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- [tooth]
- /tuθ/
- /tuːθ/
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- [tooth]
- /tuθ/
Definitions of tooth word
- noun plural tooth (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 tooth (in invertebrates) any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell. 1
- noun plural tooth any projection resembling or suggesting a tooth. 1
- noun plural tooth one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc. 1
- noun plural tooth 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 tooth Botany. any small, toothlike marginal lobe. one of the toothlike divisions of the peristome of mosses. 1
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Origin of tooth
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 Tooth
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tooth 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".
tooth usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tooth
noun tooth
- acicula — a needle-shaped part, such as a spine, prickle, or crystal
- awn — any of the bristles growing from the spikelets of certain grasses, including cereals
- cilia — the eyelashes
- cog — A cog is a wheel with square or triangular teeth around the edge, which is used in a machine to turn another wheel or part.
- cogwheel — a wheel with a rim notched into teeth, which mesh with those of another wheel or of a rack to transmit or receive motion
verb tooth
- bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
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