Tooth
[tuːθ] or [tuθ]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
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解釋/意思:
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.
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例句/造句/用法:
- At it they went, tooth and nail. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Some prefer a preparation in the form of a paste, as follows: =Cherry Tooth Paste. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- But she had made Fred feel for the first time something like the tooth of remorse. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- To cleanse use well-made brushes, soft quill, or wood toothpicks, an antacid styptic tooth wash, and precipitated chalk. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- It embodied a reciprocating saw tooth cutter _f_ sliding within double guard fingers _e_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Was it a sharp tooth, hey? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Couldn't you knock her cap off, or her tooth out, or scratch her, or do something or other to her? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- You've got a tooth among them halfpence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It really sounds as if she had fallen on him tooth and nail; but I suppose she is making the bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In swinging out in this way it must also swing in the other pallet arm, and that movement will bring it directly in front of another wheel tooth, so that the wheel can turn no further. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It gave you the face-ache to look at his apples, the stomach-ache to look at his oranges, the tooth-ache to look at his nuts. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I heard that he went to a dentist's in London on the Monday morning, and had a tooth out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The blanks, as the steel before it has teeth is called, are laid on the anvil and struck with the chisel, which rests obliquely on the blank, each blow raising a ridge or tooth. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He gnashed his teeth with rage, tore the hair from his head, and assailed with horrid imprecations the men who had been intrusted with the writ. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- As soon as his chattering teeth would let him speak, he smiled vacantly, and said he thought it must have been the Cramp. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The old woman's face was wrinkled; her two remaining teeth protruded over her under lip; and her eyes were bright and piercing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Why don't she ever sing to me--as she does to that baldheaded man with the large teeth? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Central incisors 5 to 8 months Lateral incisors 7 to 10 months First molars 12 to 16 months Canines 15 to 20 months Second molars 20 to 36 months _Permanent Teeth. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Double cultivators are constructed so that their outside teeth may be adjusted in and out from the centre of the machine to meet the width of the rows between which they operate. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The cat leaped down and ripped at a bundle of rags with her tigerish claws, with a sound that it set my teeth on edge to hear. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Machines with fine metal card teeth are now largely used for this purpose, and of which the planetary napping machine of Ott, patent No. 344,981, July 6, 1886, is an example. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Grinstone showed his teeth and laughed in her face with a familiarity that was not pleasant. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The raw cotton was put in a hopper, where it was met by the teeth of the saws, and torn from the seeds. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The hackle was a board with long, sharp steel teeth set in it. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I gnashed my teeth, and ground them together, uttering a groan that came from my inmost soul. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The first teeth of the infant are called the deciduous or _milk_ teeth, and are twenty in number--ten in each jaw. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I muttered between my teeth: you are no bad speaker, Zéliewhen you begin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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