different between dentistry vs kahuna

English

Etymology

From dentist +? -ry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?nt?st?i/

Noun

dentistry (usually uncountable, plural dentistries)

1. (uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.
   • 1997, P.B. Waite, The Lives of Dalhousie University, volume II: 1925-198, page 24:

     He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878.
2. (uncountable) Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges.
3. (countable) A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth.
   • 1908, in the report of the Second International Congress on School Hygiene, volume 2, page 516:

     Dr. Landsberg, of Posen, states that when children's teeth are put in order by means of school dentistries, anaemia, one of the most frequent school diseases, will be greatly diminished.
4. (countable) A place where dental operations are performed. (Not as common as "dentist's office". Compare surgery.)
   • 1867, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 16, page 464

     They are very fond of sweet things; and the ladies especially crowd the “candystores,” which are not less numerous than the dentistries—with which business they are intimately connected.

   • 2003, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: First Review ?ISBN:

     As a first step, the law with be amended to prepare for the privatization of pharmacies and dentistries by end-2003.

Quotations

• 2000, The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z (Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Joy Dorothy Harvey), page 1271:

  Lucy specialized in the dentistry of women and children.

• 2011, Phyllis J. Perry, Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Colorado History, page 75:

  In 1873 Holliday moved to Dallas, Texas, and opened a dentist's office there. At this time he began to gamble heavily and soon found gambling more lucrative than his dentistry.

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dentistry.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of dental terms

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian kahuna (“shaman, wizard”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??hu?n?/
• Rhymes: -u?n?

Noun

kahuna (plural kahunas or kahuna)

1. (Hawaii) A priest or priestess of the traditional Hawaiian religion.
   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 230:

     They were k?huna, practitioners of the old Hawaiian religion, apparently offering themselves as sacrifices to appease the gods so that the queen would be restored.

2. (surfing) A great surfer.

Derived terms

• big kahuna

Anagrams

• Hanuka

Hawaiian

Etymology

Compound of kahu (“guardian, master”) +? -na (nominalizing suffix; compare Maori -nga).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?hu.na/, [k??hun?]

Noun

kahuna (irregular plural k?huna)

1. priest, sorcerer, magician, minister, wizard
2. expert in any profession (doctors, surgeons, dentists were referred to as such in the 1845 laws)

Derived terms

• ho?okahuna