tool meaning

• Noun: tool  tool
  1. An implement used in the practice of a vocation 
  2. The means whereby some act is accomplished
     "science has given us new tools to fight disease"
     - instrument 
  3. A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
     - creature, puppet 
  4. [vulgar] Obscene term for penis
  Verb: tool  tool
  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"
     - joyride, tool around 
  3. Furnish with tools 
  4. Work with a tool

  Sounds like: tulle

  Derived forms: tooled, tooling, tools

  Type of: agency, drive, furnish, implement, means, member, penis, phallus, process, provide, render, ride, slave, supply, way, work, work on

  Encyclopedia: Tool Tool, TX Tool, Texas

• 
  [American slang]
  n. an earnest student.
  • Of course he's a tool. See the plastic liner in his pocket?
  • Martin is a tool, and he's proud of it.
  
  
• 
  [British slang]
  Noun. 1. A penis, implying its supposed usefulness. [1200s]
  2. An idiot, a contemptible person.
  
• 
  [Business]
  noun, verb

  ■ noun [C]

  MACHINE TOOL

  1

  an instrument that you hold in your hand and use for making things, repairing things, etc:

  a cutting tool

  a tool kit

  (= a set of tools in a box or bag)

  ◆ power tools

  (= using electricity)

  2

  a thing that helps you to do a job or to achieve sth:

  research tools such as questionnaires

  The Internet has become a powerful business tool.

  Strategic planning is a critical tool for effective management.

  These workshops are a great learning tool.

  ❖ business/decision-making/management/marketing/sales tools

  ◆ an essential/a key/powerful/practical/useful tool

  3

  a computer program that performs a particular function:

  The program comes with standard tools such as dictionary, spellchecker and thesaurus.

  ❖ design/desktop publishing/interactive/online/web-based tools

  IDIOMS

  the tools of your trade

  the things that you need to do your job

  DOWN verb

  ■ verb

  PHRASAL VERBS

  tool up; tool sb/sth up

  to get or provide sb/sth with the equipment that is necessary to do or produce sth:

  They have invested heavily, tooling up to make the new model.

  The factory is not tooled up to produce this type of engine.

• 
  [Computer]
  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".

• Do not play about with my expensive tools!
• The tool shed is at the bottom of the garden.
• We have the tools for heading off disaster.
• I shall manage with the tools i have.
• This is a very handy tool for opening cans.
• A scalpel and tweezers are the only tools needed.
• He had made me the tool of his wicked deeds.
• The tools are not put in the right place.
• Check the tools and see if anything is missing.
• What we need is practicable tools.

• "tool" meaning in Chinese: n. 1.工具，用具，器具；【机械工程】刀具；工具母机 (＝machine tool)。2.爪牙，傀儡，走狗；〔美...
• "tool" meaning in Japanese: １tool n. 道具; 技量; 手段; 手先. 【動詞＋】 ◆A bad workman blames his t...
• "tool" meaning in Russian: 1) инструмент Ex: carpenter's tool плотницкий инструмент E...
• "tool" meaning in French: n. outil, instrument, moyen v. travailler, ouvrager