rooter

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who, or that which, roots

   One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.

   • 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.
3. 3

   A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.

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   1. 4

      A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      One who roots or rummages through something.

      • 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 […]
   3. 6

      A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal…

      A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.

      • In 2002 a new variant of auto-rooters was discovered in the wild: mass-rooters.
      • 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.
   4. 7

      One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.

      • Basically there are two kinds of Christians, the tooters and the rooters - the talkers and the doers.
   5. 8

      A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.

      • 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.
      • If only shallow rooters are present, the vegetation will die away quickly during a drought while interspersed deep rooters will thrive longer,
   6. 9

      One who roots for, or applauds, something.

      • 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.

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