Tool vs Emboss - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between tool and emboss

is that tool is to work very hard while emboss is to raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc.

As verbs the difference between tool and emboss

is that tool is to work on or shape with tools, eg, hand-tooled leather while emboss is to mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol or emboss can be (label) of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.

As a noun tool

is (senseid)a mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

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

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emboss

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) embosen, from (etyl) embocer.

Verb

(es)

To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.

The papers weren't official until the seal had been embossed on them.

To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc.

* Dryden

Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed / Androgeo's death.

* Sir Walter Scott

Exhibiting flowers in their natural colour embossed upon a purple ground.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from . Compare (imbosk).

Verb

(es)

(label) Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.

(label) To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.

*, II.11:

*:And as it commonly happens, that when the Stag begins to be embost , and finds his strength to faile-him, having no other remedie left him, doth yeeld and bequeath himselfe unto us that pursue him, with teares suing to us for mercie.

(obsolete) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.

* Milton

in the Arabian woods embossed

(label) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.

* Spenser

A knight her met in mighty arms embossed .