Fang vs. Tooth

Fangnoun

a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh

Fangnoun

a long pointed tooth for injecting venom

Fangnoun

A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.

Fangnoun

That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.

Fangnoun

Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.

Fangnoun

(mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.

Fangnoun

Cage-shuts.

Fangnoun

(nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.

Fangnoun

(nautical) The valve of a pump box.

Fangverb

(rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.

Fangverb

To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.

Fangverb

To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.

Fangverb

To take; receive with assent; accept.

Fangverb

To receive with hospitality; welcome.

Fangverb

To receive.

Fangverb

To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.

Fangverb

To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.

Fangverb

To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.

Fangverb

To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.

Fangnoun

The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.

Fangnoun

Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.

Fangnoun

The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.

Fangnoun

A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.

Fangnoun

A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.

Fangnoun

The valve of a pump box.

Fangnoun

a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon

Fangnoun

canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey

Fangnoun

hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison

Fang

A fang is a long, pointed tooth. In mammals, a fang is a modified maxillary tooth, used for biting and tearing flesh.

Toothnoun

A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.

Toothnoun

A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.

Toothnoun

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.

Toothnoun

(zoology) A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.

Toothnoun

(botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.

Toothnoun

(animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.

Toothnoun

(figurative) liking, fondness, appetite, taste, palate (compare toothsome)

Toothnoun

(algebraic geometry) An 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

To provide or furnish with teeth.

Toothverb

To indent; to jag.

Toothverb

To lock into each other, like gear wheels.

Toothnoun

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.

Toothnoun

Fig.: Taste; palate.

Toothnoun

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.

Toothnoun

A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.

Toothnoun

An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant

Toothnoun

Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.

Toothverb

To furnish with teeth.

Toothverb

To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

Toothverb

To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.

Toothnoun

hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

Toothnoun

something resembling the tooth of an animal

Toothnoun

toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell

Toothnoun

a means of enforcement;

Toothnoun

one of a number of uniform projections on a gear

Toothnoun

each of a set of hard, bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of most vertebrates, used for biting and chewing

Toothnoun

each of a number of hard, pointed structures in or around the mouth of some invertebrates, functioning in the physical breakdown of food.

Toothnoun

genuine power or effectiveness of an organization or in a law or agreement

Toothnoun

used in curses or exclamations

Toothnoun

a projecting part on a tool or other instrument, especially one of a series that function or engage together, such as a cog on a gearwheel or a point on a saw.

Toothnoun

a projecting part on an animal or plant, especially one of a jagged or dentate row on the margin of a leaf or shell.

Toothnoun

an appetite or liking for a particular thing

Toothnoun

roughness given to a surface to allow colour or glue to adhere

Tooth

A tooth (plural teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food. Some animals, particularly carnivores and omnivores, also use teeth to help with capturing or wounding prey, tearing food, for defensive purposes, to intimidate other animals often including their own, or to carry prey or their young.