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teeth

(tēth)

Plural of tooth.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

teeth

(tiːθ)

1. (Dentistry) the plural of tooth

2. the most violent part: the teeth of the gale.

3. the power to produce a desired effect: that law has no teeth.

4. by the skin of one's teeth See skin¹⁴

5. get one's teeth into to become engrossed in

6. in the teeth of in direct opposition to; against: in the teeth of violent criticism he went ahead with his plan.

7. show one's teeth to threaten, esp in a defensive manner

8. to the teeth to the greatest possible degree: armed to the teeth.

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tooth

(tuθ)

n., pl. teeth, (ˈtu θɪŋ, -ðɪŋ) n.

1. (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usu. 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.

2. (in invertebrates) any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell.

3. any projection resembling a tooth.

4. one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc.

a. any of the uniform projections on a gear or rack by which it drives or is driven by a gear, rack, or worm.

b. any of the uniform projections on a sprocket by which it drives or is driven by a chain.

6. Bot. any small, toothlike marginal lobe.

7. a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency.

8. taste, relish, or liking.

9. teeth, effective power, esp. to enforce or accomplish something: to put teeth into a law.

10. a roughened surface, as on a sharpening stone, grinding wheel, or drawing paper.

v.t.

11. to furnish with teeth.

v.i.

12. to interlock, as cogwheels.

Idioms:

1. in the teeth of, straight into, against, or in defiance of.

2. long in the tooth, noticeably old; elderly.

3. set one's teeth, to become resolute; prepare for difficulty.

4. show one's teeth, to become menacing; reveal one's hostility.

5. to the teeth, to the fullest extent; fully; entirely: armed to the teeth.

[before 900; Middle English; Old English tōth, c. Old Frisian tōth, Old Saxon tand, Old High German zan(t), Old Norse tǫnn; akin to Gothic tunthus, Latin dēns, Greek odoús, Skt dánta]

Teeth

Beautiful teeth, like china plates —Rosellen Brown
Big teeth … like chunks of solidified milk —Frank Swinnerton
Front teeth showed like those of a squirrel —George Ade
(When she opened her mouth) gaps like broken window panes could be seen in her teeth —Sholem Asch
Her front teeth overlapped each other like dealt cards —Alice McDermott
His teeth looked like a picket fence in a slum neighborhood —Stephen King
His [false] teeth moved slightly, like the keyboards of a piano —Pamela Hansford Johnson
His teeth stood out like scored corks set in a jagged row —Sterling Hayden
Lower teeth crooked, as if some giant had taken his face and squeezed them loose from his jaw —Larry McMurtry
My teeth felt like they had little sweaters on them —Anon
See Also: TASTE
Sharp-worn teeth like slivers of rock —Ella Leffland
The shiny new false teeth gave him the peculiar look of someone who smiles for a living —Andrew Kaplan
Small pointed teeth, like a squirrel’s —Willa Cather
Teeth all awry and at all angles like an old fence —George Garrett
Teeth, as yellow as old ivory —Frank Swinnerton
Teeth … big and even as piano keys —Helen Hudson
Teeth … channelled and stained like the teeth of an old horse —R. Wright Campbell
Teeth … chattering like castanets —Maurice Edelman
Teeth clatter like ice cubes in a blender —Ira Wood
Teeth clicking like dice —T. Coraghessan Boyle
Teeth like cream —Willa Cather
Teeth like a row of alabaster Britannicas —Joe Coomer
Teeth like pearls —Robert Browning
Teeth like piano keys —Elizabeth Spencer
Teeth like white mosaics shone —Herbert Read
Teeth … tapping together like typewriter keys —Cornell Woolrich
White teeth, the kind that look like cheap dentures even when they are not —Eric Ambler

teeth

Up to 32 bone-like structures in the jaws. Different types (incisors, canines, premolars, molars) are specialized to pierce, tear, crush, and/or grind food.

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Noun

teeth - the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal

dentition

primary dentition - dentition of deciduous teeth

secondary dentition - dentition of permanent teeth

tooth - hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris - the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy"

set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth"

teeth

plural noun see teeth

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Translations

Bart

dentadura

dent

zobje

teeth

n., pl. dientes;

deciduous ___ → ___ de leche o primera dentición;

permanent ___ → ___ permanentes;

secondary ___ → ___ secundarios;

wisdom ___ → ___ cordales

pop. muelas del juicio.

teeth

pl de tooth

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