set one's teeth
镶牙,镶齿,咬牙切齿,镶边
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Definitions
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plural teeth.
- : one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
- : any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell.
- : any projection resembling or suggesting a tooth.
- : one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc.
- : Machinery. any of the uniform projections on a gear or rack by which it drives, or is driven by, a gear, rack, or worm.any of the uniform projections on a sprocket by which it drives or is driven by a chain.
- : Botany. any small, toothlike marginal lobe.one of the toothlike divisions of the peristome of mosses.
- : a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency.
- : taste, relish, or liking.
- : a surface, as on a grinding wheel or sharpening stone, slightly roughened so as to increase friction with another part.
- : a rough surface created on a paper made for charcoal drawing, watercolor, or the like, or on canvas for oil painting.
Phrases
- tooth fairy
- fight tooth and nail
- fine-tooth comb
- long in the tooth
- sweet tooth
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
After graduating from Kalamazoo College, he cut his teeth at Second City in Chicago and eventually moved to Los Angeles.
Think about how much easier it is to pull an apple from a tree using hands rather than with your teeth.
Shark teeth cut into flesh on jaws that extend outwards towards prey independently of the skull.
If soft tissue or teeth from bobbit worms were found preserved inside a burrow, that would confirm that these animals were living in the area 20 million years ago.
Crooked teeth, cut-open faces and bloodied attire is no match for you and your camera skills.
Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
As a means of preventing tooth decay in those cities that do fluoridate, the practice certainly looks like a success.
For all of the bellyaching, tooth gnashing, and public wailing, Democrats have no one to blame but themselves.
This award is fought over tooth-and-nail each year by political consultants from sea to shining sea.
Spooky Tooth had reformed quite a while before I received the call and were touring quite often.
The exhaust-valve is exactly as when it was put in, worked by a rack-and-tooth segment.
An Irish housemaid who was sent to call a gentleman to dinner, found him engaged in using a tooth-brush.
An immense number of pilgrims come here every year to pay their adoration to this divine tooth.
If he has made the tooth of a poor man to fall out, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.