tooth

Definition of Tooth in English :

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Noun

1. tooth

hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

2. tooth

something resembling the tooth of an animal

3. tooth

toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell

4. tooth

a means of enforcement

Example Sentences:
'the treaty had no teeth in it'

5. tooth

one of a number of uniform projections on a gear

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tooth

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nounWord forms: plural teeth (tiːθ )

1.

any of various bonelike structures set in the jaws of most vertebrates and modified, according to the species, for biting, tearing, or chewing

▶ Related adjective: dental

2.

any of various similar structures in invertebrates, occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal

3.

anything resembling a tooth in shape, prominence, or function

the tooth of a comb

4.

any of the various small indentations occurring on the margin of a leaf, petal, etc

5.

any one of a number of uniform projections on a gear, sprocket, rack, etc, by which drive is transmitted

6.

taste or appetite (esp in the phrase sweet tooth)

7. long in the tooth

8. tooth and nail

verb (tuːð , tuːθ )

9. (transitive)

to provide with a tooth or teeth

10. (intransitive)

(of two gearwheels) to engage

Tooth

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nounWord forms: plural teeth (tiθ ; tēt h)

1.

a.

any of a set of hard, bonelike structures set in the jaws of most vertebrates and used for biting, tearing, and chewing: a tooth consists typically of a sensitive, vascular pulp surrounded by dentin and coated on the crown with enamel and on the root with cementum: normally 32 are in the permanent set and 20 in the deciduous set of a human

b.

any of various analogous processes in invertebrates

c. [pl.]

denture (sense 2)

2.

something resembling a tooth; toothlike part, as on a saw, fork, rake, gearwheel, etc.; tine, prong, cog, etc.

3.

appetite or taste for something specified: now only in sweet tooth

4.

something that bites, pierces, or gnaws like a tooth

the teeth of the storm

5.

a rough surface, as on paper, metal, etc.

6. [pl.]

a sound or effective means of enforcing something

to put teeth into a law

7. Botany

any small, pointed lobe, as of a leaf or of the fringe surrounding the opening of a capsule in mosses

verb transitive

8.

to provide with teeth

9.

to make jagged; indent

verb intransitive

10.

to mesh, or become interlocked, as gears

Tooth

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n. pl. teeth (tēth)

1.

a. One of a set of hard, bonelike structures in the mouths of vertebrates, usually attached to the jaw or rooted in sockets and typically composed of a core of soft pulp surrounded by a layer of hard dentin that is coated with cementum or enamel at the crown and used for biting or chewing food or as a means of attack or defense.

b. A similar hard projection in an invertebrate, such as one of a set of projections on the hinge of a bivalve or on the radula of a snail.

2. A projecting part resembling a tooth in shape or function, as on a comb, gear, or saw.

3. A small, notched projection along a margin, especially of a leaf. Also called dent².

4. A rough surface, as of paper or metal.

5.

a. often teeth Something that injures or destroys with force: the teeth of the blizzard.

b. teeth Effective means of enforcement; muscle: "This ... puts real teeth into something where there has been only lip service" (Ellen Convisser).

v. (tth, tth) toothed, tooth·ing, tooths

v.tr.

1. To furnish (a tool, for example) with teeth.

2. To make a jagged edge on.

v.intr.

To become interlocked; mesh.

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