instrument
tool | the means whereby some act is accomplished, my greed was the instrument of my destruction, science has given us new tools to fight disease |
floating
natation | the act of someone who floats on the water |
| tool-and-die work | the craft of making special tools and dies |
carpenter's kit
tool kit | a set of carpenter's tools |
cutter
cutlery cutting tool | a cutting implement, a tool for cutting |
| edge tool | any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) |
entrenching tool
trenching spade | a hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches |
floating dock
floating dry dock | dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised |
floating mine
marine mine | an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it |
garden tool
lawn tool | used for working in gardens or yards |
graver
graving tool
pointel
pointrel | a tool used by an engraver |
| hand tool | a tool used with workers' hands |
| machine tool | a powered machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials |
pontoon bridge
bateau bridge
floating bridge | a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons |
| power tool | a tool driven by a motor |
| shaping tool | a tool for shaping metal |
tire iron
tire tool | hand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel |
| tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation |
| tool bag | a bag in which tools are carried |
toolbox
tool chest
tool cabinet
tool case | a box or chest or cabinet for holding hand tools |
cock
prick
dick
shaft pecker
peter
tool
putz | obscene terms for penis |
floater
floating policy | an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location |
floating-point notation
floating-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix, in the floating-point representation system, . is represented as .- where - is the exponent |
creature tool
puppet | a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else |
swing voter
floating voter | a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other |
floating-moss
Salvinia rotundifolia
Salvinia auriculata | free-floating aquatic ferns |
mosquito fern
floating fern
Carolina pond fern
Azolla caroliniana | small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America, naturalized in western and southern Europe |
floating fern water sprite
Ceratopteris pteridioides | aquatic fern of tropical America often used in aquariums |
| floating fern Ceratopteris thalictroides | pantropical aquatic fern |
floating-point operation
flop | an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers, this computer can perform a million flops per second |
| floating-point number | a number represented in floating-point notation |
megaflop
MFLOP
million floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
teraflop
trillion floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
| tool steel | alloy steel that is suitable for making tools, is hard and tough and can retain a cutting edge |
| tool | work with a tool |
joyride
tool
tool around | ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it, We tooled down the street |
| tool | drive, The convertible tooled down the street |
| tool | furnish with tools |
| floating | borne up by or suspended in a liquid, the ship is still floating, floating logs, floating seaweed |
| floating(a) | not definitely committed to a party or policy, floating voters |
| floating(a) | (of a part of the body) not firmly connected, movable or out of normal position, floating ribs are not connected with the sternum, a floating kidney |
| floating | inclined to move or be moved about, a floating crap game |
aimless
drifting
floating
vagabond vagrant | continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another, a drifting double-dealer, the floating population, vagrant hippies of the sixties |