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Definitions for Teeth

[1] plural of tooth.
[2] (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
[3] (in invertebrates) any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell.
[4] any projection resembling or suggesting a tooth.
[5] one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc.
[6] Machinery . any of the uniform projections on a gear or rack by which it drives, or is driven by, a gear, rack, or worm. any of the uniform projections on a sprocket by which it drives or is driven by a chain.
[7] Botany . any small, toothlike marginal lobe. one of the toothlike divisions of the peristome of mosses.
[8] a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency.
[9] taste, relish, or liking.
[10] a surface, as on a grinding wheel or sharpening stone, slightly roughened so as to increase friction with another part.
[11] a rough surface created on a paper made for charcoal drawing, watercolor, or the like, or on canvas for oil painting.
[12] to furnish with teeth.
[13] to cut teeth upon.
[14] to interlock, as cogwheels.
[15] the plural of tooth
[16] the most violent part the teeth of the gale
[17] the power to produce a desired effect that law has no teeth
[18] by the skin of one's teeth See skin (def. 14)
[19] get one's teeth into to become engrossed in
[20] in the teeth of in direct opposition to; against in the teeth of violent criticism he went ahead with his plan
[21] show one's teeth to threaten, esp in a defensive manner
[22] to the teeth to the greatest possible degree armed to the teeth
[23] any of various bonelike structures set in the jaws of most vertebrates and modified, according to the species, for biting, tearing, or chewing Related adjective: dental
[24] any of various similar structures in invertebrates, occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal
[25] anything resembling a tooth in shape, prominence, or function the tooth of a comb
[26] any of the various small indentations occurring on the margin of a leaf, petal, etc
[27] any one of a number of uniform projections on a gear, sprocket, rack, etc, by which drive is transmitted
[28] taste or appetite (esp in the phrase sweet tooth )
[29] long in the tooth old or ageing: used originally of horses, because their gums recede with age
[30] tooth and nail with ferocity and force we fought tooth and nail
[31] (tr) to provide with a tooth or teeth
[32] (intr) (of two gearwheels) to engage

Words related to Teeth

tooth, fangs, bridgework, ivories, dentition

Words nearby Teeth

tees, teesside, teeter, teeterboard, teetertotter, teeth, teeth grinding, teethe, teether, teething, teething ring

Origin of Teeth

oothbefore 900; Middle English; Old English tōth; cognate with Dutch tand, German Zahn, Old Norse tǫnn; akin to Gothic tunthus, Latin dēns, Greek odoús (Ionic odṓn ), Sanskrit dánta

Other words from Teeth

teeth·less , adjective
tooth·like , adjective

Word origin for Teeth

oothOld English tōth; related to Old Saxon tand, Old High German zand, Old Norse tonn, Gothic tunthus, Latin dens

Synonyms for Teeth

choppers, fangs, tooth, tusks