tool

Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.

Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.

A screwdriver is a tool that no household should be without.

A stapler is a tool for attaching papers to others.

Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.

Idleness is a tool of the devil.

A spreadsheet app and a bookkeeping app are some of the principal tools of a bookkeeper.

(computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.

The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.

a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk

A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn.

She was a tool of the pharmaceutical lobby.

He was a tool of a foreign influence operation.

(baseball) A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).

a five-tool player

(informal, vulgar)A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.

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(broadly, derogatory, slang, vulgar)(by extension, vulgar, slang, derogatory) An obnoxious or uptight person.

He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.

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(Canada, Multicultural London English, US, slang)(slang, Canada, US, MTE, MLE, and possibly wider) A handgun.

Đồng nghĩa: weapon, arm, armament

(transitive)To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.

(transitive)To equip with tools.

(intransitive)To work very hard.

(slang, transitive)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.

(transitive)(transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.

(UK, dated, slang, transitive)To drive (a coach or other vehicle).

(UK, dated, slang, transitive)To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.

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."

(intransitive, slang)To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

March 8, 1890, Byron P. Stephenson, "My Trip to Brazil", in Illustrated American boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads