TOOLS

"TOOLS" is a plural of: tool.

Date "TOOLS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: TOOLS

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Rashness

Verb: be rash; Adjective: stick at nothing, play a desperate game; run into danger; play with fire, play with edge tools.

Crosswords: TOOLS

German (tools).

Tell me. How many times have we borrowed each other's power tools or patched up each other's kids (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner)

Geoffrey, bring me my tools! (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; writing credit: Hisao Ohkawa; Kaoru Umeno)

They cleared the forest, they dug up the land, and they gave us the flu. But they also brought power tools and penicillin and Ben and Jerry's ice cream (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

Iid rather have my fiddle and my farmin’ tools (Thank God I’m A Country Boy; performing artist: John Denver)

It is a poor workman who blames his tools. (references; author: unknown)

Fighting Forest Fires with Hand Tools (1951)

Making Primitive Stone Tools (1950)

Fighting Tools (1943)

Sharp Tools (1928)

Edged Tools (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• NC Machine Tools in Indonesia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Software Development Tools in Brazil: A Strategic Entry Report, 1995 (reference)

• Seco Tools AB: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Takisawa Machine Tools Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Hand & Power Tools in Costa Rica: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Analyzing Clinical Care Pathways: 3-Dimensional Tools for Quality Outcomes Measurement & Improvement (Book with Diskette for Windows) (reference)

• 4Gl Programming: Tools and Methods (reference)

• Alpha Leadership: Tools for Business Leaders Who Want More from Life (reference)

• Healing Muscle Pain: Tools, Techniques, and Tips to Bring Your Muscles Back to Health (reference)

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• International Journal On Artificial Intelligence Tools (reference)

• Patents Assist - Full Text Of Patent Search Tools - Cd-rom (reference)

• Ovum Evaluates: Client- Server Development Tools (reference)

• Dataref Machine Tools - Cd-rom (reference)

• Search Tools (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Video Series for Beginning Watercolor Painters, Volume 1: Basic Tools & Materials (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Power Tools (reference)

• Voice Power - Volume 1 - Performance Tools for Singers, Public Speakers & Communicators (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Belkin 20-Piece Computer Tool Kit with Demagnetized Tools (Black Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Goldblatt Trowel Trade Tools GB15813 Contractor Grade Corner Clincher with Mallet (reference)

• General Tools 23 Aluminum Router Gage (reference)

• General Tools 444 Depth/Angle Gage (reference)

• Wal-Board Tools 31-016 Aluminum Bench (reference)

• Goldblatt Trowel Trade Tools 17207 Drywall Apprentice Tool Kit (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shows photo of test tubes, hand holding test tubes, microscope, laboratory tools used at NCI in 1939. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Scientist is performing an amino acid analysis which is used to look at the detail of cellular molecules. Knowing the genetic code and the way it relates to proteins made by the body are tools to understand cancer cells. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Bean with Tools on the Ocean of Storms. Credit: NASA.

Level crew with the tools of the trade Level party of Caspar Durgin. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The tools of the trade for navigating during launch hydrography Metallic and plastic three-arm protractors for plotting three-point fixes Sextant in background 1931 Hydrographic Manual. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Pots, floats, lines, and boats - the tools of the stone crab fishermen. Credit: Fisheries.

Figure 17. Model of the HIRONDELLE's winch. From the beginnings of Prince Albert I of Monaco's oceanographic explorations, he became occupied with equipping his vessels with basic indispensable deck equipment and tools includin g winches, reels of cable, etc. He gave the engineer Jules LeBlanc responsibili ty for this but became a principle collaborator in this area. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Updated modeling and simulation tools, such as the Advanced Flight Propulsion Data Validation/Analysis System, will allow the F-22 Combined Test Force here to make further predictions when the Raptor begins to step out of the flight envelope during future.

Tools of the Trade: Public Affairs present-day tools for deploying and staying connected. From digital images to digital video to emailing stories via the internet, the professionals in Air Force public affairs use the latest technology to help tell the.

Sometimes the tools were bigger than the workers. Credit: Scott Brayton.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Whether they are herein made the tools of cunninger workmen, to pull down their own fabric, they were best look. (Second Treatise of Government)

Machinery, equipment, tools and like articles of a commercial character in actual industrial use are not, however, to be demanded of Germany unless there is no free stock of such articles respectively which is not in use and is available, and then not m excess of thirty per cent. (reference)

If two of the workmen know each other particularly well and are old friends, if their families are inter-mingled, and if they have "faith in each other's purpose, hope in each other's future and charity towards each other's shortcomings" - to quote some good words I read here the other day - why cannot they work together at the common task as friends and partners? Why cannot they share their tools and thus increase each other's working powers? Indeed they must do so or else the temple may not be built, or, being built, it may collapse, and we shall all be proved again unteachable and have to go and try to learn again for a third time in a school of war, incomparably more rigorous than that from which we have just been released. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In their hands might be distinguished some strangely hideous tools.

They threw the tools into the car.

men have become the tools of their tools

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Applying tools of molecular biology. (references)

Improving the use of diagnostic tools is another priority. (references)

These research tools will evolve as new knowledge is gained. (references)

Business

The leaders are Toolbank and Draper Tools. (references)

There are no formal restrictions on the imports of hand and power tools. (references)

Examples include machinery, tools, trucks, cars, furniture, and furnishings. (references)

Children

Canada

Changes to the law in 1997 strengthened tools to combat child prostitution and prohibited female genital mutilation, which is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references)

Civil Liberties

Venezuela

The Government has tools to influence the press, such as licensing requirements for journalists, broadcast licensing concessions for television and radio stations, and lucrative public sector advertising. (references)

Nigeria

State broadcasters and journalists remain important tools for civilian governors; these officials use the state-owned media to showcase the state's accomplishments and to promote their own political fortunes. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

Catalogs and product brochures are useful tools for selling in Kenya. (references)

Burma

The U.S. mainly imports garments and exports machinery and tools to Burma. (references)

Poland

Excellent opportunities exist for special software in networking and tools. (references)

Political Economy

CZECH REPUBLIC

Two recent legislative amendments expanded the tools for enforcement of IPR. (references)

EGYPT

An Arabic language catalog must accompany imported tools, machines and equipment. (references)

GERMANY

Germany employs a broad range of fiscal and market tools in financing public expenditures. (references)

Trade

El Salvador

I. Machines and tools for making coins. (references)

Brazil

This includes products such as dies, matrixes, sheets and industrial tools. (references)

Azerbaijan

Personal items, tools of trade, and business samples may be imported with little problem. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Duty is not charged on items for personal use, including clothes, household items, and electrical goods, as well as instruments and tools for professional use. (references)

Chad

Articles such as clothing and other personal effects along with professional tools and devices, musical instruments, etc., may be allowed duty free entry for long term residents. (references)

Guatemala

Larger quantities of products and display systems for participation in trade events or tools and equipment for projects should be imported temporarily with the assistance of a customs broker. (references)

Women

Malawi

Typically women work more hours than men to complete the same farm tasks because they rarely have comparable tools and equipment, and they remain responsible for all household tasks. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

Villagers are required to work, provide their own food, and bring their own working tools. (references)

Brazil

Once at the worksite, laborers often are forced to work in brutal conditions until they are able to repay debt related to the costs of travel, tools, clothing, or food. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "TOOLS": a Tools Integration Standard ♦ automatically Programmed Tools ♦ case tools ♦ consumable tools ♦ cygnus Tcl Tools ♦ down tools ♦ driving square for tools ♦ early tools ♦ entrenching tools ♦ forcible entry tools ♦ Formalisms,Methods and Tools ♦ gardener's tools ♦ integrated computer aided software engineering tools ♦ outfit of tools ♦ play with edge tools ♦ play with edged tools ♦ supply with tools ♦ tools workshop ♦ working with cutting tools ♦ workman's tools. Additional references.

Beginning with "TOOLS": tools-in-hand, tools-looking.

Ending with "TOOLS": edge-tools, hand-tools, machine-tools, power-tools, v-tools, wolf-tools.

Albanian

orendi (appointments, furnishings, furniture, implements). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معدات (equipment, gear, kit, outfit, paraphernalia, supply, things), ‏أدوات (apparatus, material, paraphernalia, stuff, vibes). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стачкувам (down tools, stay out, strike, walk out), свършвам работа за деня (down tools). (various references)

Chinese 

械 , 工具 (Contraption, tool). (various references)

Czech

primitivní nástroje (early tools). (various references)

Danish

vaerktoej, værktøj (means, tool), remedier (artillery, business, factory, kit, machinery, outfit, rig, works), redskaber, fixesæt (artillery, business, factory, kit, machinery, outfit, rig, works). (various references)

Dutch

tangen, gereedschap (artillery, business, factory, implement, kit, machinery, outfit, rig, tool, works). (various references)

Finnish

käsityökalut. (various references)

French

outillage (tooling, tools workshop). (various references)

German

Werkzeuge (artifacts, gadgets). (various references)

Greek 

εργαλεία (gear). (various references)

Hebrew 

כלי עבודה. (various references)

Hungarian

sztrájkba lép (down tools, go on strike, to come out on strike, to go on strike, to go out, to strike work, to walk out), szerszámkészlet (gang, kit of tools, string of tools), sáncszerszámok (entrenching set, entrenching tools, intrenching set), kirakja a szerszámait (to get out one's tools), előszedi a szerszámait (to get out one's tools), abbahagyja a munkát (down tools, to knock off, to lay off, to quit work, to snatch one's time), általános használati szerszámok (general utility tools). (various references)

Italian

utensileria, oggetto di lavoro (implements, object, work implements, work object), ferri da lavoro, attrezzi (apparatuses, hardware, kit), attrezzatura (equipment, outfit, rig, rigging, tackle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

用具　 (implements), 用具 (implements). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ようぐ (imbecility, implements, mediocrity, necessary tools). (various references)

Korean 

공구 (tool). (various references)

Manx

greienyn garagh (garden tools). (various references)

Pig Latin

oolstay.(various references)

Portuguese

ferramentas. (various references)

Romanian

utilaj (appointment, equipment, harness, installation, machinery, outfit, stock in trade), ustensile (implements, utensils). (various references)

Russian 

инструментальное средство. (various references)

Scottish

goireas (apparatus, convenience), ùirneis (a furnace). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

alat. (various references)

Spanish

herramientas (gear, kit, outfit). (various references)

Swedish

verktyg (agent, creature, engine, implement, instrument, means, pawn, tool, utensil, utils). (various references)

Turkish

ateşle oynamak (play with edge tools, play with edged tools), alet takımı (kit, outfit of tools). (various references)

Ukrainian

припинити роботу (down tools, shut down). (various references)

Welsh

ce+r (gear, trappings). (various references)

arma, instrumenta. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "TOOLS": toolshed, toolsheds. (additional references)

Words ending with "TOOLS": barstools, closestools, faldstools, footstools, retools, stools, toadstools. (additional references)

Misspellings

"TOOLS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: etool, jools, Ntolo, tavola, telos, teol, Tobol, Tobolsky, Toklas, tolas, tolds, toles, tolm, tolo, Tololo, Tolosa, tolus, toodles, tooks, toole, toons, toops, toosh, Torola, Torold, towls, trool, Tsovolas, tulo, tuls, twool, zools. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: loots, lotos, sotol, stool.

-1 letter: loos, loot, lost, lots, oots, slot, solo, soot, tool.

-2 letters: loo, lot, oot, sol, sot, too.

-3 letters: lo, os, so, to.

+1 letter: cloots, lottos, sotols, stolon, stools, tholos, volost.

+2 letters: coolest, coolths, coplots, cytosol, footles, galoots, latosol, loosest, looters, lotions, lotoses, ocelots, ologist, oolites, ooliths, ostiole, outsold, outsole, poloist, retools, soliton, soloist, soothly, sootily, stolons, stooled, stoolie, toledos, toluols, toolers, tootles, topsoil, volosts.

+3 letters: axolotls, barstool, blowouts, booklets, boomlets, bootlegs, bootless, closeout, colonist, colorist, complots, controls, coolants, copilots, cortisol, cytosols, foldouts, folkmots, footlers, footless, footslog, galloots, goalpost, holdouts, hooklets, inositol, isolator, kilotons, latosols, lithosol, locators, lockouts, lookouts, looniest, loopiest, lothsome, moonlets, obsolete, octanols, oestriol, oilstone, ologists, oologist, ortolans, ostiolar, ostioles, otiosely, otoliths, outflows, outfools, outglows, outhowls, outlooks, outloves, outplods, outplots, outpolls, outrolls, outscold, outsoles, platoons, poloists, polycots, posthole, postoral, potboils, potholes, rollouts, rootless, rootlets, sitology, slyboots, smoothly, snootily, solation, solitons, soloists, solonets, solonetz, solution, sorbitol, stolonic, stolport, stoolies, stooling, talookas, theologs, timolols, toeholds, toilsome, toluoles, tombolas, tombolos, tomfools, toolings, toolless, toolshed, tootlers, topsoils, tremolos, trollops, twofolds, witloofs, woodlots, woolhats, wooliest.