Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 76
Roofer (n.) One who puts on roofs.
Roofer (n.) A craftsman who lays or repairs roofs.
Roofer (n.) [ C ] 蓋屋頂的人，修屋頂的人，屋面工 A person whose job is to put new roofs on buildings or to repair damaged roofs.
Roofing (n.) The act of covering with a roof.
Roofing (n.) The materials of which a roof is composed; materials for a roof. -- Gwilt.
Roofing (n.) Hence, the roof itself; figuratively, shelter. "Fit roofing gave." -- Southey.
Roofing (n.) (Mining) The wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of an underground passage. -- Raymond.
Roofing (n.) Material used to construct a roof.
Roofing (n.) The craft of a roofer.
Roofless (a.) Having no roof; as, a roofless house.
Roofless (a.) Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.
Roofless (a.) Not having a roof; "the hurricane left hundreds of house roofless" [ant: roofed].
Roofless (a.) Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern [syn: dispossessed, homeless, roofless].
Rooflet (n.) A small roof, covering, or shelter.
Rooftree (n.) The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.
Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall. -- Tennyson.
Rooftree (n.) A beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters [syn: ridge, ridgepole, rooftree].
Roofy (a.) Having roofs. [R.] -- Dryden.
Roofy (n.) Street names for flunitrazepan [syn: R-2, Mexican valium, rophy, rope, roofy, roach, forget me drug, circle].
Roke (n.) [See Reek.] Mist; smoke; damp [Prov. Eng.] [Written also roak, rook, and rouk.].
Roke (n.) A vein of ore. [Pov.Eng.] -- Halliwell. Rokeage
Rook (n.) Mist; fog. See Roke. [Obs.]
Rook (v. i.) To squat; to ruck. [Obs.] --Shak.
Rook (n.) (Chess) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
Rook (n.) (Zool.) A European bird ({Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.
The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's friend. -- Pennant.
Rook (n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. -- Wycherley.
Rooked (imp. & p. p.) of Rook.
Rooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rook.
Rook (v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating. "A band of rooking officials." -- Milton.
Rook (n.) (Chess) The piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard [syn: castle, rook].
Rook (n.) Common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow [syn: rook, Corvus frugilegus].
Rook (v.) Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con].
Rookeries (n. pl. ) of Rookery.
Rookery (n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves. -- Tennyson.
Rookery (n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.
Rookery (n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
Rookery (n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
Rookery (n.) A brothel. [Low]
Rooky (a.) Misty; gloomy. [Obs.]
Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. -- Shak.
Note: Some make this Shakespearean word mean "abounding in rooks."
Room (n.) Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.
Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. -- Luke xiv. 22.
There was no room for them in the inn. -- Luke ii. 7.
Room (n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. -- Overbury.
When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. -- Luke xiv. 8.
Room (n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
I found the prince in the next room. -- Shak.
Room (n.) Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. [Obs.]
When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. -- Matt. ii. 22.
Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. -- Tyndale.
Let Bianca take her sister's room. -- Shak.
Room (n.) Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. -- Addison.
Room and space (Shipbuilding), The distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and room the width of a rib.
To give room, To withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.
To make room, To open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room.
Make room, And let him stand before our face. -- Shak.
Syn: Space; compass; scope; latitude.
Roomed (imp. & p. p.) of Room.
Rooming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Room.
Room (v. i.) To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.
Room (a.) Spacious; roomy. [Obs.]
No roomer harbour in the place. -- Chaucer.
Room (n.) An area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view."
Room (n.) Space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: room, way, elbow room].
Room (n.) Opportunity for; "room for improvement."
Room (n.) The people who are present in a room; "the whole room was cheering."
Room (v.) Live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house" [syn: board, room].
Channel
Chat room
Room
(Or "chat room", "room", depending on the system in question) The basic unit of group discussion in chat systems like IRC. Once one joins a channel, everything one types is read by others on that channel. Channels can either be named with numbers or with strings that begin with a "#" sign and can have topic descriptions (which are generally irrelevant to the actual subject of discussion).
Some notable channels are "#initgame", "#hottub" and "#report". At times of international crisis, "#report" has hundreds of members, some of whom take turns listening to various news services and typing in summaries of the news, or in some cases, giving first-hand accounts of the action (e.g. Scud missile attacks in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War in 1991).
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Rummage (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Rummaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Rummaging.] (Naut.) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage. [Obs.]
They might bring away a great deal more than they do, if they would take pain in the romaging. -- Hakluyt.
Rummage (v. t.) To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks. -- Howell.
What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account! -- M. Arnold.
Roomage (n.) Space; place; room.
[Obs.] -- Sir H. Wotton.
Roomer (n.) A lodger. [Colloq.]
Roomer (adv.) At a greater distance; farther off. [Obs.] -- Sir J. Harrington.
Roomer (n.) A tenant in someone's house [syn: lodger, boarder, roomer].
Roomful (a.) Abounding with room or rooms; roomy. "A roomful house." [R.] -- Donne.
Roomfuls (n. pl. ) of Roomful.
Roomful (n.) As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men. -- Swift.
Roomful (n.) The quantity a room will hold.
Roomily (adv.) Spaciously.
Roomily (adv.) With ample room; "the furniture was spaciously spread out" [syn: roomily, spaciously].
Roominess (n.) The quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.
Roominess (n.) Intellectual breadth; "the very capaciousness of the idea meant that agreement on fundamentals was unnecessary"; "his unselfishness gave him great intellectual roominess" [syn: capaciousness, roominess].
Roominess (n.) Spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building); "the capaciousness of Santa's bag astounded the child"; "roominess in this size car is always a compromise"; "his new office lacked the spaciousness that he had become accustomed to" [syn: capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness, commodiousness].
Roomless (a.) Being without room or rooms. -- Udall.
Roommate (n.) One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.
Roommate (n.) An associate who shares a room with you [syn: roommate, roomie, roomy].
Roomsome (a.) Roomy. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Roomth (n.) Room; space. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Roomthy (a.) Roomy; spacious. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Roomy (a.) Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck. -- Dryden.
Roomy (a.) (Of buildings and rooms) having ample space; "a roomy but sparsely furnished apartment"; "a spacious ballroom" [syn: roomy, spacious].
Roomy (n.) An associate who shares a room with you [syn: roommate, roomie, roomy].
Roon (a. & n.) Vermilion red; red. [R.]
Her face was like the lily roon. -- J. R. Drake.
Roop (n.) See Roup. [Prov. Eng.] Roorback
Roorback (n.) Alt. of Roorbach.
Roorbach (n.) A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue. [U.S.]
Note: The word originated in the election canvass of 1844, when such a forgery was published, to the detriment of James K. Polk, a candidate for President, purporting to be an extract from the "Travels of Baron Roorbach."
Roosa oil () The East Indian name for grass oil. See under Grass.
Roust (n.) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also rost, and roost.] -- Jamieson.
Roost (n.) Roast. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Roost (v. t.) See Roust, v. t.
Roost (n.) The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
He clapped his wings upon his roost. -- Dryden.
Roost (n.) A collection of fowls roosting together.
At roost, On a perch or roost; hence, retired to rest.
Roosted (imp. & p. p.) of Roost.
Roosting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roost.
Roost (v. i.) To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch. -- Wordsworth.
Roost (v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid, O, let me roost and nestle there. -- Herbert.
Roost (n.) A shelter with perches for fowl or other birds.
Roost (n.) A perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
Roost (v.) Sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the tree" [syn: perch, roost, rest].
Roost (v.) Settle down or stay, as if on a roost.
Roostcock (n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Rooster (n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [U.S.]
Nor, when they [the Skinners and Cow Boys] wrung the neck of a rooster, did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George. -- W. Irving.
Rooster (n.) Adult male chicken [syn: cock, rooster].
Root (v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
Root (v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
Root (n.) (Bot.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
Root (n.) (Bot.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
Root (n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
Root (n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like. Specifically:
Root (n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
They were the roots out of which sprang two distinct people. -- Locke.
Root (n.) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.
Root (n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source. "She herself . . . is root of bounty." -- Chaucer.
The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. -- 1 Tim. vi. 10 (rev. Ver.)
Root (n.) (Math.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
Root (n.) (Mus.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed. -- Busby.
Root (n.) The lowest place, position, or part. "Deep to the roots of hell." -- Milton. "The roots of the mountains." -- Southey.
Root (n.) (Astrol.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.
When a root is of a birth yknowe [known]. -- Chaucer.
Aerial roots. (Bot.) (a) Small roots emitted from the stem of a plant in the open air, which, attaching themselves to the bark of trees, etc., serve to support the plant.
Aerial roots. (Bot.) (b) Large roots growing from the stem, etc., which descend and establish themselves in the soil. See Illust. Of Mangrove.
Multiple primary root (Bot.), A name given to the numerous roots emitted from the radicle in many plants, as the squash.
Primary root (Bot.), The central, first-formed, main root, from which the rootlets are given off.
Root and branch, Every part; wholly; completely; as, to destroy an error root and branch.
Root-and-branch men, Radical reformers; -- a designation applied to the English Independents (1641). See Citation under Radical, n., 2.
Root barnacle (Zool.), One of the Rhizocephala.
Root hair (Bot.), One of the slender, hairlike fibers found on the surface of fresh roots. They are prolongations of the superficial cells of the root into minute tubes. -- Gray.
Root leaf (Bot.), A radical leaf. See Radical, a., 3 (b) .
Root louse (Zool.), Any plant louse, or aphid, which lives on the roots of plants, as the Phylloxera of the grapevine. See Phylloxera.
Root of an equation (Alg.), That value which, substituted for the unknown quantity in an equation, satisfies the equation.
Root of a nail (Anat.), The part of a nail which is covered by the skin.
Root of a tooth (Anat.), The part of a tooth contained in the socket and consisting of one or more fangs.
Secondary roots (Bot.), Roots emitted from any part of the plant above the radicle.
To strike root, To take root, to send forth roots; to become fixed in the earth, etc., by a root; hence, in general, to become planted, fixed, or established; to increase and spread; as, an opinion takes root. "The bended twigs take root." -- Milton.
Rooted (imp. & p. p.) of Root.
Rooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Root.
Root (v. i.) To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
In deep grounds the weeds root deeper. -- Mortimer.
Root (v. i.) To be firmly fixed; to be established.
If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misappehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment. -- Bp. Fell.
Root, (v. i.) To shout for, or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; -- usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team. [Slang or Cant, U. S.]
Root (v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
Root (v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away. "I will go root away the noisome
weeds." -- Shak.
The Lord rooted them out of their land . . . and cast them into another land. -- Deut. xxix. 28.
Root (n.) (Botany) The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground.
Root (n.) The place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source].
Root (n.) (Linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root,
root word, base, stem, theme, radical]
Root (n.) A number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number.
Root (n.) The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation [syn: solution, root].
Root (n.) Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) [syn: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root] [ant: descendant, descendent].
Root (n.) A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root].
Root (n.) The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support [syn: root, tooth root].
Root (v.) Take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly."
Root (v.) Come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression."
Root (v.) Plant by the roots.
Root (v.) Dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: rout, root, rootle].
Root (v.) Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down" [syn: settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down].
Root (v.) Cause to take roots.
Root (n.) [Unix] The superuser account (with user name ?root?) that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a Unix system. The term avatar is also used.
Root (n.) The top node of the system directory structure; historically the home directory of the root user, but probably named after the root of an (inverted) tree.
Root (n.) By extension, the privileged system-maintenance login on any OS. See {root mode, go root, see also wheel.
Root, () The Unix superuser account (with user name "root" and user ID 0) that overrides file permissions. The term avatar is also used. By extension, the privileged system-maintenance login on any operating system.
See root mode, go root, wheel.
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Root, () Root directory.
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Root, () Root node.
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Rootcap (n.) (Bot.) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
Rooted (a.) Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. "A rooted sorrow." -- Shak. -- Root"ed*ly, adv. -- Root"ed*ness, n.
Rooted (a.) Absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment" [syn: frozen(p), rooted(p), stock-still].
Rooter (n.) One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
Rooter (n.) One who roots, or applauds. [Slang, U. S.]
Rooter (n.) An enthusiastic devotee of sports [syn: sports fan, fan, rooter].
Rootery (n.) A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
Rootless (a.) 無根的；無所寄託的；無根據的 Destitute of roots.
Rootless (a.) Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn: rootless, vagabond].
Rootlet (n.) A radicle; a little root.
Rootlet (n.) Small root or division of a root.
Rootstock (n.) (Bot.) A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.
Rootstock (n.) A horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure [syn: rhizome, rootstock, rootstalk].
Rootstock (n.) Root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots.
Rooty (a.) Full of roots; as, rooty ground.
Ropalic (a.) See Rhopalic.
Rope (n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
Rope (n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
Rope (n.) pl. The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
Rope ladder, A ladder made of ropes.
Rope mat, A mat made of cordage, or strands of old rope.
Rope of sand, Something of no cohession or fiber; a feeble union or tie; something not to be relied upon.
Rope pump, A pump in which a rapidly running endless rope raises water by the momentum communicated to the water by its adhesion to the rope.
Rope transmission (Mach.), A method of transmitting power, as between distant places, by means of endless ropes running over grooved pulleys.
Rope's end, A piece of rope; especially, one used as a lash in inflicting punishment.
To give one rope, To give one liberty or license; to let one go at will uncheked.
Roped (imp. & p. p.) of Rope.
Roping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rope.
Rope (v. i.) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
Let us not hang like ropingicicles Upon our houses' thatch. -- Shak.
Rope (v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods. Hence:
Rope (v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.