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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.
3. noun. Hence, any instrument of use or service.
4. noun. A weapon.
5. noun. 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.
6. transitive verb. To shape, form, or finish with a tool.
7. transitive verb. To drive, as a coach.
8. noun. the means whereby some act is accomplished

   "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"

   "science has given us new tools to fight disease"

   Synonyms: instrument

9. noun. an implement used in the practice of a vocation
10. noun. obscene terms for penis

    Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, peter, prick, putz, shaft

11. noun. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

    Synonyms: creature, puppet

12. verb. work with a tool
13. verb. ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it

    "We tooled down the street"

    Synonyms: joyride

14. verb. drive

    "The convertible tooled down the street"

15. verb. furnish with tools

Synonyms

instrument, cock, dick, pecker, peter, prick, putz, shaft, creature, puppet, joyride

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tool:

loot, loto

Common word forms

tools, tooled, tooler, tooling, toolless

Words from these letters

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