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[tooth] Pronunciation Key, noun, plural teeth, verb, toothed
[tootht, toothd] Pronunciation Key, tooth·ing
[too-thing, -thing] Pronunciation Key.
—Related forms
[tooth] Pronunciation Key, noun, plural teeth, verb, toothed
[tootht, toothd] Pronunciation Key, tooth·ing
[too-thing, -thing] Pronunciation Key. –noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
—Idioms
| 1. | (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. |
| 2. | (in invertebrates) any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell. |
| 3. | any projection resembling or suggesting a tooth. |
| 4. | one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc. |
| 5. | Machinery.
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| 6. | Botany.
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| 7. | a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency. |
| 8. | taste, relish, or liking. |
| 9. | 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. |
| 11. | to furnish with teeth. |
| 12. | to cut teeth upon. |
| 13. | to interlock, as cogwheels. |
| 14. | by the skin of one's teeth, barely: He got away by the skin of his teeth. |
| 15. | cast or 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,
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| 18. | long in the tooth, old; elderly. |
| 19. | put teeth in or 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 or put one's teeth on edge,
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| 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. |
[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE tōth; c. D tand, G Zahn, ON tǫnn; akin to Goth tunthus, L déns, Gk odoús (Ionic od
n), Skt dánta]
n), Skt dánta] —Related forms
toothlike, adjective
—Synonyms 8. fondness, partiality, predilection.
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(tōōth) Pronunciation Key
(click for larger image in new window) n. pl. teeth (tēth)
v. (tōōth, tōōth) toothed, tooth·ing, tooths v. tr.
v. intr. To become interlocked; mesh. [Middle English, from Old English tōth; see dent- in Indo-European roots.] Word History: Eating, biting, teeth, and dentists are related not only logically but etymologically; that is, the roots of the words eat, tooth, and dentist have a common origin. The Proto-Indo-European root *ed-, meaning "to eat" and the source of our word eat, originally meant "to bite." A participial form of *ed- in this sense was *dent-, "biting," which came to mean "tooth." Our word tooth comes from *dont-, a form of *dent-, with sound changes that resulted in the Germanic word *tanthuz. This word became Old English tōth and Modern English tooth. Meanwhile the Proto-Indo-European form *dent- itself became in Latin dēns (stem dent-), "tooth," from which is derived our word dentist. We find a descendant of another Proto-Indo-European form *(o)dont- in the word orthodontist. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
tooth
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). Application to tooth-like parts of other objects (saws, combs, etc.) first recorded 1523. Toothache is attested from 1377. Toothbrush is first recorded 1651; toothpaste first attested 1832; toothpick is from 1488. Toothsome "pleasant to the taste" is c.1565; the fig. sense of "attractive" (1551) is a bit older.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| tooth | |
noun | |
| 1. | hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense |
| 2. | something resembling the tooth of an animal |
| 3. | toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell |
| 4. | a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it" |
| 5. | one of a number of uniform projections on a gear |
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
tooth
In addition to the idiom beginning with tooth, also see fight tooth and nail; fine-tooth comb; long in the tooth; sweet tooth. Also see under teeth.
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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
tooth
(t th) Pronunciation Key
(click for larger image in new window) Plural teeth (tēth)
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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
tooth
tooth
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.
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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Tooth\, n.; pl. Teeth. [OE. toth,tooth, AS. t[=o][eth]; akin to OFries. t[=o]th, OS. & D. tand, OHG. zang, zan, G. zahn, Icel. t["o]nn, Sw. & Dan. tand, Goth. tumpus, Lith. dantis, W. dant, L. dens, dentis, Gr. 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, Skr. danta; probably originally the p. pr. of the verb to eat. [root]239. Cf. Eat, Dandelion, Dent the tooth of a wheel, Dental, Dentist, Indent, Tine of a fork, Tusk. ]1. (Anat.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food. Note: The hard parts of teeth are principally made up of dentine, or ivory, and a very hard substance called enamel. These are variously combined in different animals. Each tooth consist of three parts, a crown, or body, projecting above the gum, one or more fangs imbedded in the jaw, and the neck, or intermediate part. In some animals one or more of the teeth are modified into tusks which project from the mouth, as in both sexes of the elephant and of the walrus, and in the male narwhal. In adult man there are thirty-two teeth, composed largely of dentine, but the crowns are covered with enamel, and the fangs with a layer of bone called cementum. Of the eight teeth on each half of each jaw, the two in front are incisors, then come one canine, cuspid, or dog tooth, two bicuspids, or false molars, and three molars, or grinding teeth. The milk, or temporary, teeth are only twenty in number, there being two incisors, one canine, and two molars on each half of each jaw. The last molars, or wisdom teeth, usually appear long after the others, and occasionally do not appear above the jaw at all. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child ! --Shak. 2. Fig.: Taste; palate. These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. --Dryden. 3. Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card. 4. (a) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through. (b) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk. 5. (Nat. Hist.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant; specifically (Bot.), one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome. 6. (Zo["o]l.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish. In spite of the teeth, in defiance of opposition; in opposition to every effort. In the teeth, directly; in direct opposition; in front. "Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth." --Pope. To cast in the teeth, to report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with. Tooth and nail, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. --L'Estrange. "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright." --Charles Reade. Tooth coralline (Zo["o]l.), any sertularian hydroid. Tooth edge, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids. Tooth key, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key. Tooth net, a large fishing net anchored. [Scot.] --Jamieson. Tooth ornament. (Arch.) Same as Dogtooth, n., 2. Tooth powder, a powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice. Tooth rash. (Med.) See Red-gum, 1. To show the teeth, to threaten. "When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite." --Young. To the teeth, in open opposition; directly to one's face. "That I shall live, and tell him to his teeth ." --Shak.
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Tooth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toothed; p. pr. & vb. n. Toothing.]1. To furnish with teeth. The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. --Wordsworth. 2. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw. 3. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. --Moxon.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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one of the particulars regarding which retaliatory punishment was to be inflicted (Ex. 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21). "Gnashing of teeth" =rage, despair (Matt. 8:12; Acts 7:54); "cleanness of teeth" =famine (Amos 4:6); "children's teeth set on edge" =children suffering for the sins of their fathers (Ezek. 18:2).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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