root
part of a plant normally below the ground; basic cause, source, or origin: the root of the problem
Not to be confused with:
route – a way or course taken: the shortest route to your destination; a round traveled in delivering, selling, or collecting goods: a newspaper route
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root 1
(ro͞ot, ro͝ot)n.
1.
a. 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.
b. Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.
2.
a. The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.
b. The bottom or supporting part of something: We snipped the wires at the roots.
3. The essential part or element; the basic core: I finally got to the root of the problem.
4. A primary source; an origin. See Synonyms at origin.
5. A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended.
6.
a. often roots The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society: Our roots in this town go back a long way.
b. roots The state of having or establishing an indigenous relationship with or a personal affinity for a particular culture, society, or environment: music with unmistakable African roots.
7. Linguistics
a. The element that carries the main component of meaning in a word and provides the basis from which a word is derived by adding affixes or inflectional endings or by phonetic change.
b. Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage. Also called radical.
8. Mathematics
a. A number that when multiplied by itself an indicated number of times forms a product equal to a specified number. For example, a fourth root of 4 is √2. Also called nth root.
b. A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.
c. A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.
9. Music
a. The note from which a chord is built.
b. Such a note occurring as the lowest note of a triad or other chord.
v. root·ed, root·ing, roots
v.intr.
1. To grow roots or a root: Carrot tops will root in water.
2. To become firmly established or settled: The idea of tolerance has rooted in our culture.
v.tr.
Idiom: 1. To plant and fix the roots of (a plant) in soil or the ground.
2. To establish or settle firmly: Our love of the ocean has rooted us here.
3. To be the source or origin of: "Much of [the team's] success was rooted in the bullpen" (Dan Shaughnessy).
4.
a. To dig or pull out by the roots. Often used with up or out: We rooted out the tree stumps with a tractor.
b. To remove or get rid of. Often used with out: "declared that waste and fraud will be vigorously rooted out of Government" (New York Times).
root and branch
Utterly; completely: The organization has been transformed root and branch by its new leaders.
root′er n.
root 2
(ro͞ot, ro͝ot)v. root·ed, root·ing, roots
v.tr.
1. To turn up by digging with the snout or nose: hogs that rooted up acorns.
2. To cause to appear or be known. Used with out: an investigation that rooted out the source of the problem.
v.intr.
1. To turn over the earth with the snout or nose.
2. To search or rummage for something: rooted around for a pencil in his cluttered office.
[Middle English wroten, from Old English wrōtan.]
root′er n.
root 3
(ro͞ot, ro͝ot)intr.v. root·ed, root·ing, roots
1. To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer. See Synonyms at applaud.
2. To give moral support to someone; hope for a favorable outcome for someone: We'll be rooting for you when you take the exam.
[Possibly alteration of rout.]
root′er n.
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root
(ruːt)n
1. (Botany)
a. the organ of a higher plant that anchors the rest of the plant in the ground, absorbs water and mineral salts from the soil, and does not bear leaves or buds
b. (loosely) any of the branches of such an organ
2. (Botany) any plant part, such as a rhizome or tuber, that is similar to a root in structure, function, or appearance
3.
a. the essential, fundamental, or primary part or nature of something: your analysis strikes at the root of the problem.
b. (as modifier): the root cause of the problem.
4. (Anatomy) anatomy the embedded portion of a tooth, nail, hair, etc
5. origin or derivation, esp as a source of growth, vitality, or existence
6. (plural) a person's sense of belonging in a community, place, etc, esp the one in which he was born or brought up
7. an ancestor or antecedent
8. (Bible) Bible a descendant
9. (Linguistics) the form of a word that remains after removal of all affixes; a morpheme with lexical meaning that is not further subdivisible into other morphemes with lexical meaning. Compare stem19
10. (Mathematics) maths a number or quantity that when multiplied by itself a certain number of times equals a given number or quantity: 3 is a cube root of 27.
11. (Mathematics) maths Also called: solution a number that when substituted for the variable satisfies a given equation: 2 is a root of x3 – 2x – 4 = 0.
12. (Music, other) music (in harmony) the note forming the foundation of a chord
13. slang Austral and NZ sexual intercourse
14. root and branch
a. (adverb) entirely; completely; utterly
b. (adjective) thorough; radical; complete
vb
15. (Botany) (intr) Also: take root to put forth or establish a root and begin to grow
16. (intr) Also: take root to become established, embedded, or effective
17. (tr) to fix or embed with or as if with a root or roots
18. slang Austral and NZ to have sexual intercourse (with)
[Old English rōt, from Old Norse; related to Old English wyrt wort]
ˈrooter n
ˈrootˌlike adj
ˈrooty adj
ˈrootiness n
root
(ruːt)vb (intr)
1. (Zoology) (of a pig) to burrow in or dig up the earth in search of food, using the snout
2. informal (foll by: about, around, in, etc) to search vigorously but unsystematically
[C16: changed (through influence of root1) from earlier wroot, from Old English wrōtan; related to Old English wrōt snout, Middle Dutch wrōte mole]
ˈrooter n
root
vb
(General Sporting Terms) informal (usually foll by: for) to give support to (a contestant, team, etc), as by cheering
[C19: perhaps a variant of Scottish rout to make a loud noise, from Old Norse rauta to roar]
ˈrooter n
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root1
(rut, rʊt)n.
1. a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
2. any underground part of a plant, as a rhizome.
3. something resembling or suggesting the root of a plant in position or function.
4. the embedded or basal portion of a hair, tooth, nail, nerve, etc.
5. the fundamental or essential part.
6. the source or origin of a thing: the root of all evil.
7. a person or family as the source of offspring or descendants.
8. roots,
a. a person's original or ancestral home, environment, and culture.
b. the personal relationships, affinity for a place, habits, etc., that make a locale one's true home.
9.
a. a quantity that, when multiplied by itself a certain number of times, produces a given quantity: 2 is the square root of 4, the cube root of 8, and the fourth root of 16.
b. r th root, the quantity raised to the power 1/r: 2 is the ? root of 8.
c. a value of the argument of a function for which the function takes the value zero.
10.
a. a morpheme that underlies an inflectional or derivational paradigm, as dance, the root in danced, dancer or tend-, the root of Latin tendere “to stretch.”
b. such a form reconstructed for a parent language, as *sed-, the hypothetical proto-Indo-European root meaning “sit.”
11.
a. the fundamental tone of a compound musical tone of a series of harmonies.
b. the lowest tone of a chord when arranged as a series of thirds; fundamental.
12.
v.i. a. (in a screw or other threaded object) the narrow inner surface between threads.
b. (in a gear) the narrow inner surface between teeth.
13. to become fixed or established.
v.t. 14. to fix by or as if by roots: We were rooted to the spot in amazement.
15. to implant or establish deeply.
16. to pull, tear, or dig up by the roots (often fol. by up or out).
17. to extirpate; remove completely (often fol. by up or out): to root out crime.
Idioms: take root,
a. to send out roots; begin to grow.
b. to become established.
[before 1150; Middle English; late Old English rōt < Old Norse rōt, akin to Old English wyrt plant, wort2]
root2
(rut, rʊt)v.i.
1. to turn up the soil with the snout, as swine.
2. to poke or search: to root around in a drawer for a cuff link.
v.t. 3. to turn over with the snout (often fol. by up).
4. to unearth (often fol. by up).
[1530–40; variant of wroot (now obsolete), Middle English wroten, Old English wrōtan, c. Old High German ruozzen; akin to Old English wrōt a snout]
root3
(rut or, sometimes, rʊt)v.i.
1. to encourage a team or contestant by cheering or applauding enthusiastically.
2. to lend moral support.
[1885–90, Amer.; perhaps variant of rout3]
root′er, n.
Root
(rut)n.
Elihu, 1845–1937, U.S. statesman: Nobel peace prize 1912.
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root
(ro͞ot)1. A plant part that usually grows underground, secures the plant in place, absorbs minerals and water, and stores food manufactured by leaves and other plant parts. In certain plants, additional roots grow out from the stem above ground, bending down into the soil, to provide more support.
2. Any of various other plant parts that grow underground, especially an underground stem such as a corm, rhizome, or tuber.
3. The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and not covered by enamel.
4. Mathematics
a. A number that, when multiplied by itself a given number of times, produces a specified number. For example, since 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 = 16, 2 is a fourth root of 16.
b. A solution to an equation. For example, a root of the equation x2 - 4 = 0 is 2, since 22 - 4 = 0.
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root
Past participle: rooted
Gerund: rooting
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. |  root - (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the groundcalamus - the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally ginseng - aromatic root of ginseng plants horseradish, horseradish root - the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning radish - pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants chicory, chicory root - the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute oyster plant, salsify - edible root of the salsify plant Hottentot bread, Hottentot's bread - thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot briarroot - hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea orrisroot, orris - fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines sarsaparilla root - dried root of any of various plants of the genus Smilax used as a flavoring agent licorice root - root of licorice used in flavoring e.g. candy and liqueurs and medicines senega - dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin mandrake, mandrake root - the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic carrot - deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant parsnip - the whitish root of cultivated parsnip plant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus parenchyma - the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems root system, rootage - a developed system of roots pneumatophore - an air-filled root (submerged or exposed) that can function as a respiratory organ of a marsh or swamp plant taproot - (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem adventitious root - root growing in an unusual location e.g. from a stem root cap - thimble-shaped mass of cells covering and protecting the growing tip of a root rootlet - small root or division of a root root hair - thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell just behind the tip; absorbs nutrients from the soil prop root - a root that grows from and supports the stem above the ground in plants such as mangroves bark - tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants |
| 2. |  root - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"derivation - the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish derivation" spring - a point at which water issues forth headspring, fountainhead, head - the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" headwater - the source of a river; "the headwaters of the Nile" wellhead, wellspring - the source of water for a well jumping-off place, point of departure - a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched; "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure was San Francisco" place of origin, provenance, provenience, birthplace, cradle - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" home - place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball" point source - a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted trail head, trailhead - the beginning of a trail point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street" | |
| 3. | root - (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" linguistics - the scientific study of language descriptor, form, signifier, word form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" | |
| 4. | root - a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number number - a concept of quantity involving zero and units; "every number has a unique position in the sequence" square root - a number that when multiplied by itself equals a given number cube root - a number that when multiplied three times equals a given number | |
| 5. | root - the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation set - (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols; "the set of prime numbers is infinite" | |
| 6. |  root - someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)ancestress - a woman ancestor foremother - a woman ancestor primogenitor, progenitor - an ancestor in the direct line | |
| 7. | root - a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes descriptor, form, signifier, word form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" | |
| 8. |  root - the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as supportanatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure" tooth - hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense | |
| Verb | 1. | root - take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly" grow - become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast" root - cause to take roots |
| 2. | root - come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression" become - come into existence; "What becomes has duration" | |
| 3. | root - plant by the roots | |
| 4. | root - dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" | |
| 5. | root - become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down" roost - settle down or stay, as if on a roost | |
| 6. | root - cause to take roots grow - cause to grow or develop; "He grows vegetables in his backyard" root - take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly" |
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root
1noun
2. source, cause, heart, bottom, beginnings, base, seat, occasion, seed, foundation, origin, core, fundamental, essence, nucleus, starting point, germ, crux, nub, derivation, fountainhead, mainspring We got to the root of the problem.
plural noun
1. sense of belonging, origins, heritage, birthplace, home, family, cradle I am proud of my Brazilian roots.
put down roots settle, set up home, get established, make your home, establish yourself They put down roots in India.
root and branch
2. completely, finally, totally, entirely, radically, thoroughly, wholly, utterly, without exception, to the last man They want to deal with the problem root and branch.
root for someone support, back, encourage, defend, side with, stand up for, stand behind, stick up for (informal), be a source of strength to We'll be rooting for you.
root something or someone out
1. get rid of, remove, destroy, eliminate, abolish, cut out, erase, eradicate, do away with, uproot, weed out, efface, exterminate, extirpate, wipe from the face of the earth The generals have to root out traitors.
2. discover, find, expose, turn up, uncover, unearth, bring to light, ferret out It shouldn't take long to root out the cause of the problem.
take root
1. take hold, take, develop, establish, become established, become fixed Time is needed for democracy to take root.
2. germinate, take, establish, become established, begin to sprout Cover the bulbs with chicken wire, removing it when they take root.
Related words
adjective radical
adjective radical
root
2verb dig, hunt, nose, poke, burrow, delve, ferret, pry, rummage, forage, rootle She rooted through the bag.
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root 1
noun1. The most central and material part:
core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, quintessence, soul, spirit, stuff, substance.
Law: gravamen.
2. A fundamental principle or underlying concept:
3. A point of origination:
beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, rootstock, source, spring, well.
4. A point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate:
1. To implant so deeply as to make change nearly impossible:
3. To destroy all traces of.Out or up:
abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill, liquidate, obliterate, remove, rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out.
Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to.
root 2
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Translations
wortel
أصْل، شُرشجذرجَذْرجِذْرجُذور العائِلَه، أُصول
корен
arrel
kořenkořenykořínekodmocninarýt
rodrodeplante
juurilähdepääkäyttäjä
korijen
gyökgyökérok
akar
rótrót, orsökrótaróta ískjóta rótum
根歯根起源元
뿌리근원
radicisradix
saknesaknesvandītiesapsakņotcēlonis
koreňkorienok
koreninakoren
korenкорен
rotröttertandrotkällanollställe
mizizimzizi
ราก
коренікорінь
chân răngchân tócrễrễ cây
root
[ruːt]A. N
1. (Bot) → raíz f
the plant's root system → las raíces de la planta
to pull sth up by the roots → arrancar algo de raíz
to take root → echar raíces, arraigar
root and branch → completamente, del todo
they aimed to eliminate Marxism root and branch → su objetivo era erradicar el marxismo, su objetivo era acabar con el marxismo de raíz
a root and branch overhaul of the benefits system → una revisión completa or de cabo a rabo del sistema de prestaciones
the plant's root system → las raíces de la planta
to pull sth up by the roots → arrancar algo de raíz
to take root → echar raíces, arraigar
root and branch → completamente, del todo
they aimed to eliminate Marxism root and branch → su objetivo era erradicar el marxismo, su objetivo era acabar con el marxismo de raíz
a root and branch overhaul of the benefits system → una revisión completa or de cabo a rabo del sistema de prestaciones
2. (Bio) [of hair, tooth] → raíz f
3. (= origin) [of problem, word] → raíz f
the root of the problem is that → la raíz del problema es que ...
her roots are in Manchester → tiene sus raíces en Manchester
she has no roots → no tiene raíces
to pull up one's roots → levantar raíces
to put down roots in a country → echar raíces en un país
to take root [idea] → arraigarse
see also money
the root of the problem is that → la raíz del problema es que ...
her roots are in Manchester → tiene sus raíces en Manchester
she has no roots → no tiene raíces
to pull up one's roots → levantar raíces
to put down roots in a country → echar raíces en un país
to take root [idea] → arraigarse
see also money
B. VT
2. (fig) to be rooted to the spot → quedar paralizado
a deeply rooted prejudice → un prejuicio muy arraigado
a deeply rooted prejudice → un prejuicio muy arraigado
C. VI
1. (Bot) [plant] → echar raíces, arraigar
D. CPD root beer N (US) bebida refrescante elaborada a base de raíces
root cause N → causa f primordial
root crops NPL → cultivos mpl de tubérculos
root ginger N → raíz f de jengibre
root vegetable N → tubérculo m comestible
root word N (Ling) → palabra f que es raíz or radical de otras
root cause N → causa f primordial
root crops NPL → cultivos mpl de tubérculos
root ginger N → raíz f de jengibre
root vegetable N → tubérculo m comestible
root word N (Ling) → palabra f que es raíz or radical de otras
root about root around VI + ADV [pig] → hozar, hocicar; [person] (= search) → andar buscando por todas partes; (= investigate) → investigar
to root around for sth → andar buscando algo
to root around for sth → andar buscando algo
root for VI + PREP [+ team] → animar (con gritos y pancartas); [+ cause] → hacer propaganda por, apoyar a
root out VT + ADV [+ plant] → arrancar (de raíz), desarraigar; (= find) → desenterrar, encontrar; (= do away with) → acabar con, arrancar de raíz, extirpar
root through VI + PREP
1. [pig] → hocicar
root up VT + ADV [+ plant, tree] → arrancar (de raíz), desarraigar
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root
[ˈruːt] n
[plant, tree] → racine f
to take root [plant, idea] → prendre racine
root and branch adv → entièrement; adj [review, reform] → complet/ète
to put down roots (= settle down) [person] → s'enraciner
to take root [plant, idea] → prendre racine
root and branch adv → entièrement; adj [review, reform] → complet/ète
to put down roots (= settle down) [person] → s'enraciner
[hair, tooth] → racine f
They pulled her hair out by the roots → Ils lui ont arraché les cheveux avec leurs racines. root canal treatment
They pulled her hair out by the roots → Ils lui ont arraché les cheveux avec leurs racines. root canal treatment
(MATHEMATICS) → racine f
[word] → racine f
modif
[system, growth] → racinaire; [ball] → de racines root crop, root stock
[problem, cause] → fondamental(e) root word
vi
[plant] → s'enraciner
[idea] → prendre racine roots
npl (= origins) [person] → racines fpl
modif [music, reggae] → roots
She started rooting around in her handbag → Elle a commencé à fouiller dans son sac à main.
They are determined to root out corruption → Ils sont déterminés à extirper la corruption.
root about
vi → fouillerroot around
vi → fouillerShe started rooting around in her handbag → Elle a commencé à fouiller dans son sac à main.
root for
vt fus (= support) → appuyerroot out
vt sep → extirperThey are determined to root out corruption → Ils sont déterminés à extirper la corruption.
root through
vt fus (= search) → fouiller dansroot beer n (US) boisson gazeuse à base d'extraits végétauxroot canal treatment n → traitement m radiculaireroot crop n (= root vegetable) → tubercule mCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
root
n
(of plant, hair, tooth) → Wurzel f; roots (fig, of person) → Wurzeln; by the roots → mit der Wurzel; to take root (lit, fig) → Wurzeln schlagen; her roots are in Scotland → sie ist in Schottland verwurzelt; she has no roots → sie ist nirgends zu Hause; to put down roots in a country → in einem Land Fuß fassen; root and branch (fig) → mit Stumpf und Stiel ? grass-roots, pull up
(fig: = source: of evil, of trouble etc) → Wurzel f; the root of the matter → der Kern der Sache; to get to the root(s) of the problem → dem Problem auf den Grund gehen; that is or lies at the root of his behaviour (Brit) or behavior (US) → das ist der eigentliche Grund für sein Benehmen
(Math, Ling) → Wurzel f; (of equation) → Lösung f; (Ling: = base form) → Stamm m ? cube, square root
vt plant → Wurzeln schlagen lassen bei
vi (plants etc) → Wurzeln schlagen or fassen
root
in cpds → Wurzel-;root beer
n (US) Art Limonade
root-canal work, root-canal therapy
n (Dentistry) → Wurzelkanalbehandlung f, → Zahnwurzelbehandlung f
root cause
n → eigentlicher Grund
root crop
n → Wurzelgemüse nt no pl
root directory
n (Comput) → Stammverzeichnis nt
root
:root sign
n (Math) → Wurzelzeichen nt
rootstock
n (Bot) → Wurzelstock m
root treatment
n (Dentistry) → Wurzelbehandlung f
root vegetable
n → Wurzelgemüse nt
root word
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root
[ruːt]1. n (gen) (Math) → radice f
repeated root (Math) → radice f multipla
to pull up by the roots → sradicare
to take root (plant) → attecchire, prendere (idea) → far presa
the root of the problem is that ... → il problema deriva dal fatto che...
to put down roots in a country → mettere radici in un paese
repeated root (Math) → radice f multipla
to pull up by the roots → sradicare
to take root (plant) → attecchire, prendere (idea) → far presa
the root of the problem is that ... → il problema deriva dal fatto che...
to put down roots in a country → mettere radici in un paese
2. vt (plant) → far fare le radici a, far radicare
to be rooted to the spot (fig) → rimanere inchiodato/a sul posto
to be rooted to the spot (fig) → rimanere inchiodato/a sul posto
3. vi (Bot) → attecchire, mettere radici
root up vt + adv → sradicare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
root1
(ruːt) noun1. the part of a plant that grows under the ground and draws food and water from the soil. Trees often have deep roots; Carrots and turnips are edible roots.
2. the base of something growing in the body. the roots of one's hair/teeth.
3. cause; origin. Love of money is the root of all evil; We must get at the root of the trouble.
4. (in plural) family origins. Our roots are in Scotland.
verb to (make something) grow roots. These plants aren't rooting very well; He rooted the plants in compost.
root beer a kind of non-alcoholic drink made from the roots of certain plants.
root crop plants with roots that are grown for food. The farm has three fields of root crops.
root out1. to pull up or tear out by the roots. The gardener began to root out the weeds.
2. to get rid of completely. We must do our best to root out poverty.
take root to grow firmly; to become established. The plants soon took root.
root2
(ruːt) verb1. to poke about in the ground. The pigs were rooting about for food.
2. to search by turning things over etc. She rooted about in the cupboard.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
root
→ جِذْر kořen rod Wurzel ρίζα raíz juuri racine korijen radice 根 뿌리 wortel rot korzeń raiz корень rot ราก kök rễ cây 根Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
root
n. raíz; radical.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
root
n raíz f; hair — raíz del pelo or cabello; nerve — raíz nerviosa; — canal (fam, root canal therapy) endodoncia, tratamiento de conducto; tooth — o— of a tooth raíz dental, raíz de un dienteEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.