Tool

Pronunciation: tŌl

n.	1.	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.	A machine for cutting or shaping materials; - also called machine tool.
	3.	Hence, any instrument of use or service. That angry fool . . . Whipping her horse, did with his smarting tool Oft whip her dainty self. - Spenser.
	4.	A weapon. Him that is aghast of every tool. - Chaucer.
	5.	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. I was not made for a minion or a tool. - Burks.
v. t.	1.	To shape, form, or finish with a tool. [imp. & p. p. tooled ; p. pr. & vb. n. tooling.]
	2.	To drive, as a coach.
v. i.	1.	To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. Boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads. - Illust. American.

Noun	1.	tool - an implement used in the practice of a vocation
	2.	tool - 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
	3.	tool - a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else Synonyms: puppet, creature
	4.	tool - obscene terms for penis Synonyms: cock, pecker, peter, dick, putz, prick, shaft
Verb	1.	tool - drive; "The convertible tooled down the street"
	2.	tool - ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street" Synonyms: joyride, tool around
	3.	tool - furnish with tools
	4.	tool - work with a tool

1.	(tool)	tool - A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyse other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program. Opposite: app, operating system.
2.		tool - A Unix application program with a simple, "transparent" (typically text-stream) interface designed specifically to be used in programmed combination with other tools (see filter, plumbing).
3.	(jargon)	tool - (MIT: general to students there) To work; to study (connotes tedium). The TMRC Dictionary defined this as "to set one's brain to the grindstone". See hack.
4.	(jargon, person)	tool - (MIT) A student who studies too much and hacks too little. MIT's student humour magazine rejoices in the name "Tool and Die".

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