tool
noun/tuːl/
Слово англійською: tool
Переклад tool українською: інструмент
Детальний опис
- an instrument such as a hammer, screwdriver, saw, etc. that you hold in your hand and use for making things, repairing things, etc.
- garden tools
- a cutting tool
- Always select the right tool for the job.
- craftsmen using traditional tools
- a set of tools
- a thing that helps you to do your job or to achieve something
- research tools like questionnaires
- a marketing/management tool
- The internet can be a powerful teaching tool.
- a useful/valuable tool
- Some of them carried the guns which were the tools of their trade (= the things they needed to do their job).
- the effectiveness of interest rates as an economic tool
- An email newsletter can be a very effective communication tool.
- They need to use all the tools at their disposal.
- a person who is used or controlled by another person or group
- The prime minister was an unwitting tool of the president.
- (taboo, slang) a penis
Word OriginOld English tōl, from a Germanic base meaning ‘prepare’. The verb dates from the early 19th cent.
Idioms
down tools
- (British English) (of workers) to stop work; to go on strike
not the sharpest tool in the box | not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- (informal, humorous) not intelligent
- He's not exactly the sharpest tool in the box, is he?