tools

/tuːlz/

A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

Hand me that tool, would you? I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.

Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.

These are the tools of the trade.

Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.

A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.

The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools. a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk

A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.

He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her.

Penis.

(by extension) An obnoxious or uptight person.

He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.