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English

Image:20060513 toolbox.jpg|thumb|right|150 px|Several tools in a toolbox

Etymology

tōl

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
  2. : Hand me that tool, would you?
  3. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
  4. : These are the tools of the trade.
  5. A software to develop softwares or hardwares.
  6. : The software engineer had been developed lots of EDA tools.
  7. A complete idiot.
  8. : He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her.
  9. penis|Penis.
  10. A person who uncritically supports and assists established authority. See sellout.
  11. By association, any contemptible, inadequate, or unpleasant person.
  12. A person who is used in relationships for reasons other than love.


Derived terms


Translations

  • Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|инструмент|m|tr=instrumént|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Czech: {{t+|cs|nástroj|m}}
  • Danish: instrument , redskab
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|gereedschap|n}}, {{t+|nl|werktuig|n}}, {{t+|nl|instrument|n}}, {{t-|nl|hulpmiddel|n}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|outil|m}}
  • Galician: {{t-|gl|ferramenta|xs=Galician}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Werkzeug|n}}, {{t+|de|Gerät|n}}, {{t+|de|Instrument|n}}
  • Interlingua: instrumento
  • Italian: {{t-|it|arnese|m}}, {{t+|it|strumento|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|道具|tr=dōgu|sc=Jpan}}
  • Norwegian: {{t-|no|verktøy|n}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|narzędzie|n}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|instrumento|m}}, {{t+|pt|ferramenta|f}}
  • Romanian: {{t-|ro|sculă|f}}
  • Russian: инструмент (instrumént) , орудие труда (orúdije trudá)
  • Serbian: {{t+|sr|алат|m|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t-|sr|alat|m}}
  • Slovene: orodje
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|herramienta|f}}
  • Swahili: vifaa (noun 7,8)
  • Swedish:
  • Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|средство|n|tr=srédstvo|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Danish: værktøj
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|gereedschap|n}}, {{t+|nl|instrument|n}}
  • French: {{t+|fr|outil|m}}
  • Galician: {{t-|gl|ferramenta|xs=Galician}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Instrument|n}}
  • Interlingua: instrumento
  • Italian: {{t+|it|attrezzo|m}}, {{t+|it|strumento|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|道具|tr=dōgu|sc=Jpan}}, {{t|ja|工具|tr=kōgu|sc=Jpan}}
  • Norwegian: {{t-|no|verktøy|n}}, {{t+|no|redskap|n}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|narzędzie|n}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|instrumento|m}}, {{t+|pt|ferramenta|f}}
  • Russian: инструмент (instrumént) , средство (srédstvo)
  • Serbian: средство , sredstvo , прибор , pribor
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|herramienta|f}}, {{t+|es|utensilio|m}}
  • Swahili: vifaa (noun 7,8)
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|ツール|tr=tsūru|sc=Jpan}}
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|でくの坊|tr=deku-no-bō|sc=Jpan}}
  • Polish: idiota , idiotka
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|idiota|m}}
  • Danish: {{t+|da|pik|n}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|lul|n}}
  • Finnish:
  • German: {{t+|de|Teil|m}}
  • Italian: {{t-|it|arnese|m}}
  • Norwegian: {{t+|no|kuk|m}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|kutas|m}}
  • Romanian: {{t-|ro|sculă|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|прибор|m|tr=pribór|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ru|аппарат|m|tr=apparát|sc=Cyrl}}
  • French: {{t+|fr|mouton|m}}
  • Japanese: {{t-|ja|玩具|tr=gangu|sc=Jpan}}
  • Norwegian: {{t-|no|tøffel|m}}

Verb

  1. To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
  2. To equip with tools.
  3. To work very hard.
  4. In the Context of To intentionally attack the ball such that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.


Synonyms

;volleyball


Translations

  • Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|изработвам|tr=izrabotvam|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Catalan: donar forma
  • Danish: bearbejde
  • Dutch:
  • Finnish: työstää
  • French:

Anagrams


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Estonian

Etymology

From German Stuhl

Noun

tool

  1. chair


Category:Estonian nouns

ang:tool ast:tool de:tool et:tool fa:tool fr:tool io:tool it:tool ku:tool lo:tool hu:tool nl:tool pl:tool pt:tool ru:tool simple:tool sr:tool fi:tool sv:tool ta:tool te:tool vi:tool

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]l), 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.
[1913 Webster]

2. A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called
machine tool.
[1913 Webster]

3. Hence, any instrument of use or service.
[1913 Webster]

That angry fool . . .
Whipping her horse, did with his smarting tool
Oft whip her dainty self. --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]

4. A weapon. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

Him that is aghast of every tool. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

I was not made for a minion or a tool. --Burks.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tool \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.
[1913 Webster]

2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tool \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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet tool
n 1: an implement used in the practice of a vocation
2: the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was
the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us
new tools to fight disease" [syn: instrument]
3: a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform
unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: creature,
puppet]
4: obscene terms for penis [syn: cock, prick, dick, shaft,
pecker, peter, putz]
v 1: drive; "The convertible tooled down the street"
2: ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the
pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street" [syn: joyride,
tool around]
3: furnish with tools
4: work with a tool
Moby Dictionary
Charlie McCarthy , Federal , T square , adz , agency , agent , aid ,
amanuensis , ancilla , apparatus , apple-polisher , appliance ,
ass-licker , auto , autolithograph , avenue , awl , ax , backscratcher ,
backslapper , baggage agent , bale breaker , bar , battering ram ,
be a printmaker , bevel , bevel square , bodkin , bootlick , bootlicker ,
bradawl , bread knife , brown-nose , brownie , buffer , bushwhacker ,
business agent , butcher knife , calipers , cant hook , carve ,
carving knife , caulking iron , center punch , character , charioteer ,
chaser , chisel , chuck , chump , claim agent , clamp , clasp , clawback ,
cleaver , clerk , clinch , clip , clipper , clippers , commercial agent ,
commission agent , consignee , contraption , contrivance , courtier ,
cramp , crease , creature , cribble , cringer , crosshatch , crowbar ,
customer agent , cut , dagger , decorate , device , dibble , dividers ,
dog , dress , dummy , dupe , edger , electric sander ,
electric soldering iron , embellish , enchase , engrave , factor ,
fawner , fed , federal agent , file , flail , flatterer , flunky ,
footlicker , forceps , fork , freight agent , functionary , furrow ,
gadget , general agent , gimmick , gizmo , go-between , gouge , grab ,
grapnel , grapple , grappler , grappling iron , grave , grease gun ,
grindstone , grip , groove , groveler , hack , handmaid , handmaiden ,
handshaker , hatch , hatchet , hawk , helot , hireling , hoe , holdfast ,
hook , hunting knife , implement , incise , inscribe , instrument ,
instrumentality , insurance agent , interagent , intermediary ,
intermediate , intermedium , jack , jackal , jackknife , jackscrew ,
jaws , jointer , knife , kowtower , lackey , lance , lancet , land agent ,
lathe , law agent , led captain , letter-opener , level , lever ,
lickspit , lickspittle , line , literary agent , lithograph ,
loan agent , machete , machine , make prints , mark , mattock ,
mealymouth , means , mechanism , mechanize , mediator , medium , midwife ,
mill , minion , miter box , motor , motorize , nail file , nail puller ,
news agent , nippers , official , organ , ornament , palette knife ,
paper clip , paper cutter , paper knife , paring knife ,
parliamentary agent , passenger agent , pawn , peavey , penknife , peon ,
pick , pickax , pilot , pincers , pinch bar , pitchfork , planer ,
plaything , pliers , plowshare , press agent , print , puller , punch ,
punch pliers , puncheon , puppet , purchasing agent , putty knife , ram ,
rammer , ramrod , razor , razor blade , real estate agent , retool ,
ripping bar , road , sales agent , saw knife , sax , scalpel , scissors ,
scoop , score , scrape , scraper , scratch , screwdriver , scuffle hoe ,
sculpture , scythe , secretary , serf , servant , shape , shaper , share ,
sharpen , shears , sheath knife , sickle , sidecutters , slave , snips ,
soldering iron , spaniel , spatula , spear , special agent , spokeshave ,
square , stapler , station agent , steward , stipple , stooge , suck ,
sucker , surgical knife , sword , sycophant , table knife , tackle ,
tamp , tamper , tamping pick , tap , theatrical agent , ticket agent ,
timeserver , tire iron , tire tool , toad , toady , tongs , toy ,
travel agent , truckler , tufthunter , tweezers , utensil , vehicle ,
vise , walking delegate , way , weapon , wedge , wheel , work ,
wrecking bar , wrench , yes-man


TOOL [conference on] Technology of Object-Orientated Languages and Systems (OOP, conference)
Jargon tool 1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or
analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a
cross-referencing program. Oppose app, operating system; see also
toolchain. 2. [Unix] An application program with a simple,
`transparent' (typically text-stream) interface designed specifically to
be used in programmed combination with other tools (see filter,
plumbing). 3. [MIT: general to students there] vi. To work; to study
(connotes tedium). The TMRC Dictionary defined this as "to set one's
brain to the grindstone". See hack. 4. n. [MIT] A student who studies
too much and hacks too little. (MIT's student humor magazine rejoices in
the name "Tool and Die".)


FOLDOC tool

1. A program used primarily to create, manipulate,
modify, or analyse other programs, such as a compiler or an
editor or a cross-referencing program. Opposite: app,
operating system.

2. A Unix application program with a simple, "transparent"
(typically text-stream) interface designed specifically to be
used in programmed combination with other tools (see filter,
plumbing).

3. (MIT: general to students there) To work; to
study (connotes tedium). The TMRC Dictionary defined this
as "to set one's brain to the grindstone". See hack.

4. (MIT) A student who studies too much and
hacks too little. MIT's student humour magazine rejoices in
the name "Tool and Die".

[Jargon File]

(1996-12-12)


Tool, TX (city, FIPS 73352) Location: 32.28025 N, 96.17242 W Population (1990): 1712 (1354 housing units) Area: 9.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Moby Dictionary 2275
Housing Units (2000): 1416
Land area (2000): 3.607782 sq. miles (9.344112 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.015894 sq. miles (0.041166 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.623676 sq. miles (9.385278 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73352
Located within: Texas (TX) , FIPS 48
Location: 32.280459 N , 96.172678 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tool , TX
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