Tooth

[tuːθ] or [tuθ]

解释:

(noun.) a means of enforcement; 'the treaty had no teeth in it'.

(noun.) toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell.

(noun.) something resembling the tooth of an animal.

(noun.) one of a number of uniform projections on a gear.

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

弗洛整理--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

(n.) Fig.: Taste; palate.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.

(n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.

(n.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant

(n.) one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To furnish with teeth.

(v. t.) To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

(v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.

克莉丝汀编辑

解释:

n. one of the hard bodies in the mouth attached to the skeleton but not forming part of it developed from the dermis or true skin their function primarily the mastication of the food: the taste or palate relish: anything tooth-like: a prong: one of the projections on a saw or wheel:—pl. Teeth.—v.t. to furnish with teeth: to cut into teeth.—ns. Tooth′ache an ache or pain in a tooth; Tooth′-brush a brush for cleaning the teeth; Tooth′-draw′er (Shak.) one whose business is to extract teeth with instruments a dentist; Tooth′-draw′ing the act of extracting a tooth: the practice of extracting teeth.—adjs. Toothed having teeth: (bot.) having tooth-like projections on the edge as a leaf; Tooth′ful full of teeth.—n. a small drink of spirits &c.—adj. Tooth′less having no teeth.—ns. Tooth′-ornament a Romanesque and Early Pointed moulding consisting of a square four-leaved flower pointed in the centre; Tooth′pick an instrument for picking out anything in the teeth; Tooth′-pow′der a powder used with a tooth-brush for cleaning the teeth.—adj. Tooth′some pleasant to the taste.—ns. Tooth′someness; Tooth′-wash a liquid preparation for cleansing the teeth; Tooth′wort a name for LathréŽ?squamaria one of the insectivorous plants as well as for Dentaria bulbifera one of the Crucifer? common in England also known as 'coral-wort' and 'tooth-violet.'—adj. Tooth′y having teeth: toothsome: biting.—Tooth and nail with all possible vigour and fury.—A sweet tooth a relish for sweet things; In spite of one's teeth In the teeth of in defiance of opposition; Show one's teeth to threaten to show one's anger and power to injure; Throw Cast in one's teeth to fling at one as a taunt or in challenge; To the teeth (Shak.) in open opposition or defiance.

乔茜录入

例句:

安迪编辑

About(关于我们)|Sitemap(网站地图)

Copyright © 2018 EnMama.net. All rights reserved.