Tools
- Punch (tool), a tool used to drive objects such as nails, to pierce workpieces, or to form an impression of the tip on a workpiece
- Punch (numismatics), an intermediate used in the process of manufacturing coins
- Punchcutting, an intermediate used in the process of manufacturing type
- Hole punch, a common office tool used to create holes in sheets of paper
- Keypunch, a device for manually entering data into punched cards
- Leather punch, a tool used to create holes in leather
- Medical punch, a medical tool to sample biopsy pieces from skin
- Ticket punch, to validate tickets
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Famous quotes containing the word tools:
“No man is born into the world, whose work
Is not born with him; there is always work,
And tools to work withal, for those who will:
And blessèd are the horny hands of toil!”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
“Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)