Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
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- [tooth]
- /tuθ/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [tooth]
- /tuθ/
Definitions of cast in someone's teeth words
- noun plural cast in someone's teeth (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually 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. 1
- noun plural cast in someone's teeth (in invertebrates) any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell. 1
- noun plural cast in someone's teeth any projection resembling or suggesting a tooth. 1
- noun plural cast in someone's teeth one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc. 1
- noun plural cast in someone's teeth Machinery. any of the uniform projections on a gear or rack by which it drives, or is driven by, a gear, rack, or worm. any of the uniform projections on a sprocket by which it drives or is driven by a chain. 1
- noun plural cast in someone's teeth Botany. any small, toothlike marginal lobe. one of the toothlike divisions of the peristome of mosses. 1
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Origin of cast in someone's teeth
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English tōth; cognate with Dutch tand, German Zahn, Old Norse tǫnn; akin to Gothic tunthus, Latin dēns, Greek odoús (Ionic odṓn), Sanskrit dánta
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Parts of speech for Cast in someone's teeth
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cast in someone's teeth popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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