tool
v.
work or shape with a tool, ornament with a tool; equip with tools or machinery
tool
Noun
1. an implement used in the practice of a vocation
(hypernym) implement
(hyponym) abrader, abradant
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"
(synonym) instrument
(hypernym) means, agency, way
3. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
(synonym) creature, puppet
(hypernym) slave
4. obscene terms for penis
(synonym) cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, putz
(hypernym) penis, phallus, member
(classification) obscenity, vulgarism, dirty word
Verb
1. drive; "The convertible tooled down the street"
(hypernym) drive
(verb-group) joyride, tool around
2. ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street"
(synonym) joyride, tool around
(hypernym) ride
(classification) driving
3. furnish with tools
(hypernym) supply, provide, render, furnish
4. work with a tool
(hypernym) work, work on, process
tooled
(imp. & p. p.)
of Tool
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
tool
1. <
tool> 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)
(c) Copyright 1993 by Denis Howe
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