Dictionary Entry
tool
tool is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 15 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.
- 3noun
Hence, any instrument of use or service.
- 4noun
A weapon.
- 5noun
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.
- 6transitive verb
To shape, form, or finish with a tool.
- 7transitive verb
To drive, as a coach.
- 8noun
the means whereby some act is accomplished
"my greed was the instrument of my destruction"
"science has given us new tools to fight disease"
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- 9noun
an implement used in the practice of a vocation
- 10noun
obscene terms for penis
- 11noun
a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- 12verb
work with a tool
- 13verb
ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
"We tooled down the street"
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- 14verb
drive
"The convertible tooled down the street"
- 15verb
furnish with tools
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