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# tooth

«tooth» in Mova's school dictionary: **One of the hard white parts in the mouth used to bite and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (tooth, teeth)

### meaning for a pupil

1) One of the hard white parts in the mouth used to bite and chew food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#m1)

2) One of the sharp points on a comb, saw, or gear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health, teeth help us eat; children have baby (milk) teeth that fall out and are replaced by adult teeth. Brush twice a day with fluoride toothpaste, floss, and visit the dentist; sugar feeds germs that make holes (cavities). Phrases: brush your teeth, baby tooth, wisdom tooth, sweet tooth (likes sweets), tooth fairy, toothbrush, toothache.

### examples

- I lost a tooth today! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#x1)
- Brush your teeth twice a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#x2)
- A shark has hundreds of teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#x3)
- Sugar can damage your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#x4)
- My tooth hurts, so we will see the dentist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#x5)
- The saw has sharp teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#x6)
- Grandpa has a sweet tooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#x7)
- Children have twenty baby teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#x8)
- The witch began gnashing her teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tooth/#x9)

### note

Irregular plural: one tooth, two teeth (not "tooths"). Children have 20 baby teeth; adults usually have 32. The tooth fairy is a game for children. Enamel, the outside of a tooth, is the hardest part of the body.

### In the corpora

- [Dentists check teeth every six months to a year to catch small problems, like holes, before they hurt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/11/)
- [Horse teeth keep growing out and wearing down on tough grass, so a vet can guess a horse's age from its teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/8/)
- [A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/9/)
- [Porpoises are smaller cousins of dolphins with rounded heads, no long beak and spade-shaped teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/11/)
- [Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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