Notes on  TOOL 

1. n.A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or
analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a
cross-referencing program. Oppose APP, OPERATING SYSTEM; see also
TOOLCHAIN.

2. [Unix] An application program with a simple, `transparent'
(typically text-stream) interface designed specifically to be used in
programmed combination with other tools (see FILTER, PLUMBING).

3. [MIT: general to students there] vi. To work; to study (connotes
tedium). The TMRC Dictionary defined this as "to set one's brain to
the grindstone". See HACK.

4. n. [MIT] A student who studies too much and hacks too little.
(MIT's student humor magazine rejoices in the name Tool and Die.)

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