Definition of Tooth

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Definition of Tooth

Tooth

One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.

Fig.: Taste; palate.

Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.

One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.

An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant

one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.

Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.

To furnish with teeth.

To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.

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Tooth Quotations

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Pope John Paul II

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
Dean Koontz

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Thomas Huxley

Better a tooth out than always aching.
Thomas Fuller

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
Janeane Garofalo

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
Joseph Barbera

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.
Victoria Pratt

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
William Weld

I've got tooth marks on my heart.
Mike Melville

Tooth Translations

tooth in Danish is tand
tooth in Dutch is tand
tooth in Finnish is hammas
tooth in French is dent, dentaire
tooth in German is Zahn, verzahne, Zahn
tooth in Italian is dente
tooth in Latin is dens
tooth in Norwegian is tann, tann
tooth in Portuguese is dente
tooth in Spanish is diente, dental
tooth in Swedish is tand

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