tooth
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 →
2) One of the sharp points on a comb, saw, or gear. tree →
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 →
- Brush your teeth twice a day. tree →
- A shark has hundreds of teeth. tree →
- Sugar can damage your teeth. tree →
- My tooth hurts, so we will see the dentist. tree →
- The saw has sharp teeth. tree →
- Grandpa has a sweet tooth. tree →
- Children have twenty baby teeth. tree →
- The witch began gnashing her teeth. tree →
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.
- Horse teeth keep growing out and wearing down on tough grass, so a vet can guess a horse's age from its teeth.
- A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.
- Porpoises are smaller cousins of dolphins with rounded heads, no long beak and spade-shaped teeth.
- Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime.
Trees and pragmatics
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