Root and branch

Definition

root /ru:t/ n ၁။ [C] အျမစ္။ pull a plant up by (ie including) the roots ❍ Vines have very long roots. ❍ root crops/vegetables, eg carrots or potatoes. See also grass roots ၂။ [C] အျမစ္။ အေျခ။ အရင္း။ pull hair out by the roots. ၃။ [C esp sing ] အရင္းအျမစ္။ အေၾကာင္းရင္း။ အရင္းခံ။ The root of the problem is his relationship with his father. ❍ What lies at the root of this matter? ❍ Money is often said to be the root of all evil. ❍ We need to tackle the root (cause) of the trouble. ၄။ roots [pl] မ်ဳိး႐ိုးဇစ္ျမစ္။ put down (ie establish) roots in a place ❍ pull up one's roots (ie move away from a place where one has been for a long time) ❍ Many Americans have roots in Europe. ၅။ [C] ( linguistics ) (ေဝါဟာရ) ရင္းျမစ္။ (ပါဠိ သဒၵါ) ဓာတ္။ ‘Walk’ is the root of ‘walks’, ‘walked’, ‘walking’ and ‘walker’. ❍ ‘Feminine’ comes from the Latin root ‘femina’ meaning ‘woman’. ၆။ [C] ( mathematics ) ကိန္းရင္း။ 4 is the square root of 16 (4 x 4 =16) and the cube root of 64 (4 x 4 x 4 = 64). v အျမစ္တြယ္သည္။ This type of plant roots easily. ❍ deep-rooted grasses. ❏ root and branch [ IDM ] အျမစ္ပါမက်န္။ လံုးလံုး လ်ားလ်ား။ destroy an organization root and branch ❍ root-and-branch reforms. ❏ root beer n [U, C] ( US ) ျမစ္ဥအခ်ဳိရည္။ ❏ rooted adj ၁။ ၾကက္ေသေသ [ေသာ]။ We were/stood rooted to the ground/spot in terror. ၂။ အျမစ္တြယ္ [ေသာ]။ The idea is firmly rooted in his mind. ❍ have a rooted objection to sth ❍ deeply-rooted differences. ၃။ ျမစ္ဖ်ားခံ [ေသာ]။ beliefs rooted in the past. ❏ root (about/ around) for sth [ PHRV ] လွန္ေလွာ ေမႊေႏွာက္ရွာေဖြသည္။ What are you doing rooting around in my desk? ❍ She was rooting (about) in her bag for her keys. ❍ pigs rooting (around) for acorns. ❏ root for sb/sth [ PHRV ] (no passive) ( infml ) အားရပါးရ အားေပးသည္။ We're rooting for the college baseball team. ❍ Good luck in your exams—we're all rooting for you! ❏ rootless adj ေလလြင့္ေနေသာ။ a rootless wandering life. rootlessness n [U] ❏ root sth/sb out [ PHRV ] ၁။ အျမစ္ပါမက်န္ ဖယ္ရွားသည္။ their determination to root out corruption ❍ a fresh attempt to root out troublemakers. ၂။ ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲ ေမႊေႏွာက္ရွာေဖြေတြ႕ရိွသည္။ I've managed to root out a copy of the original document. ❏ root sb to sth [ PHRV ] ၾကက္ေသေသေနသည္။ Fear rooted him to the spot. ❏ root sth up [ PHRV ] အျမစ္ပါမက်န္ ႏုတ္သည္။ ❏ take root [ IDM ] ၁။ အျမစ္တြယ္သည္။ The cuttings I took from your roses haven't taken root. ၂။ အျမစ္တြယ္ သည္။ အေျခက်သည္။ a country where democracy has never really taken root.

Examples

1. Olive trees have deep roots.
2. What are the historical roots of the region’s problems?
3. [have its roots in something] : The Association has its roots in the early 1950s.
4. Computerizing these old records will help people trace their roots.
5. [go back to your roots] : With this latest book the author goes back to his Scottish roots.
6. An unusual film with an ingenious idea at its root
7. [root of] : We need to get to the root of the problem.