Tool vs. Equipment

Tool vs. Equipment — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Tool and Equipment

Toolnoun

A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

Hand me that tool, would you?I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.

Equipmentnoun

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

Toolnoun

Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.

Equipmentnoun

Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.

Toolnoun

Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.

Equipmentnoun

an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service

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Toolnoun

(computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.

The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk

Toolnoun

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

He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her.

Toolnoun

(slang) Penis.

Toolnoun

An obnoxious or uptight person.

He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.

Toolverb

(transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.

Toolverb

(transitive) To equip with tools.

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Toolverb

(intransitive) To work very hard.

Toolverb

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.

Toolverb

To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.

Toolverb

To drive (a coach, etc.)

Toolverb

To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

Toolnoun

an implement used in the practice of a vocation

Toolnoun

the means whereby some act is accomplished;

my greed was the instrument of my destructionscience has given us new tools to fight disease

Toolnoun

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

Toolnoun

obscene terms for penis

Toolverb

drive;

The convertible tooled down the street

Toolverb

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

We tooled down the street

Toolverb

furnish with tools

Toolverb

work with a tool