tool n. 1.工具,用具,器具;【機械工程】刀具;工具母機 (=machine tool)。 2.爪牙,傀儡,走狗;〔美俚〕扒手。 3.【裝釘】壓印機。 4.〔pl.〕〔美俚〕刀叉(等)。 Books are the tools of a scholar. 書籍是學者的工具。 tool steel 工具鋼。 a broad tool (石工的)寬刃鑿。 an edge(d) tool 刀。 literary tools 文具。 a poor tool不行的工人。 throw down one's tools=down tools 罷工。 vt.,vi. 1.用工具加工,用工具制造,用鑿刀修整(石頭);【裝訂】壓印。 2.〔英口〕開車;乘車;〔美俚〕閑逛,閑蕩。 Let me tool you down to the station. 我用車送你上車站吧。 blind tooling 【印刷】(硬封面上的)本色壓印。
A programming tool or software development tool is a program or application that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications. The term usually refers to relatively simple programs that can be combined together to accomplish a task, much as one might use multiple hand tools to fix a physical object.