Rootname

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  An English surname from Middle English from a byname from Middle English rote (“glad”).

  • 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'.
• 2

  An English surname originating as an occupation for a rote (medieval guitar)-player.

• 3

  A habitational surname from Dutch for someone living near a retting place (Dutch root, from roten (“to ret”)).

• 4

  A town in Lucerne canton, Switzerland.

• 5

  A township in Adams County, Indiana, United States.

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  A town in Montgomery County, New York, United States; named for lawyer and politician Erastus Root.

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  A river in Minnesota, United States; named as a translation of its native Dakota name.

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  A river in Wisconsin, United States.

rootnoun詞源 1/ɹuːt/

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  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.
  • 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.
• 2

  A root vegetable.

  • [...] 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.
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  The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.

  • Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
• 7

  aeronauticsaerospaceaviationThe section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.

• 8

  engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe 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.

rootverb詞源 1/ɹuːt/

• 1

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

  • The cuttings are starting to root.
  • In deep grounds the weeds root the deeper.
• 2

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

  • We rooted some cuttings last summer.
• 3

  To fix firmly; to establish.

  • If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment.
  • Small theater companies come and go very quickly — many times after one show — but community response to Triangle has been strong, and there is a good chance that they will make it through those early growing stages and firmly root.
• 4

  slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsTo 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.

rootverb詞源 2/ɹuːt/

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  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,
• 2

  To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.

  • Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog!
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  To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.

  • rooting about in a junk-filled drawer
• 4

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

  • When your baby is rooting, his head will turn to the side and he will open and close his mouth. If you put your finger in your baby's hand, she has a grasping reflex that makes her curl her fingers around yours and hold on.
• 5

  To root out; to abolish.

  • I will go root away the noisome weeds.
  • The Lord rooted them out of their land [...] and cast them into another land.
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  equestrianismhobbieshorsesTo tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.

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  vulgarslangTo sexually penetrate.

rootnoun詞源 2/ɹuːt/

• 1

  An act of rummaging or searching.

  • 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.
• 2

  vulgarslangAn act of sexual intercourse.

  • 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.
• 3

  vulgarslangA sexual partner.

rootverb詞源 3/ɹuːt/

• 1

  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!
  • Let me root, root, root for the home team,