Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: root
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ut]
Pronunciations of root
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: root
    Meaning: (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
  • Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: root, root_word, base, stem, theme, radical
    Meaning: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
  • Synonyms: root
    Meaning: a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
  • Synonyms: solution, root
    Meaning: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: root
    Meaning: take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly"
Usage examples
  • Money is the root of much friendship.
  • 'He hath not root in himself.'--Our Lord.
  • That's what's at the root of me, Alyosha; that's my creed.
  • But, ma'am, a fatal mistake was at the root of my reckoning.
  • Our Lord knew this man quite well who had no root in himself.
  • This truth does not take root at once in the minds of the rich.
  • There nature had placed her, and she had taken root and grown mightily.
  • Considered from this point of view man is the branch; nature is the root.
  • It was full of little brown chips that looked like the shavings of some root.
  • Two-year-old plants come up with thick clumps of matted root that is now useless.
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