Dentine

Definitions: Dentine

Dentine

Noun

1. A calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth.

2. Bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth.

Etymology: Dentine \Den"tine\, noun. [Compare to the French expression dentine.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Dentine

Synonym: dentin (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Dentine

English words defined with "dentine": Dential ♦ Interglobular, ivory ♦ Odontoblast ♦ Plicidentine ♦ tusk ♦ Vasodentine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dentine": Dental Enamel Hypoplasia. (references)

Etymologies containing "dentine": Plicidentine ♦ Vasodentine. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Dentine" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (dentine).

Domain	Title
Books	Dentine and Dentine Reactions in the Oral Cavity: Proceedings (reference) Glycoconjugates in Dentinogenesis and Dentine (reference) The biology of pulp and dentine : a historic, terminologic-taxonomic, histologic-biochemical, embryonic and clinical survey (reference) (more book examples)
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"Dentine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "Dentine" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	85%	17	85,106
Adjective (general or positive)	15%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "dentine": acrylic-dentine, enamel-dentine.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "dentine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏العاجين عاج الأسنان. (various references)

Chinese		牙质 (dentin). (various references)

Danish		dentinogen substans (dentinogenous substance, irritant dentine, secondary dentine), dentinliquor (dentine liquor), dentin-impraegnering (dentine cauterization, dentine impregnation), sekundaer-dentin (secondary dentine), secundaer-dentin (secondary dentine), primaer dentin (primary dentine), praedentin (dentinogenous substance, dentinoid, irritant dentine, secondary dentine), opalescent dentin (opalescent dentine). (various references)

Dutch		primaire dentine (primary dentine). (various references)

Finnish		hammasluu. (various references)

French		dentine. (various references)

German		Dentinscherbchen (primary dentine), dentinogene Substanz (dentinogenous substance, irritant dentine, secondary dentine), Dentinliquor (dentine liquor), Dentinimpraegnierung (dentine cauterization, dentine impregnation), Zirkumpulpärdentin (circumpulpar dentine), Sekundärdentin (secondary dentine), Schutzdentin (secondary dentine), opaleszierendes Dentin (opalescent dentine), irreguläres Reiz- (secondary dentine), Ersatz- (secondary dentine). (various references)

Greek		οπαλίζουσα οδοντίνη (opalescent dentine), οδοντικός καυτηριασμός (dentine cauterization, dentine impregnation), οδοντινικό υγρό (dentine liquor), οδοντίνη σχηματισθείσα προ της εκφύσεως του οδόντος (primary dentine), δευτερογενής οδοντίνη (dentinogenous substance, irritant dentine, secondary dentine). (various references)

Italian		dentina secondaria (secondary dentine), dentina primitiva (primary dentine), dentina avventizia (secondary dentine). (various references)

Korean		상아질 (dentin). (various references)

Manx		iuaagagh (ivory). (various references)

Pig Latin		entineday

Portuguese		dentina (dentil). (various references)

Romanian		dentinã. (various references)

Russian		дентин (dentin). (various references)

Spanish		dentina. (various references)

Swedish		tandben. (various references)

Turkish		diş kemiği, dentin. (various references)

Ukranian		дентин. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dentine": dentines. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dentine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dancienne, dandini, Danthine, denien, denine, denined, Denstone, dentene, dentent, dentente, denteyne, denti, dentiene, dentiger, dentite, dentrin, Dentune, dentyne, Denzin, detane, Diktene, dintorni, Dunsinea, Duntinnie, Lentinue. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dentine" (pronounced de"ntēn)
3	-t ē n	lipoprotein, pristine.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-n-t"
	-1 letter: dentin, endite, indene, indent, intend, tinned.
	-2 letters: diene, inned, teind, tined.
	-3 letters: deet, dene, deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dite, edit, eide, need, nene, nide, nine, nite, teed, teen, tend, tide, tied, tine.
	-4 letters: dee, den, die, din, dit, end, inn, nee, net, nit, ted, tee, ten, tie, tin.
	-5 letters: de, ed, en, et, id.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-n-n-t"
	+1 letter: dentines, desinent, entwined, indecent, indented, indenter, intended, intender, interned, invented.
	+2 letters: dementing, detention, entrained, extending, impendent, indenters, indenture, intendeds, intenders, interlend, internode, mentioned, netminder, tendering, tensioned.
	+3 letters: anteceding, antependia, coinvented, decentring, definement, delinquent, denegation, denominate, designment, detainment, detentions, dinnertime, emendating, emendation, enunciated, indecenter, indecently, indefinite, indentured, indentures, inducement, ingredient, innervated, intendance, intendedly, intendment, interlends, interlined, intermedin, internodes, intervened, intrenched, netminders, pendentive, pretending, reanointed, reinvented, sentineled, tendencies, tenderloin, trendiness, uninfected, unintended.
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