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den·tist (  P  ) Pronunciation Key   (d n t st) n. A person who is trained and licensed to practice dentistry. [French dentiste , from dent , tooth , from Old French, from Latin d ns , dent- . See dent- in Indo-European Roots.]

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\Den"tist\, n. [From L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf. F. dentiste. See Tooth .] One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

Dentist

n : a person qualified to practice dentistry [syn: tooth doctor , dental practitioner ]

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tooth (  P  ) Pronunciation Key   (t th) n. pl. teeth (t th) One of a set of hard, bonelike structures rooted in sockets in the jaws of vertebrates, 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 structure in invertebrates, such as one of the pointed denticles or ridges on the exoskeleton of an arthropod or the shell of a mollusk. 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 dent 2 . A rough surface, as of paper or metal. Something that injures or destroys with force. Often used in the plural: the teeth of the blizzard. teeth Effective means of enforcement; muscle: “This... puts real teeth into something where there has been only lip service” (Ellen Convisser). Taste or appetite: She always had a sweet tooth. v. toothed, tooth·ing, tooths (t th, t th ) v. tr. To furnish (a tool, for example) with teeth. To make a jagged edge on. v. intr. To become interlocked; mesh. Idioms: get / sink (one's) teeth into Slang To be actively involved in; get a firm grasp of. show / bare (one's) teeth To express a readiness to fight; threaten defiantly. to the teeth Lacking nothing; completely: armed to the teeth; dressed to the teeth. [Middle English, from Old English t th . See dent- in Indo-European Roots.] Word History: Eating, biting, teeth, and dentists are related not only logically but etymologically; that is, the roots of the words eat, tooth, and dentist have a common origin. The Proto-Indo-European root *ed-, meaning “to eat” and the source of our word eat, originally meant “to bite.” A participial form of *ed- in this sense was *dent-, “biting,” which came to mean “tooth.” Our word tooth comes from *dont-, a form of *dent-, with sound changes that resulted in the Germanic word *tanthuz. This word became Old English t th and Modern English tooth. Meanwhile the Proto-Indo-European form *dent- itself became in Latin d ns (stem dent- ), “tooth,” from which is derived our word dentist. We find a descendant of another Proto-Indo-European form *(o)dont- in the word orthodontist.

teeth (  P  ) Pronunciation Key   (t th) n. Plural of tooth .

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\Teeth\, n., pl. of Tooth .

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\Teeth\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teethed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Teething .] To breed, or grow, teeth.

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Tooth \Tooth\, n.; pl. Teeth . [OE. toth,tooth, AS. t[=o][eth]; akin to OFries. t[=o]th, OS. & D. tand, OHG. zang, zan, G. zahn, Icel. t["o]nn, Sw. & Dan. tand, Goth. tumpus, Lith. dantis, W. dant, L. dens, dentis, Gr. 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, Skr. danta; probably originally the p. pr. of the verb to eat. [root]239. Cf. Eat , Dandelion , Dent the tooth of a wheel, Dental , Dentist , Indent , Tine of a fork, Tusk . ] 1. (Anat.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.

Note: The hard parts of teeth are principally made up of dentine, or ivory, and a very hard substance called enamel. These are variously combined in different animals. Each tooth consist of three parts, a crown, or body, projecting above the gum, one or more fangs imbedded in the jaw, and the neck, or intermediate part. In some animals one or more of the teeth are modified into tusks which project from the mouth, as in both sexes of the elephant and of the walrus, and in the male narwhal. In adult man there are thirty-two teeth, composed largely of dentine, but the crowns are covered with enamel, and the fangs with a layer of bone called cementum. Of the eight teeth on each half of each jaw, the two in front are incisors, then come one canine, cuspid, or dog tooth, two bicuspids, or false molars, and three molars, or grinding teeth. The milk, or temporary, teeth are only twenty in number, there being two incisors, one canine, and two molars on each half of each jaw. The last molars, or wisdom teeth, usually appear long after the others, and occasionally do not appear above the jaw at all.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child ! --Shak.

2. Fig.: Taste; palate.

These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. --Dryden.

3. Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

4. (a) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through. (b) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk .

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v : grow teeth, of babies