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tool /ˈtul/
工具,機床,傀儡(vt.)用工具工作(vi.)使用工具
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Tool n.
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.
Tool v. t. [imp. & p. p. tooled p. pr. & vb. n. tooling.]
1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. “Elaborately tooled.”
2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.]
Tool v. i. 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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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