tool
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)tools
- an implement used in the practice of a vocationType of implementKinds power tool, hand tool, plow, fork, hoe, gang, tap, eolith, clincher, bender +25 more
- the means whereby some act is accomplished“my greed was the instrument of my destruction”“science has given us new tools to fight disease”Synonyms: instrumentType of means, agency
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone elseSynonyms: creaturepuppetType of slave
- obscene terms for penisSynonyms: cockprickdickshaftpeckerputzType of penis, phallus
Verb (4)tools, tooled, tooling
- drive“The convertible tooled down the street”More general driveSimilar joyride, tool around
- ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it“We tooled down the street”Synonyms: joyridetool aroundMore general ride
- furnish with toolsMore general supply, provide
- work with a toolMore general work, work on
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Translations
Noun mechanical device intended to make a task easier
- Spanish
- herramienta
- French
- outil
- German
- Werkzeug
- Italian
- strumento
- Portuguese
- ferramenta
- Turkish
- alet
- Russian
- инструме́нт instrumént
- Arabic
- أَدَاة ʔadāh
- Chinese
- 工具 gōngjù
- Japanese
- 道具 dōgu
32 more languages
- Dutch
- gereedschap
- Polish
- narzędzie
- Swedish
- verktyg
- Greek
- εργαλείο ergaleío
- Korean
- 도구 dogu
- Indonesian
- alat
- Vietnamese
- dụng cụ
- Hungarian
- szerszám
- Portuguese (PT)
- ferramenta
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 工具 gōngjù
- Albanian
- vegël
- Catalan
- eina
- Czech
- nástroj
- Danish
- værktøj
- Esperanto
- ilo
- Estonian
- tööriist
- Finnish
- työkalu
- Georgian
- ინსტრუმენტი insṭrumenṭi
- Hebrew
- כְּלִי kli
- Icelandic
- verkfæri
- Latvian
- darbarīks
- Lithuanian
- įrankis
- Norwegian
- verktøy
- Romanian
- unealtă
- Scottish Gaelic
- inneal
- Serbo-Croatian
- alat
- Slovak
- nástroj
- Slovenian
- orodje
- Swahili
- kifaa
- Walloon
- usteye
- Welsh
- teclyn
- Yiddish
- מכשיר makhsher
Noun penis (slang)
- Spanish
- instrumento
- German
- Gerät
- Portuguese
- instrumento
- Turkish
- alet
- Russian
- прибо́р pribór
- Japanese
- 一物 ichimotsu
- Greek
- εργαλείο ergaleío
- Hungarian
- szerszám
- Portuguese (PT)
- instrumento
- Albanian
- vegël
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. tol,tool. AS. tōl; akin to Icel. tōl, Goth. taijan to do, to make, taui deed, work, and perhaps to E. taw to dress leather. √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.— Edmund Spenser
4. A weapon. obsolete
Him that is aghast of every tool.— Geoffrey 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.
1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. “Elaborately tooled.” Edward George, Baron Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
2. To drive, as a coach. Slang, Eng.
Origin: Cf. Tool, transitive verb, 2.
To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. colloquial
Boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads.— Illust. American.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<tool> 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.<jargon> (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.<jargon, person> (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)
The Jargon File
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.)