English > tool: 8 senses > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | An implement used in the practice of a vocation. |
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| Narrower | Jaws of Life | hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside |
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| abrader, abradant | A tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing |
| bender | A tool for bending |
| clincher | A tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets |
| comb | Any of several tools for straightening fibers |
| cutting implement | A tool used for cutting / cutting or slicing |
| drill | A tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) |
| eolith | A crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint) |
| fork | An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging |
| gang | tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together |
| garden tool, lawn tool | Used for working in gardens or yards |
| grapnel, grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron | A tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding |
| hack | A tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil |
| hand tool | A tool used with workers' hands |
| hoe | A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle |
| jack | tool for exerting pressure or lifting |
| neolith | A stone tool from the Neolithic Age |
| paleolith | A stone tool from the Paleolithic age |
| pestle, muller, pounder | A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone / stone |
| plow, plough | A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing |
| power tool | A tool driven by a motor |
| punch, puncher | A tool for making holes or indentations |
| rake | A long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head |
| ram | A tool for driving or forcing something by impact |
| rounder | A tool for rounding corners or edges |
| saw set | A tool used to bend each alternate sawtooth at a slight angle outward |
| shaping tool | A tool for shaping metal |
| strickle | A tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand |
| stylus, style | A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving / engraving / engraving |
| tamp, tamper, tamping bar | A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) |
| tap | A tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads |
| upset, swage | A tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging |
| Broader | implement | instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end |
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| Spanish | herramienta, instrumento, utensilio, útil |
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| Catalan | eina, estri, instrument, utensili |
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| Verbs | tool | work with a tool |
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| tool | furnish with tools |
