root deutsch
EN[ɹuːt] [ɹʊt] [-uːt]US
DWurzel WWurzel (Pflanze)
- Die Wurzel (ahd. wurzala „das Gewundene“) ist neben Sprossachse und Blatt eines der drei Grundorgane der Kormophyten, zu denen die Samenpflanzen und Farne zählen.
- Ferner sind Wurzeln ein Syntheseort für zahlreiche Pflanzenhormone (z. B. Cytokinin) und sekundäre Pflanzenstoffe (z. B. Alkaloide). Ein Beispiel ist das Nikotin in den Blättern der Tabakpflanze, das in der Wurzel synthetisiert wird.
- Die wichtigsten Unterschiede zur Sprossachse sind:
- Die Wurzel verfügt über Wurzelhaare und eine Wurzelhaube (Kalyptra) an der Spitze.
EN Root
- SubstantivPLroots
- 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.
- A root vegetable.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
- 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.
- 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.
- The primary source; origin.
- The love of money is the root of all evil.
- (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.
- (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.
- (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (linguistics) 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 derive from roots.
- (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- (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.
- (computing) The person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- SLA A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) SLA An act of sexual intercourse.
- Fancy a root?
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) SLA A sexual partner.
- 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.
- VerbSGrootsPRrootingPT, PProoted
- (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
- We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.
- To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- A pig roots the earth for truffles.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
- rooting about in a junk-filled drawer
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) SLA To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive, with for, US) To cheer to show support for.
- (transitive, US) To hope for the success of. Rendered as 'root for'.
- I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!
- (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
- Mehr Beispiele
- Wird in der Mitte des Satzes verwendet
- The square roots of 4 are 2 and -2, the square root of 0 is 0, and -5 has no square root.
- The square root of 4 is 2. No negative square roots exist.
- I tip my hat to whoever invented the root beer float.
- Zu Beginn des Satzes verwendet
- Root radicals were usually nonseparated throughout the cervicoapical extension.
- In der Endung des Satzes verwendet
- Major initiatives now appear unlikely unless the financial crisis reintensifies, as the bank assesses whether the much-discussed “green shoots” in recent data releases will wither or take root.
- They are constructed mainly of gallocatechin and epigallocatechin components and are present with different interflavonoid bonds in Pelargonium sidoides roots.
- And growers using AQUA-GRO report greater budsets and faster crops with better rooting.
- Wird in der Mitte des Satzes verwendet
Definition of root in English Dictionary
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