Tool,

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]l), 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.
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     2. A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called
        {machine tool}.
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     3. Hence, any instrument of use or service.
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              That angry fool . . .
              Whipping her horse, did with his smarting tool
              Oft whip her dainty self.             --Spenser.
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     4. A weapon. [Obs.]
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              Him that is aghast of every tool.     --Chaucer.
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     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.
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              I was not made for a minion or a tool. --Burks.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tool
       n 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}]
       v 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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  306 Moby Thesaurus words for "tool":
     Charlie McCarthy, Federal, T square, adz, agency, agent, aid,
     amanuensis, ancilla, apparatus, apple-polisher, appliance,
     ass-licker, auto, autolithograph, avenue, awl, ax, backscratcher,
     backslapper, baggage agent, bale breaker, bar, battering ram,
     be a printmaker, bevel, bevel square, bodkin, bootlick, bootlicker,
     bradawl, bread knife, brown-nose, brownie, buffer, bushwhacker,
     business agent, butcher knife, calipers, cant hook, carve,
     carving knife, caulking iron, center punch, character, charioteer,
     chaser, chisel, chuck, chump, claim agent, clamp, clasp, clawback,
     cleaver, clerk, clinch, clip, clipper, clippers, commercial agent,
     commission agent, consignee, contraption, contrivance, courtier,
     cramp, crease, creature, cribble, cringer, crosshatch, crowbar,
     customer agent, cut, dagger, decorate, device, dibble, dividers,
     dog, dress, dummy, dupe, edger, electric sander,
     electric soldering iron, embellish, enchase, engrave, factor,
     fawner, fed, federal agent, file, flail, flatterer, flunky,
     footlicker, forceps, fork, freight agent, functionary, furrow,
     gadget, general agent, gimmick, gizmo, go-between, gouge, grab,
     grapnel, grapple, grappler, grappling iron, grave, grease gun,
     grindstone, grip, groove, groveler, hack, handmaid, handmaiden,
     handshaker, hatch, hatchet, hawk, helot, hireling, hoe, holdfast,
     hook, hunting knife, implement, incise, inscribe, instrument,
     instrumentality, insurance agent, interagent, intermediary,
     intermediate, intermedium, jack, jackal, jackknife, jackscrew,
     jaws, jointer, knife, kowtower, lackey, lance, lancet, land agent,
     lathe, law agent, led captain, letter-opener, level, lever,
     lickspit, lickspittle, line, literary agent, lithograph,
     loan agent, machete, machine, make prints, mark, mattock,
     mealymouth, means, mechanism, mechanize, mediator, medium, midwife,
     mill, minion, miter box, motor, motorize, nail file, nail puller,
     news agent, nippers, official, organ, ornament, palette knife,
     paper clip, paper cutter, paper knife, paring knife,
     parliamentary agent, passenger agent, pawn, peavey, penknife, peon,
     pick, pickax, pilot, pincers, pinch bar, pitchfork, planer,
     plaything, pliers, plowshare, press agent, print, puller, punch,
     punch pliers, puncheon, puppet, purchasing agent, putty knife, ram,
     rammer, ramrod, razor, razor blade, real estate agent, retool,
     ripping bar, road, sales agent, saw knife, sax, scalpel, scissors,
     scoop, score, scrape, scraper, scratch, screwdriver, scuffle hoe,
     sculpture, scythe, secretary, serf, servant, shape, shaper, share,
     sharpen, shears, sheath knife, sickle, sidecutters, slave, snips,
     soldering iron, spaniel, spatula, spear, special agent, spokeshave,
     square, stapler, station agent, steward, stipple, stooge, suck,
     sucker, surgical knife, sword, sycophant, table knife, tackle,
     tamp, tamper, tamping pick, tap, theatrical agent, ticket agent,
     timeserver, tire iron, tire tool, toad, toady, tongs, toy,
     travel agent, truckler, tufthunter, tweezers, utensil, vehicle,
     vise, walking delegate, way, weapon, wedge, wheel, work,
     wrecking bar, wrench, yes-man
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  TOOL
       [conference on] Technology of Object-Orientated Languages and Systems
       (OOP, conference)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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".)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  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)

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Tool, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
     Population (2000):    2275
     Housing Units (2000): 1416
     Land area (2000):     3.607782 sq. miles (9.344112 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.015894 sq. miles (0.041166 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    3.623676 sq. miles (9.385278 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            73352
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             32.280459 N, 96.172678 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Tool, TX
      Tool