tool

Etymology
From, , from , perhaps borrowed from , but at any rate ultimately from , from , equivalent to agent suffix. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬; see, and ("fibres used for spinning").

Noun

 * 1)  Any mechanical device meant to ease or do a task.
 * 2) Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
 * 3) Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
 * 4)  A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
 * 5) A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
 * 6)  A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
 * 7)  A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
 * 8)  An obnoxious or uptight person.
 * 9)  A gun.
 * 1)  A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
 * 2) A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
 * 3)  A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
 * 4)  A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
 * 5)  An obnoxious or uptight person.
 * 6)  A gun.
 * 1)  A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
 * 2)  An obnoxious or uptight person.
 * 3)  A gun.
 * 1)  An obnoxious or uptight person.
 * 2)  A gun.
 * 1)  An obnoxious or uptight person.
 * 2)  A gun.
 * 1)  A gun.
 * 1)  A gun.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:tool

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: መሣሪያ
 * Arabic: أَدَاة,, عُدَّة
 * Gulf Arabic: اداة
 * Hijazi Arabic: عِدّة
 * Moroccan Arabic: دزان
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: সঁজুলি, আহিলা
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: алат
 * Azerbaijani:, hacat
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: інструме́нт,
 * Bengali: সাধনী
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: gamit, himan
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 架生, 工具
 * Eastern Min: 工具
 * Hakka: 工具
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 工具
 * Crimean Tatar: alet
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, , instrument,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto: laborilo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ინსტრუმენტი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἐργαλεῖον
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: himan
 * Hindi:, औज़ार
 * Hungarian:,  ,
 * Icelandic:, tól
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: asu
 * Interlingua: instrumento
 * Irish: uirlis
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: аспап, құрал
 * Khmer:, , ប្រដាប់ប្រដា
 * Korean:, 툴
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao:, ເຄື່ອງ
 * Latin:, ferrāmentum
 * Latvian: instruments, darbarīks
 * Lithuanian:, įnagis
 * Lü: ᦵᦆᦲᧂᧈ
 * Luhya: sisindu
 * Macedonian: алатка, алат
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: għodda
 * Maori: paraha
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Navajo: bee naʼanishí
 * Nepali:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: shomɓo
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: verktøy
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: орѫдиѥ
 * Pashto:, , ,
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Pesian:, , ,
 * Piedmontese: utiss
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ору́дие труда́,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: tuil
 * Scottish Gaelic: inneal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: а̀ла̄т, о̀рӯђе
 * Roman: ,
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian:, strummentu, stigghiu,
 * Slovak: nástroj
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: wrokosani
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: олат,, ,
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, ,
 * Tibetan: ལག་ཆ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: інструме́нт, начи́ння, знаря́ддя
 * Urdu:, اَوزار
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ark
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: ווערקצייג, מכשיר
 * Zhuang: gaiqdawz, gunghgi


 * Arabic:
 * Gulf Arabic: اداة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: vahend
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐργαλεῖον
 * Hebrew:
 * Ingrian: asu, pribora, tööriista
 * Interlingua: instrumento
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin:
 * Navajo: bee naʼanishí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: reiskap
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: срѐдство, при́бор
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:, strummentu, stigghiu
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Arabic:
 * Gulf Arabic: اداة
 * Belarusian: сродак
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Estonian: instrumentaalprogramm
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 툴
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sicilian: strummentu


 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 使いっ走り, 木偶の坊
 * Sicilian: strummentu


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: riist
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Luhya: msondo
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sicilian:, mazzolu, vìrija, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: ,
 * Avar:
 * Estonian:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Telugu:

Verb

 * 1)  To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
 * 2)  To equip with tools.
 * 3)  To work very hard.
 * 4)  To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
 * Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.
 * 1)  To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
 * 2)  To drive (a coach or other vehicle).
 * 3)  To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
 * 4) * 1850s, Cuthbert M. Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
 * Among those who seemed disposed to join in this opinion was the Jehu of the Warwickshire coach, who expressed his conviction to our hero, that "he wos a young gent as had much himproved hisself since he tooled him up to the Warsity with his guvnor."
 * 1)  To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
 * 2) * March 8, 1890, Byron P. Stephenson, "My Trip to Brazil", in Illustrated American
 * boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads
 * boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: donar forma, ,
 * Czech: obrábět
 * Danish: bearbejde
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: viimistlema
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: (con utensiles)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Turkish: alet ile işlemek, aletle işlemek


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: udstyre med r
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: varustama
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: equipar
 * German:
 * Norwegian: utstyre utruste
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Turkish:, teçhizatlandırmak


 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: rügama
 * Polish:


 * German:


 * Interlingua:, ,
 * Romanian: ,

Etymology
.

Noun

 * A, aid, instrument, auxiliary device.

Etymology
From, ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) chair
 * 2) A seat with four legs and a backrest for one person.

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A, implement, or instrument.
 * 2) An instrument of war; an armament.
 * 3)  A device used for torturing or interrogration.
 * 4)  A penis.

Noun

 * 1) field
 * 2) garden