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Tooth vs Twoth - What's the difference?

tooth | twoth |

As a noun tooth

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

As a verb tooth

is to provide or furnish with teeth.

As an adjective twoth is

(nonstandard) second, in ordinal numbers higher than "twentieth".

tooth

English

(wikipedia tooth)

Noun

(teeth)
  • A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  • A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  • 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.
  • (botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  • (animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allow better adhesion of artwork.
  • (figurative) taste; palate
    • I have a sweet tooth : I love sugary treats.
  • * Dryden
    • These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth .

    Hyponyms

    * (structure in the mouth) bicuspid, canine, cuspid, incisor, premolar, molar * See also

    Derived terms

    * back tooth * clean as a hound's tooth * eyetooth * fight tooth and nail * long in the tooth * milk tooth * sweet tooth * teethe verb * toothache * tooth and nail * toothbrush * tooth fairy * toothless * toothpaste * toothpick * toothsome * toothlike * toothly * toothy * wisdom tooth

    See also

    (see also) * bicuspid * canine * cuspid * dental * dentist * denture * fang * incisor * molar * orling * premolar * prong * tine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide or furnish with teeth.
  • * (rfdate) (William Wordsworth)
    • The twin cards toothed with glittering wire.
  • To indent; to jag.
    • to tooth a saw
  • To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
    • (Moxon)

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words English nouns with irregular plurals

    twoth

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (nonstandard) second, in ordinal numbers higher than "twentieth"
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1872 , author= , title=Reminiscences of the Army , journal=The Cape monthly magazine , volume=5 , page=302 , passage=The colonel would then shout, "Twoty-twoth , form quarter distance column on the grenadier company." }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1905 , author=Joseph Wright , title=The English dialect grammar , page=269 , passage=In Dev. twoth' is used for ''second'', as ''the twenty-'''twoth of April . }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1905 , year_published=2009 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Annie Hamilton Donnell , title=Rebecca Marry , chapter=The Hundred and Oneth citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth . I've decided. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date= , year=1995 , month= , author=Christian Lükemeyer , coauthors=Tobias G. Noll , title=An Optimized Coefficient Update Processor for High-Throughput Adaptive Equalizers , volume= , issue= , page=PDF 2 , magazine=CiteSeerX , publisher=Penn. State University , issn= citation , passage=The computation of êk*xk-j is reduced to a controlled twoth complementer at the expense of a reduced adaptation speed. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Alan Black , title=Steel Walls and Dirt Drops , chapter= citation , genre=SciFi , publisher=Trafford Publishing , isbn=9781426914836 , page=13 , passage=Donnellson snorted to himself thinking of the las Third Level Commander that the old ninty-twoth had endured. }}

    Anagrams

    * English ordinal numbers