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Object used to achieve a goal
A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task
Tool
American rock band
Tool is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1990. The group consists of vocalist Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey
Tool_(band)
Topics referred to by the same term
refer to: Magical tools in Wicca, a set of tools used in Wiccan practices Tool (band), an American metal band Tool, Texas, a US city TOOL, the proprietary
Tool_(disambiguation)
Computer program used to develop another program
A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that is used to develop another computer program, usually by helping the developer
Programming_tool
Microsoft Windows screenshot utility
Snipping Tool is a Microsoft Windows screenshot and screencast utility included in Windows Vista and later. It can take still screenshots or record videos
Snipping_Tool
Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age
Stone_tool
Power tool manufacturer
manufactures, and markets power tools, hand tools, tool accessories, tool storage, and personal protective equipment. Milwaukee Tool was last sold in 2005 for
Milwaukee_Tool
Digging tool
An entrenching tool (UK), intrenching tool (US), E-tool, or trenching tool is a digging tool used by military forces for a variety of military purposes
Entrenching_tool
Custom-made tool used to control the location or motion of another tool
A jig is a type of custom-made tool used to control the location or motion of parts or other tools. A jig's primary purpose is to provide repeatability
Jig_(tool)
Open source software suite by Google
Google OR-Tools is a free and open-source software suite developed by Google for solving linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), constraint
OR-Tools
Hand tool for firefighting
The Pulaski—also known as the fire axe—is a specialty hand tool used in fighting fires, particularly wildfires, which combines an axe and an adze in one
Pulaski_(tool)
1993 studio album by Tool
Undertow is the debut studio album by the American rock band Tool, released on April 6, 1993, by Zoo Entertainment. Produced by the band and Sylvia Massy
Undertow_(Tool_album)
Although an antique tool might be said to be one that is more than a hundred years old, the term is often used to describe any old tool of quality that might
Antique_tool
Band discography
rock band Tool consists of five studio albums, one box set, two extended plays, four video albums, sixteen singles and eight music videos. Tool was founded
Tool_discography
Topics referred to by the same term
Omni-tool may refer to: Omnitool, a lock-picking tool in the Artemis Fowl series Omni-tool, a holographic interface device in Mass Effect OmniTool, a keycard/scanning
Omni-tool
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up tooling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tooling may refer to: Machine tools and the tooling, such as cutting tools, fixtures, and accessories
Tooling
Oil drilling occupation
A tool pusher (sometimes toolpusher, pusher, or The Push) is an occupation within the oil drilling industry. On a land drilling rig the tool pusher may
Tool_pusher
Class of machinist in manufacturing
Tool and die makers are highly skilled crafters working in the manufacturing industries. Tool and die makers work primarily in toolroom environments—sometimes
Tool_and_die_maker
Data analytics transformation tool
Data build tool (dbt) is an open-source command line tool that helps analysts and engineers transform data in their warehouse more effectively. It started
Data_build_tool
A UML tool is a software application that supports some or all of the notation and semantics associated with the Unified Modeling Language (UML), which
UML_tool
Tool equipment powered manually
hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor. Categories of hand tools include wrenches, pliers, cutters, files, striking tools, struck
Hand_tool
Editing tool in digital image editing software
The lasso (or "free form selection") is an selection tool available, with minor variations, in most digital image editing software and some specific strategy
Lasso_tool
Japanese farming implement and weapon
The kama (鎌 or かま) is a traditional Japanese farming implement similar to a sickle or billhook used for reaping crops and also employed as a weapon. It
Kama_(tool)
Agricultural tool
(agricultural tool) Harrower (surname) Jean-Martin Fortier. "The rotary power harrow" Archived 2015-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, FarmStart Tool Shed, February
Harrow_(tool)
Tool use by non-humans is a phenomenon in which a non-human animal uses any kind of tool in order to achieve a goal such as acquiring food and water, grooming
Tool_use_by_non-humans
CIP-Tool (Communicating Interacting Processes) is a software tool for the modelling and implementation of event-driven applications. It is especially
CIP-Tool
Tool that uses an additional power source
A power tool is a tool that is actuated by an additional power source and mechanism other than the solely manual labor used with hand tools. The most
Power_tool
Cutting tool with diamond grains
A diamond tool is a cutting tool with diamond grains fixed on the functional parts of the tool via a bonding material or another method. As diamond is
Diamond_tool
Hand tool
A gimlet is a hand tool for drilling small holes, mainly in wood, without splitting. It was defined in Joseph Gwilt's Architecture (1859) as "a piece of
Gimlet_(tool)
2006 studio album by Tool
Days is the fourth studio album by the American metal band Tool. The album was released by Tool Dissectional and Volcano Entertainment on April 28, 2006
10,000_Days_(Tool_album)
American serial killers and rapists known as the Tool Box Killers
Roy Lewis Norris (February 5, 1948 – February 24, 2020), also known as the Tool Box Killers, were two American serial killers and rapists who committed the
Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris
Lawrence_Bittaker_and_Roy_Norris
1996 studio album by Tool
(/ˈɑːnɪmə/ AH-ni-mə) is the second studio album by the American rock band Tool. It was released in compact disc format on September 17, 1996, and in vinyl
Ænima
Materials well-suited to be made into tools
Tool steel is any of various carbon steels and alloy steels that are particularly well-suited to be made into tools and tooling, including cutting tools
Tool_steel
Tool made for gardening and landscaping
agriculture and horticulture. Garden tools can be divided into hand tools and power tools. Today's garden tools originated with the earliest agricultural
Garden_tool
Device for forced entry through a door lock
tool (also known as an A-tool, rex tool, or lock puller) is a forcible entry device used by firefighters and other first responders. Officer's tools are
Officer's_tool
Kitchen tool
A peel is a tool used by bakers to slide loaves of bread, pizzas, pastries, and other baked goods into and out of an oven. It is usually made of wood,
Peel_(tool)
1994 single by Tool
song by American rock band Tool. It was released as the second single from their debut studio album, Undertow (1993). Tool guitarist Adam Jones has stated
Sober_(Tool_song)
Agricultural tool
A hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural and horticultural hand tool used to shape soil, remove weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops. Shaping
Hoe_(tool)
Machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials
other forms of deformations. Machine tools employ some sort of tool that does the cutting or shaping. All machine tools have some means of constraining the
Machine_tool
2001 studio album by Tool
Lateralus (/ˌlætəˈræləs/) is the third studio album by the American rock band Tool. It was released on May 15, 2001, through Volcano Entertainment. The album
Lateralus
Belt worn around the waist to carry tools
A tool belt, tool harness, tool apron or a tool vest is a belt, apron, or harness worn around the waist, torso, or shoulders and fitted with pouches /
Tool_belt
Computer control of machine tools
the automated control of machine tools by a computer. It is an evolution of numerical control (NC), where machine tools are directly managed by data storage
Computer_numerical_control
Index of articles associated with the same name
Tool Academy is a reality TV franchise. It may refer to: Tool Academy (American TV series) Tool Academy (British TV series) This set index article includes
Tool_Academy
American industrial tools company
Northern Tool + Equipment (commonly referred to as Northern Tool) is a manufacturer and retailer of light industrial equipment and do-it-yourself supplies
Northern_Tool
Tools for hydraulic and other presses
the tool, such as blanking, piercing, bending, forming, forging, trimming etc. The press tool will also be specified as a blanking tool, piercing tool, bending
Types_of_press_tools
Prehistoric tool
thin, prehistoric, stone or bronze tool similar to an adze, hoe, or axe. A shoe-last celt was a polished stone tool used during the early European Neolithic
Celt_(tool)
Device used in physical therapy
A gyroscopic exercise tool is a specialized device used in physical therapy to improve wrist strength and promote the development of palm, wrist, forearm
Gyroscopic_exercise_tool
Hand tool
Pincers are a hand tool used in many situations where a mechanical advantage is required to pinch, cut or pull an object. Pincers are first-class levers
Pincers_(tool)
Power tool which works by oscillation
An oscillating multi-tool or oscillating saw is a multitool and power tool that oscillates (rather than rotating or reciprocating), powered by battery
Oscillating_multi-tool
Tool used by emergency rescue personnel to assist vehicle extrication of crash victims
Hydraulic rescue tools, also known as jaws of life, are used by emergency rescue personnel to assist in the extrication of victims involved in a traffic
Hydraulic_rescue_tool
This is a list of manufacturers of hand tools, hand-held power tools and stationary machines. List of tools and equipment "Viking GmbH: a STIHL Group
List_of_tool_manufacturers
American company
Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW) is an American Fortune 500 company that produces engineered fasteners and components, equipment and consumable systems,
Illinois_Tool_Works
Hardened tool used to cut material from the workpiece
cutting tool or cutter is typically a hardened metal tool that is used to cut, shape, and remove material from a workpiece by means of machining tools as well
Cutting_tool_(machining)
Hand tool combining several individual functions
A multi-tool (or multitool) is a hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single unit. The smallest are credit-card or key sized units
Multi-tool
Tool for working with wood
tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting iron (blade) over the wood surface. Some rotary power planers are motorized power tools
Plane_(tool)
where hominin tools have been found. It includes sites where compelling evidence of hominin tool use has been found, even if no actual tools have been found
List_of_earliest_tools
Software
ExifTool is a free and open source software program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, video, and PDF metadata. As such, ExifTool classes
ExifTool
Useful items carried on person every day
firearms, flashlights, lighters, car and home key rings, mobile phones, multi-tools, tissues, medications, and personal care items. The choice and priority/ranking
Everyday_carry
Privacy protecting software
Metadata removal tool or metadata scrubber is a type of privacy software built to protect the privacy of its users by removing potentially privacy-compromising
Metadata_removal_tool
Two-sided tool
McLeod tool (or rakehoe) is a two-sided blade—one a rake with coarse tines, one a flat sharpened hoe—on a long wooden handle. It is a standard tool during
McLeod_(tool)
American professional tool distributor
Matco Tools, Inc. is an American professional tool distribution franchise for the automotive and other industries and is based in Stow, Ohio, United States
Matco_Tools
Chisel with multiple blades
called the multiple tool, lining tool, multiliner, liner, shooter, multiple graver, comb, and half-tone comb. The multiple lining tool allows the engraver
Multiple_lining_tool
1982 The Far Side cartoon
"Cow tools" is a cartoon from The Far Side by American cartoonist Gary Larson, published on October 28, 1982. It depicts a cow standing behind a table
Cow_tools
Graphical user interface element
long as the user hovers over the element or the text box provided by the tool. It is sometimes possible for the mouse to hover within the text box provided
Tooltip
Video game technique
A tool-assisted speedrun or tool-assisted superplay (TAS; /tæs/) is generally defined as a video game playthrough or speedrun composed of precise inputs
Tool-assisted_speedrun
Topics referred to by the same term
Power Tool may refer to: Power tool an early name of the band Nelson This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Power Tool. If an
Power_Tool
Large sieve
harvested vegetables.[citation needed] Garden tool Riddle drum Wikimedia Commons has media related to Riddle (tool). http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=riddle
Riddle_(tool)
Part of a CNC machine which changes and stores the tool bits
machining, an automatic tool changer (ATC) is used in computerized numerical control (CNC) machine tools to improve the production and tool carrying capacity
Automatic_tool_changer
Small hand tool used by telecommunication and network technicians
A punch down tool, punchdown tool, IDC tool, or a Krone tool (named after the Krone LSA-PLUS connector), is a small hand tool used by telecommunication
Punch_down_tool
Handheld power tool
A die grinder or rotary tool is a handheld power tool and multitool used for grinding, sanding, honing, polishing, or machining material (typically metal
Rotary_tool
Low-profile tool
A creeper is a low-profile tool used to help a person more easily slide in and out of confined spaces, such as the underside of a car, for performing inspection
Creeper_(tool)
The clone tool, as it is known in Adobe Photoshop, Inkscape, GIMP, and Corel PhotoPaint, is used in digital image editing to replace information for one
Clone_tool
Lending library for tools
A tool library is an example of a library of things. Tool libraries allow patrons to check out or borrow tools, equipment and "how-to" instructional materials
Tool_library
A machine-tool dynamometer is a multi-component dynamometer that is used to measure forces during the use of the machine tool. Empirical calculations
Machine-tool_dynamometer
2024 song by Sabrina Carpenter
"Sharpest Tool" is a song by the American singer Sabrina Carpenter from her sixth studio album, Short n' Sweet (2024). Carpenter wrote it with songwriter
Sharpest_Tool
American distribution company
Techni-Tool, headquartered in Worcester, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, is a distributor of equipment for electronic production, assembly and
Techni-Tool
US tool and equipment retailer
Harbor Freight Tools, commonly referred to as Harbor Freight, is an American privately held tool and equipment retailer, headquartered in Calabasas, California
Harbor_Freight_Tools
Software to aid production of "help" systems
Authoring Tool or HAT is a software program used by technical writers to create online help systems. The basic functions of a Help Authoring Tool (HAT) can
Help_authoring_tool
Astrodynamics computer program
Systems Tool Kit (formerly Satellite Tool Kit), usually referred to by its initials STK, is a multi-physics software application from Analytical Graphics
Systems_Tool_Kit
Line of tools, lawn and garden equipment, and work wear
Craftsman is a line of tools, lawn and garden equipment, and work wear. Originally a house brand established by Sears, the brand is now owned by Stanley
Craftsman_(tools)
Computer diagnostics tool
DirectX Diagnostic Tool (DxDiag) is a diagnostics tool used to test DirectX functionality and troubleshoot video- or sound-related hardware problems.
DirectX_Diagnostic_Tool
American tool and equipment retailer
Acme Electric Motor, Inc., often referred to as Acme Tools, is an American family-owned tool and equipment retail business with brick-and-mortar store
Acme_Tools
MetaCASE tools are software tools that support the design and generation of CASE tools. In general, metaCASE tools should provide generic CASE tool components
MetaCASE_tool
Defunct American drill bit manufacturer
Hughes Tool Company was an American manufacturer of drill bits. Founded in 1908, it was merged into Baker Hughes Incorporated in 1987. The company was
Hughes_Tool_Company
Rotary unit of a machine tool
In machine tools, a spindle is a rotating axis of the machine, which often has a shaft at its center. The shaft itself is called a spindle, but also,
Spindle_(tool)
Non-rotary cutting tool used in machining
In machining, a tool bit is a non-rotary cutting tool used in metal lathes, shapers, and planers. Such cutters are also often referred to by the set-phrase
Tool_bit
Tool used by fire and rescue services for forcible entry
The Kelly tool is a tool used in fire and rescue service for forcible entry and other prying and striking tasks. The predecessor of the Halligan bar, it
Kelly_tool
Tooling in bookbinding is the decoration of a book by impressing engraved tools into the spine, boards, edges of boards, inside of boards, and/or edges
Tooling_(bookbinding)
Tool use has been reported many times in both wild and captive primates, particularly the great apes. The use of tools by primates is varied and includes
Tool_use_in_primates
Machine tool which rotates the work piece on its axis
A lathe (/leɪð/) is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling
Lathe
Brand of tools
Husky is a line of hand tools, pneumatic tools, and tool storage products. Though founded in 1924, it is now best known as the house brand of The Home
Husky_(tool_brand)
Prehistoric period before metal tools
broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly
Stone_Age
profiling tool in bioinformatics is a type of software that presents information related to a genetic sequence, gene name, or keyword input. Such tools generally
Sequence_profiling_tool
Tool driven by compressed air supplied by an air compressor
A pneumatic tool, air tool, air-powered tool or pneumatic-powered tool is a type of power tool, driven by compressed air supplied by an air compressor
Pneumatic_tool
Type of saw
introduced in 1947 by Scintilla AG (later acquired by Bosch). A jigsaw power tool is made up of an electric motor and a reciprocating saw blade. Jigsaws with
Jigsaw_(tool)
Prehistoric period, first part of the Stone Age
of stone tools. It represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology, extending from the earliest known use of stone tools by hominins
Paleolithic
Travers Tool Co., Inc. is an American privately held distributor of metalworking tools and industrial supplies, headquartered in Flushing, Queens, New
Travers_Tool
American singer (born 1964)
1964) is an American musician who is the lead singer of the rock bands Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer. Maynard James Keenan was born and raised
Maynard_James_Keenan
Poker tools are a variety of software or web-based applications that allow the statistical analysis of poker players, games or tournaments. Poker hand
Poker_tools
tools and equipment such as hand tools, power tools, electrician tools, welding and metal work tools, concrete and masonry equipment, plumbing tools,
List_of_tools_and_equipment
TOOL
TOOL
Boy/Male
Indian
Equipment; Tool
Boy/Male
African, Australian, Kenyan
Wizards Tools; From Kikuyu
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a small stream or an intermittent spring (Old English flÅd(e), from flÅwan ‘to flow’).Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Llwyd (see Lloyd).Irish : translation of various names correctly or erroneously associated with Gaelic tuile ‘flood’ (see Toole).
Boy/Male
Irish
Means “â€silentâ€â€ or “â€fierceâ€â€ and was probably used as a nickname for a “â€brave warrior.â€â€ Sometimes equated with Laurence, Lorcan is a name in its own right. One Lorcan was the grandfather ofBrian Boru, two kings of Leinster bore the name and St. Lorcan O’Tuathail, better known as St. Laurence O’Toole, was an influential bishop of Dublin and an important mediator between the Norman invaders and the Irish in the twelth century. The name is growing in popularity again in Ireland.
Surname or Lastname
Dutch and German
Dutch and German : from Middle Dutch and Middle High German bicke ‘pickaxe’ or ‘chisel’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a stonemason or someone who made or worked with such tools.German : from a pet form of the personal name Burkhart.English : of uncertain origin, perhaps from the Old English personal name Bicca. Alternatively, Reaney suggests it may be from Middle English bike ‘nest of wild bees or wasps’ and hence a metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper. Compare Bicker.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : German or English spelling of eastern Yiddish bik, Polish byk, or Russian byk, all meaning ‘ox’ or ‘bull’. This may be a translation of Shor.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Cradle
Girl/Female
Australian
A Garden Tool Used to Loosen Soil
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly East Midlands), Dutch, and German
English (mainly East Midlands), Dutch, and German : from Middle English pi(c)k, Middle Dutch picke, Middle High German bicke ‘pick’, ‘pickaxe’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made pickaxes or used them as an agricultural or excavating tool.North German : metonymic occupational name for a pitch-burner, from Low German pick ‘pitch’.English : possibly from Middle English pike ‘pike’ (the fish), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish, or as a descriptive nickname for someone thought to resemple a pike in some way.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : reduced form of O’Toole, an Americanized form of Ó Tuathail ‘descendant of Tuathal’.English : variant of Toll.
Surname or Lastname
German (also Häcker), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German (also Häcker), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a butcher, possibly also for a woodcutter, from an agent derivative of Middle High German hacken, Dutch hakken ‘to hack’, ‘to chop’. The Jewish surname may be from Yiddish heker ‘butcher’, holtsheker ‘woodcutter’ (German Holzhacker), or valdheker ‘lumberjack’, or from German Hacker ‘woodchopper’.English (chiefly Somerset) : from an agent derivative of Middle English hacken ‘to hack’, hence an occupational name for a woodcutter or, perhaps, a maker of hacks (hakkes), a word used in Middle English to denote a variety of agricultural tools such as mattocks and hoes.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a sharp point, from Old English pīc ‘point’, ‘hill’, which was a relatively common place name element.English : metonymic occupational name for a pike fisherman or nickname for a predatory individual, from Middle English pike.English : metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool for breaking up the earth, Middle English pike. Compare Pick.English : metonymic occupational name for a medieval foot soldier who used a pike, a weapon consisting of a sharp pointed metal end on a long pole, Middle English pic (Old French pique, of Germanic origin).English : nickname for a tall, thin person, from a transferred sense of one of the above.English : from a Germanic personal name (derived from the root ‘sharp’, ‘pointed’), found in Middle English and Old French as Pic.English : nickname from Old French pic ‘woodpecker’, Latin picus. Compare Pye and Speight.Irish : in the south, of English origin; in Ulster a variant Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Péice (see McPeake).Americanized spelling of German Peik, from Middle Low German pēk ‘sharp, pointed tool or weapon’. Compare 4 above or from a Germanic personal name (see 6 above).John Pike brought his family to Boston from England in 1635 and settled in Newbury, MA. His son Robert was a leading citizen and a vigorous defender of civil and religious liberty in colonial MA.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Tool to Project Arrow
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : variant of Toole.English (mainly Norfolk) : from a pet form of the Middle English personal name Toll.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English, Old English box ‘box tree’ (Latin buxus), in any of a number of possible applications. It may have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a box thicket, a habitational name from one of the places called Box, in Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, and Wiltshire, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked box wood, which is very hard and for this reason was used to make a variety of tools. In some cases it may even have been a nickname for a person with pale or yellow skin, for example as the result of jaundice, a reference to the color of box wood.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a player of a musical instrument (any musical instrument, not necessarily what is now known as an organ), from Middle English organ (Old French organe, Late Latin organum ‘device’, ‘(musical) instrument’, Greek organon ‘tool’, from ergein ‘to work or do’).English : from a rare medieval personal name, attested only in the Latinized forms Organus (masculine) and Organa (feminine). Its etymology is obscure; it may be a reworking of a Celtic name.French : habitational name from a place in the Hautes Pyrénées named Organ.
TOOL
TOOL
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Everleigh in Wiltshire, named from Old English eofor ‘wild boar’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. There is an Everley in North Yorkshire (of the same derivation), which may be the source of the surname in some instances.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Hebrew
Gracious Companion; Friend; Combination of Ruth and Anne
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Lord of Night
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Conqueror; Arjuna
Boy/Male
Hindu
Development or expanding
Boy/Male
British, English
A Greeting; Beautiful Well
Male
Finnish
Finnish name OIVA means "splendid."
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Earth
Girl/Female
Hindu
Slender, Intelligent, Loving beauty, Desired
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Prosperous; Wealth
TOOL
TOOL
TOOL
TOOL
TOOL
n.
A tool applied to the top of the work, in distinction from a tool inserted in the anvil and on which the work is placed.
n.
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.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Tool
n.
A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.
n.
Work performed with a tool.
v. t.
To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
n.
Same as Tsetse. U () the twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, is a cursive form of the letter V, with which it was formerly used interchangeably, both letters being then used both as vowels and consonants. U and V are now, however, differentiated, U being used only as a vowel or semivowel, and V only as a consonant. The true primary vowel sound of U, in Anglo-Saxon, was the sound which it still retains in most of the languages of Europe, that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood, answering to the French ou in tour. Etymologically U is most closely related to o, y (vowel), w, and v; as in two, duet, dyad, twice; top, tuft; sop, sup; auspice, aviary. See V, also O and Y.
n.
A tool for making mortises.
n.
A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.
v. t.
To shape, form, or finish with a tool.
n.
the part that supports a tool-post or a tool.
n.
Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
n.
A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.
n.
A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it.
n.
A certain tool used by coopers.
n.
The part of a tool-rest in which a cutting tool is clamped.
n.
Alt. of Tool-stock
n.
A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
n.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Tool