Word: rooter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English root Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English rooter From root + -er. 1. One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots. Example: 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. Example: Juveniles arriving early tend to become rooters, while late arrivals are forced into stone-turning, having been chased away by the rooters. 2. A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc. Labels: broadly Example: The five rooters or plows are so fastened in the frame that any one or all can be removed if desired, and each rooter is provided with a removable point, which can be taken off and sharpened without removing the entire rooter from the from the frame. Example: 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. 3. A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood. Example: In cutting across the grain a small steel cutter, No. 10, must first be used in a similar manner, moving the strip of wood which acts as a gauge, to cut the second line exactly the same width as the "rooter" blade; the "rooter" is then used as before, when the piece between the two lines made by the cutter will be neatly removed without leaving a burr, which would not be the case if the "rooter" was alone used across the grain. 4. A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer. Example: 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. 5. One who roots or rummages through something. Example: 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 […] 6. A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems. Example: In 2002 a new variant of auto-rooters was discovered in the wild: mass-rooters. Example: 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. 7. One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise. Example: Basically there are two kinds of Christians, the tooters and the rooters - the talkers and the doers. Example: In today's context, any fair review of the "rooters" who contributed to the development of ergonomics and human factors would certainly include references to Earl A. Alluisi, because of his influence on the development of research area, academic programs, professional organizations, and individuals who have shaped the field. 8. A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots. Example: It is now possible to see at a glance how good rooters and poor rooters compare in their response to auxin treatments. Example: In general the stem rooters need to be planted a good deal more deeply than the purely bulb rooting kinds.