Cutter vs Tool - What's the difference?
cutter | tool |
A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
* 1988 , Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor (page 55)
(nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
A foretooth; an incisor.
A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
(nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
(cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
(baseball) A cut fastball.
(slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
(slang) A person who practices self-injury.
(obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
(obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
(obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
* 2007 , Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm , U of Minnesota Press, page 55 [http://books.google.com/books?id=IaJGWqZk7fYC&pg=RA1-PA55&dq=cutter+snow+horse]:
(senseid)A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
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, title= Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
(slang) Penis.
(by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather .
To equip with tools.
To work very hard.
(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.
(volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
(transitive, UK, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.)
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In slang|lang=en terms the difference between cutter and tool
is that cutter is (slang) a person who practices self-injury while tool is (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.As nouns the difference between cutter and tool
is that cutter is a person or device that cuts (in various senses) while tool is (senseid)a mechanical device intended to make a task easier.As a verb tool is
to work on or shape with tools, eg, hand-tooled leather .cutter
English
Noun
(en noun)- a stone cutter'''; a die '''cutter
- Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.
- (Ray)
- a coastguard cutter .
- Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter' was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a ' cutter , for traveling in style in snow.
Derived terms
* glass cutter * wire cutterstool
English
(wikipedia tool)Noun
(en noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* toolbar * toolbox * toolchain * tool chest * tooling * toolkit * toolless * toollike * toolmaker * toolsetVerb
(en verb)- Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.