Tooth vs Branch - What's the difference?

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Tooth is a related term of branch.

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 a proper noun branch is

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

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

branch

English

Alternative forms

Noun

(es) (wikipedia branch)

The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.

the branch of an antler, a chandelier, a river, or a railway

(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.

the branches of a hyperbola

A location of an organization with several locations.

Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.

the English branch of a family

* Carew

his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock

(Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see .

An area in business or of knowledge, research.

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(nautical) A certificate given by (Trinity House) to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.

(computer architecture) A sequence of .

Synonyms

* (part of a tree) bough, tillow, twig, see also

Verb

(es)

To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.

To produce branches.

To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.

(computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.