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Definition of 'tooth'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tooth
(in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usu. 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.  tooth
(in invertebrates) any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell.

3.  tooth
any projection resembling a tooth.

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

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

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

7.  tooth
Bot.

8.  tooth
any small, toothlike marginal lobe.

9.  tooth
a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency.

10.  tooth
taste, relish, or liking.

11.  tooth
a roughened surface, as on a sharpening stone, grinding wheel, or drawing paper.

12. (v.t.) tooth
to furnish with teeth.

13. (v.i.) tooth
to interlock, as cogwheels.

14.  tooth
in the teeth of,

15.  tooth
straight into, against, or in defiance of.

16.  tooth
long in the tooth, noticeably old; elderly.

17.  tooth
set one's teeth, to become resolute; prepare for difficulty.

18.  tooth
show one's teeth, to become menacing; reveal one's hostility.

19.  tooth
to the teeth, to the fullest extent; fully; entirely:
armed to the teeth.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE tōth, c. OFris tōth, OS

Definition of 'tooth'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tooth
hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

2. (noun) tooth
something resembling the tooth of an animal

3. (noun) tooth
toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell

4. (noun) tooth
a means of enforcement
"the treaty had no teeth in it"

5. (noun) tooth
one of a number of uniform projections on a gear

Definition of 'tooth'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) tooth
one of the hard white objects in your mouth
Have you brushed your teeth yet?

2. tooth
one of a set of points that stick up from sth
the teeth of the saw/comb/gear

Definition of 'tooth'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) tooth
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

2. (noun) tooth
fig.: Taste; palate

3. (noun) tooth
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. (noun) tooth
a projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through

5. (noun) tooth
one of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk

6. (noun) tooth
an angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant

7. (noun) tooth
one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome

8. (noun) tooth
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

9. (verb) tooth
to furnish with teeth

10. (verb) tooth
to indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw

11. (verb) tooth
to lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4

Translation of 'tooth'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: any of the hard, bone-like objects that grow in the mouth and are used for biting and chewing He has had a tooth out at the dentist's.
Afrikaans: tand	Arabic: سِن	Bulgarian: зъб
Brazilian: dente	Czech: zub	German: der Zahn
Danish: tand	Greek: δόντι	Spanish: diente
Estonian: hammas	Farsi: دندان	Finnish: hammas
French: dent	Hebrew: שֵן	Hindi: दांत
Croatian: zub	Hungarian: fog	Indonesian: gigi
Icelandic: tönn	Italian: dente	Japanese: 歯
Korean: 이빨	Lithuanian: dantis	Latvian: zobs
Malay: gigi	Dutch: tand	Norwegian: tann
Polish: ząb	Persian: دندان	Pashto: غاښ: غاښى ( لكه دارې ): ا
Portuguese: dente	Romanian: dinte	Russian: зуб
Slovenian: zob	Serbian: zub	Swedish: tand
Thai: ฟัน	Turkish: diş	Taiwanese: 牙齒
Ukrainian: зуб	Urdu: دانت	Vietnamese: răng
Chinese: 牙齿
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