tool

Plural: tools

Noun

• an implement used in the practice of a vocation
• the means whereby some act is accomplished
  • "science has given us new tools to fight disease"
• a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
• obscene terms for penis
• Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
• Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
• Any piece of equipment used in a profession, such as a craftsman's.
• Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
• A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
• A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn.
• A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
• A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
• An obnoxious or uptight person.
• A handgun.

Verb

Verb Forms: tooled, tooling, tools

• To work, shape, or finish something with an implement.
• drive
  • "The convertible tooled down the street"
• ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
  • "We tooled down the street"
• furnish with tools
• work with a tool
• To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
• To equip with tools.
• To work very hard.
• To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
• To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
• To drive (a coach or other vehicle).
• To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
• To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

Examples

• a five-tool player
• A screwdriver is a tool that no household should be without.
• A spreadsheet app and a bookkeeping app are some of the principal tools of a bookkeeper.
• A stapler is a tool for attaching papers to others.
• A timing light is a tool that only an automotive mechanic, professional or amateur, would have.
• a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk
• Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.
• He was a tool of a foreign influence operation.
• He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.
• I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.
• Idleness is a tool of the devil.
• Rakes, shovels, hoes, and spades are some of the tools of the gardener's trade.
• Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.
• She decided to ’TOOL’ her opponents by playing a word they wouldn’t expect in Words With Friends.
• She was a tool of the pharmaceutical lobby.
• The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.
• the tools of the trade

Synonyms

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