» tool
Words people most associate with “tool”:
- hammer,
- box,
- shed,
- belt,
- screwdriver
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Noun (4 meanings)
1. an implement used in the practice of a vocation.
tool is a type of:
- implement (noun) - instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end
types of tool:
- Jaws of Life (noun) - hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside
- abrader, abradant (noun) - a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing
- bender (noun) - a tool for bending
- clincher (noun) - a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets
- comb (noun) - any of several tools for straightening fibers
- cutting implement (noun) - a tool used for cutting or slicing
- drill (noun) - a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
- eolith (noun) - a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint)
- fork (noun) - an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging
- gang (noun) - tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
- garden tool, lawn tool (noun) - used for working in gardens or yards
- grapnel, grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron (noun) - a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding
- hack (noun) - a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- hand tool (noun) - a tool used with workers' hands
- hoe (noun) - a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- jack (noun) - tool for exerting pressure or lifting
- neolith (noun) - a stone tool from the Neolithic Age
- paleolith (noun) - a stone tool from the Paleolithic age
- pestle, muller, pounder (noun) - a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
- plow, plough (noun) - a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
- power tool (noun) - a tool driven by a motor
- punch, puncher (noun) - a tool for making holes or indentations
- rake (noun) - a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head
- ram (noun) - a tool for driving or forcing something by impact
- rounder (noun) - a tool for rounding corners or edges
- saw set (noun) - a tool used to bend each alternate sawtooth at a slight angle outward
- shaping tool (noun) - a tool for shaping metal
- strickle (noun) - a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
- stylus, style (noun) - a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
- tamp, tamper, tamping bar (noun) - a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
- tap (noun) - a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
- upset, swage (noun) - a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
tool is derivationally related to:
2. the means whereby some act is accomplished.
Examples:
- “my greed was the instrument of my destruction”,
- “science has given us new tools to fight disease”
tool is a type of:
tool is derivationally related to:
- implemental, instrumental, subservient (adjective) - serving or acting as a means or aid
- to instrument (verb) - equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling
3. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else.
tool is a type of:
- slave (noun) - a person who is owned by someone
Verb (4 meanings)
1. drive.
to tool
Example:
- “The convertible tooled down the street”
to tool is a way to:
- to drive (verb) - operate or control a vehicle
Verb group:
- to joyride, tool, tool around (verb) - ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
2. ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it.
to joyride, tool, tool around
Example:
- “We tooled down the street”
to tool is a way to:
- to ride (verb) - be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
to tool is derivationally related to:
- joyride (noun) - a ride in a car taken solely for pleasure
Domain of synset - TOPIC:
- driving (noun) - the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
Verb group:
- to tool (verb) - drive
3. furnish with tools.
to tool