Tool : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Tool	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for Tool
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tool n an implement used in the practice of a vocation the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease" Synonym(s): instrument, tool a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else Synonym(s): creature, tool, puppet obscene terms for penis Synonym(s): cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putz v drive; "The convertible tooled down the street" ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street" Synonym(s): joyride, tool, tool around furnish with tools work with a tool
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tool \Tool\ (t[oomac]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tool \Tool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {tooling}.] 1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. [bd]Elaborately tooled.[b8] --Ld. Lytton. 2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tool \Tool\, n. [OE. tol,tool. AS. t[omac]l; akin to Icel. t[omac]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 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 Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [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}. 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 (15Feb98) [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)