ALL meanings of tooth
tooth
T t - noun tooth in mouth 1
- noun tooth of saw 1
- noun tooth of gear 1
- noun tooth of comb 1
- noun tooth surface texture 1
- 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
- noun plural tooth a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency. 1
- noun plural tooth taste, relish, or liking. 1
- noun plural tooth a surface, as on a grinding wheel or sharpening stone, slightly roughened so as to increase friction with another part. 1
- noun plural tooth a rough surface created on a paper made for charcoal drawing, watercolor, or the like, or on canvas for oil painting. 1
- verb with object tooth to furnish with teeth. 1
- verb with object tooth to cut teeth upon. 1
- verb without object tooth to interlock, as cogwheels. 1
- idioms tooth by the skin of one's teeth, barely: He got away by the skin of his teeth. 1
- idioms tooth cast / throw in someone's teeth, to reproach someone for (an action): History will ever throw this blunder in his teeth. 1
- idioms tooth cut one's teeth on, to do at the beginning of one's education, career, etc., or in one's youth: The hunter boasted of having cut his teeth on tigers. 1
- idioms tooth in the teeth of, so as to face or confront; straight into or against: in the teeth of the wind. in defiance of; in opposition to: She maintained her stand in the teeth of public opinion. 1
- idioms tooth long in the tooth, old; elderly. 1
- idioms tooth put teeth in / into, to establish or increase the effectiveness of: to put teeth into the law. 1
- idioms tooth set one's teeth, to become resolute; prepare for difficulty: He set his teeth and separated the combatants. 1
- idioms tooth set / put one's teeth on edge, to induce an unpleasant sensation. to repel; irritate: The noise of the machines sets my teeth on edge. 1
- idioms tooth show one's teeth, to become hostile or threatening; exhibit anger: Usually friendly, she suddenly began to show her teeth. 1
- idioms tooth to the teeth, entirely; fully: armed to the teeth; dressed to the teeth in furs. 1
- countable noun tooth Your teeth are the hard white objects in your mouth, which you use for biting and chewing. 0
- noun plural tooth The teeth of something such as a comb, saw, cog, or zip are the parts that stick out in a row on its edge. 0
- noun plural tooth 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. 0
- noun tooth any of various bonelike structures set in the jaws of most vertebrates and modified, according to the species, for biting, tearing, or chewing 0
- noun tooth any of various similar structures in invertebrates, occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal 0
- noun tooth anything resembling a tooth in shape, prominence, or function 0
- noun tooth any of the various small indentations occurring on the margin of a leaf, petal, etc 0
- noun tooth any one of a number of uniform projections on a gear, sprocket, rack, etc, by which drive is transmitted 0
- noun tooth taste or appetite (esp in the phrase sweet tooth) 0
- verb tooth to provide with a tooth or teeth 0
- verb tooth (of two gearwheels) to engage 0
- noun tooth any of a set of hard, bonelike structures set in the jaws of most vertebrates and used for biting, tearing, and chewing: a tooth consists typically of a sensitive, vascular pulp surrounded by dentin and coated on the crown with enamel and on the root with cementum: normally 32 are in the permanent set and 20 in the deciduous set of a human 0
- noun tooth any of various analogous processes in invertebrates 0
- noun tooth denture (sense 2) 0
- noun tooth something resembling a tooth; toothlike part, as on a saw, fork, rake, gearwheel, etc.; tine, prong, cog, etc. 0
- noun tooth appetite or taste for something specified: now only in sweet tooth 0
- noun tooth something that bites, pierces, or gnaws like a tooth 0
- noun tooth a rough surface, as on paper, metal, etc. 0
- noun tooth a sound or effective means of enforcing something 0
- noun tooth any small, pointed lobe, as of a leaf or of the fringe surrounding the opening of a capsule in mosses 0
- verb transitive tooth to provide with teeth 0
- verb transitive tooth to make jagged; indent 0