Tool vs Wield - What's the difference?
tool | wield |
(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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, title= Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (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.
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.
(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.)
(label) To command, rule over; to possess or own.
*, Bk.V, Ch.7:
*:There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.
(label) To control, to guide or manage.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
*:With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends.
To handle with skill and ease, especially of a weapon or tool.
To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.
As verbs the difference between tool and wield
is that tool is to work on or shape with tools, eg, hand-tooled leather while wield is (obsolete) to command, rule over; to possess or own.As a noun tool
is (senseid)a mechanical device intended to make a task easier.tool
English
(wikipedia tool)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* toolbar * toolbox * toolchain * tool chest * tooling * toolkit * toolless * toollike * toolmaker * toolsetVerb
(en verb)- Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.