tool的意思|tool的解释-里氏词典

tool [tul]

n. 工具, 机床, 傀儡

vt. 用工具加工

vi. 使用工具

[化] 刀具; 器械

[经] 工具, 方法, 方式

tool

[ noun ]

an implement used in the practice of a vocation

<noun.artifact>

the means whereby some act is accomplished

<noun.act>

my greed was the instrument of my destruction

science has given us new tools to fight disease

a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

<noun.person>

obscene terms for penis

<noun.body>

[ verb ]

drive

<verb.motion>

The convertible tooled down the street

ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it

<verb.motion>

joyride

tool around

We tooled down the street

Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]l), n. [OE. tol,tool. AS. t[=o]l; akin to
Icel. t[=o]l, Goth. taijan to do, to make, taui deed, work,
and perhaps to E. taw to dress leather. [root]64.]
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. [Obs.]

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.

Tool \Tool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{tooling}.]
1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. ``Elaborately
tooled.'' --Ld. Lytton.

2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.]

Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]l), v. i. [Cf. {Tool}, v. t., 2.]
To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. [Colloq.]

Boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept
roads. --Illust.
American.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

"I looked at him and asked him his name," said Elmer Gnau, a retired tool and dye maker. "I knew if he said Kenneth, he would be my cousin.
However, he says, U.S. machine tool builders are making headway against those problems.
One tool they use is a continuous tracking study that calls for a thousand consumer interviews each month.
But as cost becomes less of a deterrent, virtual reality looks set to become widely adopted as a practical tool.
Jay A. Levy, leader of the University of California at San Francisco team that made the discovery, said Thursday that the new isolated strain may be an important new tool in the development of an effective drug against the AIDS virus.
Metal and precision tool prices climbed 3.4% from a year earlier and 0.3% from May.
While the report, with its vacuous martial metaphors, proved a useful tool for school superintendents across America eager to fatten their budgets, little lasting change has taken place.
In the longer term, it said, oil tool operations are solidly positioned to benefit from an expected rebound in offshore markets and the eventual need for new gas drilling.
It is also a tool which institutional investors can use; it is they who can effectively urge reform on boards which are failing to perform.
They play with wooden rattles, once used by watchmen to rouse neighbors in the event of a fire, and learn that a strange-looking piece of iron is a bed key, actually a critical firefighting tool.
He blames the end of fixed rate mortgages, a crucial marketing tool in a time of low economic confidence.
The New York exchange has long used its provision as a marketing tool in persuading companies to list their shares on the exchange rather than on Nasdaq, the NASD's computerized OTC trading system.
I believe that drug testing is a key tool to help promote public safety and a drug-free work force.
The $1.7 billion spacecraft is scheduled to become astronomy's most significant tool in expanding knowledge of the universe into the 21st century.
In Vermont, as in some other rural areas of the country, the power tool best known for felling trees _ or as a prop in horror movies _ is being used to sculpt figures out of wood.
Many catalog ventures have moved to lower prices as their key promotional tool.
Today, manufacturers boast of the 'coffee break' charge - just 12 or 15 minutes. Like portable computer makers, power tool manufacturers have been trying to ensure that the tools use as little power as possible, so the batteries last longer.
Under a regulatory tool known as a prudence audit, the five-member commission essentially penalized Gulf States for River Bend cost-overruns resulting from what commissioners deemed mismanagement.
Their refusal to leave when they were denied service sparked similar sit-ins at other segregated lunch counters and helped established passive resistance as a tool of the 1960s civil rights movement.
The government has one other tool to boost population growth. Quebec will welcome 27,000 immigrants this year and is eager to take more, provided they remain in the province and educate their children in French.
"This ad demonstrates a new tool for creative people to deliver powerful messages in an arresting way," said Bill Edwards, who supervised the project for the Dallas office of the McCann-Erickson advertising agency.
"We're not a replacement for chemicals," he said. "We're a tool to help reduce the amount of chemicals needed.
He now works in a tool room.
But this tool is, claims the Commission, limited in its effectiveness: it tackles only questions of imports and exports, not of distribution and transport.
But this year, determined to keep history from repeating itself, the company has used a novel marketing tool to expand business among existing corporate customers.
In January, it plans to install at O'Hare the Aircraft Situation Display, a sophisticated tool that can predict air-traffic jams.
Lacking such reports, the IRS has no efficient tool to catch students who evade or don't know about the tax. But any revenue loss is small.
But after assurances the tool would "achieve strong positioning," Black & Decker agreed to become "promotional partners" with the two firms.
"They have never sought to transform the ANC into a tool and puppet of the Communist Party," Mandela said.
He said the league missed an important opportunity last month to help regulators get an enforcement tool somewhere in between shooting _ closing an S&L down _ and a slap on the wrist _ a warning letter.

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