Root
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- (COLLOQUIAL) Root for ទះដៃ ។ល។ លើកទឹកចិត្ដ
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- (MATHEMATIC) Cube root គីប, take root ចាក់ឫស
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- (វេយ្យាករណ៍) Root of a derivative មូលសព្ទ
noun
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- (The part of a plant usually below the ground, which keeps it in place and takes in nourishment; underground part of a plant; bulb; tuber, anything looking like a root in use or position; basic part; source; origin; cause; word from which other words are formed; element of a language that cannot be further broken down and forms the basis of its vocabulary; vital part; basis; the part of a bodily organ or structure that is embedded in tissue, a number in relation to a given number that it produces when multiplied number of times) tree root ឫស
Example: The root of a tree, Pull up by the roots; take root, The root at a hair, This trouble has its roots in the past, The root of the difficulty, of the matter, root crops, etc., deep rooted opinion, habit.the root of the matter ដើមហេតុ, (He has no) roots ទីកន្លែងសម្រាប់សំគាល់ថាជាស្រុករបស់ខ្លួន - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ឫស, ឫសគល់, មូលដ្ឋាន, ប្រភពនៃដើមហេតុ
adjective
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- Root crop ដែលមានមើម
verb — past tense: rooted ; past participle: rooted ; present participle: rooting ;
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- ចាក់ឫស
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- (TRANSITIVE) (1. To cause to put out roots and grow. 2. To implant by or as if by the roots. 3. To furnish a primary source or origin to. 4. To remove by or as if by the roots) ស្វះស្វែងរកកម្ចាត់ចោល, root up ធ្វើអោយមានអាចម៍ដីគរឡើង
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- (INTRANSITIVE) (to take root, to cause to do this, to Cause to stand fixed and unmoving, to establish. -root and branch totally, completely, utterly, entirely. -take root to send out roots, begin) root around in his room រើកកាយ
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- (INTRANSITIVE) (1. To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer. 2. To lend support to someone or something) គាំពារ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
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- 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.
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- An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
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- 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.
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- The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
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- 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.
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- The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
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- The lowest place, position, or part.
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- The time which to reckon in making calculations.
verb — past tense: rooted ; past participle: rooted ; present participle: rooting ;
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To be firmly fixed; to be established.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) 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.
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- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
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- ancestor, base, basis, bottom, foundation, ground, groundwork, substructure, support, underpinning