Tooth

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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 cementum or enamel at the crown and used for biting or chewing food or as a means of attack or defense.
  • n. A similar structure in invertebrates, such as one of the pointed denticles or ridges on the exoskeleton of an arthropod or the shell of a mollusk.
  • n. A projecting part resembling a tooth in shape or function, as on a comb, gear, or saw.
  • n. A small, notched projection along a margin, especially of a leaf. Also called dent2.
  • n. A rough surface, as of paper or metal.
  • n. Something that injures or destroys with force. Often used in the plural: the teeth of the blizzard.
  • n. Effective means of enforcement; muscle: "This . . . puts real teeth into something where there has been only lip service” ( Ellen Convisser).
  • n. Taste or appetite: She always had a sweet tooth.
  • v. To furnish (a tool, for example) with teeth.
  • v. To make a jagged edge on.
  • verb-intransitive. To become interlocked; mesh.
  • idiom. get Slang To be actively involved in; get a firm grasp of.
  • idiom. show To express a readiness to fight; threaten defiantly.
  • idiom. to the teeth Lacking nothing; completely: armed to the teeth; dressed to the teeth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  • n. A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  • n. A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  • n. A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  • v. To provide or furnish with teeth.
  • v. To indent; to jag.
  • v. To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. Fig.: Taste; palate.
  • n. Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office.
  • n.
  • n. A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
  • n. One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.
  • n. An angular or prominence on any edge
  • n. Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food.
  • v. To furnish with teeth.
  • v. To indent; to jag.
  • v. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The topography of the tooth, as now described, is shown in the cuts.
  • n. A roughened surface, as of a paper prepared for pastels.
  • n. In masonry, one of the several projecting ends of stones or bricks already built into a wall and left at an unfinished end of it to facilitate the fitting of another piece of wall to the first one.
  • n. A hard (horny, dentinal, osseous, chitinous, calcareous, or silicious) body or substance, in the mouth, pharynx, gullet, or stomach of an animal, serving primarily for the apprehension, mastication, or trituration of food, and secondarily as a weapon of attack or defense, and for a variety of other purposes, as digging in the ground, climbing, articulation of vocal sounds, etc.
  • n. In Invertebrata, one of various hard bodies, presenting great variety of position and structure, which may occur in the alimentary canal from the month to the stomach.
  • n. In zoology, a projection resembling or likened to a tooth.
  • n. In botany, any small pointed marginal lobe, especially of a leaf: in mosses applied to the delicate fringe of processes about the mouth of the capsule, collectively known as the peristome. See peristome, Musci, and cuts under cilium and Dicranum.
  • n. Any projection corresponding to or resembling the tooth of an animal in shape, position, or office; a small, narrow, projecting piece, usually one of a set.
  • n. One of the tines or prongs of a fork.
  • n. One of the sharp wires of a carding-instrument.
  • n. One of a series of projections on the edge of a wheel which catch on corresponding parts of a wheel or other body; a cog. See cut under pinion.
  • n. plural In a rose-cut diamond, the lower zone of facets. They form a truncated cone-shaped base for the crown.
  • n. In veneering, the roughness made by the toothing-plane on the surfaces to be glued together to afford a good hold for the glue.
  • n. Figuratively, a fang; the sharp or distressing part of anything.
  • n. Palate; relish; taste, literally or figuratively. Compare a sweet tooth, below.
  • n. Keep; maintenance.
  • n. To one's face; openly.
  • n. Straight against: noting direction: as, to walk in the teeth of the wind.
  • n. In the face or presence of; before.
  • n. The processes or serration of the mandibles of any insect, as a stag-beetle.
  • To bite; taste.
  • To furnish with teeth: as, to tooth a rake.
  • To indent; cut into teeth; jag.
  • To lock one in another.
  • To teethe.
  • To interlock, as cog-wheels.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
  • n. hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
  • n. something resembling the tooth of an animal
  • n. toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
  • n. a means of enforcement
  • Verb Form
    toothed    toothing    tooths   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    projection    means    agency    way   
    Variant
    teeth    tusk   
    Hyponym
    premolar    canine    molar    cuspid    bicuspid    incisor   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    palate    indent    jag   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Booth    Duluth    Ruth    Truth    Youth    booth    luth    ruth    sleuth    truth   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    jaw    bone    leg    hair    mouth    tail    claw    blade    face    finger