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TOOTH
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Irregular inflected form: teeth
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A means of enforcement
Example:
the treaty had no teeth in it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tooth" is a kind of...):
agency; means; way (thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tooth" is a kind of...):
anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tooth"):
denticle (small pointed ridge on the exoskeleton of an arthropod)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something resembling the tooth of an animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tooth" is a kind of...):
projection (any structure that branches out from a central support)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tooth"):
cog; sprocket (tooth on the rim of gear wheel)
Holonyms ("tooth" is a part of...):
comb (a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair)
comb (any of several tools for straightening fibers)
power saw; saw; sawing machine (a power tool for cutting wood)
saw (hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting)
Sense 4
Meaning:
One of a number of uniform projections on a gear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tooth" is a kind of...):
projection (any structure that branches out from a central support)
Holonyms ("tooth" is a part of...):
cogwheel; gear; gear wheel; geared wheel (a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tooth" is a kind of...):
bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)
Meronyms (parts of "tooth"):
root (the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair)
pulp (the soft inner part of a tooth)
stump (the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed)
crown (the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel)
cusp (small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth)
pulp cavity (the central cavity of a tooth containing the pulp (including the root canal))
dentin; dentine (bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tooth"):
grinder; molar (grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars)
incisor (a tooth for cutting or gnawing; located in the front of the mouth in both jaws)
bicuspid; premolar (a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars)
canine; canine tooth; cuspid; dogtooth; eye tooth; eyetooth (one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars)
baby tooth; deciduous tooth; milk tooth; primary tooth (one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children))
adult tooth; permanent tooth (any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age)
malposed tooth (a tooth that has grown in a faulty position)
back tooth; posterior (a tooth situated at the back of the mouth)
anterior; front tooth (a tooth situated at the front of the mouth)
carnassial tooth (the last upper premolar and first lower molar teeth of a carnivore; having sharp edges for cutting flesh)
chopper; pearly (informal terms for a human 'tooth')
conodont (the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta)
tusk (a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog)
fang (hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison)
Holonyms ("tooth" is a member of...):
dentition; teeth (the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal)
Derivation:
toothy (having or showing prominent teeth)
Context examples:
Patterns of metal uptake were compared using teeth from 32 pairs of twins and 12 individual twins.
(Baby teeth link autism and heavy metals, NIH)
Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
They observed the von Ebner lines, patterns that form in vertebrate teeth as they grow, to determine how long the overall developmental process was taking.
(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)
A malignant odontogenic neoplasm arising from the epithelial component of the embryonic tooth.
(Metastasizing Ameloblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Eventually, it can lead to tooth loss.
(New Link Found between Alzheimer's & Gum Disease Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
How I do still abhor—He ground his teeth and was silent: he arrested his step and struck his boot against the hard ground.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
With their flashing teeth, their bristling hair, their mad leapings and screamings, they seemed to Alleyne more like fiends from the pit than men of flesh and blood.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But now, as we came out from the dust, we could see what was ahead, and my uncle whistled between his teeth at the sight.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The old man grinned, and showed his teeth, as if he should have been very glad to get into the circle if he could.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
They had long legs and fierce eyes and sharp teeth.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
