Tool

What “Tool” means

Noun

1. Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
2. Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
3. Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
4. A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
5. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn.

Verb

1. To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
2. To equip with tools.
3. To work very hard.
4. To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
5. To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“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 tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").

Business name ideas with “Tool”

Industries where “Tool” fits

We suggest this word for 9 business types and industries, including:

• Equipment Rental Business
• Handyman Business
• Hardware Store
• Construction, Mining, and Forestry Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing
• Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing
• Hardware Stores
• Machine Tool Manufacturing
• Residential Remodelers
• Special Die and Tool, Die Set, Jig, and Fixture Manufacturing