Cos'è root?
Cos'è root?
- 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.
- Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.
- The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.
- A base or support: We snipped the wires at the roots.
- An essential part or element; the basic core: I finally got to the root of the problem.
- A primary source; an origin. See Synonyms at origin.
- A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended.
- The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society. Often used in the plural: Our roots in this town go back a long way.
- 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.
- Linguistics 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.
- Linguistics Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage. Also called radical.
- Mathematics 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.
- Mathematics A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.
- Mathematics A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.
- Music The note from which a chord is built.
- Music Such a note occurring as the lowest note of a triad or other chord.
- To grow roots or a root.
- To become firmly established, settled, or entrenched.
- To come into existence; originate.
- To cause to put out roots and grow.
- To implant by or as if by the roots.
- To furnish a primary source or origin to.
- To remove by or as if by the roots. Often used with up or 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.
- To dig with or as if with the snout or nose: Even a blind hog can root up an acorn.