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TOOTHING

Definition: TOOTHING

TOOTHING

Noun

1. Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up.

2. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Tooth

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TOOTHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

"TOOTHING" is a common misspelling or typo for: soothing, teething, tooting, toting.


Synonyms: TOOTHING

Synonyms by domain: cogging (mechanical engineering), tooth.

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Crosswords: TOOTHING

English words defined with "TOOTHING": Pectination. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TOOTHING": lantern gearmangle geartoothing of a driving sprocket. (references)

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Expressions: TOOTHING

Expressions using "TOOTHING": toothing of a driving sprocket Toothing plane. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TOOTHING

Language Translations for "TOOTHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

dhëmbëzim (dentation, indent, indentation, indention, scarring, serration, undercut). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تسنين (indentation). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

зъбно зацепване. (various references)

   

Danish

  

tand (tooth), fortanding (cogging, gear teeth, interlocking, teeth, tooth). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tandwerk (cogging, tooth), tanden (cogging, projections, spur, tooth), tand (tooth), vertanding (cogging, gear teeth, indentation, interlocking, off-set, serration, step, teeth, tooth). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tappihammastus (lantern gear, mangle gear, toothing of a driving sprocket), rällihammastus (lantern gear, mangle gear, toothing of a driving sprocket). (various references)

   

French

  

harpe, denture (tooth), dents (tooth), dentelure. (various references)

   

German

  

Zahnung (dentition), Zahn (cog, notch, perforation, periodontal, sprocket, tooth), zähnung (perforation, teeth), zähnen (perforate, tooth). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οδόντωση (indentation, indention, serration), δόντι (tooth). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fogazat (teeth, teething). (various references)

   

Italian

  

dente (cog, Fang, peg, prong, sprocket, tooth), dentatura (dentition, teeth). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

雁木 (escapement, hooked stick, stepped pier, toothing gear, zigzag). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

が"ぎ (escapement, foreplay, hooked stick, stepped pier, toothing gear, zigzag). (various references)

   

Manx

  

feeacklyn (teeth). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oothingtay

   

Portuguese

  

dentadura (teeth). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

зубчатое зацепление. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

snabdevanje zubima. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dientes (ivories, serrated edge, teeth), diente (cog, prong, tooth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TOOTHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-h-i-n-o-o-t-t"

-1 letter: hooting, hotting, tonight, tooting.

-2 letters: oohing, toting.

-3 letters: ingot, night, ohing, thing, thong, tight, tigon, tooth.

-4 letters: goon, hint, hong, hoot, into, nigh, onto, otto, thin, thio, ting, tint, toit, tong, toon, toot.

-5 letters: ghi, gin, git, goo, got, hin, hit, hog, hon, hot, ion, nit, nog, noh, noo, not, nth, oho, ooh, oot, tho.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-i-n-o-o-t-t"
 

+2 letters: hotfooting.

 

+3 letters: anthologist, ethnologist, outshooting, outshouting, outthrowing, potshotting.

 

+4 letters: anthologists, buttonholing, ethnologists, orthogenetic, outthrobbing, photosetting, photostating, technologist, trapshooting.

 

+5 letters: buttonhooking, ghettoization, ornithologist, orthogonality, photonegative, photostatting, technologists, thanatologies, thanatologist, toothbrushing, trapshootings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TOOTHING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 4F 54 48 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ---    ---    -    ....    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 01001111 01010100 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#79 &#84 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 004F 0054 0048 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449495442434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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