Australian English Meaning of tooth

tooth

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Definitions and Meaning of tooth in English

Wordnet

tooth (n)

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

something resembling the tooth of an animal

toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell

a means of enforcement

one of a number of uniform projections on a gear

Webster

tooth (n.)

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.

Webster

tooth (v. t.)

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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