Croatian Meaning of root
korijen
Other Croatian words related to korijen
Nearest Words of root
- root beer => Pivo od korijena
- root beer float => Pivo od korijena s plovućim sladoledom
- root canal => Liječenje korijena zuba
- root cap => Krunska kapa
- root celery => Korijen celera
- root cellar => podrum
- root climber => Kořenjak
- root crop => Korenasto povrće
- root for => navijati za
- root hair => Dlak korijena
Definitions and Meaning of root in English
root (n)
(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
the place where something begins, where it springs into being
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
root (v)
take root and begin to grow
come into existence, originate
cheer for
plant by the roots
dig with the snout
become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
cause to take roots
root (v. i.)
To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
To be firmly fixed; to be established.
To shout for, or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; -- usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team.
root (v. t.)
To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
root (n.)
The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.
The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
The lowest place, position, or part.
The time which to reckon in making calculations.
FAQs About the word root
korijen
(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, the plac
kolijevka,podrijetlo,izvor,početak,početak,Font,fontana,izvor,Postanak,proljeće
otklimati,ukloniti,iskorijeniti,(iskorijeniti),iskorjeniti,odvojiti,isključiti,izbaciti,izbaciti,ukloniti
roosting => pristajanje, rooster => rooster pijetao, roosted => sjeo, roostcock => Kokot, roost => gnijezdo,
