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tooling

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Tooling is the dies and jigs a process needs. Pay for the tooling.

It is a large cost paid once, which is why long production runs are so much cheaper per item. Changing a design after the tooling is made is what makes late changes so expensive.

Definitions of tooling

  1. 1nountoolingThe dies and jigs a process needs.C2

    “The tooling cost more than the first year of production.”

tooling is equipment.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *dewh₂- — to tie to, secure

  2. Proto-Germanic

    *tōlą — that which is used in preparation, tool

  3. Old Norse

    tól

  4. Old English

    tōl — tool, implement, instrument

  5. Middle English

    tool

  6. English

    tool

  7. English, today

    tooling

tool comes from Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”) literally “that with which one prepares something”, perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw + le agent suffix. Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Factory & Manufacturing

Practise this word

tooling in the wild

  • Dry-tooling (or drytooling) is a form of mixed climbing that is performed on bare, ice-free, and snow-free, climbing routes.

    Dry-tooling

  • As with mixed-climbing, the dry-tooling climber uses a pair of ice tools and wears crampons to ascend the route.

    Dry-tooling

  • Mixed climbing also led to the sport of dry-tooling, which is mixed climbing on routes that are completely free of all ice or snow.

    Mixed climbing

  • The integration of milling into turning environments, and vice versa, began with live tooling for lathes and the occasional use of mills for turning operations.

    Milling (machining)

  • Rapid tooling (RT) in the plastic injection molding industry refers to molds that are manufactured in a very short period of time, also known as prototype tooling.

    Rapid tooling

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.