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Tool

//tuːl// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

1
Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
"Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig."
2
the means whereby some act is accomplished wordnet
3
Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.; Any piece of equipment used in a profession, such as a craftsman's.
"the tools of the trade"
4
an implement used in the practice of a vocation wordnet
5
Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
"Idleness is a tool of the devil."

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obscene terms for penis wordnet
7
A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
"The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools."
8
a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else wordnet
9
A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn.
"She was a tool of the pharmaceutical lobby."
10
A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
"a five-tool player"
11
A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation. informal, vulgar
"Or haue wee some strange Indian with the great Toole, come to Court, the women so besiege vs?"
12
An obnoxious or uptight person. broadly, derogatory, slang, vulgar
"He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool."
13
A handgun. Canada, Multicultural-London-English, US, slang
"In my city keep a tool Lil nigga you know the rules"

Verb

1
To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather. transitive
2
work with a tool wordnet
3
To equip with tools. transitive
4
ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it wordnet
5
To work very hard. intransitive
"Do this lab and read this book, now tool, one and all, And be sure and pass that final quiz or be screwed right to the wall."

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drive wordnet
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To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal. slang, transitive
"Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you."
8
furnish with tools wordnet
9
To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds. transitive
10
To drive (a coach or other vehicle). UK, dated, slang, transitive
11
To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle. UK, dated, slang, transitive
"1850s, Cuthbert M. Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green Among those who seemed disposed to join in this opinion was the Jehu of the Warwickshire coach, who expressed his conviction to our hero, that "he wos a young gent as had much himproved hisself since he tooled him up to the Warsity with his guvnor.""
12
To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. intransitive, slang
"March 8, 1890, Byron P. Stephenson, "My Trip to Brazil", in Illustrated American boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").

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