Definition of tool in English:

tool

noun tuːltul

1A device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function.
（尤指手用）工具
gardening tools
园艺工具。
Example sentencesExamples
- Each year a number of new gardening tools and gadgets become available.
- These products are household items such as kitchen appliances, gardening tools and children's toys.
- The divers teamed up in groups of two or three, and each group carried with them cutting tools and lift bags.
- There were hundreds of devices and tools inside the huge building.
- Dad had to borrow money to buy a set of tools for his apprenticeship.
- The company is involved in the manufacture of pocket knives and cutting tools for DIY and gardening.
- As well as financial contributions, the group is urging volunteer gardeners to come forward or offer donations of gardening tools and equipment.
- A number of tools were stolen from sheds and the vandals uprooted vegetables and plants, throwing them around.
- This way of life was to change when metal became available for making tools and implements, in the latter part of the third millennium BC.
- These tools may have functioned as hafted knives or scrapers.
- There will be exhibitors offering garden furniture, pots, wickerwork, gardening tools and implements old and new, wrought ironwork and various craft stalls.
- Clean and store outdoor lawn and patio furniture, gardening tools and barbecue equipment.
- Most rusty implements, tools and hooks can be restored to almost their original form by simply leaving them in plain white vinegar for several hours.
- He said items such as sports equipment and gardening tools become items of interest for potential thieves.
- Next day I turned up again by taxi, carrying my bag of bike tools, and got out, prepared for a sweating quarter of an hour mending a bike when I should have been at work.
- With the number of different tools used in this trade, knowledge of when and how to use the many implements is vital.
- And I got to use large numbers of power tools for a bit, which is always good.
- As well as advice on how to deal with bogus callers, securing property and the home, there will be tips on safeguarding gardening tools and machinery.
- Implements, tools, and equipment should be cleaned of soil and root debris before moving them to non-infested fields.
- There are loads of gardening gadgets and new tools around to tempt the unwary shopper, but in my view most of these novelties will not stand the test of time and you would be unlikely to find them still in use by this time next year.
Synonyms
implement, instrument, utensil, device, apparatus, gadget, appliance, machine, contrivance, contraption, mechanism, aid
informal gimmick, gizmo
(tools), hardware, equipment, gear, kit, tackle, paraphernalia
1. 1.1 A thing used to help perform a job.
  computers are an essential tool
  计算机是重要的工具。
  the ability to write clearly is a tool of the trade
  写一手清晰的字是这一行谋生的手段。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is not executive vanity, but a tool of the trade.
  One of the essential tools of any budding television and film producer is the ability to pitch a concept.
  Also, once this device is functional it will be useful as a tool to carry out basic research more productively.
  The hunger for a medium of personal expression is being exploited as a marketing tool by companies who work to create the impression of personal interaction.
  And, to some degree, mathematics has evolved to exploit these new tools and techniques.
  Computers are an essential tool for engineers and designers.
  What training tools, devices, and simulations do we need?
  They regard it as a rational tool for the implementation of policy, a technique that is available for practitioners to use in appropriate circumstances for the pursuit of national interests.
  Much work is still needed to develop reliable tools to exploit solution methods to predict the shape of proteins in solution.
  Models and monitored performance are essential management tools.
  He had the theoretical tools to perform quantitative calculations based largely on data from nuclear-physics laboratories.
  These tools should be fully exploited by the nutrition and public health communities to combat micronutrient malnutrition.
  Its role as a diagnostic tool has recently been exploited.
  I can use any number of tools, from the powers of composition and imagination to the power of a computer, to make an image be what I want it to be.
  In addition, new intellectual tools were exploited, especially from anthropology.
  The students view cell phones as essential tools, yet they appear to loathe them.
  Does your business have the tools to evaluate and implement change?
  As with any occupation, professionals need the right tools to perform their jobs effectively.
  Did they think puppetry was a useful tool in teaching?
  Diversity management is an important tool in exploiting opportunities and meeting these challenges.
2. 1.2 A person used or exploited by another.
  被利用的人
  the beautiful Estella is Miss Havisham's tool
  美丽的埃斯特拉是哈维萨姆小姐的走卒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He would follow instructions and became a tool to be exploited.
  Synonyms
  dupe, puppet, pawn, minion, lackey, flunkey, instrument, henchman, creature, cat's paw
  informal stooge, sucker, poodle
3. 1.3Computing A piece of software that carries out a particular function, typically creating or modifying another program.
  〔计算机〕工具
  Example sentencesExamples
  The companies are working with open-source compiler developers to create software development tools for programmers.
  Developers will be offered co-marketing money, free software and developer tools.
  These tools exploit the file structure of operating systems to recover ‘evidence’ that can be used in court.
  Publishing a vulnerability is no guarantee that someone else won't write an exploit tool, and no guarantee that the vendor will fix it.
  In addition, over 70 per cent of these security flaws could be exploited using readily available tools or without the need for any attack code.
2A distinct design in the tooling of a book.
（书籍装订时的）压印图案
1. 2.1 A small stamp or roller used to make a tooled design.
  印模，墨辊，压印器（用来压印图案）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The drawing was removed, and a variety of modeling tools were used to tool the foil in relief.
3vulgar slang A man's penis.
〈粗俚〉阴茎
1. 3.1 A stupid, irritating, or contemptible man.
  that guy is such a tool

verb tuːltul

1with object Impress a design on (leather, especially a leather book cover)
在（皮革，尤指书籍的皮革封面）上压印图案
volumes bound in green leather and tooled in gold
绿色皮面并有金色压印的书卷。
Example sentencesExamples
- Franklin has tooled the design himself: a rectangle within a rectangle within a rectangle of gold, the inner and the middle joined at the corners with floral rolls.
- He'd traded his breeches and tunic for finely tooled black leather - the working garb of an Assassin.
- Each cluster is made up of circular grapes of fiery black opals and delicately tooled gold leaves covered in translucent green enamel, spaced equally along the chain.
- This sounds like such an esoteric topic, yet in fact it follows a long period during which patrons and collectors sought out and valued decorated leather bindings tooled in gold and blind impressions.
- Some bikes had tooled leather offices attached to the handlebars.
- Just pop those finely tooled leather suitcases in the back and point her in the general direction of somewhere hot and expensive.
- Houdini's diaries took up an entire shelf - about a dozen volumes, each boxed in an expensive leather slipcase, gold tooled - a treasure surely worth a few hundred thousand dollars.
- The saddle my mare wore was plain, while his had tooled designs cut into the leather of it.
- First came a wonderfully tooled pair of soft doe-skin boots, delicate enough to wear with nice dresses, but sturdy enough to wear in everyday use.
- It's really a beautiful little piece of work, bound in leather that's been tooled with a lovely design of roses and vines.
2Equip or be equipped with tools for industrial production.
（为生产而）配置设备
with object the factory must be tooled to produce the models
工厂必须配置设备以生产这些型号。
no object they were tooling up for production
他们正为英国的生产配备设备。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nonetheless they need a reasonable sales volume to justify the costs of tooling up for a new bullet, especially for a new bullet diameter.
- While tooling up for composite technology can be expensive, it hasn't prevented start-up manufacturers from getting involved.
- He had tooled up for one level of demand and now faces an entirely different and, more importantly, elastic demand.
- It would take two to four years just to develop a new engine with the technology and years more to work it into new product plans and get plants tooled up to make the vehicles.
- As tens of thousands of factories tooled up for their production runs, the machine tool industry was overwhelmed.
- Additionally, local sub-assemblers, component manufacturers, and parts suppliers might hesitate to invest in new and costly machines to tool up for a new design.
- A fully tooled factory could turn out several hundred models a week, if necessary.
- They are making just one million units a month right now and need time to tool up for the extra production.
- The smaller aviation companies had also benefited from wartime orders and were tooling up for light aircraft production well before the final surrender documents had been signed.
- However it is currently manufactured only in left hand drive and the parent company is yet to be convinced that sales will warrant tooling up for a right hand drive version.
- Both machines were less than adequate in all categories of performance but they did manage to change the rather staid thinking of the American military and to help aircraft factories tool up for the coming conflict.
- The gun merchant asked for an initial order of 300 grips, and Lane set about tooling up for the project.
- One of the most disheartening things was to go into that prison and see a massive carpentry shop - fully equipped and fully tooled - empty.
- Apparently, they're tooling up for hardware production in May.
1. 2.1tool up" or "be tooled upBritish informal Be or become armed, especially for criminal activity.
  〈英，非正式〉（尤指为犯罪活动而）武装
  they were tooled up with baseball bats
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the US and western powers tool up to tackle this new threat, civil liberties will receive very short shrift.
  People should get tooled up when they venture into the town centre.
  If it only takes this to turn me, Mr Peaceful, into a homicidal maniac it's easier to understand how more frequent and serious incidents lead to people tooling up.
  The non-nuclear countries agreed not to tool up, in exchange for the already-nuclear countries agreeing to slowly dismantle their arsenals and to never, under any circumstances, share their nuclear technologies.
  If you're going to attack them directly, make sure you're well masked and tooled up.
  Eight out of ten British business people are tooled up for mobile working, according to new research.
  It is not just a case of vandalism - whoever stole them obviously went tooled up.
  Those guys were ruthless, tooled up and had that horribly simple, unchanging mask for a face.
  The riot squad were getting tooled up when I left, but when asked what trouble they had seen, they pointed to smoke bombs being thrown about by animal rights fanatics.
  Almost any other kind of film about alien-invasion would show the farmers getting tooled up with every kind of shooter they can lay their hands on.
  On our bit of beach there were about 4000 people of all ages tooled up with coolboxes and barbecues.
  So at 5:30 pm we tooled up and drove off.
  The suppliers of drugs do not have this choice, so they tool up to protect their trade from intruders or competitors.
  Britain rode out the US depression relatively unscathed, however, others were jockeying for position and tooling up for war.
  Other European countries had a director or two who ‘traveled,’ but Denmark seemed to be blessed with a pool of such talent and a film-making system that was tooled up to deliver it.
  I saw my doctor on Wednesday and got tooled up with some antibiotics, which finally seem to be doing the trick.
  I'm talking about guys with scars, people out of prison, people all tooled up; all of them crying.
3North American informal no object, with adverbial of direction Drive or ride in a casual or leisurely manner.
〈非正式〉悠闲自在地开车或乘车
tooling around town in a pink Rolls-Royce
开着粉红色的劳斯莱斯车在城里兜风。
Example sentencesExamples
- So you're tooling around checking out the sites in Calgary.
- In the hit TV comedy the cousins tooled around the Georgia sticks, helping the downtrodden and getting into trouble.
- We tooled around, had a pint or two and spoke of musical matters as well as academic.
- But I think it would be fun to have one to tool around town, just about anywhere.
- The rest of the song was enough on its own, but that line was always good for some weird looks when my friend Charlotte and I were tooling around town screaming along.
- We don't tool around in gigantic SUVs like the Americans - yet.
- And so begins the journey of a truly strange cinematic odd couple, tooling around in an open jeep trying to cajole the natives to exercise their rights.
- Because I'd been tooling along at the same speed as everyone else - happily minding my own business - I'd neglected to make sure my eyes were firmly fixed on the speedo.
- The band tooled around North America in true indie punk style.
- Sometimes he tools around Turku, some 145 kilometers west of Helsinki, in a van to test reception in hard-to-reach places.
- I'm tooling down the freeway between L.A. and the border.
- I haven't driven in well over year - not since I went to Kentucky for Christmas 2000 and tooled around town in my mom's car.
- As I tooled around on city streets, I was permanently haunted by the thought that someone in an SUV would mistake me for a speed bump.
- Another real-world analogy: you're tooling down the Interstate in your Chevy and hit a bump in the road.
- While they were here I made a one day visit to Seattle and then spent a few days tooling around the lower Mainland and the Island.
Synonyms
drive, bowl, ride, motor, travel
informal spin
4with object Dress (stone) with a chisel.
凿刻（石头）
Example sentencesExamples
- Long gone are the tooled finishes from hand-held chisels that could render differences in texture across the face of a stone block, or from one stone to the next.
Synonyms
ornament, embellish, decorate, work, shape, cut, chase, dress, fashion

Derivatives

tooler

noun ˈtuːləˈtulər

This, in turn, fuelled an entire production industry - typesetters, printers, engravers, binders, leather toolers, booksellers, print makers and sellers - to service this new domain of culture.
Example sentencesExamples
- The eligible pool consists of engineers, quality, mechanics, part fabricators, toolers, painters, leads, team leaders and business unit leaders.
- His sons, Bruce, Bill, Bob, and John, have all become accomplished leather toolers.
- Our staff of highly skilled engineers and toolers surpassed even their own imaginations.
- Gender is of no difference here, but most toolers are between 20 and 60 years of age.

Origin

Old English tōl, from a Germanic base meaning 'prepare'; compare with taw¹. The verb dates from the early 19th century.

Rhymes

Banjul, befool, Boole, boule, boules, boulle, cagoule, cool, drool, fool, ghoul, Joule, mewl, misrule, mule, O'Toole, pool, Poole, pul, pule, Raoul, rule, school, shul, sool, spool, Stamboul, stool, Thule, tomfool, tulle, you'll, yule

Definition of tool in US English:

tool

nountulto͞ol

1A device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function.
（尤指手用）工具
gardening tools
园艺工具。
Example sentencesExamples
- This way of life was to change when metal became available for making tools and implements, in the latter part of the third millennium BC.
- The divers teamed up in groups of two or three, and each group carried with them cutting tools and lift bags.
- With the number of different tools used in this trade, knowledge of when and how to use the many implements is vital.
- Each year a number of new gardening tools and gadgets become available.
- Most rusty implements, tools and hooks can be restored to almost their original form by simply leaving them in plain white vinegar for several hours.
- And I got to use large numbers of power tools for a bit, which is always good.
- As well as financial contributions, the group is urging volunteer gardeners to come forward or offer donations of gardening tools and equipment.
- The company is involved in the manufacture of pocket knives and cutting tools for DIY and gardening.
- Dad had to borrow money to buy a set of tools for his apprenticeship.
- There will be exhibitors offering garden furniture, pots, wickerwork, gardening tools and implements old and new, wrought ironwork and various craft stalls.
- He said items such as sports equipment and gardening tools become items of interest for potential thieves.
- Clean and store outdoor lawn and patio furniture, gardening tools and barbecue equipment.
- These products are household items such as kitchen appliances, gardening tools and children's toys.
- As well as advice on how to deal with bogus callers, securing property and the home, there will be tips on safeguarding gardening tools and machinery.
- There are loads of gardening gadgets and new tools around to tempt the unwary shopper, but in my view most of these novelties will not stand the test of time and you would be unlikely to find them still in use by this time next year.
- A number of tools were stolen from sheds and the vandals uprooted vegetables and plants, throwing them around.
- These tools may have functioned as hafted knives or scrapers.
- Next day I turned up again by taxi, carrying my bag of bike tools, and got out, prepared for a sweating quarter of an hour mending a bike when I should have been at work.
- Implements, tools, and equipment should be cleaned of soil and root debris before moving them to non-infested fields.
- There were hundreds of devices and tools inside the huge building.
Synonyms
implement, instrument, utensil, device, apparatus, gadget, appliance, machine, contrivance, contraption, mechanism, aid
1. 1.1 A thing used in an occupation or pursuit.
  （工作或职业中所用的）工具
  computers are an essential tool
  计算机是重要的工具。
  the ability to write clearly is a tool of the trade
  写一手清晰的字是这一行谋生的手段。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Models and monitored performance are essential management tools.
  These tools should be fully exploited by the nutrition and public health communities to combat micronutrient malnutrition.
  In addition, new intellectual tools were exploited, especially from anthropology.
  What training tools, devices, and simulations do we need?
  It is not executive vanity, but a tool of the trade.
  Computers are an essential tool for engineers and designers.
  Also, once this device is functional it will be useful as a tool to carry out basic research more productively.
  Much work is still needed to develop reliable tools to exploit solution methods to predict the shape of proteins in solution.
  One of the essential tools of any budding television and film producer is the ability to pitch a concept.
  Its role as a diagnostic tool has recently been exploited.
  Diversity management is an important tool in exploiting opportunities and meeting these challenges.
  And, to some degree, mathematics has evolved to exploit these new tools and techniques.
  Did they think puppetry was a useful tool in teaching?
  Does your business have the tools to evaluate and implement change?
  The students view cell phones as essential tools, yet they appear to loathe them.
  They regard it as a rational tool for the implementation of policy, a technique that is available for practitioners to use in appropriate circumstances for the pursuit of national interests.
  He had the theoretical tools to perform quantitative calculations based largely on data from nuclear-physics laboratories.
  I can use any number of tools, from the powers of composition and imagination to the power of a computer, to make an image be what I want it to be.
  As with any occupation, professionals need the right tools to perform their jobs effectively.
  The hunger for a medium of personal expression is being exploited as a marketing tool by companies who work to create the impression of personal interaction.
2. 1.2 A person used or exploited by another.
  被利用的人
  the beautiful Estella is Miss Havisham's tool
  美丽的埃斯特拉是哈维萨姆小姐的走卒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He would follow instructions and became a tool to be exploited.
  Synonyms
  dupe, puppet, pawn, minion, lackey, flunkey, instrument, henchman, creature, cat's paw
3. 1.3Computing A piece of software that carries out a particular function, typically creating or modifying another program.
  〔计算机〕工具
  Example sentencesExamples
  Publishing a vulnerability is no guarantee that someone else won't write an exploit tool, and no guarantee that the vendor will fix it.
  These tools exploit the file structure of operating systems to recover ‘evidence’ that can be used in court.
  Developers will be offered co-marketing money, free software and developer tools.
  In addition, over 70 per cent of these security flaws could be exploited using readily available tools or without the need for any attack code.
  The companies are working with open-source compiler developers to create software development tools for programmers.
2A distinct design in the tooling of a book.
（书籍装订时的）压印图案
1. 2.1 A small stamp or roller used to make a tooled design.
  印模，墨辊，压印器（用来压印图案）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The drawing was removed, and a variety of modeling tools were used to tool the foil in relief.
3vulgar slang A man's penis.
〈粗俚〉阴茎
1. 3.1 A stupid, irritating, or contemptible man.
  that guy is such a tool

verbtulto͞ol

1usually be tooledwith object Impress a design on (leather, especially a leather book cover)
在（皮革，尤指书籍的皮革封面）上压印图案
volumes bound in green leather and tooled in gold
绿色皮面并有金色压印的书卷。
Example sentencesExamples
- The saddle my mare wore was plain, while his had tooled designs cut into the leather of it.
- Some bikes had tooled leather offices attached to the handlebars.
- This sounds like such an esoteric topic, yet in fact it follows a long period during which patrons and collectors sought out and valued decorated leather bindings tooled in gold and blind impressions.
- Houdini's diaries took up an entire shelf - about a dozen volumes, each boxed in an expensive leather slipcase, gold tooled - a treasure surely worth a few hundred thousand dollars.
- Just pop those finely tooled leather suitcases in the back and point her in the general direction of somewhere hot and expensive.
- It's really a beautiful little piece of work, bound in leather that's been tooled with a lovely design of roses and vines.
- He'd traded his breeches and tunic for finely tooled black leather - the working garb of an Assassin.
- First came a wonderfully tooled pair of soft doe-skin boots, delicate enough to wear with nice dresses, but sturdy enough to wear in everyday use.
- Franklin has tooled the design himself: a rectangle within a rectangle within a rectangle of gold, the inner and the middle joined at the corners with floral rolls.
- Each cluster is made up of circular grapes of fiery black opals and delicately tooled gold leaves covered in translucent green enamel, spaced equally along the chain.
2Equip or be equipped with tools for industrial production.
（为生产而）配置设备
with object the factory must be tooled to produce the models
工厂必须配置设备以生产这些型号。
no object they were tooling up for production
他们正为英国的生产配备设备。
Example sentencesExamples
- As tens of thousands of factories tooled up for their production runs, the machine tool industry was overwhelmed.
- Additionally, local sub-assemblers, component manufacturers, and parts suppliers might hesitate to invest in new and costly machines to tool up for a new design.
- While tooling up for composite technology can be expensive, it hasn't prevented start-up manufacturers from getting involved.
- One of the most disheartening things was to go into that prison and see a massive carpentry shop - fully equipped and fully tooled - empty.
- However it is currently manufactured only in left hand drive and the parent company is yet to be convinced that sales will warrant tooling up for a right hand drive version.
- They are making just one million units a month right now and need time to tool up for the extra production.
- He had tooled up for one level of demand and now faces an entirely different and, more importantly, elastic demand.
- Nonetheless they need a reasonable sales volume to justify the costs of tooling up for a new bullet, especially for a new bullet diameter.
- The smaller aviation companies had also benefited from wartime orders and were tooling up for light aircraft production well before the final surrender documents had been signed.
- The gun merchant asked for an initial order of 300 grips, and Lane set about tooling up for the project.
- Apparently, they're tooling up for hardware production in May.
- Both machines were less than adequate in all categories of performance but they did manage to change the rather staid thinking of the American military and to help aircraft factories tool up for the coming conflict.
- A fully tooled factory could turn out several hundred models a week, if necessary.
- It would take two to four years just to develop a new engine with the technology and years more to work it into new product plans and get plants tooled up to make the vehicles.
3North American informal no object, with adverbial of direction Drive or ride in a casual or leisurely manner.
〈非正式〉悠闲自在地开车或乘车
tooling around town in a pink Rolls-Royce
开着粉红色的劳斯莱斯车在城里兜风。
Example sentencesExamples
- And so begins the journey of a truly strange cinematic odd couple, tooling around in an open jeep trying to cajole the natives to exercise their rights.
- I'm tooling down the freeway between L.A. and the border.
- The rest of the song was enough on its own, but that line was always good for some weird looks when my friend Charlotte and I were tooling around town screaming along.
- As I tooled around on city streets, I was permanently haunted by the thought that someone in an SUV would mistake me for a speed bump.
- In the hit TV comedy the cousins tooled around the Georgia sticks, helping the downtrodden and getting into trouble.
- We don't tool around in gigantic SUVs like the Americans - yet.
- So you're tooling around checking out the sites in Calgary.
- While they were here I made a one day visit to Seattle and then spent a few days tooling around the lower Mainland and the Island.
- Because I'd been tooling along at the same speed as everyone else - happily minding my own business - I'd neglected to make sure my eyes were firmly fixed on the speedo.
- The band tooled around North America in true indie punk style.
- I haven't driven in well over year - not since I went to Kentucky for Christmas 2000 and tooled around town in my mom's car.
- Another real-world analogy: you're tooling down the Interstate in your Chevy and hit a bump in the road.
- We tooled around, had a pint or two and spoke of musical matters as well as academic.
- But I think it would be fun to have one to tool around town, just about anywhere.
- Sometimes he tools around Turku, some 145 kilometers west of Helsinki, in a van to test reception in hard-to-reach places.
Synonyms
drive, bowl, ride, motor, travel
4Dress (stone) with a chisel.
凿刻（石头）
Example sentencesExamples
- Long gone are the tooled finishes from hand-held chisels that could render differences in texture across the face of a stone block, or from one stone to the next.
Synonyms
ornament, embellish, decorate, work, shape, cut, chase, dress, fashion

Origin

Old English tōl, from a Germanic base meaning ‘prepare’; compare with taw. The verb dates from the early 19th century.

单词	tool
释义	Definition of tool in English: tool noun tuːltul 1A device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function. （尤指手用）工具 gardening tools 园艺工具。 Example sentencesExamples Each year a number of new gardening tools and gadgets become available. These products are household items such as kitchen appliances, gardening tools and children's toys. The divers teamed up in groups of two or three, and each group carried with them cutting tools and lift bags. There were hundreds of devices and tools inside the huge building. Dad had to borrow money to buy a set of tools for his apprenticeship. The company is involved in the manufacture of pocket knives and cutting tools for DIY and gardening. As well as financial contributions, the group is urging volunteer gardeners to come forward or offer donations of gardening tools and equipment. A number of tools were stolen from sheds and the vandals uprooted vegetables and plants, throwing them around. This way of life was to change when metal became available for making tools and implements, in the latter part of the third millennium BC. These tools may have functioned as hafted knives or scrapers. There will be exhibitors offering garden furniture, pots, wickerwork, gardening tools and implements old and new, wrought ironwork and various craft stalls. Clean and store outdoor lawn and patio furniture, gardening tools and barbecue equipment. Most rusty implements, tools and hooks can be restored to almost their original form by simply leaving them in plain white vinegar for several hours. He said items such as sports equipment and gardening tools become items of interest for potential thieves. Next day I turned up again by taxi, carrying my bag of bike tools, and got out, prepared for a sweating quarter of an hour mending a bike when I should have been at work. With the number of different tools used in this trade, knowledge of when and how to use the many implements is vital. And I got to use large numbers of power tools for a bit, which is always good. As well as advice on how to deal with bogus callers, securing property and the home, there will be tips on safeguarding gardening tools and machinery. Implements, tools, and equipment should be cleaned of soil and root debris before moving them to non-infested fields. There are loads of gardening gadgets and new tools around to tempt the unwary shopper, but in my view most of these novelties will not stand the test of time and you would be unlikely to find them still in use by this time next year. Synonyms implement, instrument, utensil, device, apparatus, gadget, appliance, machine, contrivance, contraption, mechanism, aid informal gimmick, gizmo (tools), hardware, equipment, gear, kit, tackle, paraphernalia 1.1 A thing used to help perform a job. computers are an essential tool 计算机是重要的工具。 the ability to write clearly is a tool of the trade 写一手清晰的字是这一行谋生的手段。 Example sentencesExamples It is not executive vanity, but a tool of the trade. One of the essential tools of any budding television and film producer is the ability to pitch a concept. Also, once this device is functional it will be useful as a tool to carry out basic research more productively. The hunger for a medium of personal expression is being exploited as a marketing tool by companies who work to create the impression of personal interaction. And, to some degree, mathematics has evolved to exploit these new tools and techniques. Computers are an essential tool for engineers and designers. What training tools, devices, and simulations do we need? They regard it as a rational tool for the implementation of policy, a technique that is available for practitioners to use in appropriate circumstances for the pursuit of national interests. Much work is still needed to develop reliable tools to exploit solution methods to predict the shape of proteins in solution. Models and monitored performance are essential management tools. He had the theoretical tools to perform quantitative calculations based largely on data from nuclear-physics laboratories. These tools should be fully exploited by the nutrition and public health communities to combat micronutrient malnutrition. Its role as a diagnostic tool has recently been exploited. I can use any number of tools, from the powers of composition and imagination to the power of a computer, to make an image be what I want it to be. In addition, new intellectual tools were exploited, especially from anthropology. The students view cell phones as essential tools, yet they appear to loathe them. Does your business have the tools to evaluate and implement change? As with any occupation, professionals need the right tools to perform their jobs effectively. Did they think puppetry was a useful tool in teaching? Diversity management is an important tool in exploiting opportunities and meeting these challenges. 1.2 A person used or exploited by another. 被利用的人 the beautiful Estella is Miss Havisham's tool 美丽的埃斯特拉是哈维萨姆小姐的走卒。 Example sentencesExamples He would follow instructions and became a tool to be exploited. Synonyms dupe, puppet, pawn, minion, lackey, flunkey, instrument, henchman, creature, cat's paw informal stooge, sucker, poodle 1.3Computing A piece of software that carries out a particular function, typically creating or modifying another program. 〔计算机〕工具 Example sentencesExamples The companies are working with open-source compiler developers to create software development tools for programmers. Developers will be offered co-marketing money, free software and developer tools. These tools exploit the file structure of operating systems to recover ‘evidence’ that can be used in court. Publishing a vulnerability is no guarantee that someone else won't write an exploit tool, and no guarantee that the vendor will fix it. In addition, over 70 per cent of these security flaws could be exploited using readily available tools or without the need for any attack code. 2A distinct design in the tooling of a book. （书籍装订时的）压印图案 2.1 A small stamp or roller used to make a tooled design. 印模，墨辊，压印器（用来压印图案） Example sentencesExamples The drawing was removed, and a variety of modeling tools were used to tool the foil in relief. 3vulgar slang A man's penis. 〈粗俚〉阴茎 3.1 A stupid, irritating, or contemptible man. that guy is such a tool verb tuːltul 1with object Impress a design on (leather, especially a leather book cover) 在（皮革，尤指书籍的皮革封面）上压印图案 volumes bound in green leather and tooled in gold 绿色皮面并有金色压印的书卷。 Example sentencesExamples Franklin has tooled the design himself: a rectangle within a rectangle within a rectangle of gold, the inner and the middle joined at the corners with floral rolls. He'd traded his breeches and tunic for finely tooled black leather - the working garb of an Assassin. Each cluster is made up of circular grapes of fiery black opals and delicately tooled gold leaves covered in translucent green enamel, spaced equally along the chain. This sounds like such an esoteric topic, yet in fact it follows a long period during which patrons and collectors sought out and valued decorated leather bindings tooled in gold and blind impressions. Some bikes had tooled leather offices attached to the handlebars. Just pop those finely tooled leather suitcases in the back and point her in the general direction of somewhere hot and expensive. Houdini's diaries took up an entire shelf - about a dozen volumes, each boxed in an expensive leather slipcase, gold tooled - a treasure surely worth a few hundred thousand dollars. The saddle my mare wore was plain, while his had tooled designs cut into the leather of it. First came a wonderfully tooled pair of soft doe-skin boots, delicate enough to wear with nice dresses, but sturdy enough to wear in everyday use. It's really a beautiful little piece of work, bound in leather that's been tooled with a lovely design of roses and vines. 2Equip or be equipped with tools for industrial production. （为生产而）配置设备 with object the factory must be tooled to produce the models 工厂必须配置设备以生产这些型号。 no object they were tooling up for production 他们正为英国的生产配备设备。 Example sentencesExamples Nonetheless they need a reasonable sales volume to justify the costs of tooling up for a new bullet, especially for a new bullet diameter. While tooling up for composite technology can be expensive, it hasn't prevented start-up manufacturers from getting involved. He had tooled up for one level of demand and now faces an entirely different and, more importantly, elastic demand. It would take two to four years just to develop a new engine with the technology and years more to work it into new product plans and get plants tooled up to make the vehicles. As tens of thousands of factories tooled up for their production runs, the machine tool industry was overwhelmed. Additionally, local sub-assemblers, component manufacturers, and parts suppliers might hesitate to invest in new and costly machines to tool up for a new design. A fully tooled factory could turn out several hundred models a week, if necessary. They are making just one million units a month right now and need time to tool up for the extra production. The smaller aviation companies had also benefited from wartime orders and were tooling up for light aircraft production well before the final surrender documents had been signed. However it is currently manufactured only in left hand drive and the parent company is yet to be convinced that sales will warrant tooling up for a right hand drive version. Both machines were less than adequate in all categories of performance but they did manage to change the rather staid thinking of the American military and to help aircraft factories tool up for the coming conflict. The gun merchant asked for an initial order of 300 grips, and Lane set about tooling up for the project. One of the most disheartening things was to go into that prison and see a massive carpentry shop - fully equipped and fully tooled - empty. Apparently, they're tooling up for hardware production in May. 2.1tool up" or "be tooled upBritish informal Be or become armed, especially for criminal activity. 〈英，非正式〉（尤指为犯罪活动而）武装 they were tooled up with baseball bats Example sentencesExamples As the US and western powers tool up to tackle this new threat, civil liberties will receive very short shrift. People should get tooled up when they venture into the town centre. If it only takes this to turn me, Mr Peaceful, into a homicidal maniac it's easier to understand how more frequent and serious incidents lead to people tooling up. The non-nuclear countries agreed not to tool up, in exchange for the already-nuclear countries agreeing to slowly dismantle their arsenals and to never, under any circumstances, share their nuclear technologies. If you're going to attack them directly, make sure you're well masked and tooled up. Eight out of ten British business people are tooled up for mobile working, according to new research. It is not just a case of vandalism - whoever stole them obviously went tooled up. Those guys were ruthless, tooled up and had that horribly simple, unchanging mask for a face. The riot squad were getting tooled up when I left, but when asked what trouble they had seen, they pointed to smoke bombs being thrown about by animal rights fanatics. Almost any other kind of film about alien-invasion would show the farmers getting tooled up with every kind of shooter they can lay their hands on. On our bit of beach there were about 4000 people of all ages tooled up with coolboxes and barbecues. So at 5:30 pm we tooled up and drove off. The suppliers of drugs do not have this choice, so they tool up to protect their trade from intruders or competitors. Britain rode out the US depression relatively unscathed, however, others were jockeying for position and tooling up for war. Other European countries had a director or two who ‘traveled,’ but Denmark seemed to be blessed with a pool of such talent and a film-making system that was tooled up to deliver it. I saw my doctor on Wednesday and got tooled up with some antibiotics, which finally seem to be doing the trick. I'm talking about guys with scars, people out of prison, people all tooled up; all of them crying. 3North American informal no object, with adverbial of direction Drive or ride in a casual or leisurely manner. 〈非正式〉悠闲自在地开车或乘车 tooling around town in a pink Rolls-Royce 开着粉红色的劳斯莱斯车在城里兜风。 Example sentencesExamples So you're tooling around checking out the sites in Calgary. In the hit TV comedy the cousins tooled around the Georgia sticks, helping the downtrodden and getting into trouble. We tooled around, had a pint or two and spoke of musical matters as well as academic. But I think it would be fun to have one to tool around town, just about anywhere. The rest of the song was enough on its own, but that line was always good for some weird looks when my friend Charlotte and I were tooling around town screaming along. We don't tool around in gigantic SUVs like the Americans - yet. And so begins the journey of a truly strange cinematic odd couple, tooling around in an open jeep trying to cajole the natives to exercise their rights. Because I'd been tooling along at the same speed as everyone else - happily minding my own business - I'd neglected to make sure my eyes were firmly fixed on the speedo. The band tooled around North America in true indie punk style. Sometimes he tools around Turku, some 145 kilometers west of Helsinki, in a van to test reception in hard-to-reach places. I'm tooling down the freeway between L.A. and the border. I haven't driven in well over year - not since I went to Kentucky for Christmas 2000 and tooled around town in my mom's car. As I tooled around on city streets, I was permanently haunted by the thought that someone in an SUV would mistake me for a speed bump. Another real-world analogy: you're tooling down the Interstate in your Chevy and hit a bump in the road. While they were here I made a one day visit to Seattle and then spent a few days tooling around the lower Mainland and the Island. Synonyms drive, bowl, ride, motor, travel informal spin 4with object Dress (stone) with a chisel. 凿刻（石头） Example sentencesExamples Long gone are the tooled finishes from hand-held chisels that could render differences in texture across the face of a stone block, or from one stone to the next. Synonyms ornament, embellish, decorate, work, shape, cut, chase, dress, fashion Derivatives tooler noun ˈtuːləˈtulər This, in turn, fuelled an entire production industry - typesetters, printers, engravers, binders, leather toolers, booksellers, print makers and sellers - to service this new domain of culture. Example sentencesExamples The eligible pool consists of engineers, quality, mechanics, part fabricators, toolers, painters, leads, team leaders and business unit leaders. His sons, Bruce, Bill, Bob, and John, have all become accomplished leather toolers. Our staff of highly skilled engineers and toolers surpassed even their own imaginations. Gender is of no difference here, but most toolers are between 20 and 60 years of age. Origin Old English tōl, from a Germanic base meaning 'prepare'; compare with taw¹. The verb dates from the early 19th century. Rhymes Banjul, befool, Boole, boule, boules, boulle, cagoule, cool, drool, fool, ghoul, Joule, mewl, misrule, mule, O'Toole, pool, Poole, pul, pule, Raoul, rule, school, shul, sool, spool, Stamboul, stool, Thule, tomfool, tulle, you'll, yule Definition of tool in US English: tool nountulto͞ol 1A device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function. （尤指手用）工具 gardening tools 园艺工具。 Example sentencesExamples This way of life was to change when metal became available for making tools and implements, in the latter part of the third millennium BC. The divers teamed up in groups of two or three, and each group carried with them cutting tools and lift bags. With the number of different tools used in this trade, knowledge of when and how to use the many implements is vital. Each year a number of new gardening tools and gadgets become available. Most rusty implements, tools and hooks can be restored to almost their original form by simply leaving them in plain white vinegar for several hours. And I got to use large numbers of power tools for a bit, which is always good. As well as financial contributions, the group is urging volunteer gardeners to come forward or offer donations of gardening tools and equipment. The company is involved in the manufacture of pocket knives and cutting tools for DIY and gardening. Dad had to borrow money to buy a set of tools for his apprenticeship. There will be exhibitors offering garden furniture, pots, wickerwork, gardening tools and implements old and new, wrought ironwork and various craft stalls. He said items such as sports equipment and gardening tools become items of interest for potential thieves. Clean and store outdoor lawn and patio furniture, gardening tools and barbecue equipment. These products are household items such as kitchen appliances, gardening tools and children's toys. As well as advice on how to deal with bogus callers, securing property and the home, there will be tips on safeguarding gardening tools and machinery. There are loads of gardening gadgets and new tools around to tempt the unwary shopper, but in my view most of these novelties will not stand the test of time and you would be unlikely to find them still in use by this time next year. A number of tools were stolen from sheds and the vandals uprooted vegetables and plants, throwing them around. These tools may have functioned as hafted knives or scrapers. Next day I turned up again by taxi, carrying my bag of bike tools, and got out, prepared for a sweating quarter of an hour mending a bike when I should have been at work. Implements, tools, and equipment should be cleaned of soil and root debris before moving them to non-infested fields. There were hundreds of devices and tools inside the huge building. Synonyms implement, instrument, utensil, device, apparatus, gadget, appliance, machine, contrivance, contraption, mechanism, aid 1.1 A thing used in an occupation or pursuit. （工作或职业中所用的）工具 computers are an essential tool 计算机是重要的工具。 the ability to write clearly is a tool of the trade 写一手清晰的字是这一行谋生的手段。 Example sentencesExamples Models and monitored performance are essential management tools. These tools should be fully exploited by the nutrition and public health communities to combat micronutrient malnutrition. In addition, new intellectual tools were exploited, especially from anthropology. What training tools, devices, and simulations do we need? It is not executive vanity, but a tool of the trade. Computers are an essential tool for engineers and designers. Also, once this device is functional it will be useful as a tool to carry out basic research more productively. Much work is still needed to develop reliable tools to exploit solution methods to predict the shape of proteins in solution. One of the essential tools of any budding television and film producer is the ability to pitch a concept. Its role as a diagnostic tool has recently been exploited. Diversity management is an important tool in exploiting opportunities and meeting these challenges. And, to some degree, mathematics has evolved to exploit these new tools and techniques. Did they think puppetry was a useful tool in teaching? Does your business have the tools to evaluate and implement change? The students view cell phones as essential tools, yet they appear to loathe them. They regard it as a rational tool for the implementation of policy, a technique that is available for practitioners to use in appropriate circumstances for the pursuit of national interests. He had the theoretical tools to perform quantitative calculations based largely on data from nuclear-physics laboratories. I can use any number of tools, from the powers of composition and imagination to the power of a computer, to make an image be what I want it to be. As with any occupation, professionals need the right tools to perform their jobs effectively. The hunger for a medium of personal expression is being exploited as a marketing tool by companies who work to create the impression of personal interaction. 1.2 A person used or exploited by another. 被利用的人 the beautiful Estella is Miss Havisham's tool 美丽的埃斯特拉是哈维萨姆小姐的走卒。 Example sentencesExamples He would follow instructions and became a tool to be exploited. Synonyms dupe, puppet, pawn, minion, lackey, flunkey, instrument, henchman, creature, cat's paw 1.3Computing A piece of software that carries out a particular function, typically creating or modifying another program. 〔计算机〕工具 Example sentencesExamples Publishing a vulnerability is no guarantee that someone else won't write an exploit tool, and no guarantee that the vendor will fix it. These tools exploit the file structure of operating systems to recover ‘evidence’ that can be used in court. Developers will be offered co-marketing money, free software and developer tools. In addition, over 70 per cent of these security flaws could be exploited using readily available tools or without the need for any attack code. The companies are working with open-source compiler developers to create software development tools for programmers. 2A distinct design in the tooling of a book. （书籍装订时的）压印图案 2.1 A small stamp or roller used to make a tooled design. 印模，墨辊，压印器（用来压印图案） Example sentencesExamples The drawing was removed, and a variety of modeling tools were used to tool the foil in relief. 3vulgar slang A man's penis. 〈粗俚〉阴茎 3.1 A stupid, irritating, or contemptible man. that guy is such a tool verbtulto͞ol 1usually be tooledwith object Impress a design on (leather, especially a leather book cover) 在（皮革，尤指书籍的皮革封面）上压印图案 volumes bound in green leather and tooled in gold 绿色皮面并有金色压印的书卷。 Example sentencesExamples The saddle my mare wore was plain, while his had tooled designs cut into the leather of it. Some bikes had tooled leather offices attached to the handlebars. This sounds like such an esoteric topic, yet in fact it follows a long period during which patrons and collectors sought out and valued decorated leather bindings tooled in gold and blind impressions. Houdini's diaries took up an entire shelf - about a dozen volumes, each boxed in an expensive leather slipcase, gold tooled - a treasure surely worth a few hundred thousand dollars. Just pop those finely tooled leather suitcases in the back and point her in the general direction of somewhere hot and expensive. It's really a beautiful little piece of work, bound in leather that's been tooled with a lovely design of roses and vines. He'd traded his breeches and tunic for finely tooled black leather - the working garb of an Assassin. First came a wonderfully tooled pair of soft doe-skin boots, delicate enough to wear with nice dresses, but sturdy enough to wear in everyday use. Franklin has tooled the design himself: a rectangle within a rectangle within a rectangle of gold, the inner and the middle joined at the corners with floral rolls. Each cluster is made up of circular grapes of fiery black opals and delicately tooled gold leaves covered in translucent green enamel, spaced equally along the chain. 2Equip or be equipped with tools for industrial production. （为生产而）配置设备 with object the factory must be tooled to produce the models 工厂必须配置设备以生产这些型号。 no object they were tooling up for production 他们正为英国的生产配备设备。 Example sentencesExamples As tens of thousands of factories tooled up for their production runs, the machine tool industry was overwhelmed. Additionally, local sub-assemblers, component manufacturers, and parts suppliers might hesitate to invest in new and costly machines to tool up for a new design. While tooling up for composite technology can be expensive, it hasn't prevented start-up manufacturers from getting involved. One of the most disheartening things was to go into that prison and see a massive carpentry shop - fully equipped and fully tooled - empty. However it is currently manufactured only in left hand drive and the parent company is yet to be convinced that sales will warrant tooling up for a right hand drive version. They are making just one million units a month right now and need time to tool up for the extra production. He had tooled up for one level of demand and now faces an entirely different and, more importantly, elastic demand. Nonetheless they need a reasonable sales volume to justify the costs of tooling up for a new bullet, especially for a new bullet diameter. The smaller aviation companies had also benefited from wartime orders and were tooling up for light aircraft production well before the final surrender documents had been signed. The gun merchant asked for an initial order of 300 grips, and Lane set about tooling up for the project. Apparently, they're tooling up for hardware production in May. Both machines were less than adequate in all categories of performance but they did manage to change the rather staid thinking of the American military and to help aircraft factories tool up for the coming conflict. A fully tooled factory could turn out several hundred models a week, if necessary. It would take two to four years just to develop a new engine with the technology and years more to work it into new product plans and get plants tooled up to make the vehicles. 3North American informal no object, with adverbial of direction Drive or ride in a casual or leisurely manner. 〈非正式〉悠闲自在地开车或乘车 tooling around town in a pink Rolls-Royce 开着粉红色的劳斯莱斯车在城里兜风。 Example sentencesExamples And so begins the journey of a truly strange cinematic odd couple, tooling around in an open jeep trying to cajole the natives to exercise their rights. I'm tooling down the freeway between L.A. and the border. The rest of the song was enough on its own, but that line was always good for some weird looks when my friend Charlotte and I were tooling around town screaming along. As I tooled around on city streets, I was permanently haunted by the thought that someone in an SUV would mistake me for a speed bump. In the hit TV comedy the cousins tooled around the Georgia sticks, helping the downtrodden and getting into trouble. We don't tool around in gigantic SUVs like the Americans - yet. So you're tooling around checking out the sites in Calgary. While they were here I made a one day visit to Seattle and then spent a few days tooling around the lower Mainland and the Island. Because I'd been tooling along at the same speed as everyone else - happily minding my own business - I'd neglected to make sure my eyes were firmly fixed on the speedo. The band tooled around North America in true indie punk style. I haven't driven in well over year - not since I went to Kentucky for Christmas 2000 and tooled around town in my mom's car. Another real-world analogy: you're tooling down the Interstate in your Chevy and hit a bump in the road. We tooled around, had a pint or two and spoke of musical matters as well as academic. But I think it would be fun to have one to tool around town, just about anywhere. Sometimes he tools around Turku, some 145 kilometers west of Helsinki, in a van to test reception in hard-to-reach places. Synonyms drive, bowl, ride, motor, travel 4Dress (stone) with a chisel. 凿刻（石头） Example sentencesExamples Long gone are the tooled finishes from hand-held chisels that could render differences in texture across the face of a stone block, or from one stone to the next. Synonyms ornament, embellish, decorate, work, shape, cut, chase, dress, fashion Origin Old English tōl, from a Germanic base meaning ‘prepare’; compare with taw. The verb dates from the early 19th century.
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