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say it: tool
tool is a noun and verb meaning "an implement used in the practice of a vocation". It is pronounced /ˈtul/ — tool. It carries 8 recorded senses.
the means whereby some act is accomplished
“my greed was the instrument of my destruction”
“science has given us new tools to fight disease”
ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
“We tooled down the street”
driving
furnish with tools
work with a tool
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tool come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.