a button in a program like Paint which changes the behavior of the pointer For example the text tool in Paint changes the pointer to draw a box for writing text in the picture
Loosely speaking, a package implements a tool This is not exactly true, since a package can choose to implement more than one tool In general, you will find that there is a one-to-one mapping between a package and a tool A tool consists of a set of templates that manipulate a common set of objects
To tool a coach To drive one; generally applied to a gentleman Jehu, who undertakes for his own amusement to drive a stage-coach To tool is to use the tool as a workman; a coachman's tools are the reins and whip with which he tools his coach or makes his coach go
You can refer to anything that you use for a particular purpose as a particular type of tool. The video has become an invaluable teaching tool
To title and decorate a binding by impressing engraved tools into the surface of the covering material The impression can be in gold (gold foil or leaf), in colour (coloured foil) or 'blind' (a dark or black impression caused either by heat and pressure alone or by using a tool dabbed in printer's ink)
a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
an implement used in the practice of a vocation work with a tool drive; "The convertible tooled down the street"
ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street"
A tool is any instrument or simple piece of equipment that you hold in your hands and use to do a particular kind of work. For example, spades, hammers, and knives are all tools. I find the best tool for the purpose is a pair of shears. see also machine tool
An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc