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toolroom

toolroom

4.0
A room in a workshop where workers keep and fix tools
  • noun
  • /ˈtuːlˌruːm/
translation icon : taller de herramientas
  • In the toolroom, the technicians carefully maintained the precision equipment.

Examples

  • Then I looked to the toolroom, and there she was, stumbling out of the darkness like a horror-film lady, hair mussed, big breasts hanging free, thick, ugly blood bubbling down her left wrist.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Possibly half a dozen men had witnessed the occurrence: a toolroom attendant, a form foreman, a couple of time clerks, and a laborer or two.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • He rounded the corner of the toolroom and noted an unfamiliar face within.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The workers retrieved their tools from the toolroom before starting their shift.

  • After the break, they returned to the toolroom to organize the newly delivered tools.

Synonyms

toolshed
vstoolroom
1 1.3

A small building in a garden where you keep tools

is a workshop area used in factories for making and repairing tools
grindery
vstoolroom
  • Archaic
9.9

A workshop where people sharpen tools or blades

is a general workshop area for storing making and repairing tools
toolhouse
vstoolroom
4.8

A small building where you keep tools

is an industrial room that also makes maintains and repairs tools

How Equipped

repair shop
19 2.1
workshop
61 2.3
toolroom
4.0
tool cabinet
1 2.3
tool case
2.0

Surface Forms

toolroom singular
toolrooms plural

Morphology

toolroom = tool + room (transparent) = tool + room

The meaning is a straightforward combination of 'tool' + 'room' = a room for tools, which learners can infer directly.

Etymology

Toolroom is simply tool + room, which literally means a 'room for tools'. Think of it as the place in a workshop where tools are kept, made, or fixed, so a toolroom is where a factory stores and repairs its tools.