Swiss Army knife
weapon
parer
workbox
gang
unitasker
toolset
slick
rake
guilloche
packager
pritchel
bootstrap
manicure set
toolkit
path
set
hoe
metatool
paperweight
warkloom
tool
scraper
instrument
assistant
iterable
structurer
stabilizer
stabiliser
deinterlacer
picker-upper
leatherman
crotchet
apparatus
gun
arm
setup
rummage
mill
utensil
machining center
tool chest
practicable
operable
multitool
designer
to all intents and purposes
microtool
budder
mechanic
opener
tamp
engraver
implement
tamping bar
grasper
retool
platen
battery
tamper
pool
armamentarium
batterie de cuisine
convenience method
appurtenances
spike
well-oiled machine
office suite
beveller
shave
resource
abradant
cutting implement
needlestack
sharpener
abrader
tool case
array controller
tool cabinet
appurtenance
toolbox
convenience class
perforator
clear away
toolhouse
Dremel
scaffolder
counterbore
tooling
toolstack
devkit
resurfacer
practicable
operable
Swiss Army knife
weapon
parer
workbox
gang
unitasker
toolset
slick
rake
guilloche
packager
manicure set
toolkit
path
set
metatool
paperweight
warkloom
scraper
instrument
assistant
iterable
structurer
stabilizer
stabiliser
deinterlacer
picker-upper
leatherman
crotchet
apparatus
gun
setup
rummage
utensil
machining center
tool chest
multitool
bootstrap
designer
microtool
budder
mechanic
opener
tamp
engraver
implement
tamping bar
grasper
platen
battery
tamper
pool
armamentarium
batterie de cuisine
convenience method
appurtenances
spike
well-oiled machine
office suite
beveller
shave
resource
abradant
cutting implement
needlestack
sharpener
abrader
tool case
array controller
tool cabinet
appurtenance
toolbox
convenience class
perforator
toolhouse
Dremel
scaffolder
counterbore
tooling
toolstack
devkit
resurfacer
pritchel
bootstrap
hoe
tool
arm
mill
retool
clear away
noun
- A tool of any kind.
- An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
- An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords; arm.
- An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
- A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
verb
noun
- A tool used to make something smooth or even.
- A helicopter.
- A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
- A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
- In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
- Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
- A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
- A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
verb
adj
noun
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
verb
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
verb
- To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
- To employ a bootstrap method.
- To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.
- To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
noun
- The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
- Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.
- The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
- A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.
noun
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
verb
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
adj
verb
- To equip with tools.
- To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
- To work very hard.
- To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
- To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
- To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
noun
- A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
- Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
- A gun.
- A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- An obnoxious or uptight person.
noun
- A tool used by engravers.
- A freshwater fish of the carp family, genus Capoeta.
- An instrument drawn by oxen, horses or a tractor, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
- A hoe.
- One who scrapes horns.
- In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
- One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
- An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud by drawing them across it.
- A program or process that scrapes data, such as a screen-scraper.
- One who plays a violin incompetently, producing cacophonous sounds.
- An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
- A prehistoric unifacial tool thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking.
noun
- A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
- A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
- A device used to produce music.
- A means or agency for achieving an effect.
- A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
- A measuring or displaying device.
verb
noun
- A multitool, usually with a plier head as the central implement, that has an array of other implements such as knives, screwdrivers, can openers, files, saws, and so on.
- A member of a homosexual male subculture that grew out of male-only motorcycle clubs formed by homosexual veterans returning from World War II, stressing masculinity in contradiction to androgynous and effeminate gay stereotypes, characterized by a fetish for leather gear and clothing, a sense of hierarchy, and a fraternal, militaristic code of protocol and behavior, often involving BDSM practices.
noun
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- The biceps.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
- Violent blasts of wind.
- An expert.
- Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
- A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
- A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- An electron gun.
verb
verb
- To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
- To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
- To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
- To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
- To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
- To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
- To become prepared for action; to activate.
noun
- A pitcher
- A group of patients in a medical trial.
- A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
- A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
- The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
- The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
- One of the two parts of a chromosome.
- Heraldic bearings or insignia.
- A branch of an organization.
- A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
- A weapon.
- The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
- Power; might; strength; support.
adj
noun
- A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
- A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
- A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
- The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
verb
- To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
- To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
- To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
- To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
verb
- To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- To move about in an aimless fashion.
- To beat; to pound.
- To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To swim underwater.
- To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- To undergo hulling.
- To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- To cause to mill, or circle around.
noun
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- An engine.
- An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
- A prison treadmill.
- A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
- An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- A milling cutter.
- A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- Discarding a card from one's deck.
- A boxing match, fistfight.
- An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
- A building housing such a plant.
- A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
noun
- Any of a class of folding or telescoping tools with a plier head as the central implement and with sets of peripheral implements (typically knife blades, screwdrivers, files, saws, can openers, bottle openers, scissors, and so on).
- Any similar tool with some other central implement (such as shears) or with no central implement, but sharing the themes otherwise.
- Any of a class of monolithic tools with various holes and edges that act as the multiple implements.
- An oscillating power tool that can perform multiple functions with different attachments.
- A Swiss Army knife or similar tool.
noun
- A device, command, or feature which allows someone to achieve a specific task.
- A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
- A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
- A hitman.
- Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar.
noun
- The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool.
- The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
- The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
- The flat glass surface of a scanner or photocopier on which operators place items to be scanned.
noun
- a collection of related things intended for use together
- group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
- a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
- a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
- a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
noun
- A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
- A localized glow of light.
- In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
- The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
- An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
- A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
- A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- A set of players in quadrille etc.
- A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
- A supply of resources.
- A small amount of liquid on a surface.
- Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
verb
noun
- A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- An adolescent male deer.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
- A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- Spike lavender.
- Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- A sort of very large nail.
- An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- Synonym of endpin.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- The casual ward of a workhouse.
- An ear of corn or grain.
verb
- To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
- To inject a drug with a syringe.
- To fix on a spike.
- To increase sharply.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
noun
- A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.
- A thin slice; a shaving.
- An instance of shaving.
- A narrow miss or escape; a close shave.
verb
- To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
- To cut anything in this fashion.
- To remove hair from one's face by this means.
- To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
- To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
- To reduce in size or weight.
noun
- Something that can be used to help achieve an aim, especially a book, equipment, etc. that provides information for teachers and students.
- Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
- A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.
- Hardware or software accessible by a computer, network, or another object connected to a computer.
verb
noun
- Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
- That which appertains; an appendage to something else; an addition.
- A subordinate interest in land which benefits a principal estate, which cannot be detached from or held separately to that estate; an appurtenant interest.
- A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
- The state or quality of being an appurtenance.
noun
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