TEETH | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of teeth in English teethnoun uk /tiːθ/ us /tiːθ/ Add to word list Add to word list plural of tooth   Peter Cade/Stone/GettyImages The teeth

• baby tooth
• bicuspid
• buck-toothed
• cementum
• centric
• cingulum
• dentition
• erupt
• hydroxyapatite
• interdental
• labially
• lingually
• mesially
• milk tooth
• pulp cavity
• pulpal
• rictus
• snaggle-toothed
• snaggled
• wisdom tooth

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teeth

phrase [ plural ] effective force or power: This committee can make recommendations but it has no real teeth. That would give this initiative real teeth. It's time for them to show some real teeth and go after their opponents. Its critics say the law is without teeth. We lack animal cruelty laws with teeth. What we need is an energy bill that has teeth. See also tooth (POWER) (Definition of teeth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

teeth | American Dictionary

teethus /tiθ/

teeth (TOOTH)

Add to word list Add to word list pl of tooth teethplural noun us /tiθ/

teeth plural noun (POWER)

effective force or power: This committee can make recommendations but it has no real teeth to enforce them. (Definition of teeth from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of teeth?

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in Chinese (Traditional) （tooth 的複數）… See more in Chinese (Simplified) （tooth 的复数）… See more in Spanish plural de "tooth":, dientes… See more in Portuguese plural de "tooth"… See more in Japanese in Turkish in Polish in Catalan in Korean in Italian “tooth”（歯）の複数形… See more dişler… See more zęby… See more plural de “tooth”: dents… See more “tooth”의 복수… See more plurale di “tooth”… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of teeth

• tooth
• false teeth
• wisdom tooth
• eyetooth
• baby tooth
• buck teeth
• milk tooth

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• grind your teeth phrase
• gnashing of teeth idiom
• gnash your teeth idiom
• grit your teeth idiom
• kick in the teeth idiom
• like pulling teeth idiom
• armed to the teeth phrase

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