toolboxn.

Brit.

/ˈtuːlbɒks/, U.S.

/ˈtulˌbɑks/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tool n., box n.²

Etymology: < tool n. + box n.²

a. A box or other container for keeping tools in.

ΘΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > [noun] > receptacle for tools

tool-holder1877

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > for other specific contents

smoke-box1614

scale-box1708

glass-case1734

deed-box1834

livebox1834

pipe box1834

rose box1863

specimen-box1897

Bible-box1904

message box1976

1778 Catal. Prop. J. Richardson 12 A wainscot tool box with sundry tools.

1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 25 Aug. 236/2 Lifting his tool-box, and going through all the operations of horse-shoeing.

1880 Econ. Housewife i. 10 Put into your scullery cupboard the following indispensable articles..a tool-box with hammer, nails, tacks, chisel, screw-driver, etc.

1949 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 15 Jan. 71/2 I rushed around to the toolbox, dragged out one of the heavy logging chains.

2009 G. Hurwitz Or she Dies xi. 119 Jerry snapped the catches on his toolbox and stood to go.

b. figurative. A set of strategies or resources available for achieving a particular objective. Cf. toolkit n. 1b.

1916 H. G. Aron Gist Real Prop. Law Foreword p. vi The appendix is only a tool box of useful references; it does not pretend to be a table of cases, and is confined largely to the law of New York and New Jersey.

1967 Rutland (Vermont) Daily Herald 6 Apr. 1/1 The measure would provide all towns with a toolbox of ideas for enacting local zoning plans.

1990 P. Ross Four Corners on Main St. ii. 38 I think consequencing is the essential tool in the parenting tool-box.

2013 A. Rutherford Creation: Future of Life i. 17 in Creation: Origin of Life This is genetic engineering: the creation of unnatural life using evolution's bountiful toolbox.

2. A steel box (box n.² 6) in which the cutting tool of a planing machine or similar device is clamped. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > tool-holder

swing-tool1846

tool-holder1877

tool head1950

1841 Mech. Mag. 19 June 460/1 Another improvement in lathes consists in providing two tool boxes or carriers, with slide motions at the back and front of the carriage for cutting screws.

1905 T. R. Shaw Machine Tools vii. 478 Universal plano-milling machines are now constructed of any size with either one or two saddles carrying spindles on the cross-slide, just as with the tool-boxes of planing machines.

1956 R. H. Dipple Process Planning iii. 30 Plano grinders are used in heavy industry and are similar to a normal planing machine but fitted with one or more grinding heads in place of the tool boxes.

2006 D. R. Meyer Networked Machinists vii. 225 Norris continued to import machine tools from England, but they generally consisted of highly specialized pieces such as..a compound planer with a revolving toolbox.

3. Computing. A set of software tools with related functionality; (also) the set of programs or functions accessible from a single menu. Cf. toolkit n. 2, package n. 6c.

1963 Communications ACM 6 535/2 The packaging of a variety of tools within a single tool box appears to be a good, if not an optimum, way of outfitting a worker setting out to solve complex problems.

1982 Byte Mar. 464/3 The toolbox approach lets scientists apply computers to laboratory problems that tend to resist conventional design and programming methods.

1998 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. (Connected section) 12/2 Notice that if you click on the letter A in the Toolbox a resizeable box appears on the screen into which you can type text.

2010 R. Pratap Getting started Matlab viii. 236 Even though these programs run slower, are harder to learn, and are harder to use than matlab for these purposes, Mathworks has felt the competition and responded by providing this toolbox.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

toolbox n. Computing a set of software tools designed to facilitate the construction of more advanced tools or user programs in specific application areas; a toolkit (though the terms toolbox and toolkit may be used more specifically by individual authors so that one constitutes a subset of the other).

ΚΠ

1966 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 28 150/1 The SMPS toolbox contains building blocks and a framework with which a model of a message-processing system can be built.

1982 Byte Mar. 464/3 The toolbox approach lets scientists apply computers to laboratory problems that tend to resist conventional design and programming methods.

1998 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. (Connected section) 12/2 Notice that if you click on the letter A in the Toolbox a resizeable box appears on the screen into which you can type text.

单词	toolbox
释义	toolboxn. Brit. /ˈtuːlbɒks/, U.S. /ˈtulˌbɑks/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tool n., box n.² Etymology: < tool n. + box n.² 1. a. A box or other container for keeping tools in. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > [noun] > receptacle for tools tool-holder1877 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > for other specific contents smoke-box1614 scale-box1708 glass-case1734 deed-box1834 livebox1834 pipe box1834 rose box1863 specimen-box1897 Bible-box1904 message box1976 1778 Catal. Prop. J. Richardson 12 A wainscot tool box with sundry tools. 1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 25 Aug. 236/2 Lifting his tool-box, and going through all the operations of horse-shoeing. 1880 Econ. Housewife i. 10 Put into your scullery cupboard the following indispensable articles..a tool-box with hammer, nails, tacks, chisel, screw-driver, etc. 1949 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 15 Jan. 71/2 I rushed around to the toolbox, dragged out one of the heavy logging chains. 2009 G. Hurwitz Or she Dies xi. 119 Jerry snapped the catches on his toolbox and stood to go. b. figurative. A set of strategies or resources available for achieving a particular objective. Cf. toolkit n. 1b. Π 1916 H. G. Aron Gist Real Prop. Law Foreword p. vi The appendix is only a tool box of useful references; it does not pretend to be a table of cases, and is confined largely to the law of New York and New Jersey. 1967 Rutland (Vermont) Daily Herald 6 Apr. 1/1 The measure would provide all towns with a toolbox of ideas for enacting local zoning plans. 1990 P. Ross Four Corners on Main St. ii. 38 I think consequencing is the essential tool in the parenting tool-box. 2013 A. Rutherford Creation: Future of Life i. 17 in Creation: Origin of Life This is genetic engineering: the creation of unnatural life using evolution's bountiful toolbox. 2. A steel box (box n.² 6) in which the cutting tool of a planing machine or similar device is clamped. Now chiefly historical. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > tool-holder swing-tool1846 tool-holder1877 tool head1950 1841 Mech. Mag. 19 June 460/1 Another improvement in lathes consists in providing two tool boxes or carriers, with slide motions at the back and front of the carriage for cutting screws. 1905 T. R. Shaw Machine Tools vii. 478 Universal plano-milling machines are now constructed of any size with either one or two saddles carrying spindles on the cross-slide, just as with the tool-boxes of planing machines. 1956 R. H. Dipple Process Planning iii. 30 Plano grinders are used in heavy industry and are similar to a normal planing machine but fitted with one or more grinding heads in place of the tool boxes. 2006 D. R. Meyer Networked Machinists vii. 225 Norris continued to import machine tools from England, but they generally consisted of highly specialized pieces such as..a compound planer with a revolving toolbox. 3. Computing. A set of software tools with related functionality; (also) the set of programs or functions accessible from a single menu. Cf. toolkit n. 2, package n. 6c. Π 1963 Communications ACM 6 535/2 The packaging of a variety of tools within a single tool box appears to be a good, if not an optimum, way of outfitting a worker setting out to solve complex problems. 1982 Byte Mar. 464/3 The toolbox approach lets scientists apply computers to laboratory problems that tend to resist conventional design and programming methods. 1998 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. (Connected section) 12/2 Notice that if you click on the letter A in the Toolbox a resizeable box appears on the screen into which you can type text. 2010 R. Pratap Getting started Matlab viii. 236 Even though these programs run slower, are harder to learn, and are harder to use than matlab for these purposes, Mathworks has felt the competition and responded by providing this toolbox. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). > as lemmas tool-box tool-box n. ΚΠ 1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 25 Aug. 236/2 Lifting his tool-box, and going through all the operations of horse-shoeing. 1841 R. W. Emerson Prudence in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 229 [He] builds a work-bench, or gets his tool-box set in the corner of the barn-chamber. extracted from tooln. tool-box tool-box n. spec. the steel box (box n.² 6) in which the cutting tool of a planing or other machine is clamped. ΚΠ 1904 Lineham's Text-bk. Mech. Eng. 171 The tool box is fixed to a ram, the sliding of which in saddle gives the cut. extracted from tooln. toolbox toolbox n. Computing a set of software tools designed to facilitate the construction of more advanced tools or user programs in specific application areas; a toolkit (though the terms toolbox and toolkit may be used more specifically by individual authors so that one constitutes a subset of the other). ΚΠ 1966 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 28 150/1 The SMPS toolbox contains building blocks and a framework with which a model of a message-processing system can be built. 1982 Byte Mar. 464/3 The toolbox approach lets scientists apply computers to laboratory problems that tend to resist conventional design and programming methods. 1998 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. (Connected section) 12/2 Notice that if you click on the letter A in the Toolbox a resizeable box appears on the screen into which you can type text. extracted from tooln. < n.1778 as lemmas
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