| 单词 | software tool | 
| 释义 | > as lemmassoftware tool   Computing. Any item of software (or occasionally, hardware) used as the means of accomplishing a specific task; esp.		 (a) a utility program employed in the development, maintenance, and manipulation of software and (less frequently) hardware; frequently more fully in  software tool,  programming tool, etc.;		 (b) a particular function available within an application (frequently with a toolbar interface); (occasionally also) the clickable icon representing such a function. ΚΠ 1956    Proc. Eastern Joint Computer Conf. 124 		(heading)	  				Datafile—a new tool for extensive file storage. 1976    B. W. Kernighan  & P. J. Plauger 		(title)	  				Software tools. 1984    Computers & Electronics 		(Nexis)	 Apr. 44  				The Manager here is really a binary tree of menus presented in graphics form (but without icons). Select the  tools menus item, for example, and you're brought down into a second level of options. 1989    PC World Oct. 227/2  				The  desqview API Debugger is an interactive tool enabling the API programmer to trace and single step through API calls from several concurrently running..programs. 1991    UnixWorld Oct. 102/1  				Choose the text tool and click to invoke the text dialog box. 1993    E. S. Raymond New Hacker's Dict. 		(ed. 2)	 264  				Bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage. 1995    Desktop Publishers Jrnl. July 30/4  				Knock out the current background using the pen tool found in the Show Paths tool palette. 2001    Yahoo! Internet Life July 82/2  				It's not just a Web site; it's also a set of publishing tools that allows even a novice to create a Weblog, automatically add content to a Web site, or organize links, commentary, and open discussions. < as lemmas  | 
	
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