tool
要点道具、動力機械
意味
- (金づち・スパナー・のこぎりなど大工・指物仕事をするための)道具,工具
- (機械の部品を切削・加工する)動力機械(器具)
- (2の)切削(加工)部分
- 道具に使われる人,手先
- 《比喩的に》(一般に)道具,手段
- …を道具で造る(形作る)
- 道具で造る(形作る)
例文
Pens and pencils are examples of writing tools.
ペンや鉛筆は筆記用具である。
I'll lend you the tools that you need to do that.
それに必要な道具は貸してあげるよ。
A half-dozen tools make up the tool collection.
6種の道具がひとまとまりになっている。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").