'TOOL' definitions:
Definition of 'tool'
(from WordNet)
noun
An implement used in the practice of a vocation
noun
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, tool]
noun
A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: creature, tool, puppet]
noun
verb
Drive; "The convertible tooled down the street"
verb
Ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street" [syn: joyride, tool, tool around]
verb
Furnish with tools
verb
Work with a tool
Definition of 'Tool'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Tool'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Tool'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]
Synonyms of 'tool'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Charlie McCarthy,
- 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,
- 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,
- T square,
- 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, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Tool, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000) :
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
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Acronyms for 'tool'
From: V.E.R.A.
- [conference on] Technology of Object-Orientated Languages and Systems (OOP, conference)
Words containing 'TOOL'
- Toole,
- Tooling,
- tooled,
- Bead tool,
- Blank tooling,
- Blind tooling,
- Boring tool,
- Edge tool,
- Engine tool,
- Grafting tool,
- Machine tool,
- Milling tool,
- Parting tool,
- Side tool,
- Soldering tool,
- Tint tool,
- Tool steel,
- Tool, TX,
- Toole County,
- Toole, MT,
- cutting tool,
- entrenching tool,
- garden tool,
- graving tool,
- hand tool,
- lawn tool,
- o'toole,
- power tool,
- shaping tool,
- tire tool,
- tool around,
- tool bag,
- tool cabinet,
- tool case,
- tool chest,
- tool kit,
- Tool-post,
- Tool-rest,
- Tool-stock,
- Toole County, MT,
- Top-tool,
- peter o'toole,
- Diamond-point tool,
- peter seamus o'toole,
- tool-and-die work