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tool [n]

1)	an implement used in the practice of a vocation

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implement abradant bender clincher comb cutting_implement drill eolith fork gang garden_tool grapnel hack hand_tool hoe jack jaws_of_life neolith paleolith muller plough power_tool punch rake ram rounder saw_set shaping_tool strickle style tamp tap swage

2)	the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease"

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instrument

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agency instrument

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

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creature puppet

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slave

4)	obscene terms for penis

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cock dick pecker peter prick putz shaft

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member dirty_word

tool [v]

1)	drive; "The convertible tooled down the street"

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joyride drive

2)	ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street"

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joyride tool_around

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ride driving joyride

3)	furnish with tools

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furnish

4)	work with a tool

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process

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyse other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program. Opposite: app, operating system.

2. A Unix application program with a simple, "transparent" (typically text-stream) interface designed specifically to be used in programmed combination with other tools (see filter, plumbing).

3. (MIT: general to students there) To work; to study (connotes tedium). The TMRC Dictionary defined this as "to set one's brain to the grindstone". See hack.

4. (MIT) A student who studies too much and hacks too little. MIT's student humour magazine rejoices in the name "Tool and Die".

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(1996-12-12)

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