10 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]l), noun [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. 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. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Tool \Tool\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {tooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {tooling}.] 1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. ''Elaborately tooled.'' --Ld. Lytton. 2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]l), verb (used without an object) [Cf. {Tool}, verb (used with an object), 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 noun 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}] verb 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 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 From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]: TOOL [conference on] Technology of Object-Orientated Languages and Systems (OOP, conference)

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