Definitions for tools

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Spelling: [tool]

IPA: /tul/

Tools is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in tools (loost).

Definitions for tools

noun

1. an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
2. any instrument of manual operation.
3. the cutting or machining part of a lathe, planer, drill, or similar machine.
4. the machine itself; a machine tool.
5. anything used as a means of accomplishing a task or purpose:
6. a person manipulated by another for the latter's own ends; cat's-paw.
7. the design or ornament impressed upon the cover of a book.
8. Underworld Slang. a pistol or gun. a pickpocket.
9. Slang: Vulgar. penis.

Verb phrases

1. tool up, to install machinery designed for performing a particular job:

verb (used with object)

1. to work or shape with a tool.
2. to work decoratively with a hand tool.
3. to ornament (the cover of a book) with a bookbinder's tool.
4. to drive (a vehicle):
5. to equip with tools or machinery.

verb (used without object)

1. to work with a tool.
2. to drive or ride in a vehicle:

Origin of tools

before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English tōl; cognate with Old Norse tōl tools; akin to taw²

Examples for tools

The United States has tools to impose costs on the North Koreans.

Elsewhere on the Internet, and often, Turkers butt heads over which tools work best, or what nation they hail from.

After a while, you start to realize that they were just tools used by the leaders and the Politburo.

God can use us as tools, but to be a tool of, is not to be a fellow-worker with.

They will feel that "the tools are with him who can use them."

His weapons and tools were of the rudest description, and made of chipped flint.

Every boy should learn the use of tools, the gardener's or the carpenter's, or both.

She began operating out of her home garage in 1980, slowly acquiring the many props and tools that would decorate her dungeon.

In the afternoon he returned with his pard and tools for digging.

No, the tools used are just old fashioned, and the images produced are drawings, hardly a new invention.