All tool synonyms
tool
T t noun tool
- figurines β Plural form of figurine.
- appliance β An appliance is a device or machine in your home that you use to do a job such as cleaning or cooking. Appliances are often electrical.
- contrivance β If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
- workings β Plural form of working.
- whatsis β a thing or object whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
- corporeality β the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
- whatsit β whatsis.
- automata β automaton
- apparatus β The apparatus of an organization or system is its structure and method of operation.
- gizmo β gismo.
- lever β tool for lifting
- figurine β a small ornamental figure of pottery, metal, plastic, etc.; statuette.
- automaton β If you say that someone is an automaton, you are critical of them because they behave as if they are so tired or bored that they do things without thinking.
- litterateur β a literary person, especially a writer of literary works.
- facility β Often, facilities. something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation facilities; educational facilities; a new research facility. something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.: to provide someone with every facility for accomplishing a task; to lack facilities for handling bulk mail.
- diesel β noting a machine or vehicle powered by a diesel engine: diesel locomotive.
- winch β the crank or handle of a revolving machine.
- cultivator β A cultivator is a tool or machine which is used to break up the earth or to remove weeds, for example in a garden or field.
- device β A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
- borer β a machine or hand tool for boring holes
- machine β an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
- mechanism β an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
- medium β a middle state or condition; mean.
- engine β A machine with moving parts that converts power into motion.
verb tool
- hold the phone β not hang up
- idled β not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
- drive β to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- machined β Simple past tense and past participle of machine.
- jellied β containing or made, spread, or topped with jelly or syrup; jellied: jelly apples.
- motored β pertaining to or operated by a motor.
- hacked β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- inching β a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- lay rubber β (Idiomatic) VI (of a vehicle) To accelerate so rapidly from standstill that it leaves a mark of burnt rubber on the road from the tire.
- cobble β Cobbles are the same as cobblestones.
- hang out β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- cobbled β A cobbled street has a surface made of cobblestones.
- lose time β delay, fail to act
- cycling β any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
- motoring β a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- cobbles β coal in small rounded lumps
- filibustering β Present participle of filibuster.
- make tracks β a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- lag β netlag
- fire up β start ignition of
- accelerate β If the process or rate of something accelerates or if something accelerates it, it gets faster and faster.
- graving β to clean and apply a protective composition of tar to (the bottom of a ship).
- gunned β a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- cobbling β to pave with cobblestones.
- hacking β a rack for drying food, as fish.
- linger β to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.