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noun

plural of tooth.

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teeth·less, adjective

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Teeth is always a great word to know.

So is enamel. Does it mean:

fibrous connective-tissue layer covering the cementum of a tooth and holding it in place

glassy substance, usually opaque, protects the teeth

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Damaged bones indicate that one of those long-lost crocs once sunk its teeth into a small dinosaur.

He was roughly treated in the selection process, probably on the instructions of those who fear courts with sharper teeth.

But he has cut his hair, had his teeth polished and embodies a fresh start-unlike his two main rivals.

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noun

(in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.

(in invertebrates) any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell.

any projection resembling or suggesting a tooth.

one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc.

Machinery.

any of the uniform projections on a gear or rack by which it drives, or is driven by, a gear, rack, or worm.

any of the uniform projections on a sprocket by which it drives or is driven by a chain.

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Botany.

any small, toothlike marginal lobe.

one of the toothlike divisions of the peristome of mosses.

a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency.

taste, relish, or liking.

a surface, as on a grinding wheel or sharpening stone, slightly roughened so as to increase friction with another part.

10.

a rough surface created on a paper made for charcoal drawing, watercolor, or the like, or on canvas for oil painting.

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verb (used with object)

11.

to furnish with teeth.

12.

to cut teeth upon.

verb (used without object)

13.

to interlock, as cogwheels.

Idioms

14.

by the skin of one's teeth, barely: He got away by the skin of his teeth.

15.

cast/throw in someone's teeth, to reproach someone for (an action): History will ever throw this blunder in his teeth.

16.

cut one's teeth on, to do at the beginning of one's education, career, etc., or in one's youth: The hunter boasted of having cut his teeth on tigers.

17.

in the teeth of,

so as to face or confront; straight into or against: in the teeth of the wind.

in defiance of; in opposition to: She maintained her stand in the teeth of public opinion.

18.

long in the tooth, old; elderly.

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19.

put teeth in/into, to establish or increase the effectiveness of: to put teeth into the law.

20.

set one's teeth, to become resolute; prepare for difficulty: He set his teeth and separated the combatants.

21.

set/put one's teeth on edge,

to induce an unpleasant sensation.

to repel; irritate: The noise of the machines sets my teeth on edge.

22.

show one's teeth, to become hostile or threatening; exhibit anger: Usually friendly, she suddenly began to show her teeth.

23.

to the teeth, entirely; fully: armed to the teeth; dressed to the teeth in furs.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English tōth; cognate with Dutch tand, German Zahn, Old Norse tǫnn; akin to Gothic tunthus, Latin dēns, Greek odoús (Ionic odṓn), Sanskrit dánta

Related forms

tooth·like, adjective

Synonyms
8. fondness, partiality, predilection.

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World English Dictionary

teeth (tiːθ)

—n
1.	the plural of tooth
2.	the most violent part: the teeth of the gale
3.	the power to produce a desired effect: that law has no teeth
4.	by the skin of one's teeth See skin
5.	get one's teeth into to become engrossed in
6.	in the teeth of in direct opposition to; against: in the teeth of violent criticism he went ahead with his plan
7.	show one's teeth to threaten, esp in a defensive manner
8.	to the teeth to the greatest possible degree: armed to the teeth

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Word Origin & History

tooth

O.E. toð (plural teð), from P.Gmc. *tanth, *tunth (cf. O.S., Dan., Swed., Du. tand, O.N. tönn, O.Fris. toth, O.H.G. zand, Ger. Zahn, Goth. tunþus), from PIE *dont-/*dent- "tooth" (cf. Skt. danta, Gk. odontos, L. dens, Lith. dantis, O.Ir. det, Welsh dent). Plural form teeth is an instance

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of i-mutation. Application to tooth-like parts of other objects (saws, combs, etc.) first recorded 1520s. Toothache is attested from late 14c. Toothbrush is first recorded 1650s; toothpaste first attested 1832; toothpick is from late 15c. Toothsome "pleasant to the taste" is c.1565; the fig. sense of "attractive" (1550s) is a bit older.

teeth

plural of tooth (q.v.).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

teeth (tēth)
n.
Plural of tooth.

tooth (t&oomacr;th)
n. pl. teeth (tēth)
One of a set of hard, bonelike structures rooted in sockets in the jaws of vertebrates, typically composed of a core of soft pulp surrounded by a layer of hard dentin that is coated with cement or enamel at the crown and used chiefly for biting or chewing food or as a means of attack or defense.

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tooth (t

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Plural teeth (tēth)

Any of the hard bony structures in the mouth used to grasp and chew food and as weapons of attack and defense. In mammals and many other vertebrates, the teeth are set in sockets in the jaw. In fish and amphibians, they grow in and around the palate. See also dentition.
A similar structure in certain invertebrate animals.

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Cultural Dictionary

tooth definition

A hard structure, embedded in the jaws of the mouth, that functions in chewing. The tooth consists of a crown, covered with hard white enamel; a root, which anchors the tooth to the jawbone; and a “neck” between the crown and the root, covered by the gum. Most of the tooth is made up of dentin, which is located directly below the enamel. The soft interior of the tooth, the pulp, contains nerves and blood vessels. Humans have molars for grinding food, incisors for cutting, and canines and bicuspids for tearing.