Tool vs Fool - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tool and fool

is that tool is (mechanical device intended to make a task easier)A mechanical device intended to make a task easier while fool is a person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

As verbs the difference between tool and fool

is that tool is to work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather while fool is to trick; to make a fool of someone.

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

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(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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fool

English

Noun

(en noun)

(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.

The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.

* Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools' will learn in no ' other .

(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.

* Milton

Can they think me their fool or jester?

* 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):

I'm a fool for the city.

(cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.

an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool

A particular card in a tarot deck.

Synonyms

* (person with poor judgment) See also * (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker * (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshite

Verb

To trick; to make a fool of someone.

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

* Dryden

Is this a time for fooling ?

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* befool * fool about * fool around * foolhardy * foolish * foolishness * foolometer * fool's errand * fool's gold * fool's paradise * foolproof * more fool you * play the fool * suffer fools gladly * there's no fool like an old fool

References

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