tooth
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See also: Tooth
Etymology
From Middle English tothe, toth, tooth, from Old English tōþ (“tooth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Related to tusk. Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine.
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots tuth, tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian toth, tos (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Danish tand (“tooth”), Swedish tand (“tooth”), Norwegian tann (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Welsh dant (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Lithuanian dantìs (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús)/ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Armenian ատամ (atam), Persian دندان (dandân), Sanskrit दत् (dát), दन्त (danta, “tooth”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: to͞oth, IPA(key): /tuːθ/, (uncommon) /tʊθ/
Audio (Received Pronunciation, London): (file) Audio (London): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /tuθ/
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- (Wales (usually), Midlands (especially Birmingham)) IPA(key): /tʊθ/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /tʉθ/
- Rhymes: -uːθ, -ʊθ
- Homophone: twoth
Noun
tooth (plural teeth)
- A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tooth
- Hyponyms: bicuspid, canine, cuspid, incisor, premolar, molar; see also Thesaurus:tooth
- A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
- Synonym: sawtooth
- 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.
- Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
- Jute has more tooth than polypropylene.
- (zoology) A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
- 1832, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, A monograph of the fluviatile bivalve shells of the river Ohio, page 43:
- Species XXXVI. Obliquaria bullata— (Unio bullata) […] Found at the falls of Ohio; rare; breadth almost two inches; cardinal and lamellar teeth like preceding species; apices rounded, decorticated, but not truncated
- (botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
- (animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
- (figurative) Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
- 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis:
- These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth
- (algebraic geometry) An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
Derived terms
- axle tooth
- baby tooth
- back tooth
- bigtooth
- bigtooth
- black tooth
- bleeding tooth fungus
- Bluetooth
- Bluetooth
- bucktooth
- butter tooth
- canine tooth
- cheektooth
- cheek tooth
- clean as a hound's tooth
- colt's tooth
- corner tooth
- daggertooth
- daggertooth
- deciduous tooth
- dog's tooth violet
- dogtooth
- dogtooth
- dog tooth
- dog-tooth
- egg tooth
- elephant's tooth
- eyetooth
- eye tooth
- eye-tooth
- fangtooth
- fangtooth
- fight tooth and nail
- fine-tooth comb
- fine-tooth comb test
- foretooth
- front-toothless
- front-toothless
- gagtooth
- gagtooth
- give an eye-tooth
- hag's tooth
- hen's tooth
- hog-tooth spar
- houndstooth
- houndstooth
- intertooth
- intertooth
- jelly tooth
- kiss one's teeth
- long in the tooth
- megatooth shark
- megatooth shark
- milk tooth
- milk-tooth
- mill tooth
- molar tooth
- multitooth
- multitooth
- old in the tooth
- old woman's tooth
- picktooth
- picktooth
- pivot tooth
- primary tooth
- pseudotooth
- pseudotooth
- puppytooth
- puppytooth
- purple tooth
- rabbit tooth
- red in tooth and claw
- retooth
- retooth
- sabertooth
- sabertooth
- sabre-tooth
- salty tooth
- saw tooth
- sawtooth, saw-tooth
- scissor tooth
- snaggle-tooth
- snaggletooth
- snaggletooth
- sour tooth
- spicy tooth
- suck one's teeth
- sweet tooth
- teethe (verb)
- temporary tooth
- toothache
- toothaching
- toothaching
- toothake
- toothake
- tooth and nail
- tooth-and-nail
- tooth and tong
- toothbill
- toothbill
- tooth-billed pigeon
- toothblack
- toothblack
- tooth-bottle
- toothbrush
- toothbrusher
- toothbrusher
- toothcare
- toothcare
- toothcarp
- toothcarp
- toothcomb
- toothcomb
- tooth-comb
- tooth comb
- tooth decay
- toothdrawer
- tooth-drawer
- toothdrawer
- toothdrawing
- toothdrawing
- tooth duller
- tooth enamel
- toothette
- toothette
- tooth fairy
- toothfish
- toothfish
- toothful
- toothful
- tooth fungus
- toothie
- toothie
- tooth key
- toothleaf
- toothleaf
- toothless
- toothlet
- toothlet
- toothlike
- toothly
- toothmark
- toothmark
- tooth mark
- toothmug
- toothmug
- tooth mug
- tooth ornament
- tooth pad
- toothpaste
- toothpick
- toothpicker
- toothpicker
- toothplate
- toothplate
- tooth powder
- toothproof
- toothproof
- toothpuller
- toothpuller
- toothrow
- toothrow
- tooth shell
- tooth socket
- toothsome
- tooth-to-jowl
- toothward
- toothward
- toothwash
- toothwash
- toothwork
- toothwork
- toothwort
- toothwort
- toothy
- unitooth
- unitooth
- untooth
- untooth
- wangtooth
- wisdom tooth
- wit tooth
- wolf tooth
Translations
anatomy: tooth
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saw tooth
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gear tooth
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animation: rough surface of some cels or other films
algebraic geometry: irreducible component of a comb
See also
Verb
tooth (third-person singular simple present tooths, present participle toothing, simple past and past participle toothed)
- To provide or furnish with teeth.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, The Brothers:
- His Wife sate near him, teasing matted wool, / While, from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire / He fed the spindle […]
- To indent; to jag.
- to tooth a saw
- To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
- 1678, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: or the Doctrine of Handy-works, page 260:
- Whereas if the Header of one side of the wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing, and the joints of the Header on one side, would be in the middle of the Headers of the course they lie upon of the other side
Anagrams
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Noun
tooth
- Alternative form of tothe
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