Tool : (noun)
1: an implement used in the practice of a vocation
2: 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]
3: a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform
unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: creature,
puppet]
4: obscene terms for penis [syn: cock, prick, dick, shaft,
pecker, peter, putz]
(verb)
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" [syn: joyride,
tool around]
3: furnish with tools
4: work with a tool
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tool : \Tool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tooled; p. pr. & vb. n.
tooling.]
1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. ``Elaborately
tooled.'' --Ld. Lytton.
2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tool : \Tool\, 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.
2. A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called
machine tool.
3. Hence, any instrument of use or service.
That angry fool . . . Whipping her horse, did with
his smarting tool Oft whip her dainty self.
--Spenser.
4. A weapon. [Obs.]
Him that is aghast of every tool. --Chaucer.
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.
I was not made for a minion or a tool. --Burks.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tool :
1. 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. ({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. ({MIT) A student who studies too much and
hacks too little. MIT's student humour magazine rejoices in
the name "Tool and Die".
[{Jargon File]
(1996-12-12)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Tool : [conference on] Technology of Object-Orientated Languages and Systems
(OOP, conference)
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Tool, TX (city, FIPS 73352)
Location: 32.28025 N, 96.17242 W
Population (1990): 1712 (1354 housing units)
Area: 9.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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Tool : 1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or
analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a
cross-referencing program. Oppose app, operating system; see also
toolchain. 2. [Unix] An 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. [MIT: general to students there] vi. To work; to study
(connotes tedium). The TMRC Dictionary defined this as "to set one's
brain to the grindstone". See hack. 4. n. [MIT] A student who studies
too much and hacks too little. (MIT's student humor magazine rejoices in
the name "Tool and Die".)
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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