Translation
tool, instrument
Examples
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The man took his tools and left.
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A language is a tool, not a goal.
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Do you have a tool for opening the window?
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That tool is very useful.
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Without good tools the work is difficult.
This is one of the neat cases where a suffix is also a word in its own right. -- builds the instrument for an action, so gives o for a pen, gives o for a toy, and gives o for a knife. Standing alone, is the general noun for any of them. Do not stretch it to cover means or methods in the abstract - that is . And o is the whole toolkit, -- doing its usual collecting job on top.
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