different between tool vs puppet

English

Etymology

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English t?l (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), from Proto-Germanic *t?l? (“tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh?- (“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 t?wian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").

Pronunciation

• enPR: to?ol, IPA^(key): /tu?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l
• Homophone: tulle

Noun

tool (plural tools)

2. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

3. Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.

4. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
5. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.

6. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.

7. (vulgar, slang) A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
8. (by extension, vulgar, slang, derogatory) An obnoxious or uptight person.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:penis
• See also Thesaurus:tool

Derived terms

Translations

References

• tool on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

tool (third-person singular simple present tools, present participle tooling, simple past and past participle tooled)

1. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
2. (transitive) To equip with tools.
3. (intransitive) To work very hard.
   • 1965, Matt Fichtenbaum and Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw” in The Broadside of Boston, vol. III, No. 22:

     Do this lab and read this book, now tool, one and all,
     And be sure and pass that final quiz or be screwed right to the wall.

4. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.

   Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.

5. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
6. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To drive (a coach or other vehicle).
7. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
   • 1850s, Cuthbert M. Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green

     Among those who seemed disposed to join in this opinion was the Jehu of the Warwickshire coach, who expressed his conviction to our hero, that "he wos a young gent as had much himproved hisself since he tooled him up to the Warsity with his guvnor."

8. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
   • March 8, 1890, Byron P. Stephenson, "My Trip to Brazil", in Illustrated American

     boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads

   • 2011, Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Gollancz 2011, page 324:

     These are the guys that tool around in Mercedes Sprinter vans with equipment lockers stuffed with everything from riot helmets to tasers.

Synonyms

• (volleyball): use

Derived terms

• tool around

Translations

References

Anagrams

• LOTO, OOTL, loot, loto

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tool

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?l/
• Hyphenation: tool
• Rhymes: -u?l

Noun

tool m (plural tools, diminutive tooltje n)

1. A tool, aid, instrument, auxiliary device.

   Synonym: hulpmiddel

Related terms

• toolbox

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German stôl, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *st?laz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to?l?/
• IPA^(key): /?to?l/
• Hyphenation: tool

Noun

tool (genitive tooli, partitive tooli)

1. chair
   1. A seat with four legs and a backrest for one person.
      • 1968, Peet Vallak, Tuuled ümber maja: Novellivalimik, page 200:

        Siis läks kogu ta vallasvara oksjonile ning mõni siiasiginenud tool, laud, voodi, kapp ja sööginõud olid nüüd seaduslikult naise-ema omad.

        Then all his personal property was put up for auction and any chair, table, bed, or dishes he had taken possession now belonged legitimately to his mother-in-law.

Declension

Derived terms

References

• tool” in Sõnaveeb

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English t?l, from Proto-Germanic *t?l?.

Alternative forms

• tole, tol, toole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?l/

Noun

tool (plural toles or tolen)

2. A tool, implement, or instrument.
3. A instrument of war; an armament.
4. (rare) A device used for torturing or interrogration.
5. (rare, vulgar) A penis.

Descendants

• English: tool
• Scots: tuil

References

• “t??l, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Etymology 2

Noun

tool

2. Alternative form of toll.

English

Etymology

From Middle English popet, probably from, though attested earlier than, Middle French poupette, diminutive of poupée (cf. also Medieval Latin *pupata), ultimately derived from a Latin pupa (“doll, puppet; girl”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?p??t, IPA^(key): /?p?p?t/
• Rhymes: -?p?t
• Hyphenation: pup?pet

Noun

puppet (plural puppets)

1. Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
2. (figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
3. (obsolete) A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
4. (engineering) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.

Derived terms

Related terms

• marionette
• muppet

Translations