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What (who) is Tooth - definition
Tooth
![chimpanzee]] displaying its teeth](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Close up - chimpanzee teeth.png?width=200 "chimpanzee]] displaying its teeth")
![The limpet rasps algae from rocks using teeth with the strongest known [[tensile strength]] of any biological material.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Radula docoglosse.JPG?width=200 "The limpet rasps algae from rocks using teeth with the strongest known [[tensile strength]] of any biological material.")
![Teeth]] of [[great white shark]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Surfacing great white shark.jpg?width=200 "Teeth]] of [[great white shark]]")
![The [[European medicinal leech]] has three jaws with numerous sharp teeth which function like little saws for incising a host.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Svømmende blodigle.JPG?width=200 "The [[European medicinal leech]] has three jaws with numerous sharp teeth which function like little saws for incising a host.")
HARD, CALCIFIED STRUCTURE FOUND IN THE JAWS (OR MOUTHS) OF MANY VERTEBRATES AND USED TO BREAK DOWN FOOD
Teeth; Tooth (animal); Maxillary teeth; Tooth serrations; Apex radicis dentis; Pegged teeth; Toothed; 🦷; Evolutionary origin of teeth; Monophyodonts; Monophyodont
·noun Fig.: Taste; palate.
II. Tooth ·vt To furnish with teeth.
III. Tooth ·vt To lock into each other. ·see Tooth, ·noun, 4.
IV. Tooth ·noun One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. ·see Tusk.
VI. Tooth ·noun one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. ·see Peristome.
VII. Tooth ·noun An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant.
VIII. Tooth ·noun A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
IX. Tooth ·noun 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.
X. Tooth ·noun 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.
XI. Tooth ·noun 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.
tooth
HARD, CALCIFIED STRUCTURE FOUND IN THE JAWS (OR MOUTHS) OF MANY VERTEBRATES AND USED TO BREAK DOWN FOOD
Teeth; Tooth (animal); Maxillary teeth; Tooth serrations; Apex radicis dentis; Pegged teeth; Toothed; 🦷; Evolutionary origin of teeth; Monophyodonts; Monophyodont
n.
1) to cut, get teeth (babies are often fretful when they are cutting teeth)
2) to brush (esp. AE), clean one's teeth
3) to cap; drill; extract, pull, take out; fill a tooth
4) to pick one's teeth
5) to clench, gnash, grind, grit one's teeth
6) an artificial, false; baby (AE), milk; back; front; lower; permanent; upper; wisdom tooth
7) an abscessed; decayed tooth
8) teeth ache; chatter; decay, rot; erupt ('appear'); fall out; get discolored
9) a set of teeth
10) (misc.) to have a sweet tooth ('to love sweets'); to sink one's teeth into smt. ('to become completely engrossed in smt.'); to show one's teeth ('to show hostile intentions'); tooth and nail ('with all one's strength')
tooth
HARD, CALCIFIED STRUCTURE FOUND IN THE JAWS (OR MOUTHS) OF MANY VERTEBRATES AND USED TO BREAK DOWN FOOD
Teeth; Tooth (animal); Maxillary teeth; Tooth serrations; Apex radicis dentis; Pegged teeth; Toothed; 🦷; Evolutionary origin of teeth; Monophyodonts; Monophyodont
(teeth)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your teeth are the hard white objects in your mouth, which you use for biting and chewing.
If a tooth feels very loose, your dentist may recommend that it's taken out.
N-COUNT: oft poss N
2.
The teeth of something such as a comb, saw, cog, or zip are the parts that stick out in a row on its edge.
N-PLURAL
3.
If you say that something such as an official group or a law has teeth, you mean that it has power and is able to be effective.
The opposition argues that the new council will be unconstitutional and without teeth...
The law must have teeth, and it must be enforced.
N-PLURAL
4.
see also wisdom tooth
5.
If you say that someone cut their teeth doing a particular thing, at a particular time, or in a particular place, you mean that that is how, when, or where they began their career and learned some of their skills.
...director John Glen, who cut his teeth on Bond movies...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR prep, PHR -ing
6.
If you say that something sets your teeth on edge, you mean that you find it extremely unpleasant or irritating.
Their voices set your teeth on edge.
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
If you fight tooth and nail to do something, you do everything you can in order to achieve it. If you fight something tooth and nail, you do everything you can in order to prevent it.
He fought tooth and nail to keep his job...
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR to-inf
8.
If you describe a task or activity as something you can get your teeth into, you mean that you like it because it is interesting, complex, and makes you think hard. (INFORMAL)
This role gave her something to get her teeth into...
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR n [approval]
9.
If you do something in the teeth of a difficulty or danger, you do it in spite of the difficulty or danger.
I was battling my way along the promenade in the teeth of a force ten gale...
In the teeth of the longest recession since the 1930s, the company continues to perform well.
PHRASE: PHR n
10.
If you say that someone is lying through their teeth, you are emphasizing that they are telling lies. (INFORMAL)
PHRASE: V inflects [emphasis]
11.
If you describe someone as long in the tooth, you are saying unkindly or humorously that they are old or getting old. (INFORMAL)
Aren't I a bit long in the tooth to start being an undergraduate?
PHRASE: v-link PHR [disapproval]
12.
If you have a sweet tooth, you like sweet food very much.
PHRASE: usu PHR after v
13.
to get the bit between your teeth: see bit
to give one's eye teeth for something: see eye
to gnash one's teeth: see gnash
to grit your teeth: see grit
a kick in the teeth: see kick
by the skin of your teeth: see skin
Wikipedia
Tooth
A tooth (plural teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food. Some animals, particularly carnivores and omnivores, also use teeth to help with capturing or wounding prey, tearing food, for defensive purposes, to intimidate other animals often including their own, or to carry prey or their young.
Examples of use of Tooth
1. As the archaic adage goes: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
2. Titanium implants to replace a missing tooth can cost between 1,800 and 3,000 for a single tooth.
3. SMALL, SHARP TEETH Possible causes: Tooth grinding.
4. The institution only tested tooth whitening kits.
5. "Each millimeter of alveolar bone loss increased the risk of tooth loss three times, and the risk of tooth loss increased 2.5 times for each millimeter of clinical attachment loss, or soft tissue attachment between the tooth and alveolar bone." Periodontal disease is the major cause of alveolar bone loss and tooth loss in patients over 35.