tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: to͞oth
ipa: /tuːθ/
ipa: /tʊθ/
ipa: /tuθ/
note: South Wales (usually), Midlands (especially Birmingham)
ipa: /tʊθ/
ipa: /tʉθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
rhymes: -ʊθ
homophone: twoth
Forms: form: teeth
Etymology: From Middle English tothe, toth, tooth, from Old English tōþ (“tooth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Related to tusk and tine. Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian Ter, tus, täis (“tooth”), Bavarian Zåhn (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Low German Tähn (“tooth”), Luxembourgish Zant (“tooth”), Vilamovian cōn (“tooth”), Yiddish צאָן (tson, “tooth”), Danish, Swedish tand (“tooth”), Faroese tonn (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Norwegian Bokmål tann (“tooth”), Norwegian Nynorsk tann, tonn (“tooth”), Welsh dant (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Lithuanian danti̇̀s (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús)/ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Armenian ատամ (atam), Persian دندان (dandân), Sanskrit दत् (dát), दन्त (danta, “tooth”).
Senses: glosses: A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
synonyms: sawtooth
glosses: A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
glosses: A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
examples: text: Jute has more tooth than polypropylene.
glosses: Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
examples: text: Species XXXVI. Obliquaria bullata— (Unio bullata) […] Found at the falls of Ohio; rare; breadth almost two inches; cardinal and lamellar teeth like preceding species; apices rounded, decorticated, but not truncated
ref: 1832, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, A monograph of the fluviatile bivalve shells of the river Ohio, page 43:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
qualifier: animation
glosses: The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
examples: text: I have a sweet tooth: I love sugary treats.
text: These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth
ref: 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis:
synonyms: fondness
appetite
taste
palate
glosses: Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
Synonyms: word: tooth
word: toothypeg
Hyponyms: word: bicuspid
word: canine
word: cuspid
word: incisor
word: premolar
word: molar
word: wisdom tooth
Meronyms: word: cementum
word: dentine
word: enamel
word: pulp
Derived terms: word: acro-dermato-ungual-lacrimal-tooth syndrome
word: armed to the teeth
word: axle tooth
word: baby tooth
word: back tooth
word: bigtooth
word: black tooth
word: bleeding tooth fungus
word: Bluetooth
word: bucktooth
word: butter tooth
word: canine tooth
word: cheek tooth
word: cheektooth
word: clean as a hound's tooth
word: colt's tooth
word: corner tooth
word: cracked tooth syndrome
word: daggertooth
word: deciduous tooth
word: dog's tooth violet
word: dog-tooth
word: dogtooth
word: dog tooth
word: egg tooth
word: elephant's tooth
word: eyetooth
word: eye tooth
word: eye-tooth
word: fangtooth
word: fight tooth and nail
word: fine-tooth comb
word: fine-tooth comb test
word: foretooth
word: front-toothless
word: gagtooth
word: give an eye-tooth
word: hag's tooth
word: hen's tooth
word: hog-tooth spar
word: houndstooth
word: intertooth
word: jelly tooth
word: kiss one's teeth
word: long in the tooth
word: megatooth shark
word: milk tooth
word: milk-tooth
word: mill tooth
word: molar tooth
word: multitooth
word: old in the tooth
word: old woman's tooth
word: picktooth
word: pivot tooth
word: primary tooth
word: pseudotooth
word: puppytooth
word: purple tooth
word: rabbit tooth
word: red in tooth and claw
word: retooth
word: sabertooth
word: sabre-tooth
word: salty tooth
word: saw tooth
word: sawtooth
word: saw-tooth
word: scissor tooth
word: shark's tooth
word: snaggle-tooth
word: snaggletooth
word: sour tooth
word: spicy tooth
word: suck one's teeth
word: sweet tooth
word: teethe
word: temporary tooth
word: toothache
word: toothaching
word: toothake
word: tooth and claw
word: tooth and nail
word: tooth-and-nail
word: tooth and nail syndrome
word: tooth and tong
word: toothbill
word: tooth-billed pigeon
word: toothblack
word: tooth-bottle
word: toothbrush
word: toothbrusher
word: toothcare
word: toothcarp
word: tooth-comb
word: toothcomb
word: tooth comb
word: tooth decay
word: toothdrawer
word: tooth-drawer
word: toothdrawing
word: tooth duller
word: tooth enamel
word: toothette
word: tooth fairy
word: toothfish
word: toothful
word: tooth fungus
word: tooth hurty
word: toothie
word: tooth key
word: toothleaf
word: toothless
word: toothlet
word: toothlike
word: toothly
word: tooth mark
word: toothmark
word: toothmug
word: tooth mug
word: tooth ornament
word: tooth pad
word: toothpaste
word: toothpick
word: toothpicker
word: toothplate
word: tooth powder
word: toothproof
word: toothpuller
word: toothrow
word: tooth shell
word: tooth socket
word: toothsome
word: tooth-stainer
word: tooth-to-jowl
word: toothward
word: toothwash
word: toothwork
word: toothwort
word: toothy
word: unitooth
word: untooth
word: wangtooth
word: wisdom tooth
word: wit tooth
word: wolf tooth
Related terms: bicuspid
canine
cuspid
dental
dentist
dentistry
denture
fang
incisor
molar
orling
premolar
prong
tine
tusk