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tooth

noun
/tuːθ/UK/tuθ/US/tʊθ/

Etymology

From Middle English tothe, toth, tooth, from Old English tōþ (“tooth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ (“tooth”), from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Related to tusk. Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine. 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”).

  1. inherited from *h₃dónts✻
  2. inherited from *tanþs✻
  3. inherited from *tanþ✻
  4. inherited from tōþ
  5. inherited from tothe

Definitions

  1. A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally…

    A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.

    • tooth decay

  2. A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.

  3. A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent…

    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.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.

      • Jute has more tooth than polypropylene.

    2. A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate…

      A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.

      • 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

    3. A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.

    4. The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of…

      The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.

    5. Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).

      • I have a sweet tooth: I love sugary treats.
      • These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth

    6. An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that…

      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.

    7. To provide or furnish with teeth.

      • His Wife sate near him, teasing matted wool, / While, from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire / He fed the spindle […]

    8. To indent

      To indent; to jag.

      • to tooth a saw

    9. To lock into each other, like gear wheels.

    10. A surname.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tooth. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tooth. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at tooth

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA