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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Work or ornamentation done with tools, especially stamped or gilded designs on leather.
- noun The process of providing a factory with machinery in preparation for production.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Workmanship performed with a tool, as the chisel, graver, chasing-tool, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Work performed with a tool.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
tool . - noun Work or ornamentation done with a tool.
- noun the provision of tools for an industrial process
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Examples
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Or you might have to chip a little corner off a piece, what we call tooling, with a hammer and chisel, to mold it to fit.
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With laser machining today, the requirements for tooling is dramatically reduced.
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Destroying tooling is a BAD HABIT that NASA has had since the Saturn V tooling was destroyed to make way for the Shuttle!
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There are two companies that have shown interest in tooling up a production facility in Mexico for the manufacture of ICF.
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Canada has a strong motor industry, and no time was lost in tooling up this industry for the production of motor transport vehicles which are so essential in modern warfare.
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In fact, the tooling is the chief proprietary aspect of the product see Exhibit 2 for VPR2 product information.
Managing New Product and Process Development Kim B. Clark 1993
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Tooling may either be blind tooling, that is, a simple impression of the hot tools, or gold tooling, in which the impression of the tool is left in gold on the leather.
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894
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They machine my blanks with our tooling, which is all made to our design, including the drills, reamers, button, so forth, so on.
Defense Review 2009
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They machine my blanks with our tooling, which is all made to our design, including the drills, reamers, button, so forth, so on.
Defense Review 2009
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They get additional tooling, which is closed source, as well as monitoring and management software.
reesetee commented on the word tooling
In rare/antique book business, the decorations imprinted into a leather book binding. Can be blind-tooled (using no color) or gilt-tooled (using gold leaf).
February 22, 2007