tool – English noun declension

English noun forms of tool

Noun: tool
Singulartool
Pluraltools

Sample Sentences

  • Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.
  • A screwdriver is a tool that no household should be without.
  • A stapler is a tool for attaching papers to others.
  • the tools of the trade
  • Rakes, shovels, hoes, and spades are some of the tools of the gardener's trade.
  • I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.
  • A timing light is a tool that only an automotive mechanic, professional or amateur, would have.
  • Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. [2012 March 26, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:]
  • Idleness is a tool of the devil.
  • A spreadsheet app and a bookkeeping app are some of the principal tools of a bookkeeper.
  • What was the need of a man to do that? "One stick at a time;" if Ned could not do that, he was a poor tool. Ah, a poor tool he proved to be. [1867, The Masonic Trowel, volume 6, page 44:]
  • Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale. [2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 11 May 2017:]
  • The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.
  • a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk
  • She was a tool of the pharmaceutical lobby.
  • He was a tool of a foreign influence operation.
  • a five-tool player
  • When asked what he liked about Youk [Kevin Youkilis], former Boston scout Matt Haas says, "At first glance, not a lot." (Mind you, this is one of the few scouts who actually wanted the kid.) "He was unorthodox," says Haas, who now scouts for the Arizona Diamondbacks. "He had an extreme crouch—his thighs were almost parallel to the ground. And he was heavier than he is now. But the more I watched him, the more I just thought, Throw the tools out the window. This guy can play baseball." [2007 November 7, Mark Bechtel, “"there's Something Fun About Yooouuuk"”, in Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2008:]
  • Or haue wee some strange Indian with the great Toole, come to Court, the women so besiege vs? [1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], page 231:]
  • She wanna hang with the goons
  • She wanna party midnight till noon
  • She wanna play with my tool [2019 January 2, Burna Bandz, “Goons” (track 13), in Compact Burna:]
  • He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.
  • In my city keep a tool
  • Lil nigga you know the rules [2019 January 2, Burna Bandz, “Goons” (track 13), in Compact Burna:]
  • Three waps up and a couple of shanks (Just in case)
  • But I got faith that these tools won't jam [2020 November 19, (67) PR SAD, “One Wish” (1:41 from the start):]

Etymology

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning"). See: Middle English Nouns 'tool', Old Norse Nouns 'tól', Icelandic Nouns 'tól', Faroese Nouns 'tól', Old English Nouns 'tāwian'.