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Definition: Toothpaste |
ToothpasteNoun1. A dentifrice in the form of a paste. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Toothpaste is a paste used, almost always in conjunction with a toothbrush, to clean teeth.The earliest known reference to a toothpaste is in a manuscript from Egypt in the 4th century A.D., which perscribes a mixture of powdered salt, pepper, mint leaves, and iris flowers. Many early toothpaste formulations were based on urine. However the use of toothpastes or powders did not come into general use until the 19th century.
In the early 19th century the toothbrush was usually used only with water, but tooth powders soon gained popularity. Most were home made, chalk, pulverized brick, and salt being common ingredients. An 1866 Home Cyclopedia recommended pulverized charcoal, and cautioned that many patented tooth powders then commercially marketed did more harm than good.
By 1900, baking soda made into a paste by adding a small amount of hydrogen peroxide solution was recommended. Pre-mixed toothpastes were first marketed in the 19th century, but did not surpass the popularity of tooth-powder until about the time of the World War I.
Fluoride started to be added to toothpastes in the 1950s.
External Links
- Teeth Whitening Products
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Toothpaste."
Crosswords: Toothpaste |
| English words defined with "toothpaste": hexachlorophene ♦ stannous fluoride. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "toothpaste": FILTER-TANK OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Any world that can produce the Taj Mahal, William Shakespeare, and striped toothpaste can't be all bad. (One, Two, Three; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; Billy Wilder) Where the witch makes poisoned red apples to advertise the toothpaste movie stars use. (Diva; writing credit: Jean-Jacques Beineix; Daniel Odier) The Admiral John J. Finchley award for delivering more toothpaste and toilet paper than any other Navy cargo ship in the safe area of the Pacific (Mister Roberts; writing credit: Thomas Heggen; Joshua Logan) | |
Lyrics | You can use the latest toothpaste, (Pollution; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Toothpaste (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Showing a toothbrush, toothpaste and a smile]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Brushing teeth; tooth; dental; dentifrice; toothpaste; cavities; cavity; floss; oral hygiene; mouth; gums; gingivitis; periodontal; periodontist; dentist; molar; incisor; bicuspid. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Earl Wilson | Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Use a fluoride toothpaste to protect teeth from decay. (references) | |
Regular brushing -- with fluoride toothpaste -- and flossing also help prevent tooth decay. (references) | ||
Ask your doctor, nurse, or dentist to suggest a special kind of toothbrush and/or toothpaste if your gums are very sensitive. (references) | ||
Business | Imports cover half of the total toothpaste market. (references) | |
Russian-made toothpaste is very competitive in terms of prices. (references) | ||
A tube of Rusian-made toothpaste costs only 10-12 rubles, or less than 50 cents. (references) | ||
Economic History | Senegal | The surge in U.S. direct investment was primarily due to the $68 million GE Capital power station and to Colgate-Palmolive's investment in a new toothpaste and glycerin plant. (references) |
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| "Toothpaste" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.90% of the time. "Toothpaste" is used about 164 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) | 93.9% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.88% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 164 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 "toothpaste"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pastë dhëmbësh (dentifrice). (various references) | |
Arabic | معجون أسنان. (various references) | |
Asturian | pastia dientes. (various references) | |
Bemba | umuti wameno. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | паста за зъби (dentifrice). (various references) | |
Cebuano | tutpest. (various references) | |
Chamorro | amot guesgues nifen. (various references) | |
Chinese | 牙膏 . (various references) | |
Czech | pasta na zuby. (various references) | |
Danish | tandpasta (tooth-paste). (various references) | |
Dutch | tandpasta (tooth-paste). (various references) | |
Faeroese | tannkrem. (various references) | |
Farsi | خمیردندان (Dentifrice). (various references) | |
Finnish | hammastahna (tooth-paste). (various references) | |
French | pâte dentifrice. (various references) | |
Frisian | toskboarstelersguod. (various references) | |
German | Zahnpasta (tooth-paste), Zahnpaste (dentifrice, tooth-paste). (various references) | |
Greek | οδοντόπαστα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משחת שי ים (dentifrice). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fogkrém (dentifrice). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | kigutisiut immanga. (various references) | |
Italian | dentifricio (dentifrice). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 練り歯磨き , 歯磨き (dentifrice), 歯磨 (dentifrice). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねりはみがき, はみがき (dentifrice). (various references) | |
Korean | 치약. (various references) | |
Macedonian | pasta za zabi. (various references) | |
Manx | sooslagh feeackle. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oothpastetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pasta dentífrica (dentifrice). (various references) | |
Provencal | dentifrici. (various references) | |
Romansch | pasta da dents. (various references) | |
Russian | зубной паста (dentifrice), зубная паста (dentifrice, tooth-paste). (various references) | |
Samoan | mea fulunifo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pasta za zube (dentifrice, tooth-paste). (various references) | |
Sicilian | pasta dentifricia. (various references) | |
Spanish | pasta dentífrica, pasta de dientes. (various references) | |
Swedish | tandpasta, tandkräm (dentifrice, tooth-paste). (various references) | |
Turkish | diş macunu (dentifrice). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зубна паста (dentifrice). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "toothpaste": toothpastes. (additional references) | |
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"Toothpaste" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: toothepaste. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "toothpaste" (pronounced tuw"thpā'st) |
| 4 | -p ā' s t | outpaced. |
| 3 | -ā' s t | aftertaste, showcased. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-o-o-p-s-t-t-t" | |
-1 letter: osteopath, photostat. | |
-2 letters: photoset, postheat, potatoes. | |
-3 letters: hotspot, hottest, potshot, tattoos, teapots, teashop. | |
-4 letters: aptest, attest, pathos, photos, potash, potato, pottos, sapote, soothe, spathe, tattoo, teapot, thetas, tooths, tophes. | |
-5 letters: ephas, estop, ethos, haets, haste, hates, heaps, heats, hoops, hoots, hopes, hosta, oaths, opahs, ottos, paseo, paste, pates, paths, peats, pesto, petto, phase, photo, phots. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-o-o-p-s-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: photostated, toothpastes. | |
+2 letters: photostatted. | |
+3 letters: photosynthate. | |
+4 letters: photosynthates. | |
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