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Muddler vs. Tool — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Muddler and Tool

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Muddler

A muddler is a bartender's tool, used like a pestle to mash—or muddle—fruits, herbs and spices in the bottom of a glass to release their flavor.

Tool

A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment. Although many animals use simple tools, only human beings, whose use of stone tools dates back hundreds of millennia, have been observed using tools to make other tools.

Muddler

A small pestlelike baton that is used to prepare mixed drinks by pressing ingredients, such as mint, against the bottom of a bowl or glass to release flavor. Also called muddle.

Tool

A device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function
Gardening tools

Muddler

One who muddles.
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Tool

A distinct design in the tooling of a book.

Muddler

A person or thing that muddles.

Tool

A man's penis.

Muddler

A tool used in muddling, used to mash and mix.

Tool

Impress a design on (leather, especially a leather book cover)
Volumes bound in green leather and tooled in gold
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Muddler

One who, or that which, muddles.

Tool

Equip or be equipped with tools for industrial production
The factory must be tooled to produce the models
They were tooling up for production

Tool

Drive or ride in a casual or leisurely manner
Tooling around town in a pink Rolls-Royce

Tool

Dress (stone) with a chisel.

Tool

A device, such as a saw, shovel, or drill, used to perform or facilitate manual or mechanical work.

Tool

A machine, such as a lathe, used to cut and shape machine parts or other objects.

Tool

The cutting part of such a machine.

Tool

Something regarded as necessary to the carrying out of one's occupation or profession
Words are the tools of our trade.

Tool

Something used in the performance of an operation; an instrument
"Modern democracies have the fiscal and monetary tools ... to end chronic slumps and galloping inflations" (Paul A. Samuelson).

Tool

Vulgar Slang The penis.

Tool

A person used to carry out the designs of another; a dupe.

Tool

A bookbinder's hand stamp.

Tool

A design impressed on a book cover by such a stamp.

Tool

(Computers) A utility program.

Tool

To form, work, or decorate with a tool.

Tool

To ornament (a book cover) with a bookbinder's tool.

Tool

(Slang) To drive (a vehicle)
Tooled the car at 80 miles an hour.

Tool

To work with a tool.

Tool

(Slang) To drive or ride in a vehicle
Tooled up and down the roads.

Tool

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.

Tool

Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.

Tool

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

Tool

(computing) 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

Tool

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.

Tool

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.

Tool

A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.

Tool

A gun.

Tool

(transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.

Tool

(transitive) To equip with tools.

Tool

(intransitive) To work very hard.

Tool

To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.

Tool

To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.

Tool

To drive (a coach or other vehicle).

Tool

To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.

Tool

To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

Tool

An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.

Tool

A machine for cutting or shaping materials; - also called machine tool.

Tool

Hence, any instrument of use or service.
That angry fool . . . Whipping her horse, did with his smarting toolOft whip her dainty self.

Tool

A weapon.
Him that is aghast of every tool.

Tool

A person used as an instrument by another person; - a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.
I was not made for a minion or a tool.

Tool

To shape, form, or finish with a tool.

Tool

To drive, as a coach.

Tool

To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
Boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads.

Tool

An implement used in the practice of a vocation

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

Tool

A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

Tool

Obscene terms for penis

Tool

Drive;
The convertible tooled down the street

Tool

Ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it;
We tooled down the street

Tool

Furnish with tools

Tool

Work with a tool

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