Parola del giorno in inglese

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root
1. sost. (botanica) radice
2. sost. (matematica) radice
inglese > inglese
root
1. subst. 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 tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.
2. subst. A root vegetable.
3. subst. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
4. subst. 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.
5. subst. 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.
6. subst. The primary source; origin.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
7. subst. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
The cube root of 27 is 3.
8. subst. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
Multiply by root 2.
9. subst. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
10. subst. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
11. subst. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often der
12. subst. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
13. subst. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
14. subst. The lowest place, position, or part.
15. subst. (computing) 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 account
I have to log in as root before I do that.
16. subst. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
I installed the files in the root directory.
17. subst. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
18. v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
19. v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
20. v. (computing, slang) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.
21. v. To turn up or dig with the snout.
A pig roots the earth for truffles.
22. v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
23. v. (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
rooting about in a junk-filled drawer
24. v. To root out; to abolish.
25. v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
26. v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots
The cuttings are starting to root.
27. v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings
We rooted some cuttings last summer.
28. subst. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
Fancy a root?
29. subst. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
30. v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!
italiano > inglese
radice
1. subst. (botany, anatomy, arithmetic, analysis, computing, linguistics) A root.
2. subst. A cause, source.

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Money is the root of all evil.      Il denaro è la radice di tutti i mali. We learned at school that the square root of nine is three.      Abbiamo imparato a scuola che la radice quadrata di nove è tre. Poverty is the root of all evil.      La povertà è alla radice di tutti i mali. The square root of one is one.      La radice quadrata di uno è uno. The root of a flower is as weak as a baby's finger.      La radice di un fiore è debole come il dito di un bambino.

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