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# dental

«dental» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **about teeth or about looking after teeth** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (dental)

### meaning for a pupil

Dental means about teeth or about looking after teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dental/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it names the letters said with the teeth. Interpretation: The book sorts the twenty-two letters by where they are made in the mouth. Tradition sees these places as part of how God made the world with letters. In the primary lessons: In health and everyday life, children visit the dental surgery for check-ups, use dental floss and learn dental hygiene (brushing twice a day). In science, dental means relating to teeth in a body. Phrases: dental check-up, dental floss, dental care, dental nurse, dental hygiene.

### examples

- This is the modern classification of the letters into guttural, palatal, lingual, dental and labial sounds. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dental/#x1)
- Twenty-two letters are formed by the voice, impressed on the air, and audibly uttered in five situations, in the throat, guttural sounds; in the palate, palatals; by the tongue, linguals; through the teeth, dentals; and by the lips, labial sounds. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dental/#x2)
- I have a dental check-up next week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dental/#x3)
- Use dental floss to clean between your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dental/#x4)
- Good dental hygiene stops tooth decay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dental/#x5)
- The dental nurse gave me a sticker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dental/#x6)
- Sugar is bad for dental health. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dental/#x7)
- The dentist took a dental X-ray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dental/#x8)

### note

Adjective only, comes before a noun (dental care). Not comparable. Related: dentist, dentistry. Spelt «dental», not «dentle».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dental» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dental/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.