Definitions for tooth

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IPA: /tuθ/

Tooth is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in tooth (hoott).

Definitions for tooth

noun

1. (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.
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 or suggesting a tooth.
4. one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc.
5. 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.
6. Botany. any small, toothlike marginal lobe. one of the toothlike divisions of the peristome of mosses.
7. a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency.
8. taste, relish, or liking.
9. a surface, as on a grinding wheel or sharpening stone, slightly roughened so as to increase friction with another part.
10. a rough surface created on a paper made for charcoal drawing, watercolor, or the like, or on canvas for oil painting.

Idioms

1. by the skin of one's teeth, barely:
2. cast / throw in someone's teeth, to reproach someone for (an action):
3. cut one's teeth on, to do at the beginning of one's education, career, etc., or in one's youth:
4. in the teeth of, so as to face or confront; straight into or against: in defiance of; in opposition to:
5. long in the tooth, old; elderly.
6. put teeth in / into, to establish or increase the effectiveness of:
7. set one's teeth, to become resolute; prepare for difficulty:
8. set / put one's teeth on edge, to induce an unpleasant sensation. to repel; irritate:
9. show one's teeth, to become hostile or threatening; exhibit anger:
10. to the teeth, entirely; fully:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with teeth.
2. to cut teeth upon.

verb (used without object)

1. to interlock, as cogwheels.

Origin of tooth

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

Examples for tooth

He had only one tooth, and he ate by using his thumb as a second incisor.

We have brains, and with our brains we must do in a scientific way what Nature does with tooth and claw.

The Widder detected it, and occupied herself with her tooth.

Every tooth of the dragon had produced one of these sons of deadly mischief.

Wherever a dragon's tooth had fallen, there stood a man armed for battle.

“He is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” he said to the nervous crowd of onlookers.

Wall Street fought the establishment of the Securities and Exchange Commission tooth and nail; the SEC helped revive the industry.

There is a debate about whether or not tooth brushing is allowed.

I passed you close enough to pull a tooth, but you were awful busy.

For all of the bellyaching, tooth gnashing, and public wailing, Democrats have no one to blame but themselves.