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Tool vs Bungstarter - What's the difference?

tool | bungstarter |

As nouns the difference between tool and bungstarter

is that tool is (senseid)a mechanical device intended to make a task easier while bungstarter is a tool for opening barrels by removing the bung.

As a verb tool

is to work on or shape with tools, eg, hand-tooled leather .

tool

English

(wikipedia tool)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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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    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= 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.}}
  • Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
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    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * toolbar * toolbox * toolchain * tool chest * tooling * toolkit * toolless * toollike * toolmaker * toolset

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
    • Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.
  • (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.)

    • Synonyms

    * (volleyball) use

    Derived terms

    * tool around

    Anagrams

    * *

    References

    1000 English basic words ----

    bungstarter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bung starter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tool for opening barrels by removing the bung.
  • * 1914:' , ''Heart of the West'', "Doubleday, Page & company, for Review of reviews co", page 133 - But he had not yet learned to estimate these cool, languid, Southwestern knights of the ' bungstarter , who had the manners of an Earl of Pawtucket, ...
  • * 1929:' , ''Color of the East'', "W. W. Norton", page 229 - The Portuguese equivalent of ' bungstarter whiffed Angus Jones by an eyelash.
  • * 1941:' , ''Flowing South'', "National Travel Club", page 138 - "That's where the barkeeper took a ' bungstarter and killed a man who was shooting wild."
  • * 1943:' , ''The Preacher of Cedar Mountain'', "The Seton village press", page 134 - "Pat, let me have that keg," and the schoolteacher proceeded to hammer around the bung, in the way of the orthodox ' bungstarter .
  • * 1985: , Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West , page 25 - "When he came around the end of the bar he laid down the pistol and he was carrying a bungstarter in one hand".