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单词 strike root
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root1 /root/

noun
  1. (ordinarily and popularly) the underground part of a plant, esp when edible
  2. That part of a higher plant which never bears leaves or reproductive organs, ordinarily underground and descending, and serving to absorb salts in solution, but often above-ground, often arising from other parts, often serving other functions, though morphologically comparable (botany)
  3. The source, cause, basis, foundation or occasion of anything, eg an ancestor, or an element from which words are derived
  4. An embedded or basal part, as of a tooth, a hair, a dam
  5. A growing plant with its root
  6. The factor of a quantity which, taken so many times, produces that quantity (mathematics)
  7. Any value of the unknown quantity for which an equation is true (mathematics)
  8. The fundamental note on which a chord is built (music)
  9. (in pl) one's ancestry, family origins
  10. (in pl) one's ethnic or cultural origins
  11. (in pl) a feeling of belonging in a town, community, etc
  12. A sexual partner (Aust and NZ slang)
intransitive verb
  1. To fix the root
  2. To be firmly established
  3. To develop a root
  4. To have sexual intercourse (Aust and NZ sl)
transitive verb
  1. To plant in the earth
  2. To implant deeply
  3. To fix by the root (also figurative)
  4. To have sexual intercourse with (Aust and NZ sl)
  5. To uproot (usu with up)
  6. To remove entirely by uprooting, clear away, eradicate, extirpate (usu with out)
ORIGIN: Late OE rōt, from ON rōt; Dan rod; Gothic waurts, OE wyrt

rootˈage noun

  1. The act of striking root
  2. The state of being rooted
  3. Roothold
  4. A root system

rootˈed adjective

  1. Having roots
  2. Fixed by roots or as by roots
  3. Firmly established

rootˈedly adverb

rootˈedness noun

rootˈer noun

rootˈless adjective

  1. Having no roots
  2. Belonging nowhere, having no home and so constantly shifting about

rootˈlessness noun

rootˈlet noun

rootˈlike adjective

roots adjective

  1. Expressing or concerned with one's ethnic or cultural identity
  2. Of or relating to roots music (see below)

rootˈsiness noun

rootˈsy adjective

(esp of music) reminiscent of or incorporating traditional or folk styles

rootˈy adjective (rootˈier; rootˈiest)

  1. Abounding in, consisting of, or like roots
  2. Rank

root-and-branchˈ adjective and adverb

  1. Without leaving any part
  2. Thorough(ly), complete(ly)

root ball noun

The spherical mass formed by the roots of a plant, with the surrounding soil

root beer noun

A drink made from roots of dandelion, sassafras, etc

rootˈbound adjective

  1. Rooted to the ground (Milton)
  2. Pot-bound

root canal noun

The narrow passage through which nerves and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity of a tooth

root cap noun

A sheath of cells at the tip of a root

root cause noun

Fundamental cause

root climber noun

A plant that climbs by means of roots, such as ivy

root crop noun

A crop of esculent roots

root directory noun (computing)

The highest level of directory in a directory structure

root eater noun

rootˈ-fallen adjective

Fallen, by roots giving way

rootˈ-fast adjective

Firmly rooted

root hair noun

A fine tubular outgrowth from a cell by which a young root absorbs water

rootˈhold noun

  1. Maintenance of position by roots
  2. A footing

root house noun

  1. A summerhouse built of tree roots
  2. A storehouse for potatoes, etc

rooting compound noun (botany)

A preparation, containing plant growth substances, in which a cutting is dipped to promote root growth

rootˈkit noun (computing)

Software embedded within an operating system that performs operations without informing the user

rootˈ-knot noun

An enlargement of a root caused by a nematode

root mean square noun

The square root of the sum of the squares of a set of quantities divided by the total number of quantities

root nodule noun (botany)

The swelling on the root of a leguminous plant containing nitrogen-fixing bacteria

root parasite noun

A plant parasitic on a root

root planing noun (dentistry)

A treatment for gum disease in which the parts of teeth below the gum are cleaned and smoothed

root pressure noun

An upward forcing of sap, shown by the bleeding of plants

rootˈ-prune transitive verb

To prune the roots of

rootˈ-pruning noun

root rubber noun

Rubber obtained from the roots of certain African apocynaceous plants

root sheath noun

The sheath of the root of an orchid, hair, feather, etc

roots music noun

Popular music based on traditional forms, often reflecting an ethnic identity

rootˈstock noun

  1. A rhizome, esp if short, thick, and more or less erect (botany)
  2. A source, ancestral form

root system noun

root tubercle noun

A root nodule

root vegetable noun

  1. A vegetable which has an esculent root
  2. The root itself

put down roots

To settle in a place

strike or take root

To root, to become established

strike /strīk/

transitive verb (pat and pap struck)
  1. To give a blow to or with
  2. To hit, smite
  3. To come into forcible contact with
  4. To deal, deliver, or inflict
  5. To bring forcibly into contact
  6. To impel
  7. To put, send, move, render, or produce by a blow or stroke
  8. To render as if by a blow
  9. To impress
  10. To impress favourably
  11. To afflict
  12. To assail, affect
  13. To affect strongly or suddenly
  14. To mark off
  15. (of a line, path, etc) to draw, describe, give direction to
  16. To arrive at, estimate, compute, fix, settle (as a balance, an average, prices)
  17. To make (a compact or agreement), to ratify
  18. To occur to
  19. To assume (a pose or an attitude)
  20. To lower (eg a sail, flag, tent)
  21. To take down the tents of (strike camp)
  22. To dismantle
  23. To sound by percussion or otherwise
  24. To announce by a bell
  25. To come upon, reach
  26. To stamp
  27. To coin
  28. To print
  29. To delete, cancel
  30. To constitute (orig by cutting down a list)
  31. To broach (Shakespeare)
  32. To fight (a battle) (Shakespeare)
  33. To blast, bewitch
  34. To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist
  35. To smooth (dialect)
  36. To strickle (dialect)
  37. To stroke (obsolete and Bible)
intransitive verb
  1. To make one's way
  2. To set out
  3. To take a direction or course
  4. To dart, shoot, pass quickly
  5. To penetrate
  6. To jerk the line suddenly in order to impale the hook in the mouth of a fish
  7. To put forth roots
  8. To chance, alight, come by chance
  9. To interpose
  10. To deal or aim a blow, perform a stroke
  11. To sound or be sounded or announced by a bell
  12. To hit out
  13. To seize the bait
  14. To strike something, as a rock, sail, flag
  15. To attempt to hook the ball (rugby)
  16. To touch
  17. To run aground
  18. To surrender
  19. To go on strike
  20. To blast, blight (Shakespeare)

—There are numerous archaic and obsolete forms of the past tense (strake, stroke, strook, strooke and (Scot) strack, strak) and of the past participle (strickˈen, strokˈen, strook, strooke, strookˈen and struckˈen)

noun
  1. A stroke, striking
  2. An attack, esp by aircraft
  3. A raid
  4. The direction of a horizontal line at right angles to the dip of a bed (geology)
  5. A find (as of oil), a stroke of luck
  6. A cessation of work, or other obstructive refusal to act normally, as a means of putting pressure on employers, etc
  7. The part that receives the bolt of a lock
  8. (in tenpin bowling) the knocking down of all the pins with the first ball bowled, or the score resulting from this
  9. A ball thrown by the pitcher into the strike zone (baseball)
  10. A ball at which the batter swings and misses (baseball)
  11. The position of facing the bowling, licence to receive the next delivery (cricket)
  12. Blackmail, esp by introducing a bill in the hope of being bought off (old US sl)
  13. The quantity of coins, etc made at one time
  14. A strickle (dialect)
  15. A proportion of malt (cf straik1)
ORIGIN: OE strīcan to stroke, go, move

strikˈer noun

  1. Someone who or something that strikes
  2. A footpad (Shakespeare)
  3. An attacker, esp one whose task is to attempt to score goals (football)
  4. The batsman facing the bowling (cricket)

strikˈing noun

The action of the verb

adjective
  1. That strikes or can strike
  2. Impressive, arresting, noticeable

strikˈingly adverb

strikˈingness noun

strikeˈbound adjective

Closed or similarly affected because of a strike

strikeˈbreaker noun

A person who works during a strike or who does the work of a striker, esp if brought in with a view to defeating the strike

strikeˈbreaking noun

strike fault noun (geology)

A fault parallel to the strike

strike force noun

  1. A force designed and equipped to carry out a strike (military)
  2. A special police unit trained to strike suddenly and forcefully to suppress crime

strikeout see strike out below.

strike pay noun

An allowance paid by a trade union to members on strike

strikeˈ-slip fault noun (geology)

A fault in which movement is parallel to the strike

strike zone noun (baseball)

The area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to the middle of the torso

striking circle noun (hockey)

The area in front of goal from within which the ball must be hit in order to score

striking price noun (stock exchange)

A stipulated price at which a holder may exercise his or her put or call option (also exercise or strike price)

be struck off

(of doctors, lawyers, etc) to have one's name removed from the professional register because of misconduct

on strike

  1. Taking part in a strike
  2. (of a batsman) facing the bowling (cricket)

strike a match

To light it by friction or a grazing stroke

strike at

To attempt to strike, aim a blow at

strike back

  1. To return a blow
  2. To backfire, burn within the burner

strike down

  1. To fell
  2. To make ill or cause to die

strike hands

To join or slap together hands in confirmation of agreement

strike home

To strike right to the point aimed at (also figurative)

strike in

  1. To enter suddenly
  2. To interpose
  3. To agree, fit (obsolete)

strike into

To enter upon suddenly, break into

strike it lucky (informal)

To experience good luck

strike it rich (informal)

To make a sudden large financial gain, eg through discovering a mineral deposit, etc

strike off

  1. To erase from an account, deduct
  2. To remove (from a roll, register, etc)
  3. To print
  4. To separate by a blow

strike oil see under oil

strike out

  1. To efface
  2. To bring into light
  3. To direct one's energy and efforts boldly outwards
  4. To swim away
  5. To dismiss or be dismissed by means of three strikes (baseball)
  6. To fail completely (informal, esp N American; strikeˈout noun)
  7. To remove (testimony, an action, etc) from the record (law)
  8. To strike from the shoulder
  9. To form by sudden effort

strike root see under root1

strike through

To delete with a stroke of the pen

strike up

  1. To begin to beat, sing, or play
  2. To begin (eg an acquaintance)

struck on

Enamoured of

take strike (cricket)

(of a batsman) to prepare to face the bowling
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