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You can picture the hard white things set in a row inside your mouth: they bite into food, grip it, and grind it down. Almost everything else this word does comes from two features of that one picture — a row of hard pointed parts along an edge, and the power to bite and to hold on.
可以想成嘴裡那一排硬硬白白的東西：它咬進食物、夾住不放、把東西磨碎。這個字後面幾乎所有用法，都是從這一個畫面的兩個特…更多收起
可以想成嘴裡那一排硬硬白白的東西：它咬進食物、夾住不放、把東西磨碎。這個字後面幾乎所有用法，都是從這一個畫面的兩個特點長出來的——一是「沿著邊緣排成一排的硬尖東西」，二是「咬得下去、咬得住」的力量。原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Toothname
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A surname.
toothnoun/tuːθ/
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A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
- tooth decay
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A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
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A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
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Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
- Jute has more tooth than polypropylene.
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyA projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
- Species XXXVI. Obliquaria bullata— (Unio bullata) […] Found at the falls of Ohio; rare; breadth almost two inches; cardinal and lamellar teeth like preceding species; apices rounded, decorticated, but not truncated
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
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The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
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Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
- I have a sweet tooth: I love sugary treats.
- These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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algebraic-geometrygeometrymathematicsAn irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
toothverb/tuːθ/
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To provide or furnish with teeth.
- His Wife sate near him, teasing matted wool, / While, from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire / He fed the spindle […]
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To indent; to jag.
- to tooth a saw
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To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
- Whereas if the Header of one side of the wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing, and the joints of the Header on one side, would be in the middle of the Headers of the course they lie upon of the other side
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。