Antonyms for tool
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1. toolverb

   Synonyms:
   use

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1. tool

   A tool is something that is both contrived and used for extending the force of an intelligent agent to something that is to be operated upon. Those things by which pacific and industrial operations are performed are alone properly called tools, those designed for warlike purposes being designated weapons. An instrument is anything through which power is applied and a result produced; in general usage, the word is of considerably wider meaning than tool; as, a piano is a musical instrument. Instrument is the word usually applied to tools used in scientific pursuits; as, we speak of a surgeon's or an optician's instruments. An implement is a mechanical agency considered with reference to some specific purpose to which it is adapted; as, an agricultural implement; implements of war. Implement is a less technical and artificial term than tool. The paw of a tiger might be termed a terrible implement, but not a tool. A utensil is that which may be used for some special purpose; the word is especially applied to articles used for domestic or agricultural purposes; as, kitchen utensils; farming utensils. An appliance is that which is or may be applied to the accomplishment of a result, either independently or as subordinate to something more extensive or important; every mechanical tool is an appliance, but not every appliance is a tool; the traces of a harness are appliances for traction, but they are not tools. Mechanism is a word of wide meaning, denoting any combination of mechanical devices for united action. A machine in the most general sense is any mechanical instrument for the conversion of motion; in this sense a lever is a machine; but in more commonly accepted usage a machine is distinguished from a tool by its complexity, and by the combination and coordination of powers and movements for the production of a result. A chisel by itself is a tool; when it is set so as to be operated by a crank and pitman, the entire mechanism is called a machine; as, a mortising-machine. An apparatus may be a machine, but the word is commonly used for a collection of distinct articles to be used in connection or combination for a certain purpose — a mechanical equipment; as, the apparatus of a gymnasium; especially, for a collection of appliances for some scientific purpose; as, a chemical or surgical apparatus; an apparatus may include many tools, instruments, or implements. Implement is for the most part and utensil is altogether restricted to the literal sense; instrument, machine, and tool have figurative use, instrument being used largely in a good, tool always in a bad sense; machine inclines to the unfavorable sense, as implying that human agents are made mechanically subservient to some controlling will; as, an instrument of Providence; the tool of a tyrant; a political machine.

   Synonyms:
   apparatus, appliance, implement, instrument, machine, mechanism, utensil, weapon

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1. tool

   Synonyms:
   utensil, implement, machine, instrument, dupe, cat's-paw, hireling

Matched Categories

1. • Drive
   • Driving
   • Furnish
   • Implement
   • Means
   • Ride
   • Slave
   • Work

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.8 / 8 votes

1. toolnoun

   an implement used in the practice of a vocation

   Synonyms:
   dick, instrument, cock, putz, puppet, prick, shaft, creature, pecker, peter

2. instrument, toolnoun

   the means whereby some act is accomplished

   "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease"

   Synonyms:
   creature, shaft, prick, instrumental role, musical instrument, peter, legal document, dick, legal instrument, cat's-paw, pawn, putz, puppet, official document, pecker, cock, instrument

3. creature, tool, puppetnoun

   a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

   Synonyms:
   brute, animate being, shaft, puppet, prick, peter, fauna, marionette, pecker, animal, beast, putz, instrument, wight, creature, cock, dick

4. cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putzverb

   obscene terms for penis

   Synonyms:
   beam, pricking, shaft, peter, pecker, dig, turncock, light beam, puppet, gumshoe, incision, neb, cocksucker, dickhead, cock, rotating shaft, quill, shaft of light, slit, dick, barb, ray of light, prick, shit, beak, bastard, hawkshaw, scape, slam, son of a bitch, instrument, diaphysis, bill, scratch, calamus, lance, peckerwood, stopcock, asshole, spear, rooster, gibe, hammer, beam of light, creature, putz, jibe, irradiation, woodpecker, whoreson, dent, nib, ray, shot

5. toolverb

   drive

   "The convertible tooled down the street"

   Synonyms:
   tool around, joyride

6. joyride, tool, tool aroundverb

   ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it

   "We tooled down the street"

   Synonyms:
   tool around, joyride

7. toolverb

   furnish with tools

   Synonyms:
   tool around, joyride

8. toolverb

   work with a tool

   Synonyms:
   tool around, joyride

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1. toolnoun

   Synonyms:
   implement, utensil, instrument, cat's-paw, puppet, hireling

   Associated words:
   ratten, cocobola, kit

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. obstacle

   a tool is used to help do something, and obstacles are the opposite of help.

   i dont know

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

How to use tool in a sentence?

1. Varshini Prakash:

   So, I do think that opportunity to engage in this one tool of, not just direct action but also mass non-violent action as a means of change which we know is pretty effective — the window for doing something in that vein is getting shorter.

2. Len Necefer:

   It's an imperfect tool, we have to understand what it is. If we can understand that, I think the rest will come.

3. Black Americans:

   The race card is not the only one of the left's go-to weapons of choice against an America they've grown to despise, but it's also a tool of distraction from their myriad policy failures, the fact is, for decades now, Democrats have spectacularly failed — failed the very people they claim to be helping with all this racial hectoring.

4. Ambassador Danon:

   Peter Anthony Gallo, an international lawyer and former investigator for the UNs own watchdog, the OIOS, told Fox News that Peter Anthony Gallo was not surprised by the allegations. [ They ] do not surprise me in the slightest ; there is nothing unusual in them and they could just as easily have come from any one of a number of Organizations in the UN system because they reflect the management culture of disregard for the staff, disregard for the rules and a general air of entitlement and impunity, he said. Gallo who himself was a whistleblower at the U.N. and now director of, Hear their Cries, a group that reports on sexual abuse and exploitation around the world and at the UN. The problem is that U.N. agencies control their own investigative functions and deal with disciplinary matters internally. The result is that instead of being a means of addressing misconduct and wrongdoing, the internal justice system is more of a tool for intimidating any staff members who dare to report misconduct by senior staff, such as by Krahenbuhl and his cronies. Following reports that both Switzerland and the Netherlands suspended their funding to UNRWA, Israels United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon called upon all of the international to suspend funding. The report reveals alarming, but not surprising, findings. In addition to propagating false information about its refugee population, UNRWA has in recent years worked to redirect world funds to continue this corruption industry that has served its leadership. The international community, which generously finances UNRWA, must immediately suspend the budgets assigned to the agency. Ambassador Danon said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The aid money should be gradually transferred to the UNHCR( UN High Commissioner for Refugees), instead of helping the UNRWA leadership continue engaging in a series of ethical offenses.

5. Jesse Sharkey:

   I hear the mayor say that she doesn't want to do remote. But honestly, that's just a talking point, it's an idea, ‘remote is bad.' Remote education is a tool. Teachers view remote education, yeah, it's not as good as in-person.

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