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tool
has definitions from the fields of anatomy,zoology,sexuality,history,transportation,work
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[ noun ] an implement used in the practice of a vocation
Used in print (Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)Production assistance often takes the form of locating tools or materials which are urgently needed . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)In plasma generators as currently commercially available for industrial use or as high_temperature research tools often more than 50 % of the total energy input is being transferred to the cooling medium of the anode . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)During the following week , six tons of hay belonging to one rancher were burned ; some buildings , farm tools , two horses , plows , and hay owned by Bonito_Lavato , a friendly interpreter for the company , and Pedro_Chavez ' hay were stolen or destroyed ; and a store was broken into and robbed . (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin , which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)There were tools about but they were neatly kept . |
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[ noun ] the means whereby some act is accomplished
Synonyms Examples "my greed was the instrument of my destruction" "science has given us new tools to fight disease" Used in print (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)The major effect of these advances appears to lie_in the part they have played in the industrial_revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment . (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)As stated earlier in the paper , Onsets and Completions - particularly the former - provide a different tool or indicator of expectancy in osseous development , each within a limited age period . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (work,transportation) informal: drive (a vehicle)
Synonyms Examples "The convertible tooled down the street" Used in print (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint little pine board tourist_courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light_bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used_to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway_Patrol with feelers waving . |
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[ verb ] (transportation) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
Synonyms Examples "We tooled down the street" Used in print (Time, 77: 3...)Tooling through Sydney on his way to race in the New_Zealand Grand_Prix , Britain 's balding Ace_Driver_Stirling_Moss , 31 , all_but smothered himself in his own exhaust of self-crimination . |
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[ verb ] furnish with tools
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[ verb ] work with a tool
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