| 单词 | tool |
| 释义 | tool (once / 160 pages) 1nv 2v 3n A tool is an instrument that you use to help you accomplish some task. If you are going to build a bookcase, you'll need the proper tools, like a saw, a drill, and a tape measure. A tool is also something that you use to perform the duties of a certain profession. The tools of a kindergarten teacher's trade include construction paper, glue sticks, and safety scissors. As a verb, tool can mean to drive aimlessly just for fun, the way you might tool around town in your convertible on a beautiful summer day. WORD FAMILYtool: retool, tooled, tooling, tools+/retool: retooled, retooling, retools USAGE EXAMPLESCEOs could gain a new tool to push for even higher pay to match their peers. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) In time, however, automated screening systems may go from being useful tools for human operators to outperforming them. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) India’s “demonetisation” is a cautionary tale of the reckless misuse of one of the most potent of policy tools: control over an economy’s money. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1n an implement used in the practice of a vocation Hypo|Hyper abradant, abrader a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing bendera tool for bending clinchera tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets combany of several tools for straightening fibers cutting implementa tool used for cutting or slicing drilla tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) eolitha crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint); possibly the earliest tools forkan agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs gangtool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together garden tool, lawn toolused for working in gardens or yards grapnel, grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling irona tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope hacka tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil hand toola tool used with workers' hands hoea tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle jacktool for exerting pressure or lifting Jaws of Lifehydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside neolitha stone tool from the Neolithic Age paleolitha stone tool from the Paleolithic age muller, pestle, poundera 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 plough, plowa farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing power toola tool driven by a motor punch, punchera tool for making holes or indentations rakea long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil rama tool for driving or forcing something by impact roundera tool for rounding corners or edges saw seta tool used to bend each alternate sawtooth at a slight angle outward shaping toola tool for shaping metal stricklea tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand style, stylusa pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving tamp, tamper, tamping bara tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) tapa tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads swage, upseta tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging abrading stonea primitive stone artifact (usually made of sandstone) used as an abrader auger, gimlet, screw auger, wimblehand tool for boring holes awla pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes battering rama ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings bevel, bevel squarea hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size bitthe cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press bladethe flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge bodkin, threadera blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops bodkina small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric bore bit, borer, rock drill, stone drilla drill for penetrating rock brace and bita drill consisting of a bit and a brace to hold and turn it breast drilla portable drill with a plate that is pressed against the chest to force the drill point into the work buffer, polishera power tool used to buff surfaces bull tonguea heavy plow with a single wide blade; used chiefly in cotton fields bumper jacka jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper burrrotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece center puncha tool with a conical point that is used to make indentations in metal (especially to mark points for drilling) core drilla drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole crampon, crampoona hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects crank, startera hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle croupier's rakea small rake used by a croupier to move chips around on the table cutlery, cutter, cutting toola cutting implement; a tool for cutting burr drill, dentist's drilla high speed drill that dentists use to cut into teeth dibber, dibblea wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs diea device used for shaping metal drum sander, electric sander, sander, smoothera power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor edgergarden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard filea steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal float, plasterer's floata hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco garden rakea rake used by gardeners graver, graving tool, pointel, pointrela tool used by an engraver guttera tool for gutting fish hammera hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking hammer, power hammera power tool for drilling rocks hand drill, handheld drilla small portable drill held and operated by hand hand shovela shovel that is operated by hand hatchel, hecklea comb for separating flax fibers hayforka long-handled fork for turning or lifting hay hedge trimmera garden tool for trimming hedges jackscrew, screw jackscrew-operated jack lawn mower, mowergarden tool for mowing grass on lawns marlinespike, marlingspike, marlinspikea pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) miter box, mitre boxhand tool for guiding handsaws in making crosscuts or miter joints moldboard plow, mouldboard ploughplow that has a moldboard openera hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans) palleta hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay paper cuttera cutting implement for cutting sheets of paper to the desired size pestlea club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar picka thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, pincer, tweezera hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping pipe cuttera hand tool for cutting pipe pitchforka long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay carpenter's plane, plane, woodworking planea carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood plane, planer, planing machinea power tool for smoothing or shaping wood pair of pliers, pliers, plyersa gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws auger, plumber's snakea long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes plumber's helper, plungerhand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains power drilla power tool for drilling holes into hard materials power saw, saw, sawing machinea power tool for cutting wood punch plierspunch consisting of pliers for perforating paper or leather rammera tool for driving something with force ravehooka hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum reamera drill that is used to shape or enlarge holes routera power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves sandblastera tool that throws out a blast of steam laden with sand; used to clean or grind hard surfaces sawhand tool having a toothed blade for cutting scraperany of various hand tools for scraping screwdrivera hand tool for driving screws; has a tip that fits into the head of a screw Dutch hoe, scuffle, scuffle hoea hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling shovela hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle soldering irona hand tool with a heatable tip; used to melt and apply solder spatulaa hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances spreadera hand tool for spreading something squarea hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles stamper, stamping machinea power tool that stamps steel-wool padabrader consisting of a pad of steel wool used for polishing or smoothing stemmera miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge straightedgehand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) tire iron, tire toolhand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel trepana drill for cutting circular holes around a center trowela small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials weed-whacker, weedera hand tool for removing weeds wire strippera hand tool used by electricians to remove insulation from the cut end of an insulated wire spanner, wrencha hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt implement instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end 2n the means whereby some act is accomplished science has given us new tools to fight disease Syn|Hyper instrument agency, means, way how a result is obtained or an end is achieved 3n a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else Syn|Hyper creature, puppet slave a person who is owned by someone 4v work with a tool Hyper process, work, work on shape, form, or improve a material 5v furnish with tools 2Hyper furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to 1v drive The convertible tooled down the street Syn|Hyper joyride, tool around ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it drive operate or control a vehicle 2v ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it 3We tooled down the street Syn|Hyper joyride, tool around ride be carried or travel on or in a vehicle n obscene terms for penis Hyper penis the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism) |
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