Meaning of root | Babel Free

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1. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction
2. An act of rummaging or searching.
3. An English surname from Middle English from a byname from Middle English rote (“glad”).
4. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
   countable, uncountable
5. Utterly; completely: The organization has been transformed root and branch by its new leaders.
6. A root vegetable
7. An act of sexual intercourse.
   Australia, New-Zealand, slang, vulgar
8. An English surname originating as an occupation for a rote (medieval guitar)-player.
9. A root vegetable.
   countable, uncountable
10. take root, a. to send out roots; begin to grow.
11. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place
12. A habitational surname from Dutch for someone living near a retting place (Dutch root, from roten (“to ret”)).
13. A sexual partner.
    Australia, New-Zealand, slang, vulgar
14. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
    countable, uncountable
15. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
    countable, uncountable
16. Elihu, 1845–1937, U.S. statesman: Nobel peace prize 1912.
17. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place
18. A town in Lucerne canton, Switzerland.
19. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
    countable, uncountable
20. To express approval, especially by clapping:applaud, cheer, clap.
21. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated
22. A township in Adams County, Indiana, United States.
23. The primary source; origin.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
24. to (make something) grow roots. These plants aren't rooting very well; He rooted the plants in compost. wortels maak يُنْبِتُ جُذورا، يَتأصَّل вкоренявам се criar raízes zakořenit, zasadit Wurzeln schlagen, einpflanzen slå rod; plante ριζώνω, φυτεύωechar raíces, arraigar juuri alla võtma, juurduma panema کاشتن juurtua enraciner לְהַשרִיש जड़ पकड़ना, स्थापित कर usaditi, dati da uhvati korijen gyökeret ver; meggyökereztet berakar, menumbuhkan akar (láta) skjóta rótum piantare; mettere radice* 根...
25. A town in Montgomery County, New York, United States; named for lawyer and politician Erastus Root.
26. The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
    countable, uncountable
27. a kind of non-alcoholic drink made from the roots of certain plants. gemmerbier شَراب من الخَميرَة وبَعْض الجُذور безалкохолна бира gasosa šumivý nealkoholický nápoj das Malzbier sodavand είδος αναψυκτικού cerveza no alcohólica rootbeer نوعی نوشیدنی مانند پپسی inkivääriolut racinette שֵׁכָר שוֹרָשִים विभिन्न जड़ों से निर्मित शराब đumbirovo pivo minuman ringan rótar-gosdrykkur (bibita a base di estratti di radici ed erbe) ルートビア 루트 비어 šaknelių gira sakņaugu dzēriens sejenis minuman berkarbonat ...
28. A river in Minnesota, United States; named as a translation of its native Dakota name.
29. plants with roots that are grown for food. The farm has three fields of root crops. wortelgewas مَحاصيل من الجُذور кореноплодно растение plantas de raiz comestível kořenová zelenina das Wurzelgemüse rodfrugt φυτό για παραγωγή της ρίζας cultivo de raíces juurvili محصول ریشه ای juurekset racines alimentaires יֶרֶק שוֹרשִי जड़ korjenaste biljke gumós (gazdasági) növények tanaman umbi rótarávöxtur radice commestibile 根菜類 근채류 šakniavaisis sakņaugi; saknes tumbuhan berakar wortelgewas rotfrukter ok...
30. The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
    countable, uncountable
31. A river in Wisconsin, United States.
32. to grow firmly; to become established. The plants soon took root. word gevestig يَمْتَد، يَضْرِبُ جُذورهُ في التُّراب вкоренявам се criar raízes zakořenit Wurzeln schlagen slå rod ριζώνω, πιάνω ρίζες echar raíces, arraigar juurduma ریشه گرفتن؛ مستقر شدن juurtua prendre racine לְהִשתַרֵש पौधों या विचारों की जड़ जमाना ukorijeniti se gyökeret ereszt berakar skjóta rótum; festa rætur, ná fótfestu attecchire 根づく 깊이 뿌리 박다 įsišaknyti iesakņoties; laist saknes berkembang dengan asas yang kukuh wortel...
33. Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
    countable, uncountable
34. raíz; radical.
35. A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
    countable, uncountable
36. The usually underground portion of a plant that lacks buds, leaves, or nodes and serves as support, draws minerals and water from the surrounding soil, and sometimes stores food.
37. A zero (of an equation).
    countable, uncountable
38. The single node of a tree that has no parent.
    countable, uncountable
39. The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
    countable, uncountable
40. A word from which another word or words are derived.
    countable, uncountable
41. The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
    countable, uncountable
42. The lowest place, position, or part.
    countable, uncountable
43. In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
    countable, uncountable
44. The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
    countable, uncountable
45. A penis, especially the base of a penis.
    countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.”

“A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.”

“A root caught Ulot's left foot and he almost fell.”

“[...] two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough.”

“Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.”

“The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.”

“He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.”

“The love of money is the root of all evil.”

“They were the roots out of which sprang two distinct people.”

“Phallicism was, therefore, at the root of all religion, and was definitely the opponent of evil and darkness.”

“The root diameter is the minor diameter of an external thread and the major diameter of an internal one.”

“The cube root of 27 is 3.”

“Multiply by root 2.”

“1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (transl.), The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri, Siddall edition, page 122. The number three is the root of the number nine; […] being multiplied merely by itself, it produceth nine, as we manifestly perceive that three times three are nine.”

“In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]”

“A considerable number of derived nominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots.”

“deep to the roots of hell”

“the roots of the mountains”

“I have to log in as root before I do that.”

“I installed the files in the root directory.”

“It was always sensible to get off the busy streets if you were going to have a root inside your girlfriend's bra.”

“It'll come to me eventually, but I think I'll go over to Bristol tomorrow afternoon and have a root through the medical school library.”

“It was not likely a tapestry over two hundred feet long and twenty inches wide was in the dustbin, but Pavel took a root through Laurent's dustbin anyway, just because it was there.”

“Fancy a root?”

“Ken was in the good mood he'd been in for weeks. Nothing like a regular root to turn him into the jolly green giant.”

“In July this year, Mrs. Betty Root, who is in charge of the reading centre at Reading University's Institute of Education, reported 'that there are now more backward readers than ever, in spite of the large number of teaching methods now available'.”

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