Tool vs Fresh - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tool and fresh

is that tool is (senseid)a mechanical device intended to make a task easier while fresh is a rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

As a verb tool

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

As an adjective fresh is

newly produced or obtained or fresh can be rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.

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

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References

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fresh

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fresch, fersch, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

Newly produced or obtained.

He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.

I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.

Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.

After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.

I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.

a glass of fresh milk

(of plant material) Still green and not dried.

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

Refreshing or cool.

What a nice fresh breeze.

(of water) Without salt; not saline.

After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.

* (?), The World Encompassed , Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49:

There we made our ?hip fa?t with foure ropes, in ?mooth water, and the fre?h water ranne downe out of the hill into the ?ea,

* 1820 , William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions , Archibald Constable & Co., page 230:

When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh , and sometimes saltish;

* 2009 , Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing , Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995, page 1557:

Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.

Rested; not tired or fatigued.

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Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.

In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.

a fresh hand on a ship

youthful; florid

* Shakespeare

these fresh nymphs

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* stale

Derived terms

* afresh * fresh air * fresh as a daisy * fresh bean * fresh country eggs * fresh breeze * fresh fish * fresh food * fresh frozen plasma * fresh gale * fresh ground/fresh-ground * fresh legs * fresh-new * fresh off the boat * fresh out of * fresh start * fresh water/freshwater * freshen * fresher * freshly * freshman * freshment * freshness * hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire * refresh * refreshing

Noun

(freshes)

A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Nebraska, 1987), page 21:

They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh , and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.

A stream or spring of fresh water.

* Shakespeare

He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.

The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

Etymology 2

1848, US slang, probably from (etyl) . More at (l).

Adjective

(er)

Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.

No one liked his fresh comments.

Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.

Hey, don't get fresh with me!

Derived terms

* fresher * freshness * get fresh

Synonyms

* See also

Statistics

* 1000 English basic words