1. s. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
Hand me that tool, would you? I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.
2. s. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
These are the tools of the trade.
3. s. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
4. s. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools. a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk
5. s. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her.
6. s. (slang) Penis.
7. s. (by extension, slang) An obnoxious or uptight person.
He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.
8. v. To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
9. v. To equip with tools.
10. v. (intransitive) To work very hard.
11. v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.
12. v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
13. v. (transitive, UK, slang) To drive (a coach, etc.)
14. v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
implement
1. s. Implemento.
2. Implementar.
implement
1. s. A tool or instrument for working with.
They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.
2. v. to bring about; to put into practice
It’s a good thought, but it will be a difficult thing to implement.
3. v. to carry out; to do
loom
1. telar
loom
1. s. A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
heirloom, workloom
2. s. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
3. s. The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.
4. s. (dated) loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)
5. v. to impend; to threaten or hang over.
The clouds loomed over the mountains.
6. v. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
instrument
1. instrumento
instrument
1. s. A device used to produce music.
The violinist was a master of her instrument.
2. s. A means or agency for achieving an effect.
3. s. A measuring or displaying device.
The instrument detected an increase in radioactivity.
4. s. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
The dentist set down his tray of instruments.
The scientist recorded the temperature with a thermometer but wished he had a more accurate instrument.
5. s. (legal) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
A bond indenture is the instrument that gives a bond its value.
Negotiable instruments are the foundation of the debt markets.
6. s. (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
7. v. To apply measuring devices.
8. v. To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
9. v. To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
