tool

Noun
  1. An implement used in the practice of a vocation (synset 104459089)
    is a type of: implement - instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end
    subtypes:
    • abradant, abrader - a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing
    • bender - a tool for bending
    • clincher - a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets
    • comb - any of several tools for straightening fibers
    • cutting implement - a tool used for cutting or slicing
    • drill - a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
    • eolith - a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint); possibly the earliest tools
    • fork - an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
    • gang - tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
    • garden tool, lawn tool - used for working in gardens or yards
    • grapnel, grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron - a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope
    • hack - a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
    • hand tool - a tool used with workers' hands
    • hoe - a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
    • jack - tool for exerting pressure or lifting
    • jaws of life - hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside
    • neolith - a stone tool from the Neolithic Age
    • paleolith - a stone tool from the Paleolithic age
    • muller, pestle, pounder - a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
    • plough, plow - a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
    • power tool - a tool driven by a motor
    • punch, puncher - a tool for making holes or indentations
    • rake - a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
    • ram - a tool for driving or forcing something by impact
    • rounder - a tool for rounding corners or edges
    • saw set - a tool used to bend each alternate sawtooth at a slight angle outward
    • shaping tool - a tool for shaping metal
    • strickle - a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
    • style, stylus - a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
    • tamp, tamper, tamping bar - a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
    • tap - a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
    • swage, upset - a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
  2. The means whereby some act is accomplished (synset 100174610)
    "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease"
    is a type of: agency, means, way - thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
    same as: instrument
  3. A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else (synset 109996081)
    is a type of: slave - a person who is owned by someone
    same as: creature, puppet
  4. Obscene terms for penis (synset 105534354)
    domain usage: dirty word, filth, obscenity, smut, vulgarism - an offensive or indecent word or phrase
    is a type of: member, penis, phallus - the male sex organ (`member' is a euphemism)
    same as: cock, dick, pecker, prick, putz, shaft
Verb
  1. Drive (synset 202104619)
    "The convertible tooled down the street"
    is a type of: drive - operate or control a vehicle
    verb group: joyride, tool, tool around - ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
  2. Ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it (synset 201960567)
    "We tooled down the street"
    referred to in: driving - the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
    is a type of: ride - be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
    same as: joyride, tool around
    verb group: tool - drive
  3. Furnish with tools (synset 202342999)
    is a type of: furnish, provide, render, supply - give something useful or necessary to
  4. Work with a tool (synset 201673442)
    is a type of: process, work, work on - shape, form, or improve a material

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