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# toothpaste

«toothpaste» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft paste that you put on a toothbrush to clean your…** — 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 (toothpaste — uncountable; a toothpaste, toothpastes for types)

### meaning for a pupil

Toothpaste is a soft paste that you put on a toothbrush to clean your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toothpaste/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In health and hygiene, you brush your teeth twice a day for two minutes with toothpaste that has fluoride, which makes teeth strong and stops holes (cavities). Children need only a small pea-sized amount, and should spit it out, not swallow it. You can rinse lightly or not at all after brushing so the fluoride keeps working. In everyday life a «tube of toothpaste» is squeezed from the bottom.

### examples

- Put a pea-sized blob of toothpaste on your brush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toothpaste/#x1)
- Don't swallow the toothpaste; spit it out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toothpaste/#x2)
- We've run out of toothpaste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toothpaste/#x3)
- This toothpaste tastes of mint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toothpaste/#x4)
- Fluoride toothpaste helps stop tooth decay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toothpaste/#x5)
- Squeeze the tube of toothpaste from the bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toothpaste/#x6)
- My little brother likes strawberry toothpaste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toothpaste/#x7)

### note

Usually uncountable: «some toothpaste», «a tube of toothpaste». One word: toothpaste. Swallowing a lot of toothpaste is not good, especially for small children. Toothpaste is not for cleaning cuts or burns (a myth says it helps burns — it does not; use cool running water).

### In the corpora

- [Some things are tricky: toothpaste, ketchup and cornflour slime behave like a solid one moment and a liquid the next.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/4/)
- [Toothpaste and ketchup are fine solid bits in a liquid; they sit still until pushed hard enough, then flow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/11/)
- [Bacteria on teeth make acid from sugar, which damages enamel; toothpaste is slightly alkaline, and fluoride in it makes enamel tougher.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/11/)
- [Food, rubbish and even toothpaste must be stored away from bears at a campsite.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/12/)
- [After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse straight away, so the fluoride keeps protecting the teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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