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Tool Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Tool?
[n] the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease"
[n] an implement used in the practice of a vocation [n] obscene terms for penis [n] a person who is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [v] work with a tool [v] ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it [v] informal: drive (a vehicle); "The convertible tooled down the street" [v] furnish with tools Synonyms | Synonyms for Tool: cock | creature | dick | instrument | joyride | pecker | peter | prick | puppet | shaft | tool around Related Terms | Find terms related to Tool: See Also | abradant | abrader | agency | bender | comb | cutting implement | drill | drive | eolith | fork | furnish | gang | garden tool | grapnel | grapple | grappler | grappling hook | grappling iron | hand tool | hoe | implement | jack | Jaws of Life | lawn tool | means | member | muller | neolith | paleolith | penis | pestle | phallus | plough | plow | pounder | power tool | process | provide | punch | puncher | rake | ram | render | ride | rounder | saw set | shaping tool | slave | style | stylus | supply | tamp | tamper | tap | way | work | work on Tool In Webster's Dictionary \Tool\ (t[=oo]l), v. i. [Cf. {Tool}, v. t., 2.]
To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. [Colloq.]
Boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept
roads. --Illust.
American.
\Tool\, n. [OE. tol,tool. AS. t[=o]l; akin to Icel. t[=o]l, Goth. taijan to do, to make, taui deed, work, and perhaps to E. taw to dress leather. [root]64.] 1. An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work. 2. A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called {machine tool}. 3. Hence, any instrument of use or service. That angry fool . . . Whipping her horse, did with his smarting tool Oft whip her dainty self. --Spenser. 4. A weapon. [Obs.] Him that is aghast of every tool. --Chaucer. 5. A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes. I was not made for a minion or a tool. --Burks. \Tool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {tooling}.] 1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. ``Elaborately tooled.'' --Ld. Lytton. 2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.] |
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