What's the difference between teeth and tusk?

Teeth


Definition:

  • (n.) pl. of Tooth.
  • (v. i.) To breed, or grow, teeth.
  • (pl. ) of Tooth

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The proportion of teeth per child with calculus was approximately 8 percent for supragingival and 4 percent for subgingival calculus.
  • (2) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
  • (3) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
  • (4) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
  • (5) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
  • (6) The teeth were embedded in phenolic rings with acrylic resin.
  • (7) In self-opinions on own appearance the children mentioned teeth as a feature which they would like to change as first.
  • (8) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
  • (9) With the teeth in occlusion, lip separation was reduced.
  • (10) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
  • (11) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
  • (12) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
  • (13) In only two of the killed and four of the hospitalized persons, reports of intact canine teeth as demonstrated by the typical lesions were available.
  • (14) Oral Guedel airways do not necessarily protect the patient's teeth during inhalation anesthesia.
  • (15) Based on the findings of our recent longitudinal study on the abnormalities of the dentition in cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD), a hypothesis has been proposed, which makes it possible to predict time of onset of formation of supernumerary teeth and their location in the jaws.
  • (16) The teeth of 13 dental nurse students were brushed by a dental hygienist.
  • (17) In each subject, 4 teeth were randomly selected for assessment.
  • (18) The roots of the incisor teeth should, if possible, be placed accurately in this zone and a method of achieving this is suggested.
  • (19) This short paper includes extracts from the original translations of Leeuwenhoek's descriptions of the histology of teeth, investigates his findings and demonstrates that in addition to describing dentinal tubules, he may have identified the presence of calcospherites within that tissue.
  • (20) An unusual and extremely rare displacement of teeth due to trauma, resulting in cervical space cellulitis with probable secondary complications is presented.

Tusk


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Torsk.
  • (n.) One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
  • (n.) A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
  • (n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.
  • (v. i.) To bare or gnash the teeth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The European council president, Donald Tusk, said the incident underlined the importance of EU attempts to revamp Europe’s border force.
  • (2) Civic Platform, led for most of its existence by Donald Tusk before he became president of the European Council, included many of the liberal architects of the post-1989 republic and their supporters – those who had negotiated the transition, those who determined its free-market economic model, those who established a conciliatory tone and pro-European orientation in foreign policy, those who negotiated the constitutional settlement reached in 1997.
  • (3) The two men appear to be discussing Tusk's fallout with Cameron over the latter's proposals to curb access to benefits: "What the fuck are they on about with these benefits?"
  • (4) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
  • (5) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
  • (6) "The PM and Prime Minister Tusk discussed the EU targeted measures approved today and agreed that the EU should continue to look at the ways it can promote a peaceful and democratic settlement in Ukraine, recognising that continued violence will make it harder to reassure all Ukrainians that their legitimate aspirations will be realised."
  • (7) Tusk added that Eurozone finance ministers could endorse cash in return for the proposed tax and pension reforms by Wednesday evening.
  • (8) EU renegotiation: UK wins partial concession on migrant worker benefits Read more In a major boost to David Cameron, who laid the ground for a short referendum campaign to keep Britain in a reformed EU after Donald Tusk published his proposals, the home secretary said progress had been made in the negotiations.
  • (9) She wants it to be a smooth, constructive, orderly process.” With speculation rife about how Britain plans to conduct the negotiations, Tusk wants to avoid a discussion and will not invite other EU leaders to respond.
  • (10) Tusk offered a declaration that the UK is “not committed to further political integration”.
  • (11) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
  • (12) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
  • (13) It shows how important our discussion was … We are ready to help rebuilding of control of our external borders,” European council president Donald Tusk said in Brussels.
  • (14) To say that it is a Pandora’s Box is too little.” Tusk’s comments were the first delivered publicly on the British issue since he took office as European council president in December.
  • (15) Updated at 8.22am GMT 7.40am GMT Coming up at Davos Here's an agenda: • 9.30am CET (8.30am GMT): Henry Kissinger speaks on “The state of the world” • 10.30am CET: David Cameron gives a "special address" • 11am CET: Enda Kenny, Mario Monti, Mark Rutte and Donald Tusk discuss the eurozone crisis • 2.15pm CET: Angela Merkel gives a "special address" • 2.45pm: George Osborne discusses an "economic insight" (your guess is as good as ours!)
  • (16) First, because of the shape of the growth curve of tusks with age, the conversion factor that relates the number of elephants killed to the ivory yield in weight is not constant, but a function of the population size.
  • (17) Florian Siepert (@siepert) @Simon_Burnton As Hungary has neither a coast nor tusked mammals, Ivory Coast translates as Elephant Bone Bank in Hungarian.
  • (18) Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits as president of the European council, said the EU should agree to share at least 100,000 refugees.
  • (19) There the message is that everything in the Tusk-Cameron document is marginal, even meaningless, though simultaneously a threat to our whole way of life.
  • (20) This tusk specimen contains a metal spear with a wooden component, which is surrounded by a quiver-like osseous encasement.