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long in tooth

/tooth/US // tuθ //UK // (tuːθ) //

长舌妇,嘴馋,嘴馋的人,嘴硬的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    toothed [tootht, toothd], /tuθt, tuðd/, tooth·ing [too-thing, -thing]. /ˈtu θɪŋ, -ðɪŋ/.

    • : to furnish with teeth.
    • : to cut teeth upon.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    toothed [tootht, toothd], /tuθt, tuðd/, tooth·ing [too-thing, -thing]. /ˈtu θɪŋ, -ðɪŋ/.

    • : to interlock, as cogwheels.

Phrases

  • tooth fairy
  • fight tooth and nail
  • fine-tooth comb
  • long in the tooth
  • sweet tooth

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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.

  • If a man has made the tooth of a man that is his equal to fall out, one shall make his tooth fall out.