英语词汇“root”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

root1

/ruːt

noun

1The part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres: cacti have deep and spreading roots a tree root [as modifier]: root growth...

But trees help control runoff by soaking water in through their roots and providing sturdy support against erosion.
When planted, the underground portion forms roots and the above ground portion forms branches and leaves.
Wood is composed of bundles of microscopic tubes that were used to transport water from the roots of the tree to the leaves.

Synonyms

radicle, rhizome, rootstock, tuber, tap root, rootlet

rare radicel

1.1The persistent underground part of a plant, especially when fleshy and enlarged and used as a vegetable, e.g. a turnip or carrot: you should never wash roots before storing...

A few sweet roots, parsnips, carrots and a stalk of celery will add flavour to the pan juices.
From the mid-16th century suckets were made in Britain from local fruits, vegetables, and roots of many kinds.
In this street market, celeriac, parsley root, arugula and frisée were available.

1.2Any plant grown for its root: roots like beet and carrot cannot be transplanted...

Licorice root happens to look just like an old cheroot cigarette.
Sarsaparilla root contains saponins, which reduce microbes and toxins.
This way, when you buy some valerian root or St. John's wort, you'll know if there are any adverse reactions that you could get by using the herbal medication.

1.3The embedded part of a bodily organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nail: her hair was fairer at the roots...

I feel Mother's cold smile, her fingers releasing Nikola and his face relaxing when the roots of his hairs snap back into place in his skin.
Start at the crown of your head, then flip your head upside down and lift your hair at the roots with your fingers.
She could feel the rough fingers gently cupping her neck and touching the roots of her hair.

1.4The part of a thing attaching it to a greater or more fundamental whole; the end or base: a little lever near the root of the barrel they disappeared from sight behind the root of the crag...

When they experience pain in the middle of the night in bed or while sitting, this is due to interference in circulation to the nerve root and spinal cords where it has been compressed.
A little deviation, and you will hit the spinal cord or the nerve root or damage the pedicle that supports the screw.

2The basic cause, source, or origin of something: money is the root of all evil jealousy was at the root of it [as modifier]: the root cause of the problem...

Perspectives are the root, the basic fiber, and the foundation of every social plague impoverishing us.
If I had not experienced some degree of disappointment and been determined to find the root cause, I may not have gained important knowledge about myself.
‘Failure to address added services at the point of origin is the root of payment failure,’ he says.

Synonyms

source, origin, starting point, seed, germ, beginnings, genesis;

cause, reason;

base, basis, foundation, bottom, seat, fundamental;

core, nucleus, heart, kernel, nub, essence;

Latin fons et origo

literary fountainhead, wellspring, fount

rare radix

2.1 (roots) Family, ethnic, or cultural origins: it’s always nice to return to my roots...

It's about my background and about roots, family, music and manhood.
Joey had curly brown hair and was as dark as an African American, but his family roots originate from Spain.
They and their families have their historical roots in the original villages.

Synonyms

origins, beginnings, family, ancestors, predecessors;

heritage;

birthplace, native land, motherland, fatherland, homeland, native country, native soil

2.2 (as modifier roots) Denoting or relating to something from a particular ethnic or cultural origin, especially a non-Western one: roots music...

The stage, however, plays host not to righteous roots reggae or foam-mouthed punk rock, but to a scattered group of girls in school uniform.
His output was a fusion of everything good in music at the time - chunky punk guitar, killer pop tunes and horns and baselines with a deep ska / roots influence.
After signing with Zoë, a division of roots label Rounder, they returned re-energized with Open in 2001.

2.3(In biblical use) a scion; a descendant: the root of David

2.4 Linguistics A morpheme, not necessarily surviving as a word in itself, from which words have been made by the addition of prefixes or suffixes or by other modification: many European words stem from this linguistic root [as modifier]: the root form of the word...

Words combine with words, or prefixes and suffixes combine with roots, in ways that over time drift away from perfect sense.
It's pretty clear, based on Green's paper-doll explanation, that the root morpheme must have been puppet.
Significantly, the root of bahelawi is bahel, meaning culture.

2.5 (also root note) Music The fundamental note of a chord: in the sequence the roots of the chords drop by fifths...

Where there is no figure under a note, the convention is that this denotes the most common chord, which Mr Protheroe describes as a root-position chord; i.e a triad with a root note, the third above and the fifth above.
I have an idea of the flavour now - the root note of the melody, gently picked electric guitar, a line or two of vocals.
This is all captured in the toy sax sound that just honks the root note as if someone who can't really play the sax has been given one lesson and one take to give it their best shot.

3 Mathematics A number or quantity that when multiplied by itself, typically a specified number of times, gives a specified number or quantity.It's hard enough trying to remember cubed roots and the average lifespan of an amoeba.

3.1 short for square root.

3.2A value of an unknown quantity satisfying a given equation: the roots of the equation differ by an integer

4 [often as modifier] Computing A user account with full and unrestricted access to a system: make sure that these files can only be accessed by the root user I need to log in as root on my system to resolve an issue...

The greatest threat to a typical Linux installation, in my opinion, is a careless root user.
I logged in as root and created an account for myself.
Run this command either with your normal user ID or as root; no command-line options are necessary.

5Australian /NZ & Irish vulgar slang An act of sexual intercourse.

5.1 [with adjective] A sexual partner of a specified ability.

verb [with object]

1Cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots: root your own cuttings from stock plants...

With all of that said, today it is possible to grow Pink Dogwoods by rooting cuttings under intermittent mist.
The earlier the cuttings are rooted the taller will be the blooming plants.
It's a good time to root stem cuttings so you will have new plants for the garden next spring.

Synonyms

plant, bed out, sow

1.1 [no object] (Of a plant or cutting) establish roots: large trees had rooted in the canal bank...

Dryland corn is rooting at the three foot depth and, even with high temperatures and lack of precipitation, it is looking good.
The cuttings root very easily in sand or in a rooting medium.
These include the ability of mother plants to produce plenty of wood, the ease with which cuttings root, and also the ease with which they can be grafted.

Synonyms

take root, grow roots, become established, establish, strike, take

2Establish deeply and firmly: vegetarianism is rooted in Indian culture...

While his intentions are deeply rooted in exploring black masculinity, the context of his work becomes part of a larger dialogue concerning race in America today.
Third, the acceptance of despotic rule and the rejection of effective constitutional limitations on government are deeply rooted in tradition and religion.
After all, it is deeply rooted in discrimination.

Synonyms

embedded, fixed, firmly established, implanted;

deep-rooted, entrenched, ingrained, ineradicable

2.1 (be rooted in) Have as an origin or cause: the Latin verb is rooted in an Indo-European word...

Who I am now is rooted in where I began and has been developed by where I have been since, and to ask my fromness is to ask my identity.
The origins of the new disaster were rooted in Menem's years.
No, the whole lack of pre-marriage activity (to be blunt: the total lack of a social life) was what my puzzlement was rooted in.

3 [with object and adverbial] (often as adjective rooted) Cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement: she found herself rooted to the spot in disbelief...

His only thoughts were to escape, but fear rooted him to the spot.
Stunned at this cover-up, I was rooted to the spot.
But for some reason she couldn't move, as though she were rooted to the spot.

Synonyms

unable to move from, frozen to, riveted to, paralysed to, glued to, fixed to;

stock-still, as still as a statue, as if turned to stone, motionless, unmoving

4 Computing Gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer): we explained how to manually root almost any Android device...

The program allows you to customize your user interface without having to root the device.
I personally cannot wait to root the phone and run custom ROMs.
The proportion of people who want to recompile their phone OS is even smaller than the number who want to root their phone.

5Australian /NZ & Irish vulgar slang Have sexual intercourse with.

5.1Exhaust (someone) or frustrate their efforts: (as adjective rooted) grab a pew—you must be rooted

Phrases

at root

get rooted

put down roots

root and branch

root someone's boot

strike at the root (or roots) of

take root

Phrasal verbs

root something out

Derivatives

rootage

noun

rootedness

/ˈruːtɪdnəs/ noun ...

Mixed with the reminiscence of its unique history, the rootedness of traditional art and design, and dominant western design influence, it is still exploring and experimenting with new ways in design.
There is a real emotional rootedness to the style of the acting, and a whimsical fantasy element to it.
This thematic interest also informs her precise, measured lines, which unravel into music as they take hold of meaning, seeking at once rootedness and flight.

rootlet

/ˈruːtlɪt/ noun ...

Below the cervical enlargement, the dorsal rootlets, roots and ganglia diminish rapidly in size.
The barley was first allowed to germinate, or sprout rootlets, in a moist environment.
The rootlet then drills into the branch and spreads its developing roots under the bark and into the living tissue.

root-like

adjective ...

Inside, the peas are more like little drums than perfect spheres, and as you pop them off they pull little root-like stalks with them, which you don't see on the frozen ones you get out of a bag.
It obviously never roots in the soil but has root-like structures which penetrates the bark of the tree and then extracts water and essential chemicals.
An image of a brain, with its root-like pathways, leads her to suggest that humans are ‘just like trees’.

rooty

adjective (rootier, rootiest) ...

It's a little rooty, a little mossy, rarely muddy - a mild recipe that would call for skinny semi-slicks, save for the frequent pockets of deep sand.
It is a branchy, brushy, rooty tree, without leaves.
Then a steep path, rooty and mountain-bike churned, led up to a main forest track of smooth crushed and compacted limestone.

Origin

Late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót; related to Latin radix, also to wort.

This is an Old English word related to Latin radix (see radical) and wort, which is used in the names of plants such as St John's wort. Root and branch, used to emphasize how thoroughly something is dealt with, goes back to the biblical book of Malachi: ‘The day cometh that shall burn them up…that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.’ See also money. Root used of an animal turning up the ground with its snout in search of food is a completely different word, that may ultimately be linked to Latin rodere ‘gnaw’ (see rodent). Someone backing a candidate for a post may be said to be rooting for them—perhaps with the idea of trying to dig up further support through their efforts.

Rhymes

root2

/ruːt

verb [no object, with adverbial]

1(Of an animal) turn up the ground with its snout in search of food: stray dogs rooting around for bones and scraps...

On the Bowling Green near Manhattan's southern tip, for instance, stood a vacant pedestal enclosed by an iron fence around which stray pigs often rooted.
At night we saw dogs rooting in the shadows, and men walking in the cold, their hands drifting out of warm pockets reaching for what?
We passed through a narrow gate, left open, and saw an empty cattle shed, and next to it a circular pig sty, with a few great swine rooting through the strawy mud.

1.1Search unsystematically through an untidy mass or area; rummage: she was rooting through a pile of papers...

The girl rushes to join her mother, who is rooting through some old piles of lace handkerchiefs.
These young designers root through junk piles and garage sales to create one-of-a-kind, quirky pieces of furniture.
He turned and rooted through a pile of folders on a table beside him.

1.2 [with object] (root something out) Find or extract something by rummaging: he managed to root out the cleaning kit...

I thought I'd rooted out all the hidden food in our kitchen.
It is a specialist search tool, specifically refined to root out the bargains you're looking for and leave out the items you're not.
The small band of loyal fans like me (I was born the same year as Myra) were reduced to rooting out his records only in 19-cent remainder bins.

noun [in singular]

An act of rooting: I had a root through the open drawers...

They had a bloody good root in all our stuff, just for the hell of it.

Phrasal verbs

root for

root someone on

Origin

Old English wrōtan, of Germanic origin; related to Old English wrōt 'snout', German Rüssel 'snout', and perhaps ultimately to Latin rodere 'gnaw'.

单词	root
释义	root1 /ruːt / noun 1The part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres: cacti have deep and spreading roots a tree root [as modifier]: root growth... But trees help control runoff by soaking water in through their roots and providing sturdy support against erosion. When planted, the underground portion forms roots and the above ground portion forms branches and leaves. Wood is composed of bundles of microscopic tubes that were used to transport water from the roots of the tree to the leaves. Synonyms radicle, rhizome, rootstock, tuber, tap root, rootlet rare radicel 1.1The persistent underground part of a plant, especially when fleshy and enlarged and used as a vegetable, e.g. a turnip or carrot: you should never wash roots before storing... A few sweet roots, parsnips, carrots and a stalk of celery will add flavour to the pan juices. From the mid-16th century suckets were made in Britain from local fruits, vegetables, and roots of many kinds. In this street market, celeriac, parsley root, arugula and frisée were available. 1.2Any plant grown for its root: roots like beet and carrot cannot be transplanted... Licorice root happens to look just like an old cheroot cigarette. Sarsaparilla root contains saponins, which reduce microbes and toxins. This way, when you buy some valerian root or St. John's wort, you'll know if there are any adverse reactions that you could get by using the herbal medication. 1.3The embedded part of a bodily organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nail: her hair was fairer at the roots... I feel Mother's cold smile, her fingers releasing Nikola and his face relaxing when the roots of his hairs snap back into place in his skin. Start at the crown of your head, then flip your head upside down and lift your hair at the roots with your fingers. She could feel the rough fingers gently cupping her neck and touching the roots of her hair. 1.4The part of a thing attaching it to a greater or more fundamental whole; the end or base: a little lever near the root of the barrel they disappeared from sight behind the root of the crag... When they experience pain in the middle of the night in bed or while sitting, this is due to interference in circulation to the nerve root and spinal cords where it has been compressed. A little deviation, and you will hit the spinal cord or the nerve root or damage the pedicle that supports the screw. 2The basic cause, source, or origin of something: money is the root of all evil jealousy was at the root of it [as modifier]: the root cause of the problem... Perspectives are the root, the basic fiber, and the foundation of every social plague impoverishing us. If I had not experienced some degree of disappointment and been determined to find the root cause, I may not have gained important knowledge about myself. ‘Failure to address added services at the point of origin is the root of payment failure,’ he says. Synonyms source, origin, starting point, seed, germ, beginnings, genesis; cause, reason; base, basis, foundation, bottom, seat, fundamental; core, nucleus, heart, kernel, nub, essence; Latin fons et origo literary fountainhead, wellspring, fount rare radix 2.1 (roots) Family, ethnic, or cultural origins: it’s always nice to return to my roots... It's about my background and about roots, family, music and manhood. Joey had curly brown hair and was as dark as an African American, but his family roots originate from Spain. They and their families have their historical roots in the original villages. Synonyms origins, beginnings, family, ancestors, predecessors; heritage; birthplace, native land, motherland, fatherland, homeland, native country, native soil 2.2 (as modifier roots) Denoting or relating to something from a particular ethnic or cultural origin, especially a non-Western one: roots music... The stage, however, plays host not to righteous roots reggae or foam-mouthed punk rock, but to a scattered group of girls in school uniform. His output was a fusion of everything good in music at the time - chunky punk guitar, killer pop tunes and horns and baselines with a deep ska / roots influence. After signing with Zoë, a division of roots label Rounder, they returned re-energized with Open in 2001. 2.3(In biblical use) a scion; a descendant: the root of David 2.4 Linguistics A morpheme, not necessarily surviving as a word in itself, from which words have been made by the addition of prefixes or suffixes or by other modification: many European words stem from this linguistic root [as modifier]: the root form of the word... Words combine with words, or prefixes and suffixes combine with roots, in ways that over time drift away from perfect sense. It's pretty clear, based on Green's paper-doll explanation, that the root morpheme must have been puppet. Significantly, the root of bahelawi is bahel, meaning culture. 2.5 (also root note) Music The fundamental note of a chord: in the sequence the roots of the chords drop by fifths... Where there is no figure under a note, the convention is that this denotes the most common chord, which Mr Protheroe describes as a root-position chord; i.e a triad with a root note, the third above and the fifth above. I have an idea of the flavour now - the root note of the melody, gently picked electric guitar, a line or two of vocals. This is all captured in the toy sax sound that just honks the root note as if someone who can't really play the sax has been given one lesson and one take to give it their best shot. 3 Mathematics A number or quantity that when multiplied by itself, typically a specified number of times, gives a specified number or quantity.It's hard enough trying to remember cubed roots and the average lifespan of an amoeba. 3.1 short for square root. 3.2A value of an unknown quantity satisfying a given equation: the roots of the equation differ by an integer 4 [often as modifier] Computing A user account with full and unrestricted access to a system: make sure that these files can only be accessed by the root user I need to log in as root on my system to resolve an issue... The greatest threat to a typical Linux installation, in my opinion, is a careless root user. I logged in as root and created an account for myself. Run this command either with your normal user ID or as root; no command-line options are necessary. 5Australian /NZ & Irish vulgar slang An act of sexual intercourse. 5.1 [with adjective] A sexual partner of a specified ability. verb [with object] 1Cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots: root your own cuttings from stock plants... With all of that said, today it is possible to grow Pink Dogwoods by rooting cuttings under intermittent mist. The earlier the cuttings are rooted the taller will be the blooming plants. It's a good time to root stem cuttings so you will have new plants for the garden next spring. Synonyms plant, bed out, sow 1.1 [no object] (Of a plant or cutting) establish roots: large trees had rooted in the canal bank... Dryland corn is rooting at the three foot depth and, even with high temperatures and lack of precipitation, it is looking good. The cuttings root very easily in sand or in a rooting medium. These include the ability of mother plants to produce plenty of wood, the ease with which cuttings root, and also the ease with which they can be grafted. Synonyms take root, grow roots, become established, establish, strike, take 2Establish deeply and firmly: vegetarianism is rooted in* Indian culture... While his intentions are deeply rooted in exploring black masculinity, the context of his work becomes part of a larger dialogue concerning race in America today. Third, the acceptance of despotic rule and the rejection of effective constitutional limitations on government are deeply rooted in tradition and religion. After all, it is deeply rooted in discrimination. Synonyms embedded, fixed, firmly established, implanted; deep-rooted, entrenched, ingrained, ineradicable 2.1 (be rooted in) Have as an origin or cause: the Latin verb is rooted in an Indo-European word... Who I am now is rooted in where I began and has been developed by where I have been since, and to ask my fromness is to ask my identity. The origins of the new disaster were rooted in Menem's years. No, the whole lack of pre-marriage activity (to be blunt: the total lack of a social life) was what my puzzlement was rooted in. 3 [with object and adverbial]* (often as adjective rooted) Cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement: she found herself rooted to the spot* in disbelief... His only thoughts were to escape, but fear rooted him to the spot. Stunned at this cover-up, I was rooted to the spot. But for some reason she couldn't move, as though she were rooted to the spot. Synonyms unable to move from, frozen to, riveted to, paralysed to, glued to, fixed to; stock-still, as still as a statue, as if turned to stone, motionless, unmoving 4 Computing* Gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer): we explained how to manually root almost any Android device... The program allows you to customize your user interface without having to root the device. I personally cannot wait to root the phone and run custom ROMs. The proportion of people who want to recompile their phone OS is even smaller than the number who want to root their phone. 5Australian /NZ & Irish vulgar slang Have sexual intercourse with. 5.1Exhaust (someone) or frustrate their efforts: (as adjective rooted) grab a pew—you must be rooted Phrases at root get rooted put down roots root and branch root someone's boot strike at the root (or roots) of take root Phrasal verbs root something out Derivatives rootage noun rootedness /ˈruːtɪdnəs/ noun ... Mixed with the reminiscence of its unique history, the rootedness of traditional art and design, and dominant western design influence, it is still exploring and experimenting with new ways in design. There is a real emotional rootedness to the style of the acting, and a whimsical fantasy element to it. This thematic interest also informs her precise, measured lines, which unravel into music as they take hold of meaning, seeking at once rootedness and flight. rootlet /ˈruːtlɪt/ noun ... Below the cervical enlargement, the dorsal rootlets, roots and ganglia diminish rapidly in size. The barley was first allowed to germinate, or sprout rootlets, in a moist environment. The rootlet then drills into the branch and spreads its developing roots under the bark and into the living tissue. root-like adjective ... Inside, the peas are more like little drums than perfect spheres, and as you pop them off they pull little root-like stalks with them, which you don't see on the frozen ones you get out of a bag. It obviously never roots in the soil but has root-like structures which penetrates the bark of the tree and then extracts water and essential chemicals. An image of a brain, with its root-like pathways, leads her to suggest that humans are ‘just like trees’. rooty adjective (rootier, rootiest) ... It's a little rooty, a little mossy, rarely muddy - a mild recipe that would call for skinny semi-slicks, save for the frequent pockets of deep sand. It is a branchy, brushy, rooty tree, without leaves. Then a steep path, rooty and mountain-bike churned, led up to a main forest track of smooth crushed and compacted limestone. Origin Late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót; related to Latin radix, also to wort. This is an Old English word related to Latin radix (see radical) and wort, which is used in the names of plants such as St John's wort. Root and branch, used to emphasize how thoroughly something is dealt with, goes back to the biblical book of Malachi: ‘The day cometh that shall burn them up…that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.’ See also money. Root used of an animal turning up the ground with its snout in search of food is a completely different word, that may ultimately be linked to Latin rodere ‘gnaw’ (see rodent). Someone backing a candidate for a post may be said to be rooting for them—perhaps with the idea of trying to dig up further support through their efforts. Rhymes acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute root2 /ruːt / verb [no object, with adverbial] 1(Of an animal) turn up the ground with its snout in search of food: stray dogs rooting around for bones and scraps... On the Bowling Green near Manhattan's southern tip, for instance, stood a vacant pedestal enclosed by an iron fence around which stray pigs often rooted. At night we saw dogs rooting in the shadows, and men walking in the cold, their hands drifting out of warm pockets reaching for what? We passed through a narrow gate, left open, and saw an empty cattle shed, and next to it a circular pig sty, with a few great swine rooting through the strawy mud. 1.1Search unsystematically through an untidy mass or area; rummage: she was rooting through a pile of papers... The girl rushes to join her mother, who is rooting through some old piles of lace handkerchiefs. These young designers root through junk piles and garage sales to create one-of-a-kind, quirky pieces of furniture. He turned and rooted through a pile of folders on a table beside him. 1.2 [with object] (root something out) Find or extract something by rummaging: he managed to root out the cleaning kit... I thought I'd rooted out all the hidden food in our kitchen. It is a specialist search tool, specifically refined to root out the bargains you're looking for and leave out the items you're not. The small band of loyal fans like me (I was born the same year as Myra) were reduced to rooting out his records only in 19-cent remainder bins. noun [in singular] An act of rooting: I had a root through the open drawers... They had a bloody good root in all our stuff, just for the hell of it. Phrasal verbs root for root someone on Origin Old English wrōtan, of Germanic origin; related to Old English wrōt 'snout', German Rüssel 'snout', and perhaps ultimately to Latin rodere 'gnaw'.
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