Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
mechanical device intended to make a task easier:
Русский
By meaning 5
equipment used in a profession:
mechanical device intended to make a task easier:
software for developers:
person or group used or controlled by another:
penis:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
equipment used in a profession:
mechanical device intended to make a task easier:
software for developers:
penis:

Examples

556 sentences

  1. I hope no one takes my tools.

    Сподіваюся, ніхто не братиме мої інструменти. — deniko

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  2. Tom said he needed a special tool to do that.

    Том сказав, що йому потрібний спеціальний інструмент, щоб це зробити. — deniko

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  3. A bad workman always blames his tools.

    Поганий працівник завжди винуватить свої знаряддя. — ChickenKiev

    ruПлохому танцору и ноги мешают. — marafon

    deEin schlechter Arbeiter gibt immer seinem Werkzeug die Schuld. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Meaning

9 senses

  1. Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.

    Any piece of equipment used in a profession, such as a craftsman's.

    the tools of the trade

    Rakes, shovels, hoes, and spades are some of the tools of the gardener's trade.

    Instrument, Werkzeug, Handwerkszeug

    инструме́нтinstrumént, сре́дствоsrédstvo, инструме́нтinstrumént

    інструме́нтinstrumént, начи́нняnačýnnja, знаря́ддяznarjáddja

  2. 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

    Tool

    инструме́нтinstrumént, сре́дствоsrédstvo, тулtul

    інструме́нтinstrumént

  3. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn.

    She was a tool of the pharmaceutical lobby.

    He was a tool of a foreign influence operation.

    Werkzeug, Instrument

    пе́шкаpéška, марионе́ткаmarionétka, шестёркаšestjórka

More meanings 6

  1. Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.

    Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.

    A screwdriver is a tool that no household should be without.

  2. Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.

    Idleness is a tool of the devil.

    A spreadsheet app and a bookkeeping app are some of the principal tools of a bookkeeper.

  3. A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).

    a five-tool player

  4. (informal, vulgar)A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.

    Gerät, Teil

    прибо́рpribór, аппара́тapparát

  5. (broadly, derogatory, slang, vulgar)An obnoxious or uptight person.

    He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.

  6. (Canada, Multicultural London English, US, slang)A handgun.

More definitions
  • an implement used in the practice of a vocation
  • the means whereby some act is accomplished
  • a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
  • obscene terms for penis

Origin

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, litera

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").

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Forms

plural: tools
Singulartool
Pluraltools

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
(US)A handgun:weaponB1armA1armament
Close in meaning
  • the means whereby some act is accomplished:instrument
  • a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else:creaturepuppet
  • obscene terms for penis:cockshaftpeckerputz

Word family

85 related words
RelatedinstrumentA2deviceB1
Derivedclaw toolcriminal toolcrimping tooldeburring tooldown toolsedge toolentrenching toole-toolfive-toolfive-tool playergrafting toolhand toolhive toolhooligan toolmachine toolmetatoolmicrotoolmindtoolmultitoolnanotooloscillating toolretoolset toolsex tool

Collocations

10 patterns
  • a special tool
  • the right tools
  • special tool to
  • special tool
  • use this tool
  • all the tools
  • some tools
  • tool box
  • right tools
  • use tools

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tonsuretonytooA1toolbartoolboxtoolkittoolshed

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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