic cause )
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People often deal with the symptoms rather than the root cause of a problem.
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■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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But baseball is a sport with deep roots in the past.
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It probably never had deep roots in the reason of the generals, the men in the lines, or the people.
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The traditional governing class with deep roots in the landed aristocracy was gradually displaced as the Third Reich consolidated its position.
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Yet it misses the deep roots of alienation in Western thought.
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The approval services have put down particularly deep roots .
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I opened it and behind it was a wall of dirt shot through with the deep roots of trees.
fine
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The rhizome cutting will produce shoots very quickly, and strong, fine roots will develop.
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Propagation is by cuttings which root very freely. Fine white roots develop from the nodes on the stems.
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The submerged stems have fine roots growing from the leaf joints or nodes.
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Some plants have a prominent main or tap root , from which rows of fine lateral roots grow.
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The fine roots develop and establish rapidly.
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Pot up cuttings individually as soon as fine white roots and young top growth are visible.
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Numerous fine roots grow at the nodes, and therefore propagation is extremely simple.
■ NOUN
canal
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I had a throbbing abscess under a large section of bridgework and root canal work was the next day's projected treat.
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He got out of bed on Wednesday morning, feeling the same dread he might feel over an impending root canal .
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Herbivores have a large root canal in the teeth, which grow continually throughout life.
cause
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Such unemployment is labelled classical in the sense that its sole root cause is an excessively high real wage.
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Whether caffeine is the root cause of your insomnia or just a contributing factor, your caffeine consumption needs to be addressed.
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While the root cause of the catastrophe remains uncertain, there are some pointers for the investigators.
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Like retrenching, the technique of restricting behavior betrays a peculiar logic about performance and its root causes .
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The main inhibitors to progress, and the root causes of fear, can include: Unrealistic personal goals and expectations.
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But such an approach is a classic example of treating symptoms of organizational dysfunction, rather than its root causes .
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Determinedly she put her worries and the root cause of her despondency behind her and tried to think more cheerfully.
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Naturally, the course of treatment depends on the root cause of the insomnia.
crop
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Cereal and root crops are equally vulnerable to rabbit damage.
grass
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But even the grass roots of the club are sprouting.
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These teams organized in their own communities to help build pro-ERA visibility and momentum at the grass roots .
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She also finds strong support among the party's grass roots .
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My basic assumption is that votes are won or lost at the grass roots , not in Washington.
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Some at the grass roots feared that it was a rejection of traditional Puritan virtues.
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The President continued to campaign at the grass roots .
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In grass roots politics interest grows mostly through non-party political activities.
system
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It may help to build a shallow cone of soil around which to spread the root system evenly.
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Upon arriving home, he noticed the sapling still had a pretty good root system on the bottom end.
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Early drilled crops have a greater and earlier nutrient demand and their root systems can cope better, he said.
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Rootstock: The plant that supplies a root system for a grafted plant.
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Well-established clematis plants develop a large root system that takes up a great deal of water.
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Unlike most land plants, aquatic plants are not dependent solely on nutrition obtained through the root system .
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Plants with a fibrous root system , creating plenty of organic matter, do most to improve the soil structure.
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The plants develop a thick rhizome with a dense root system .
tree
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A tree root flexed, then was still.
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All stones are allowed to become covered with aquatic mosses, and the tree roots are covered with decorative ferns.
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A hopelessness swept through her so unexpectedly she gasped as if in pain and grabbed at a tree root to prevent herself falling.
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Now it was treacherous with tree roots .
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Lastly it is worth noting any usual features like sunken logs, projecting tree roots and big boulders.
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Moisture is another factor. Tree roots drink a lot of water, so remember to water what you plant.
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As the stragglers passed he noticed a man sitting on a tree root , nursing a bloodstained foot.
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Grapevines swag down from overhead, and tree roots are crumbling the bricks.
■ VERB
grow
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It was growing from the twin roots of controlled food prices and food subsidies.
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The tube-type filter also has less chance of getting tangled in the growing roots of the plants.
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Coarser gravel would not need it, but fine gravel is easier for plants to grow their roots through.
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A hundred blossoms grew up from the roots , and the fragrance was very sweet.
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The eggs of this parasitic worm can wait as long as 16 years for a suitable root to grow nearby.
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It will then grow the roots and cling to these.
lie
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Consent, which lies at the root of self-determination, should be the conceptual mechanism whereby the right is guaranteed and safeguarded.
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Biblical writings, which lie at the root of Western culture, make numerous mention of portents in the heavens.
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It is our illusion of separateness which lies at the root of our fears.
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We found that two key resource uses and two basic technologies lay at the root of lunar industry.
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As we shall find, this distinction lies at the root of Anselm's movements in his last years as archbishop.
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Several other causes, according to their findings, often lie at the root of violence against tenants.
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That view lies at the root of a government drive against the racist right.
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They overlook the human ability to negate, which lies at the root of thinking.
put
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I was going to put down roots , achieve something, give meaning to my existence.
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It puts down roots 10 feet deep, easily withstanding drought and even frequent fires.
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It's home, and the film centre and restaurant are his rather grand way of putting down some roots .
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That was before they put me in the root cellar.
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New herbaceous perennials planted now will put on plenty of root growth before winter, giving a better display next year.
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For Ada, putting down roots opens a new life of discipline and learning.
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They might be given no time to put down territorial roots .
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In their place, developers are building upscale subdivisions that tend to cater to newcomers less willing to put down roots .
return
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What happened was that we returned to our roots .
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Now the label is returning to its roots with these concerts.
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It was almost immediately clear that, though a rather greying skinhead now, Mr Tebbit had returned to his roots .
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Forty-five years later he's returned to his roots , with a retrospective display of his favourite surrealist paintings.
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One had to return to grass roots .
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Latter-day Cobdenites faced the future by returning to the subversive roots of their creed.
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They're trying to return to their roots .
take
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Therefore, taking the square root of this measure we get the correlation coefficient; i.e.. 11.
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The formal idea of a society of Co-Workers took root gradually.
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Even in cases where transplants manage to take root , the results are not always beneficial.
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These spores take root in the Night Goblin's flesh and gradually start to change him.
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It was then that there took root those family cults and that ethic on which neo-Confucianism is based.
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But the curious thing was that the idea had somehow and much against his will taken root in his consciousness.
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But once in gear, the collective give and take of a vivisystem takes root and persists.
trace
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The Quarter can trace its roots as far back as 1460, when work in precious metals is first recorded in Birmingham.
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Nor is the manner in which Mumford traces the historical roots of this development much different from that of Wittfogel.
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In a chapter of the book entitled Hebraism and Hellenism he traces the roots of these views.
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I can trace your roots back to the thirteenth century or more.
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The virus has a structure of relatedness that traces its roots further and further into the past.
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The Lechmere chain traces its roots to merchant Abraham Cohen, who opened a harness store that bore his name in 1913.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lie at the heart/centre/root of sth
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As we shall find, this distinction lies at the root of Anselm's movements in his last years as archbishop.
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Basic compassion, not just for the old but for the younger generation too, lies at the heart of this idea.
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That is the issue which lies at the heart of Mr. Thorpe's case.
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That question appears to lie at the heart of the highly publicized battle raging between Hasbro Inc. and Mattel Inc.
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That view lies at the root of a government drive against the racist right.
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The creation of a modernised democracy therefore lies at the heart of all our proposals.
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They overlook the human ability to negate, which lies at the root of thinking.
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We found that two key resource uses and two basic technologies lay at the root of lunar industry.
put forth leaves/shoots/roots etc
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Suddenly as they exchanged memories each saw the other putting forth leaves.
the grass roots
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a grassroots campaign
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The decisions were taken by the party leadership without consulting the grass roots.
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Cover the roots with plenty of soil.
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Low taxation of the rich is the root of the economic problems in this country.
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The roots of the wars in the Balkans go back hundreds of years.
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The love of money is said to be the root of all evil.
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Truffles are parasites that grow on the roots of trees.
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We need to get to the root of the problem.
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But its roots go back decades.
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I doubt whether you can have deep London roots, or Birmingham, or even Stoke-on-Trent roots.
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The dozen rich families have intermarried so many times that family trees are tangles of roots.
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The long roots of Water Lettuce provide shelter for fish and fry.
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The word bond comes from the same root as bind, for the corporation binds it-self to make the specified payments.
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They usually have well developed roots and fragile stems with which to resist the pressure of the current.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
around
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He rooted around in his coat pocket until he found the address that Tony Jones had given him.
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He roots around in a deep drawer and comes out with a bright, brand-new-looking leather strap.
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And then I was like rooting around in your things, and found this, and I thought-cool.
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He rooted around for survivors but there were none.
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Their long mobile noses are used for rooting around in search of small animals.
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The object of his thrusts looks serenely bored, continuing to root around in the mud for food handouts.
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When he rooted around the kitchen he was amazed at the amount of food she had stored.
deeply
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But on the other hand, this respectable ideology was deeply rooted in the general experience of working-class life.
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Behind those balconies, behind those curtains, deeply rooted families survived, and neither wars nor occupations could budge them.
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This is based on enumerative classification, which is deeply rooted in the traditions of epidemiology and vital statistics.
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Had some deeply rooted shame kept her from telling me what was really going on?
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Tonight, she brings her deeply rooted Southwestern style to Tucson.
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The idea of centre is deeply rooted in the human mind.
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Its vigour and vitality attest to a popular piety deeply rooted in the everyday life of the local community.
firmly
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A prime source of violence resides in the elitist educational strategies that are firmly rooted in the school ethos.
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Investigative science is not yet firmly rooted in the curriculum, inspectors found.
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But by that time, the constitutional doctrine of corporate personhood was firmly rooted in the cases.
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It has the added value of being firmly rooted in a thorough understanding of technique.
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Their celestial explorations are firmly rooted where they are, on terra firma.
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Her work might be in Detroit but her home, her life and her boyfriend Chris are rooted firmly in Chicago.
out
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Over the years of football authorities have become obsessed with rooting out drug abuse in the game.
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A major investigation is under way to root out graft there, they said.
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The alien corn had been rooted out and burnt.
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For others, it might mean therapy to root out the underlying causes of overeating.
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Sir Robert Mark's campaign to root out corruption in the Metropolitan Police is well known.
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They have wanted to use suspicion to root out bad faith without taking responsibility for the implicit grounds of that suspicion.
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The trouble makers seem to have been rooted out .
■ NOUN
life
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Its vigour and vitality attest to a popular piety deeply rooted in the everyday life of the local community.
past
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What is on offer from Damascus is at best a cold, barren peace, rooted in the past .
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It is rooted in a particular past , a past that was patriarchal.
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But the wider appeal failed, largely because local men were still too rooted in the past .
principle
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In order to do this, we have to employ a method of understanding rooted in scientific principles that are universally accepted.
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Perhaps some of her edits are rooted in writing principles .
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Growing programs like the Rosenbluth International Alliance are rooted in principles like competing on quality of service rather than price.
spot
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For a moment, she was rooted to the spot .
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He stood rooted to the spot .
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The noise hypnotised the Wooltons, rooting them to the spot .
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She bought them while I waited, embarrassed and rooted to the spot .
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He had covered half the distance when a loud, commanding voice rooted him to the spot .
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After all, you don't want to be rooted to the spot in front of a microphone - you want to perform!
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An accountant is rooted to the spot as sheets of glass plummet towards her.
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They'd just set foot back in the ship proper when the burst of machine gun fire rooted them to the spot .
tradition
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This is based on enumerative classification, which is deeply rooted in the traditions of epidemiology and vital statistics.
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The military attitudes we see today are rooted in a grim tradition .
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This concerns the idea that politics is rooted in a tradition of behaviour.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the grass roots
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a grassroots campaign
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The decisions were taken by the party leadership without consulting the grass roots.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The bush was too firmly rooted in the hard earth to dig up easily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A crest of wavy, blond hair was loosely rooted on a magisterial forehead.
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A prime source of violence resides in the elitist educational strategies that are firmly rooted in the school ethos.
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He roots around in a deep drawer and comes out with a bright, brand-new-looking leather strap.
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Saguaros in bloom, the glare of a horned owl and javelinas rooting for a bite to eat.
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These include massacres and dislocation of civilians in the name of rooting out supposed guerrilla sympathizers.
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To begin with, though, it is the narrator, Austin, in whom our sympathies are rooted.
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To prevent birds pulling them up, net the rows until they root and cut off any wispy tips.