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Etymology

Old English tōl

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular tool

Plural tools

tool (plural tools)

  1. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
    Hand me that tool, would you?
  2. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
    These are the tools of the trade.
  3. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
  4. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware.
    The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.
  5. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
    He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her.
  6. (slang) Penis.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

Infinitive to tool

Third person singular tools

Simple past tooled

Past participle tooled

Present participle tooling

to tool (third-person singular simple present tools, present participle tooling, simple past and past participle tooled)

  1. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
  2. (transitive) To equip with tools.
  3. (transitive) To work very hard.
  4. (transitive, slang) To put someone else down (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use them to meet a goal.
    Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.
  5. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.

Synonyms

Translations

to work on or shape with tools
  • Bulgarian: изработвам bg(bg) (izrabotvam)
  • Catalan: donar forma
  • Czech: obrábět cs(cs)
  • Danish: bearbejde
  • Dutch: bewerken nl(nl)
  • Estonian: viimistlema et(et)
  • Finnish: työstää
to equip with tools
  • Galician: equipar gl(gl) f.
  • Norwegian: utstyre utruste
  • Polish: wyposażać
  • Portuguese: equipar pt(pt)
  • Russian: экипировать (ekipírovát’), оборудовать (oborúdovat’), оснащать/оснастить (osnaš'át'/osnastít')
to work very hard
  • Estonian: rügama et(et)
  • Polish: harować pl(pl)
volleyball
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  • Catalan: cisellar
  • Interlingua: taliar, cisellar, equipar
  • Romanian: cizela, da formă,

Anagrams

Estonian

Pronunciation

Etymology

From German Stuhl

Noun

tool

  1. chair

 

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