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set one's teeth

tooth
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
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    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [tooth]
    • /sɛt wʌnz tiθ/
    • /set wʌnz tiːθ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [tooth]
    • /sɛt wʌnz tiθ/

Definitions of set one's teeth words

  • noun plural set one'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 set one'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 set one's teeth any projection resembling or suggesting a tooth. 1
  • noun plural set one's teeth one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc. 1
  • noun plural set one'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 set one'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 set one'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 Set one's teeth

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
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set one'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".

Synonyms for set one's teeth

verb set one's teeth

  • grit one's teeth — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
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