root
英 [ru?t]
美[rut]
- n. 根；根源；詞根；祖先
- vi. 生根；根除
- vt. 生根，固定；根源在于
- n. (Root)人名；(英)魯特；(德、瑞典)羅特
英英釋意
- 1. (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- 2. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
- "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
- 3. 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"
- 4. a number that when multiplied by itself some number of times equals a given number
- 5. the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- 6. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- 7. a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- 8. the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support
