Found 4 items, similar to Tool.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: tool
alat
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: tool
alat, perkakas
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tool
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]
tool
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
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tool
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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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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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.
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