Crossword clues for tool
tool
- Swiss Army knife component
- Spade or club, e.g
- Something used on "Bob the Builder"
- Something used by Bob the Builder
- Screwdriver or wrench
- Poker, e.g
- Pipe wrench, e.g
- Manipulated person
- Level or hammer, e.g
- Jack or hammer
- Item on a belt
- Item in a shed
- Item hung on a pegboard, often
- Hardware store buy
- Hammer or rasp
- Go cruising
- Gift for a handyman, probably
- Drill, e.g
- Die's partner?
- Cruise about town
- Craftsman product
- Chisel or wrench, e.g
- Chisel or hammer
- Bottle opener, e.g
- Black & Decker offering
- Black & Decker item
- Awl or chisel
- Awl or auger
- Archaeological dig find
- "Undertow" band
- "Lateralus" band
- Zax or awl
- Wrench or shovel
- Wrench or level, e.g
- Wrench or drill, for example
- Wrench e.g
- Workbench object
- Workbench implement
- Word with garden or power
- Word with box or belt
- Word with ''kit'' or ''around''
- VISE-GRIP, for one
- Trade staple
- Total fuckboy who might as well be a wrench or a hammer
- Torque wrench, e.g
- Torque wrench or box wrench
- THIS COULD BE A DRILL
- Thing for a carpenter
- Table saw, for one
- Square or plane
- Square or level
- Square or compass
- Something exploited
- Something a carpenter uses, in general
- Sledgehammer or screwdriver, for example
- Shop class aid
- Shed or shop item
- Screwdriver or saw
- Screwdriver or gimlet
- Saw, screwdriver, or hammer
- Saw or sickle
- Saw or screwdriver
- Saw or plane
- Saw or chisel, for example
- Saw or axe
- Saw or ax
- Ruler, e.g
- Rock, to a sea otter
- Rock to a sea otter
- Reamer or wrench
- Rake or saw
- Rake or hoe
- Purchase at Lowe's
- Punch or file
- Power ___ (item such as a belt sander)
- Pliers, e.g
- Pliers or putty knife
- Pliers or plane
- Plane or saw, e.g
- Plane or sander
- Plane or pickax
- Plane or chisel
- Plane or c-clamp, e.g
- Person used by others
- Pegboard hanger
- One of many in a Swiss Army knife
- One of a handyman's set
- Object of exploitation
- Object for kidvid's Bob the Builder
- Neolith, e.g
- Maul or awl
- Make figures on leather
- Level or lathe
- Level or awl, e.g
- Leatherman selection
- Kit thing
- Kit implement
- Item in a kit
- It helps to get the job done
- It comes in a kit
- Home Depot buy
- Handyman's gadget
- Handyman's buy
- Hammer, wrench, or saw
- Hammer, shovel, or wrench
- Hammer, drill, or screwdriver
- Hammer or hatchet, e.g
- Hammer or hatchet
- Hammer or handsaw
- Hammer or drill
- Hammer or chisel, e.g
- Hammer or ax
- Hacksaw, e.g
- Hacksaw or hatchet, for example
- Hacksaw or hammer
- Grinder or sander
- File, for one
- File, for example
- File, e.g
- File or saw
- Edger, e.g
- Easily manipulated type
- Easily influenced person
- Early human's stone creation
- Drill, for example
- Drill or vise, for example
- Dig find, perhaps
- Die partner
- Dibble, e.g
- Chisel or file
- Chisel or axe, for example
- Carpenter's helper
- C-clamp or T-square
- Bushwhacker, e.g
- Burin or graver
- Brace and bit
- Black & Decker buy
- Bit in a kit, perhaps
- Belt item
- Belt hanger
- Axe or awl, for example
- Axe or adze
- Awl or saw
- Awl or hatchet
- Awl or hacksaw
- Awl or adz
- Adz or zax
- Adz or hammer
- Adz or ax
- "We must use time as a ___, not as a couch": JFK
- "Sober" band
- "10,000 Days" band
- ___ kit (where a carpenter keeps supplies)
- Knife or axe, for example
- Have advantage over minion, one much applied to grindstone
- Such as a drill or sander
- Stooge or patsy
- File, e.g.
- Cat's-paw, for example
- Wrench, e.g.
- Drive (along)
- "Home Improvement" prop
- Hammer or sickle, e.g
- Puppet
- Plane, e.g.
- Bushwhacker, e.g.
- Kit item
- Gimlet or screwdriver, e.g
- Edger, e.g.
- Hammer or sickle, e.g.
- Die, e.g.
- Neolith, e.g.
- Neolith or paleolith
- Plane or square, e.g.
- Handyman's need
- Level, e.g.
- Archaeological dig find, sometimes
- Gouge or chisel
- Drill, to a dentist
- Drive (around)
- Labor saver
- "Man is a ___-using animal": Thomas Carlyle
- Shed item
- Cleaver or lever
- Hammer or hoe
- Hammer or tongs
- Awl or axe
- Useful item
- Not the real decision-maker
- Chisel or gouge
- Diligent student, in slang
- Ax or awl
- Maul or awl, e.g
- Lever or level
- Awl, for one
- Hammer or saw, for example
- Utility belt item
- Handyman's belt item
- Easily manipulated sort
- Jack, hammer or jackhammer
- Drill, for one
- Hoe or hatchet
- Plane, for one
- Wedge or sledge
- One being used
- Pick, say
- Jerk, slangily
- Level, for one
- It might include "copy" and "paste"
- Screwdriver or hammer
- An implement used in the practice of a vocation
- The means whereby some act is accomplished
- A person who is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- Obscene terms for penis
- Unwitting stooge
- Instrument
- Burin or dibble
- Pawn
- Adze, for one
- Work leather
- Burin or gimlet
- Dibble or burin
- Jimmy or jack
- Level or plane
- Implement
- Chisel, e.g.
- Screwdriver, e.g.
- Pistol, in gang slang
- Item in a chest
- Unwitting accomplice
- Awl or adze
- Kit article
- Saw, e.g.
- Jimmy, e.g.
- Means to an end
- Dupe
- Adz or awl, e.g
- Dibble, e.g.
- Make designs in leather
- Saw or file
- Ax or adz
- Auger, for one
- Device used for work
- Plane or level
- Saw or hammer
- Extremely large implement
- Excessively large puppet
- Someone used rifle during uprising
- Possibly saw money being picked up
- Plunder brought back - it's something to work with
- Instrument in sack brought back
- Implement: also utensil, ultimately
- Implement return of robbery proceeds
- Hammer or screwdriver, for example
- Dupe having stolen goods picked up
- Drive to Oslo regularly
- Die, e.g
- Device, implement
- Fall guy
- Something found in a shed
- Construction site sight
- Jogging gait
- Plane, e.g
- Jimmy, e.g
- Level or bevel, e.g
- Wrench, e.g
- Shop item
- Trade requirement?
- Home Depot purchase
- Hardware store purchase
- Hammer, for one
- Go for a spin
- Wrench or hammer
- Screwdriver, e.g
- Wrench or screwdriver, e.g
- Workbench item
- Useful thing
- Trade item?
- Screwdriver, for one
- Hammer, e.g
- Chisel, e.g
- Level, e.g
- Hammer or wrench, for example
- Hammer or hacksaw, e.g
- Plane, for example
- Plane or pliers
- Kind of kit
- It's in the shop
- Hammer or chisel, for example
- Carpenter's gadget
- Awl or saw, e.g
- Wrench or pliers
- Wrench or adz, e.g
- Workshop gizmo
- Word with kit or around
- Something stored in a shed
- Saw, say
- Saw, for one
- Saw, e.g
- Maynard James Keenan band
- Item in a belt
- Hardware store item
- Handyman's necessity
- Handyman's item
- Decorate, in a way
- Complete idiot
- Adz, e.g
- Zax or adz
- Wrench, for one
- Work on leather
- Word with power or garden
- Word with "kit" or "belt"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]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.
Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]l), n. [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.]
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.
A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.
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Hence, any instrument of use or service.
That angry fool . . . Whipping her horse, did with his smarting tool Oft whip her dainty self.
--Spenser. -
A weapon. [Obs.]
Him that is aghast of every tool.
--Chaucer. -
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English tol "instrument, implement used by a craftsman or laborer, weapon," from Proto-Germanic *to(w)lam "implement" (cognates: Old Norse tol), from a verb stem represented by Old English tawian "prepare" (see taw). The ending is the instrumental suffix -el (as in handle (n.)). Figurative sense of "person used by another for his own ends" is recorded from 1660s. Slang meaning "penis" first recorded 1550s.
"to drive a vehicle," 1812, probably from tool (n.) as if "to manage skillfully." The meaning "to work or shape with a tool" is recorded from 1815; that of "equip (a factory) with machine tools" is from 1927. Related: Tooled; tooling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (senseid en mechanical device intended to make a task easier)A mechanical device intended to make a task easier. 2 equipment used in a profession, e.g., '''tools''' of the trade. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., ''hand-tooled leather''. 2 (context transitive English) To equip with tools. 3 (context transitive English) To work very hard. 4 (context transitive slang English) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal. 5 (context transitive volleyball English) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds. 6 (context transitive UK slang dated English) To drive (a coach, etc.) 7 (context intransitive slang dated English) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
WordNet
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" [syn: instrument]
a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: creature, puppet]
obscene terms for penis [syn: cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, 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" [syn: joyride, tool around]
furnish with tools
work with a tool
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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
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Tool
Wikipedia
A tool is any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal, especially if the item is not consumed in the process. Tool use by humans dates back millions of years, and other animals are also known to employ simple tools.
Tools that are used in particular fields or activities may have different designations such as "instrument", "utensil", "implement", "machine", "device," or "apparatus". The set of tools needed to achieve a goal is "equipment". The knowledge of constructing, obtaining and using tools is technology.
Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up includes drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Since 1995, Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour. Tool has won three Grammy Awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping the charts in several countries.
The band emerged with a heavy metal sound on their first studio album, Undertow (1993), and later became a dominant act in the alternative metal movement, with the release of their second album, Ænima in 1996. Their efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts, and a message of personal evolution continued, with Lateralus (2001) and the most recent album, 10,000 Days (2006), gaining the band critical acclaim, and commercial success around the world.
Due to Tool's incorporation of visual arts and very long and complex releases, the band is generally described as a style-transcending act and part of progressive rock, psychedelic rock, and art rock. The relationship between the band and today's music industry is ambivalent, at times marked by censorship, and the band's insistence on privacy.
A tool is a device that is necessary to, or aids in the performance of an operation.
Tool may also refer to:
- Tool (band), an American rock band
- "Tool" (song), a song by Baboon
- Tool, Texas, a US city
- TOOL Programming language, the proprietary programming language used by Forte 4GL
"Tool" is a 7" single by Baboon that was released in 1993 on Silver Girl Records. Side A is 33 rpm while side B is 45rpm.
The song "Tool" also appears on the band's first album, Face Down in Turpentine, though the album version is a different recording. The recording of "Tool" from this single also appears on the Get It Through Your Thick Skull compilation.
This version of the first b-side ("Why'd You Say Die?") is also on Face Down in Turpentine and Baboon's 1996 The Numb E.P..
Usage examples of "tool".
Please be aware that these principles are an absolutely essential foundation for understanding the rest of this book, for using the tools of Kabbalah that it presents, and for achieving the connection with the Light that is our true purpose in life.
Annamaria Roccaro was the last to get into position, smiling in apology as she crowded next to Aiken Drum and felt the hard tools in his pockets pressing through the sleeves and skirts of her habit.
The blazes were flaring high, and the man was standing by the tool shed, aiming a rifle.
The man was too awkward aiming, but he went instantly graceful when Rambo shot him, smoothly clutching his right shoulder, spinning easily, toppling perfectly over the bicycle next to the tool shed, and then he was awkward again as the bicycle gave way under him and the two jumbled to the ground in a tinny jangle of chain and spokes.
More locks, more tools, rough chunks of metal and wood, and a number of devices whose uses Alec could not guess were mixed indiscriminately among masks, carvings, musical instruments of all descriptions, animal skulls, dried plants, fine pottery, glittering crystals-there was no rhyme or reason apparent in the arrangement.
Unwrapping it, Alec found a tool roll identical to the one Seregil always carried.
Slipping the tools back into his coat, Alec pulled himself up by the window frame and wriggled in feet first.
The sitting room fire had been banked, however, meaning the master of the house was not coming down again before morning- Alec took a lightstone on a handle from his tool roll and shielded it with one hand as he crept to the door leading to the shop.
Springs, alembics, coils of copper tubing, buckled sheets of metal, gear systems both rack-and-pinion and epicyclic, pendulums, levers, cams, cranks, differentials, bearings, pulleys, assorted tools, and stone jars containing alkahest and corrosive substances crowded every horizontal surface.
For Amit, the greatest tools of spy craft are imagination and creativity, and both marked his tenure.
Our third division, advanced paleoliths and neoliths, refers to anomalously old stone tools that resemble the very finely chipped or smoothly polished stone industries of the standard Late Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.
Researchers of the late twentieth century have also discovered anomalously old stone tool industries.
Several anomalously old crude stone tool industries of Eolithic type have been discovered in the Americas.
Lane, some five or six years after Will Locke and Dulcie were wed, with its strange litter of acids and aquafortis, graving tools and steel plates.
The Tools of Bael consist of the Anima di LuciferBlood of Luciferthat is the aquamanile, and the Voce di Luciferthe Voice of Luciferwhich is a gold chalice.