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Tool

/tuːl/

A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

📖 Definitions of "Tool"

noun
  1. 1

    A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

    "Hand me that tool, would you?   I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine."

  2. 2

    Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.

    "These are the tools of the trade."

  3. 3

    Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.

  4. 4

    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.   a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk"

verb
  1. 1

    To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.

  2. 2

    To equip with tools.

  3. 3

    To work very hard.

  4. 4

    To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.

    "Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you."

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