n.[C]

1. （植物的）根；地下莖[P1]
   These plants have very deep roots.

   這些植物的根長得很深。

2. 根菜類（如胡蘿蔔等）[P]
3. （牙齒，頭髮等的）根，根部
4. 根；根基；本質
   This is the root cause of poverty.

   這是貧窮的根本原因。

5. 根源，來源；根由
   Money is the root of all evil.

   金錢是萬惡之源。

6. 祖先
7. （《聖經》用語）子孫
8. 【數】根（數）
9. 【文】字根；原形
   Hope is the root of hopeful.

   hope是hopeful的字根。

vt.

1. 使生根；使紮根；使固定
2. 根除；肅清[（+up/out）]
   Do you think it is possible to root out crime?

   你認為可以根除犯罪嗎？

vi.

1. 生根；固定
   Some plants root easily.

   有些植物容易生根成長。

2. 根源在於，來源於[（+in）]
   The crime rooted in his greed for money.

   這一犯罪行為起因於他對金錢的貪得無厭。

vi.

1. （豬等）用鼻（或嘴）拱土
   The pig was rooting about for food.

   這頭豬正在拱土覓食。

2. 翻找；搜尋[（+for）]
   He rooted around in the drawers and found the letter.

   他把幾隻抽屜翻個遍，終於找到了那封信。

vt.

1. （豬等）用鼻（或嘴）拱翻[（+up/out）]
2. 搜尋[（+up/out）]

vi.

1. 【口】（為參賽者）打氣；喝采[（+for）]
   The whole group will be rooting for him.

   全隊的人都為他打氣，喝采。

2. 【口】聲援[（+for）]
   We rooted for the woman candidate.

   我們支持那位女候選人。

n.

1. a part of a plant normally below ground, which acts as a support and collects water and nourishment.
   ▸a turnip, carrot, or other vegetable which grows as a root.
2. the embedded part of a bodily organ or structure such as a hair.
3. the basic cause, source, or origin:
   money is the root of all evil.
   ▸ (roots) family, ethnic, or cultural origins as the reasons for one's emotional attachment to a place or community.
   ▸ [as modifier] (roots) denoting something from a non-Western ethnic or cultural origin:

   roots music.
4. Linguistics  a morpheme, not necessarily surviving as a word in itself, from which words have been made by the addition of prefixes or suffixes or by other modification.
5. (also root note) Music  the fundamental note of a chord.
6. (in biblical use) a descendant.
7. Mathematics  a number or quantity that when multiplied by itself one or more times gives a specified number or quantity.
   ▸a value of an unknown quantity satisfying a given equation.
8. Austral./NZ & Irish vulgar slang an act of sexual intercourse.

v.

1. (with reference to a plant or cutting) establish or cause to establish roots.
2. establish deeply and firmly.
   ▸ (be rooted in) have as a source or origin.
3. [often as adj. rooted] cause to stand immobile through fear or amazement.
4. (root someone/thing out/up) find and get rid of someone or something.
5. Austral./NZ & Irish vulgar slang have sex with.
   ▸exhaust or frustrate.

v.

1. (of an animal) turn up the ground with its snout in search of food.
   ▸search or rummage.
2. (root for) informal support enthusiastically.
   ▸ (root someone on) N. Amer. informal cheer or urge someone on.

n.