The difference between Iron and Tool

When used as nouns, iron means a common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel, whereas tool means a mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

When used as verbs, iron means to pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases, whereas tool means to work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.

Iron is also adjective with the meaning: made of the metal iron.

check bellow for the other definitions of Iron and Tool

  1. Iron as a noun (uncountable):

    A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.

  2. Iron as a noun (uncountable, physics, chemistry, metallurgy):

    A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.

  3. Iron as a noun (uncountable, countable, metallurgy):

    Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.

    Examples:

    "wrought iron, ductile iron, cast iron, pig iron, gray iron'"

  4. Iron as a noun (countable):

    A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.

  5. Iron as a noun (usually plural, '''''[[irons]]'''''):

    Shackles.

  6. Iron as a noun (slang):

    A handgun.

  7. Iron as a noun (uncountable):

    A dark shade of the colour/color silver.

  8. Iron as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from '''[[iron hoof]]''', rhyming with '''[[poof]]'''; countable, offensive):

    A male homosexual.

  9. Iron as a noun (golf):

    A golf club used for middle-distance shots.

  10. Iron as a noun (uncountable):

    Great strength or power.

  11. Iron as a noun (weightlifting):

    Weight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.

    Examples:

    "He lifts iron on the weekends."

  12. Iron as a noun:

    A safety curtain in a theatre

  1. Iron as an adjective (not comparable):

    Made of the metal iron.

  2. Iron as an adjective (figuratively):

    Strong , inflexible.

    Examples:

    "She had an iron will."

    "He held on with an iron grip."

    "an iron constitution"

    "'Iron men"

    "synonyms: adamant adamantine brassbound"

  1. Iron as a verb (transitive):

    To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.

  2. Iron as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

  3. Iron as a verb (transitive):

    To furnish or arm with iron.

    Examples:

    "to iron a wagon"

  1. Tool as a noun:

    A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

    Examples:

    "Hand me that tool, would you? I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine."

  2. Tool as a noun:

    Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.

    Examples:

    "These are the tools of the trade."

  3. Tool as a noun:

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

  4. Tool as a noun (computing):

    A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.

    Examples:

    "The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools. a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk"

  5. Tool as a noun:

    A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.

    Examples:

    "He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her."

  6. Tool as a noun (slang):

    Penis.

  7. Tool as a noun (by extension, slang, pejorative):

    An obnoxious or uptight person.

    Examples:

    "He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool."

  1. Tool as a verb (transitive):

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

  2. Tool as a verb (transitive):

    To equip with tools.

  3. Tool as a verb (intransitive):

    To work very hard.

  4. Tool as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.

    Examples:

    "Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you."

  5. Tool as a verb (transitive, volleyball):

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

  6. Tool as a verb (transitive, UK, slang, dated):

    To drive (a coach, etc.)

  7. Tool as a verb (intransitive, slang):

    To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

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