name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
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noun
A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
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noun
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.
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noun
Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
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noun
A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
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Qualifier: animation
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noun
Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
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Usage: figuratively
Synonyms: fondness, appetite, taste, palate
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noun
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.
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Topics: algebraic-geometry, geometry, mathematics, sciences
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verb
To provide or furnish with teeth.
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verb
To indent; to jag.
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verb
To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
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noun
a means of enforcement
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Broader terms: means, agency, way
noun
toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
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Broader terms: structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
Narrower terms: denticle
noun
something resembling the tooth of an animal
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Broader terms: projection
Narrower terms: cog, sprocket
noun
one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
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noun
hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
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Broader terms: bone, os
Narrower terms: fang, tusk, conodont, chopper, pearly, carnassial tooth, front tooth, anterior, back tooth, posterior, malposed tooth, permanent tooth, adult tooth, primary tooth, deciduous tooth, baby tooth, milk tooth, canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid, premolar, bicuspid, incisor, molar, grinder
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h3ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h3dónts Proto-Germanic *tanþs Proto-West Germanic *tanþ Old English tōþ Middle English toth English tooth From Middle English toth, tothe, tooth, from Old English tōþ, from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h3dónts (“tooth”). Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine. Related to tusk. Cognates Cognate with Scots tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian Ter, teän, tosch, toske, tuis, tus, tusch, täis (“tooth”), Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Bavarian Zåhn (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Limburgish tandj (“tooth”), Luxembourgish Zant (“tooth”), Vilamovian cōn (“tooth”), Yiddish צאָן (tson, “tooth”), Danish and Swedish tand (“tooth”), Faroese tonn (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Norn *tann, *tant (“tooth”), Norwegian Bokmål tann (“tooth”), Norwegian Nynorsk tann, tonn (“tooth”), Breton and Welsh dant (“tooth”), Cornish dans (“tooth”), Irish déad (“tooth”), Scottish Gaelic deud (“tooth”), Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, and Spanish diente (“tooth”), Aragonese dien (“tooth”), Catalan and French dent (“tooth”), Galician, Italian, and Portuguese dente (“tooth”), Romanian dinte (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Lithuanian dantis (“tooth”), Belarusian дзясна́ (dzjasná, “gum”), Bulgarian and Russian десна (desna, “gum”), Czech dáseň (“gum”), Polish dziąsło (“gum”), Serbo-Croatian dȇsni (“gum”), Slovak ďasno (“gum”), Slovene dlesni (“gum”), Ukrainian я́сна (jásna, “gum”), Armenian ատամ (atam, “tooth”), Ossetian дӕндаг (dændag, “tooth”), Baluchi دنتان (dantán), دتھاں (dathān, “tooth”), Central Kurdish ددان (ddan, “tooth”), Northern Kurdish didan, diran (“tooth”), Persian دندان (dandân, “tooth”), Sanskrit दत् (dat), दन्त (danta, “tooth”).
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