tool 1 S2 W2 / tul / 名词 [可数名词]

1 something that you hold in your hand and use to do a particular job :

I don’t have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.

a shop selling garden tools

2 a piece of equipment or a skill that is useful for doing your job :

Television is an important tool for the modern teacher.

These books are the tools of my trade (= the things I need to do my job ) .

3 someone who is used unfairly by another person and who has to do things they do not really want to do – used to show disapproval

tool of

The king was merely a tool of the military government.

4 informal not polite a man’s penis (= sex organ )

→ down tools at down 2 ( 3 )