📖 R — The English dictionary · page 49

rookery — Everyday, meaning 1: A rookery is a group of rooks' nests high in the trees, or the place where rooks live together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A rookery can also be any noisy, crowded place.↗ Example: The rookery was loud at dawn.↗ · Rooks built their nests in the rookery.↗ · The playground was a rookery at home time.↗

room — Everyday, meaning 1: A room is a part of a building with walls, a floor and a ceiling, like a kitchen or a bedroom.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Room means free space for someone or something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Room for» can mean a chance, as in «room for improvement».↗ Example: The hotel has 20 rooms.↗ · Each room has 2 beds.↗ · There are 30 students in the room.↗ · Is there room for 5 more?↗ · Please tidy your room.↗ · Make room for Grandma on the sofa.↗ · The room is 12 feet long and 10 feet wide.↗ · There's no room in the car for the dog.↗ · Our school has a music room.↗ · Your writing is good, but there is room for improvement.↗ · But how light the room was!↗ · Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?'↗ (Torah GEN.24.23, JPS 1917)↗ · She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.'↗ (Torah GEN.24.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.↗ (Torah GEN.6.14, JPS 1917)↗ · A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.↗ (Writings PRO.18.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put governors in their room: (Prophets 1KI.20.24, JPS 1917)↗ · God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.19.14, JPS 1917)↗

roomful — Everyday, meaning 1: A roomful is as many people or things as fill a room.↗ Example: A roomful of guests arrived for the feast.↗ · She brought a roomful of toys.↗ · He stored a whole roomful of corn.↗

roommate — Everyday, meaning 1: A roommate is a person who shares a bedroom with you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US, Canada) A roommate is also a person who shares a flat or house with you (UK: flatmate, housemate).↗ Example: At camp my roommate snored all night.↗ · She has two roommates at college.↗ · My roommate and I share a desk.↗ · They were roommates for three years.↗ · Each room holds 4 roommates; how many rooms for 20 children?↗ (5)↗

roomy — Everyday, meaning 1: Roomy means having plenty of space inside, so that it is not cramped.↗ Example: The car is roomy enough for five.↗ · Our new kitchen is roomy.↗ · The vault was roomy and cool.↗

roost — Everyday, meaning 1: A roost is a place where birds or bats rest or sleep, such as a branch, a perch or a barn.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To roost is for birds or bats to settle down to rest or sleep there.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Rule the roost» means to be the boss of a group or a home.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Come home to roost» means that bad things someone did come back to cause trouble for them.↗ Example: The hens went to roost as the sun set.↗ · Hundreds of starlings roost under the pier.↗ · Bats roost in the old church roof.↗ · You must not disturb a bat roost.↗ · In our house the cat rules the roost.↗ · The owl roosts in the hollow tree during the day.↗ · His lies came home to roost when the truth came out.↗ · The parrot has a favourite roost by the window.↗ · Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.↗

rooster — Everyday, meaning 1: An adult male chicken, usually with a bright red comb on its head and colourful tail feathers, known for crowing loudly in the morning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Rooster: the name of a year in the Chinese zodiac.↗ Example: The rooster crowed at sunrise.↗ · A rooster is a male chicken, and a hen is a female.↗ · «Cock-a-doodle-doo!» went the rooster.↗ · Keep away from the rooster — he can peck hard.↗ · The rooster has a red comb on its head.↗ · Our neighbour's rooster wakes us up every morning.↗ · “Where are you going, Jack?” said the rooster.↗

root — Everyday, meaning 1: The part of a plant that grows under the ground, holding it in place and taking in water and minerals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The part of a tooth or hair under the surface that holds it in.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The cause or origin of something: the root of the problem.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Roots are where a person's family comes from.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In maths, a root of a number, like the square root: the square root of 9 is 3.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: In language, a root word is the main part a longer word is built from.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: As a verb, to root for a team means to cheer for it; to root around means to search.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: Rooted means fixed firmly in one place, as if growing there.↗ Example: Roots take in water from the soil.↗ · A carrot is a root we can eat.↗ · The square root of 25 is 5.↗ · "Play" is the root word of "playful".↗ · We root for our school team every match.↗ · The dog rooted around in the bin.↗ · The tree's roots cracked the pavement.↗ · Money was the root of the argument.↗ · It seemed to be rooted into the ground.↗ · and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day'. — (Torah DEU.29.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Were pfodttced ; the Hebrew word BRA, is the root.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The root ספ״ר is also utilized to coin the novel metaphysical term סְפִירוֹת Sefirot, on which see SY 1:2 below.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed.↗ (Writings JOB.5.3, JPS 1917)↗ · For it is a fire that consumeth unto destruction, and would root out all mine increase.↗ (Writings JOB.31.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.↗ (Writings PSA.80.10, JPS 1917)↗

roots — Everyday, meaning 1: Roots are the parts of a plant that grow under the ground; they hold the plant in place and take in water and minerals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The roots of a tooth or hair are the parts that hold it in the body.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Your roots are the place and family you come from.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The roots of a problem are where it starts.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In maths, a root of a number, like the square root, is a number that multiplies by itself to give that number.↗ Example: The roots take in water from the soil.↗ · Tree roots lifted up the pavement.↗ · Carrots are roots that we eat.↗ · My family has roots in Scotland.↗ · «Kind» is the root word of «kindness».↗ · The square root of 16 is 4.↗ · The dentist said the tooth's root was healthy.↗ · We need to find the roots of the problem.↗ · Meet here beneath this ash-tree's roots.↗ · Hebrew has of course several verb roots relating to one or more of each of these three facets of language.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · It derives from the root נפ״שׁ NPSh, having to do with breathing, refreshing, and resting; its etymological relationships with curiously similar roots like נשׁ״ם NShM ‘to breathe, pant’, נשׁ״ף NShP ‘to blow’, and נשׁ״ב NShB ‘to blow’ are unclear.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The Third Path is the Sanctifying Intelligence, and is the basis of foundation of Primordial Wisdom, which is called the Former of faith, and its roots, Amen; and it is the parent of Faith, from which virtues doth Faith emanate.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.↗ (Writings JOB.18.16, JPS 1917)↗ · His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.↗ (Writings JOB.8.17, JPS 1917)↗ · They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.↗ (Writings JOB.30.4, JPS 1917)↗

rope — Everyday, meaning 1: A rope is a strong, thick cord made of twisted strands, used for pulling, tying or climbing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A skipping rope (jump rope in the USA) is a rope you jump over.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To rope is to tie with a rope, or to catch an animal with a loop of rope.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Learn the ropes» means learn how to do a job.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «On the ropes» means in trouble.↗ Example: A rope is 20 meters long.↗ · He cuts the rope into 4 equal pieces.↗ · She skipped rope 50 times.↗ · They tied two ropes of 6 m and 9 m together.↗ · We climbed the rope in PE.↗ · Both teams pulled hard in the tug-of-war rope.↗ · The cowboy roped the calf.↗ · A pulley and a rope can lift heavy loads.↗ · It took her a week to learn the ropes at her new school.↗ · Now tie the rope round my body."↗ · Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope, (Prophets ISA.5.18, JPS 1917)↗ · So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.'↗ And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber.↗ (Prophets JDG.16.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said unto her: 'If they only bind me with new ropes wherewith no work hath been done, then shall I become weak, and be as any other man.'↗ (Prophets JDG.16.11, JPS 1917)↗

rosary — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A string of beads used by Catholic Christians to count prayers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church) The set of prayers said with these beads, including the Hail Mary and the Lord's Prayer.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare, old) A rose garden.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Rosary beads are also used by people of other faiths, such as Buddhists, to count their prayers.↗ Example: Granny says the rosary every evening.↗ · The rosary has five groups of ten beads, called decades.↗ · She held her rosary beads during the service.↗ · Catholics pray the rosary to think about Jesus's life.↗ · The rosary was a gift for his First Holy Communion.↗ · Muslims use prayer beads called misbaha, which are like a rosary.↗ · They took their rosaries in hand and knelt before their household shrines, and burned precious incense, praying to Buddha to give them their heart’s desire.↗

rose — Everyday, meaning 1: A rose is a flower with a sweet smell and sharp thorns on its stem.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Rose» is the past form of «rise»: the sun rose means it came up.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Rose is a soft pink color.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Rose is also a girl's name.↗ Example: There were 12 roses in the vase.↗ · Jessica cut 10 more roses.↗ · There are now 22 roses.↗ · How many more roses than orchids?↗ · The sun rose at six o'clock.↗ · Be careful of the thorns on the rose.↗ · The river rose after the heavy rain.↗ · He gave her a red rose.↗ · The price of milk rose by 10 cents.↗ · The walls were painted rose pink.↗ · The water rose higher and higher.↗ · Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels; (Torah GEN.31.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke unto the children of Heth, saying: (Torah GEN.23.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh.↗ (Torah GEN.32.31, JPS 1917)↗ · So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.↗ (Prophets 1SA.16.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Then they rose up, and went away that night.↗ (Prophets 1SA.28.25, JPS 1917)↗ · I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.↗ (Writings SNG.2.1, JPS 1917)↗

rosebud — Everyday, meaning 1: A rosebud is a rose flower before it has opened fully.↗ |.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A rosebud is a rose that has not yet opened.↗ Example: The prettiest rosebud began to speak.↗ · She found a wreath of rosebuds on her head.↗ · The broken stem left the rosebuds faded and withered.↗

rosemary — Everyday, meaning 1: A small evergreen bush with needle-like leaves that smell strong and fresh, used as a herb in cooking.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Rosemary is also a girl's name.↗ Example: Mum put rosemary on the roast potatoes.↗ · Rosemary smells lovely when you rub its leaves.↗ · Bees buzzed round the rosemary bush.↗ · In Australia, people wear a sprig of rosemary on Anzac Day.↗ · We planted rosemary in the school herb garden.↗ · My aunt's name is Rosemary.↗ · The girl went out, and soon collected a large bundle, and then she plucked at a sprig of sweet-smelling rosemary for herself.↗

rosette — Everyday, meaning 1: A round badge made of ribbon, given as a prize, for example at a horse or pet show.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A rose-shaped decoration in building or on clothes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) A ring of leaves growing from one point near the ground, like a dandelion's.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Rosette is also a girl's name.↗ Example: My pony won a blue rosette at the show.↗ · Our dog got a rosette for best tail.↗ · The candidates wore party rosettes.↗ · A dandelion's leaves grow in a rosette.↗ · She pinned the rosette to her jacket.↗ · The ceiling has a plaster rosette around the light.↗ · Rosette thought she had never seen anything so pretty.↗