root

(countable, uncountable)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.

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

Đồng nghĩa: fang

(countable, uncountable)A root vegetable.

(countable, uncountable)The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.

Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.

Đồng nghĩa: fang

(countable, uncountable)The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.

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

(countable, uncountable)The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.

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

(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative) The primary source; origin.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

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

Đồng nghĩa: basis, origin, source

(countable, uncountable)(aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.

(countable, uncountable)(engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.

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

(countable, uncountable)(arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.

The cube root of 27 is 3.

(countable, uncountable)(arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").

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.

(countable, uncountable)(mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).

Đồng nghĩa: zero

(countable, uncountable)(graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.

To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

The cuttings are starting to root.

To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.

We rooted some cuttings last summer.

To fix firmly; to establish.

(slang, transitive)(computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.

We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.

I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.

Đồng nghĩa: jailbreak

(ambitransitive)To turn up or dig with the snout.

A pig roots the earth for truffles.

Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,

(broadly)(by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.

(intransitive)To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.

rooting about in a junk-filled drawer

Đồng nghĩa: dig out, root out, rummage

(intransitive)Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.

(transitive)To root out; to abolish.

(equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.

(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, slang, vulgar)To sexually penetrate.

Đồng nghĩa: screw, bang, drill, shag, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap

(US, intransitive)(intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)

I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!

Đồng nghĩa: barrack, cheer on