Usually means: Instrument used to perform tasks.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word tool:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tool: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tool: Merriam-Webster
  3. tool, tool: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tool: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tool: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tool: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tool, tool: Wordnik
  8. tool: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tool: Wiktionary
  10. tool: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tool: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tool: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tool: Dictionary.com
  14. tool: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tool: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. TOOL, Tool (band), Tool (disambiguation), Tool: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tool: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tool: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tool: Rhymezone
  20. tool: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tool: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Tool: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. tool: FreeDictionary.org
  24. tool: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tool: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tool: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Tool: Multimedia Glossary
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tool: Legal dictionary
  2. tool: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tool: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. tool: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tool: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TOOL: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. tool: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tool, tool, tool, tool: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tool: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Tool: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. The Tool, tool: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See tooled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any mechanical device meant to ease or do a task.
noun:  Any piece of equipment used in a profession, such as a craftsman's.
noun:  Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
noun:  (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
noun:  A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
noun:  (baseball) A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
noun:  (vulgar, informal) A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
noun:  (by extension, vulgar, slang, derogatory) An obnoxious or uptight person.
noun:  (slang, Canada, US, MTE, MLE, and possibly wider) A handgun.
verb:  (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
verb:  (transitive) To equip with tools.
verb:  (intransitive) To work very hard.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang, dated) To drive (a coach or other vehicle).
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang, dated) To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

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