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UK
/tˈuːl/
]
[ US /ˈtuɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈtuɫ/ ]
NOUN
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the means whereby some act is accomplished
my greed was the instrument of my destruction
science has given us new tools to fight disease - obscene terms for penis
- an implement used in the practice of a vocation
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
VERB
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drive
The convertible tooled down the street - work with a tool
- furnish with tools
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ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
We tooled down the street
How To Use tool In A Sentence
- Unless contraindicated, prophylaxis with a gastrointestinal motility stimulant laxative and a stool softener is appropriate in terminally ill patients who are being given opioids.
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- As the increase of THC is pumped into the bloodstream, there are no measurable tools to indicate the level of what might be considered an intoxicated level for marijuana, and any classification of such a level [one toke] could be considered illegal and on par with alcohol? 2008 June 28 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
- Develop circuit board designs using CAD tools to capture schematics and create bill of material documentation.
- He claimed that we'd all be a lot safer if researchers would keep details about vulnerabilities to themselves, and stop arming hackers with offensive tools.
- In all the sale extends to 800 lots, ranging across plant, machinery, tools, office equipment, furniture and computers.
- Most email tools scan the header of an email to see if the sender is spoofing.
- I have found that a tool guided by a straight-edge, and "jiggered" backwards and forwards, makes by far the best lines for blind-tool work. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
- They had to make do with kitchen tuffets, orange boxes, a piano stool and a rocking chair borrowed from next door.
- Before scrubbing, gowning, and gloving, the surgeon usually performs a rectal examination and proctoscopy to suction out any remaining stool in the distal rectum.