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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
toolbox
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a toolbox
▪ The hammer’s in the tool box.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He swung his wooden toolbox into the engine bay and laid it on the cylinder block.
▪ In front of her, Lovesey got up and climbed out of his seat with a toolbox in his hand.
▪ One handle plus a range of blades equals coverage of many different fasteners, easy portability and savings on toolbox space.
▪ One nice touch lets you italicize and embolden text simply by highlighting it and clicking on one of the toolbox icons.
▪ Prospective software developers had to learn the secrets of the toolbox so they could follow the guidelines for human interface.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
toolbox

also tool-box, 1801, from tool (n.) + box (n.1).

Wiktionary
toolbox

n. 1 A storage case for tools. 2 (context computing English) A set of pre-existing routines for use in writing new programs. 3 (context slang English) dumbass or idiot.

WordNet
toolbox

n. a box or chest or cabinet for holding hand tools [syn: tool chest, tool cabinet, tool case]

Wikipedia
Toolbox

A toolbox (also called toolkit, tool chest or workbox) is a box to organize, carry, and protect the owner's tools. They could be used for trade, a hobby or DIY, and their contents vary with the craft of the owner.

Toolbox (album)

Toolbox is the second solo album by Ian Gillan originally released only in Europe, Japan and Brazil on German label EastWest. It was Gillan's last album before his second comeback with Deep Purple in August 1992. The subsequent mammoth 10-month tour, which crossed Europe and South America, proved Ian Gillan to be a strong live attraction. Although Toolbox wasn't a big commercial success it is considered by many as one of Gillan's finest records. In the USA the album was first released in 1997.

Toolbox (disambiguation)

A toolbox is a container used to organize, carry, and protect the owner's tools.

Toolbox may also refer to:

  • Macintosh Toolbox, a set of application programming interfaces
  • Toolbox (album), a 1991 album by Ian Gillan

Usage examples of "toolbox".

Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.

I turned to see Ixil come into the corridor from the wraparound, a toolbox in his hand.

Michael for support, but he shrugged and rummaged busily through the rollaway toolbox sitting next to a long workbench.

He took just a moment to run into the shed for his toolbox, grabbing up a water container and some dried foodstuffs that he kept around to nibble on, then bolted back out the door.

I want to know if anyone noticed a man in maintenance wear, carrying a toolbox and a friggin' basket of peaches.

The cylinder was now stashed out in a toolbox in the back of the pickup.

Now the technicians came running from their engines, lugging their toolboxes with them.

They were carrying much-chipped blue enamel toolboxes and smoking cigarettes.

The workbench, which extended the length of the wall behind him, was stacked with bolts of vinyl, hoses, coffee cans, sheets of foam rubber, toolboxes, cans of latex paint, tires.

Bart had brought the toolbox from his van and I grabbed wirecutters and a prybar.

An oversized toolbox rested near the back of the cab, and an aluminum extension ladder seemed to be mounted on the far side with its two metal antislip shoes protruding about a foot.

She started out of the shed, went back, and took a screwdriver and an adjustable wrench from the toolbox.

He rifled through the jeep's toolbox recklessly, finally extracting a well-cased set of calipers from the collection of center punches, cold chisels, and wrenches.

Eliot digs up a toolbox from belowdecks and spends the next twelve hours patching things together to the point where the engine can be started and the yacht can be steered.

There were as many as five dozen slant-parking stalls, each equipped with its own bolted-down toolbox for do-it-yourselfers who had ailing cars but no tools.