Crossword clues for rooting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Root \Root\ (r[=oo]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rooting.]
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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. -
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Originally, a system of roots; a secure attachment ((term: in) something); a firm grounding. 2 The process of forming roots. 3 A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots. vb. (present participle of root English)
WordNet
n. the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow
Wikipedia
Rooting may refer to:
- Gaining superuser access to a computer system
- Rooting (Android OS), attaining root access on Android devices
- Jailbreaking (iOS), overriding software limitations on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad
- Cutting (plant), plant propagation technique
- Australian slang for sexual intercourse
- the rooting reflex
Rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as root access) over various Android subsystems. As Android uses the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative ( superuser) permissions as on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD or OS X.
Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers and hardware manufacturers put on some devices. Thus, rooting gives the ability (or permission) to alter or replace system applications and settings, run specialized applications ("apps") that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user. On Android, rooting can also facilitate the complete removal and replacement of the device's operating system, usually with a more recent release of its current operating system.
Root access is sometimes compared to jailbreaking devices running the Apple iOS operating system. However, these are different concepts: Jailbreaking is the bypass of several types of Apple prohibitions for the end user, including modifying the operating system (enforced by a "locked bootloader"), installing non-officially approved applications via sideloading, and granting the user elevated administration-level privileges (rooting). Only a minority of Android devices lock their bootloaders, and many vendors such as HTC, Sony, Asus and Google explicitly provide the ability to unlock devices, and even replace the operating system entirely. Similarly, the ability to sideload applications is typically permissible on Android devices without root permissions. Thus, it is primarily the third aspect of iOS jailbreaking (giving users administrative privileges) that most directly correlates to Android rooting.
Usage examples of "rooting".
It grew bolder, feeling over big hand with its prehensile upper lip, not seeming to threaten, but dragging his fingers down against the goldcapped rooting tusks.
Ellery, and Prowse is hard-pressed to hold them back from rooting him out all on their own.
Demisiv people, they spent all their lives wading around through the ground, and the whole surface of their sealess planet was one great migratory forest, with mighty bands of trees rooting only briefly and then getting on the move again, hunting other skies to grow under, new ground to grow in.
X himself devoted his valuable time to rooting through the debris of the New Atlantan immune system proved this.
It was in fact a pig rooting, as fine a babirussa as he had ever seen: the animal was snorting and grunting at a great rate, wholly intent upon a wealth of tubers.
As Calli stood still, shock rooting her to the spot, another creature much like this one, though not as tall, came out of nowhere to join her companion.
This time Hume was rooting in the tall tangle of greenbriers over by the main gate.
The heartwood spanned the height of the forest, from bed to apex, and provided the rooting foundation for most of its trees.
The habit of the shrub, from its dense and flattened foliage, fine colour, and persistent nature, together with its dwarfness and rooting faculty, all go to render it one of the finest rock shrubs for winter effect.
And the cure for this pathology, in all systems, is essentially the same: rooting out the pathological holons so that the holarchy itself can return to harmony.
Masters was rooting about in the attic looking for his notes and clippings, the phone rang again downstairs.
She dashed out of cover, attracting blank stares from the rooting herbivores, and reached her eggs.
As well as these large herbivores there were many other species directly dependent on the grass: hares, porcupines, and cane rats, rooting pigs.
The corrupt lawmen recognized by the Santa Fe Ring had refused to recognize the private-agency badges worn by McSween riders such as Billy the Kid, and so a rooting, tooting, and shooting time had been had by all before Governor Wallace had come west to declare such shit must cease.
All you have to do is insert a floppy and off it goes, rooting into passwords, infiltrating programs.