TOOL • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Tool

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/tul/ Listen

Tool

noun

1.

An implement used in the practice of a vocation.

2.

The means whereby some act is accomplished. Synonym: instrument. "Science has given us new tools to fight disease"

3.

A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else. Synonyms: creature, puppet.

4.

Obscene terms for penis. Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, peter, prick, putz, shaft.

verb

(past & past part. tooled; pres. part. tooling)

1.

Drive.

2.

Ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it. Synonyms: joyride, tool around.

3.

Furnish with tools.

4.

Work with a tool.

See more definitions of Tool...

See images of 'Tool'

Etymology of 'Tool'

Related searches:

tool-and-die work

entrenching tool

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

"Tool" Quotes from Famous Books

... made to claim for art the utility, the tool-making property, that characterizes the beginnings of science. Nothing is beautiful, it is sometimes said, that is not useful; the beauty of a jug or a table depends, we are often told, on its perfect ...

— Ancient Art and Ritual • Jane Ellen Harrison

... is not reserved To man, with soul just nerved To act to-morrow what he learns to-day: Here, work enough to watch The Master work, and catch Hints of the proper craft, tricks of the tool's true play. ...

— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning

... written about iron and steel there are many hazy notions in the minds of many mechanics regarding them. It is not always clear as to just what makes the difference between iron and steel. We know that high-carbon steel makes a better cutting tool than low-carbon steel. And yet carbon alone does not make all the difference because we know that cast iron has more carbon than tool steel and yet it does not make a ...

— The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel • Fred H. Colvin

... "I was more accustomed to a sword than to an etching tool, and the letters are but rudely drawn. One evening, after dark, Gretlich and I were whispering together in the hall, when we heard the heavy tread of the general coming up the stair. The girl fled precipitately, and I, holding open the door, waited the approach of my chief. He entered and curtly ...

— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr

... afraid of it; and I desire you to have just as little to do with any of them as ordinary civility will admit. Hitherto I have thought of Ruth Erskine as simply a leader of fashion, and of Flossy Shipley as the tool of the fashionable world; but I am afraid their dangerous friends are leading them to be more. The tableau affair, to-night, I have investigated to a certain degree, and I consider it one of the worst of its kind. I ...

— The Chautauqua Girls At Home • Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden

Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com