root
root
alasaksapunainen
Liittyvät sanat: root about, root for, root out, root up
Synonyymisanakirja
root
alku, alkuperä, juuri, juuristo, alkulähde, lähde, virran lähde, silmäke, kohta, paikka.
Liittyvät sanat: roottori.
Rimmaavat sanat
root rimmaa näiden kanssa:
talkoot, siivoustalkoot, säästötalkoot...
Englannin sanakirja
root (englanti > suomi)
root englanniksi
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 trees roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.''
(RQ:Orwell Animal Farm)
The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
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.
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.
The primary source source; origin.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
John Locke
puhekieltä Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specify specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
The cube root of 27 is 3.
puhekieltä A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
Multiply by root 2.
puhekieltä The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. stem Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
puhekieltä A word from which another word or words are derived.
puhekieltä The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
(rfquotek)
The lowest place, position, or part.
Milton
Southey
puhekieltä In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
(rfe)
puhekieltä The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories. (rfe)
puhekieltä A penis, especially the base of a penis.
puhekieltä To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.
To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
Mortimer
(quote-journal) (Property)|date=26 October 2014|passage=Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.
To be firmly fixed; to be established.
Bishop Fell
puhekieltä To turn up or dig with the snout.
A pig roots the earth for truffles.
puhekieltä To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
rooting about in a junk-filled drawer
Shakespeare
Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 28(attention)
puhekieltä To have sexual intercourse.
puhekieltä To grow roots
The cuttings are starting to root.
puhekieltä To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings
We rooted some cuttings last summer.
puhekieltä An act of sexual intercourse.
Fancy a root?
puhekieltä A sexual partner.
puhekieltä To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (q) (defdate)
1908, w:Jack Norworth|Jack Norworth, w:Take Me Out to the Ball Game|Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Im rooting for you, don't let me down!''
puhekieltä (l) (gloss)