tooths: význam a definice

One of a set of hard, bonelike structures in the mouths of vertebrates, usually attached to the jaw or rooted in sockets and typically composed of a core of soft pulp surrounded by a layer of hard dentin that is coated with cementum or enamel at the crown and used for biting or chewing food or as a means of attack or defense. A similar hard projection in an invertebrate, such as one of a set of projections on the hinge of a bivalve or on the radula of a snail.

A projecting part resembling a tooth in shape or function, as on a comb, gear, or saw.

A small, notched projection along a margin, especially of a leaf. Also called dent2.

A rough surface, as of paper or metal.

often Something that injures or destroys with force: the teeth of the blizzard. Effective means of enforcement; muscle:"This .. puts real teeth into something where there has been only lip service"(Ellen Convisser).

To furnish (a tool, for example) with teeth.

To make a jagged edge on.