Word Finder - tools

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A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

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Hand me that tool, would you?   I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.

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Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.

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These are the tools of the trade.

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Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.

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A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.

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The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.   a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk

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A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.

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He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her.

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Penis.

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(by extension) An obnoxious or uptight person.

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He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.

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To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.

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To equip with tools.

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To work very hard.

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To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.

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Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.

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To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.

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To drive (a coach or other vehicle).

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To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.

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To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

They would be Lori's tools of manipulation.

All people would have tools to make them more productive.

Soon after the triplex mower, came the introduction of more efficient and effective turf refinement tools.

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Is there a way that I can reset the root password from the system without using 3rd party tools?

We host four auctions of antique and useable tools each year in Needham Market.

We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes.

To take advantage of these tools, you will need to take your baby's measurements.

The outer coat was then removed from that portion which was to constitute the ground, leaving the white for the figures, foliage or other ornamentation; these were then sculptured by means of the gem-engraver's tools.

The principal industries are manufactures of woollen goods, spinning, sewing and washing machines, and tools.

The chief industries are brewing and art metal-working, also printing, metal-founding, and the manufacture of cloth, silk, tools and cards for wooldressing.

As the "ring" could be destroyed only by removing the corrupt judges who were its tools, Tilden, after entering the Assembly in 1872 to promote the cause of reform, took a leading part in their impeachment.

They made and used an endless variety of bone tools.

These tools have ranged from fault tree packages through to what some might consider exotic theorem provers.

Toggle the active button to select which of the layers can be queried or data selected using the tools on the toolbar.

Using the toolbox These are all tools, not rules.

Thus ANN tools could be used for improved donor kidney allocation and for exploring the role of HLA in transplant rejection.

Tools for Interactivity - Chris Jennings Introducing the authoring tools Tool metaphors Making choices wysiwyg or HTML?

The Paleolithic era covered a huge time period and within that timehumans developed increasingly complex tools and objects.

The Paleolithic era was also called the Old Stone Age because humans at the time used stone to make tools and as part of tools.

Look to create synergies by using a variety of marketing tools, including grassroots efforts such as creating word-of-mouth talk about your product.

Both sites offer easy-to-use tools and provide tips on creating your graphics files.

Today parents have tools at their disposal to easily chart their child's growth from infancy through childhood.

He can analyze situations and make proper decisions if only given the tools to do so.

Before starting, be sure to read all of the instructions and check to see that you have all of the tools that you need.

I considered using the tools available as weapons but dismissed the action as folly.

He scampered across the lab to a fridge that held cold tools and bottles of mysterious serums, everything except what a normal person put in a fridge.

The tools employed are chisel, gouge and mallet.

It must be admitted, however, that both the tools and the processes have escaped the archaeologist, as they did "the ablest goldsmiths in Spain, for they never could conceive how they had been made, there being no sign of a hammer or an engraver or any other instrument used by them, the Indians having none such" (Herrera).

Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts.

Zootechnic products include food, clothing, ornaments, habitations, weapons, industrial tools, textiles, money, &c.

There were just as good materials and inspirations, but what could the best of them do without metal tools?

Tools, appliances and methods have little in common.

More sophisticated tracking tools are being implemented to better understand activity on the National Ag Safety Database.

Search tools Having thought through your search strategy, you need to choose the best search tool to use.

Carve your own piece of a stone beach totem pole - learn how to use stone carving tools using special ' soft blocks '.

It provides tools for parents so they can raise healthy, independent children with a positive self-esteem.

A handful of people were building an annex onto one of the buildings with their hands rather than with the technological tools she'd seen create structures.

The drilling of wells of large size requires the use of heavy tools and of very strong appliances generally.

No iron tools existed in America before the invasion of the whites.

Stone-cutters' tools of metal are not known to have existed, and they were not needed.

The study of Indian textiles includes an account of their fibres, tools, processes, products, ornaments and uses.

In each province they had found the best springs, beds of clay, paint, soapstone, flinty rock, friable stone for sculpture and hard, tenacious stone for tools, and used ashes for salt.

Edible plants, and those for dyes and medicines, were on their lists, as well as wood for tools, utensils and weapons, and fibres for textiles.

Here, owing to a dry climate, are the dead, clad and surrounded with food, vessels, tools and art products, as in life.

Among the manufactures of the borough are sterling silver articles, plated and britannia ware, brass ware, rubber goods, cutlery and edge tools.

Personal property consisting of necessary household furniture, working tools and team of horses, professional instruments and a library, not exceeding $250 in value, besides the necessary food for the team for ninety days, provisions for the family, wearing apparel, wages or other income not exceeding $12 a week, and several other things, when owned by a householder or person providing for a family, are also exempt from seizure for debt, unless the debt be for purchase money or for services performed in the family by a domestic.

The chief industry is the making of watches, and the town has long been celebrated for the production of watch movements and tools.

Among the tools of bone and stag's horn were awls, needles, harpoons, scraping tools and haftings for stone axe-heads.

Their inhabitants practised agriculture and kept the common domestic animals, while their tools, weapons and ornaments were mainly of similar character to those of the contemporary lake dwellers of the adjoining.