Used in a Sentence

toolbox

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for toolbox.

Editorial note

OOP is simply a tool to put in your toolbox, if it suits you, then use it.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A storage case for tools.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of toolbox gathered in one view.

noun

A storage case for tools.

noun

(figurative) A set of skills or competences

noun

(slang) Dumbass or idiot.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for toolbox.

Example sentences

1

OOP is simply a tool to put in your toolbox, if it suits you, then use it.

2

Start with your simple Z Score, this is such an important tool in your data science toolbox.

3

Trying to write these schemas by hand IS hell, but putting blind trust in your toolbox is possibly even worse.

4

If one look into a physical toolbox, many of the tools have not changed for generations.

5

Hot code loading is not absolutely critical, but it's another useful tool in Erlang's high-availability toolbox.

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Both are designed with a focus on performance and robustness, while incorporating the large toolbox of features demanded by content creators.

7

That's not even counting any 0 day's that are (probably) sitting in someone's toolbox.

8

Anyone reading posts of high-security engineers pushing strong hardware and software security pre-Snowden would've survived almost everything in NSA's toolbox using such methods.

9

Android offers a surprisingly good toolbox for diagnosing and abusing wireless networks.

10

I wonder if that makes unix-likes so resilient is that at its core it is not a tool, but a toolbox.

11

Have we begun shuffling around the gadgets in our toolbox to distract ourselves from the difficult problems we need to solve?

12

It is a toolbox of methods which generally do work.

Quote examples

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If you're in the business of education, your "toolbox" is essentially whatever people need to learn.

2

It is high time to develop communication-efficient algorithms for the basic "toolbox".

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NLP is about stealing what works to extend its "toolbox".

4

What sounds most interesting to me is that it seems to be kinda "dialect-oriented" -- meaning that to use it idiomatically, you should get used to writing tiny parsers (with provided toolbox) for small ad-hoc DSLs.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use toolbox in a sentence?

OOP is simply a tool to put in your toolbox, if it suits you, then use it.

What does toolbox mean?

A storage case for tools.

What part of speech is toolbox?

toolbox is commonly used as noun.