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Tool vs Helve - What's the difference?

tool | helve |

As nouns the difference between tool and helve

is that tool is (senseid)a mechanical device intended to make a task easier while helve is the handle or haft of a tool or weapon.

As verbs the difference between tool and helve

is that tool is to work on or shape with tools, eg, hand-tooled leather while helve is to furnish (an axe, etc) with a helve.

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

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    References

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    helve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
  • * 1917 , (Robert Frost), The Ax-helve :
    • It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain [...].
  • * 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
    • The eyelet in the rose pilleum of his glans welled a clear bead that silled under the corona, wound the veinclomb helve , and ran a snailtrack down the thrum and ridge of the underduct.
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 847:
    • Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves .
  • A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

    • Verb

  • To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.
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