Sentence examples for term root from inspiring English sources

The term root cellar was just that: a cool underground place suitable for storing roots and other items that needed fairly constant temperature year round.

And unlike so many other root beers, Virgil's has components that are all of the earth, as was true when the term root beer was coined.

In the short term Root's effort enhanced England's chances of saving the game.

The term root modality extends the bipartite distinction between deontic and epistemic modality and covers circumstantial modal values (conditioning external factors (Palmer 2001: 9)), root possibility, ability and volition.

For the purposes of this post, we're using a broader definition of the term "root vegetable," referring to winter root vegetables as they're colloquially recognized.

Portnoy cited the titles "The Root of all Evil" (referring to the musical term "root") and "Octavarium" ("the octave of the octave") as two examples of this.

It is a term rooted in French commercial law and is now found in phrases as varied as an "act of God" or an "act of terrorism".

I cannot, even in educationally correct greengrocer terms (root vegetable? zucchini? summer squash?) do justice to the final result.

Reduction of root diameter in response to low P availability, a process termed "root etiolation", has been suggested to reduce the metabolic cost of soil exploration (Lynch 2011).

Words with zero suffix are termed root verbs and root nouns.

The meaning of a reconstructed root is conventionally that of a verb; the terms root and verbal root are almost synonymous in PIE grammar.