tool
Betekenis (English)
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- Any mechanical device meant to ease or do a task.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
- Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
- A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
- (informal) A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- (slang) An obnoxious or uptight person.
- (slang) A gun.
Synonyms
gadget
cat’s-paw
disapprove of
look askance at
piece of equipment
hand-tool
dight
useful thing
working equipment
machines and tools
jobbyjobber
mean of communication
child’s play
drive around
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/tuːl/
Etimologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").
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