The word "tool".

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20 Dec 2018, 8:25 pm

In common usage it refers only to those things you see in hardware stores like screwdrivers, hammers and drills. Pencils and can openers are technically tools, but often aren't considered such.

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20 Dec 2018, 8:29 pm

I've heard a pencil referred to as a writing implement.
Can openers are utensils, unless they're electric, then they're an appliance.
They're all tools.

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20 Dec 2018, 8:43 pm

There is band called "Tool", and a tool can be a person who is a lackey, or an agent of someone else; and tool is also slang for male genitalia.

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20 Dec 2018, 8:54 pm

Tool can also describe a foolish person.

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20 Dec 2018, 9:54 pm

Don't be a tool.

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21 Dec 2018, 12:00 am

tools are instruments

are all instruments tools?

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21 Dec 2018, 10:41 am

All of the above mentioned-can't think of anything else.

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21 Dec 2018, 10:51 am

All instruments are tools at least to some degree.

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21 Dec 2018, 12:14 pm

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21 Dec 2018, 6:12 pm

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21 Dec 2018, 6:20 pm

When people think of tools they typically think of those things that they sell at hardware stores. Those are the things you find in toolboxes and toolsheds.

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23 Dec 2018, 7:57 am

Raleigh wrote:

Tool can also describe a foolish person.

I thought that was what this thread was about (before I read OP's post) :lol:

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23 Dec 2018, 10:32 am

"Not the sharpest tool in the shed."

I'm beginning to hate the expression "tools in the kit." It's one of those clichés that come easily out the mouths of people who really don't have that many tools in their own kit other than talking.

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23 Dec 2018, 11:27 am

My mate's favorite electric toy; "Power Tool".

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23 Dec 2018, 2:05 pm

"Tool Time"

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23 Dec 2018, 8:29 pm

Skilpadde wrote:

Raleigh wrote:

Tool can also describe a foolish person.

I thought that was what this thread was about (before I read OP's post) :lol:

Your not the only one who thought that :lol:

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