Definitions for tools
tools

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1. tools

   Plural form of tool.

   I took a tool from the tool box and realized what a variety of tools my brother had to do his job so I made sure I put it back after I used it.

   Submitted by MaryC on December 8, 2015  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tools' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3201

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tools' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2665

Anagrams for tools »

1. loots

2. stool

How to pronounce tools?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tools in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tools in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of tools in a Sentence

1. Ellen Williams:

   The thing with screening tools is that they're great for gathering population data, but they are useless to individuals unless strategies are implemented to help those found at risk, so these kids are being told they are overweight without being taught how to improve the situation with nutrition and exercise.

2. Pilar Fernandez:

   It's a work of art, it's not mechanized. They make cigars like they did 200 years ago, with the same tools, with their hands. It's totally 19th century.

3. Karim Palant:

   No other channel for political advertising is as transparent and offers the tools that we do, we have tripled the size of the team working to detect and protect users from bad content to 30,000 people and invested heavily in machine learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision technology to help prevent this type of abuse.

4. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi:

   The fight against terrorism has to be fought at many levels. And, the traditional tools of military, intelligence or diplomacy alone would not be able to win this fight, we have both lost civilians and soldiers in combating it. The need of the hour is for us to deepen our security cooperation.

5. Aparna Mathur:

   Paid leave as a pro-work and a pro-family issue, given demographic changes in the workplace, giving both parents the tools to take time off work to meet family needs is critical to fostering economic growth and for labor force participation.

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